It was quite an occasion on
20 Jan 2016 with 6 first meetings. On the left are Hall relatives Diana Mayne and Pippa Stedman
with Audrey
Dowel,
Bronwyn Collins and Julian Land. Pippa is a Hall 3rd
cousin of Bronwyn and Julian, whilst Diana is
married to David Mayne a Hall 2nd cousin of Audrey.
Pippa is a niece of David Mayne. Bronwyn and
Julian are Lousada 2nd cousins while Audrey is
Julian Land's Lousada aunt. |
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The headstone does not
reflect Beatrice's Hall ancestry, but the new
epitaph (see image to the far right) corrects this omission
as it shows the full name of Audrey's
grandmother Isabella Beatrice Haliburton Lousada
nee Hall (who was a sister of David Mayne's
grandmother Evelyn Louisa
Tiarks nee Hall).
It also shows the name of the 3rd son of Edward
Charles Lousada who was
Edward Charles Hall Lousada (who had one son
Rev John Matthews Hall Lousada). |
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In front of the grave of
Audrey's parents
Aubrey George Lousada and Mary Truscott.
The graves of Audrey's siblings
Mary Eleanor Land nee Lousada and Frank Cecil
Lousada are nearby. Aubrey and his brothers
Barrow and Cecil spent much of their WW1 leave
with their
Tiarks Hall aunt and cousins at Kilburn in
London, and Diana brought her parents-in-law to
visit Aubrey in 1971 and 1974. |
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Bronwyn and Audrey met for
the first time. Bronwyn's mother Gwen was a
cousin of Audrey. Gwen's parents were
Catherine Frances Lousada and Thomas William
Truscott, whilst Audrey's parents were
Aubrey George Lousada and Mary Truscott.
Gwen was a sister of
Cecile Jordan-Ellerman
who provided the grave of
Benjamin Barrow Lousada #77 1887-1954
visible behind
the grave
of his father Edward Charles Lousada. |
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The new epitaph adds to the
recollections of Horace Frank Lousada. One
son Harry Bernard died young and was buried at
Warragul Cemetery where the grave of the 3rd
Hall sister Jemima Vans Affleck nee Hall can
also be found. Click
here for a
photograph of the family. Notwithstanding the
text above, we now think Edward Charles Lousada
may have arrived a little earlier - in late 1871
as a 17 year-old. |
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