by email from Diana Payne 15 Nov 2015
Further recollections of Ruth’s family – Margaret Parker’s husband was GEORGE and he worked for Inverloch Council, I think. Sally would have been born in the early 1960s – she was a few years older than my girls (b1965 and 1966) and we received hand-me-down clothes from her (once). I just MAY have a photo of them in an old album. I shall look. I clearly recall what they looked like. Gwen’s family were close to “Auntie Ruth”, so Bronwyn is likely to have photos...Ruth and Auntie Sophie communicated with each other all their lives – that’s how Ruth knew we were in Melbourne and made contact soon after we arrived.
by email from Diana Mayne 14 Nov 2015
widow of Rev Henry White, I had quite a lot of contact with during the 1970s and until she died (late 80s?). I visited her at Inverloch where she lived at 18 William Road with her daughter Margaret Parker and granddaughter Sally, and went to Gwen's for lunch nearly every time she came up to Blackburn to stay with Gwen, and she came here a few times. Bronwyn or Cecile would be the best source of information. Margaret had some disability (walked with a limp and shaking, I think), while Sally was a lovely healthy girl with personality, talents etc.
on 19 Nov 2015 Diana Mayne said after speaking with Bronwyn Collins on 18 Nov 2015 that Ruth had 2 children of her own and 5 step-children
by email 4 Dec 2015 from Diana Mayne
Ruth must have died earlier than I thought – in the mid or late 1970s when Bronwyn’s boys were young – she remembered going to the funeral in Inverloch. Margaret would know. (My info - Ruth lived at Welshpool at some stage, where Agnes Morris b1903 met her and Cecile’s family when Agnes’ father was manager of the Commonwealth Bank there. They found they had the same connections in London – Canon Morris and the Tiarks family – not blood relatives but connected through marriage. Agnes and Ruth knew one another quite well, Ruth being 5 years older than Agnes – they certainly were in touch with each other over our arrival in 1969.)
Ruth, after marrying Rev Hedley White with 5 step-children and then having Margaret and Edward, became the breadwinner when her husband became ill, and they moved to Malvern where she ran a boarding house where Gwen in the 1940s and probably Cecile stayed at times while doing nursing training (my info again – under Agnes Morris at the Royal Children’s who was in charge of training the nurses – she was THE expert on infant feeding - Victoria was a small place in those days!).
Diana Mayne by email 14 Nov 2015 refers to him as Rev Henry White who predeceased Ruth.
Ruth was at the Vicarage Lilydale at the time of her father's death in 1932
Audrey reported that there were three children - a son John in Geelong, a daughter Ann (deceased) and Cherry McArthur in Orbost.
Appointment as a teller Bank of NSW Castlemaine reported 7 Mar 1917
Chaplain H F Lousada submitted an invention to the Army in 1943 for dropping supplies from a plane. The invention was not adopted.
His recollection as an 87 year-old of the life of his father is given in www.barrow-lousada.org
Officiated at the Shuck-Picton wedding in Rockhampton 24 Dec 1932 and the Ware-Funk wedding 28 Mar 1932 at Mt Larcom near Brisbane
from Diana Mayne 13 Nov 2015 email to Julian Land:
Sorry I have no knowledge of Horace Frank's family. We were put in touch with him by Ruth, and our visit to Frankston in 1979 was occasioned by his recent visit to England (Nov-Dec 1978 I think) where he tried to contact David's mother, but she had just had a stroke and David's father wouldn't let him visit her - a pity as her mind was OK and she would probably have enjoyed the visit. He got to see Auntie Sophie who was in a nursing home not far away (having been moved there from London), but she was suffering dementia and couldn't figure out who he was - apparently she thought this clergyman was her brother John come back from the dead! But Frank was thrilled to see her and told us he was sure she knew who he was and was delighted to see him! So he was happy with his visit, and was also delighted to find the graves of his brothers in France.
Drowned - worked for Bairnsdale paper
Death from JGSGB
Buried at Hoop Lane
A portrait is given on www.barrow-lousada.org - go to Chiswick/Sir Anthony Lousada page
In 1941 was honorary solicitor of the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor
Siegfried Sassoon's lawyer - see http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.9375%2F602 for reference to a letter from Julian G. Lousada (London) to Siegfried Sassoon re agreement with London Film Productions to pay money to Salisbury Infirmary 29 Aug. 1935
Marriage Notes for Julian George Lousada and Maude Reignier Conder
Marriage from JGSGB
Death from JGSGB
Buried at Hoop LaneThe genealogical background of his marriage is given on www.barrow-lousada.org - go to the special-purpose chart on the marriage
from John Hamblin (researching Claude Lousada in connection with a roll of service during the Great War for Hazelwood Prep School at Limpsfield Surrey where he attended as a boy) on 24 Aug 2013 we have:
Lousada, Claude Captain
Cavalry Remount Service
Claude Lousada was born in London in 1878 the second son of Herbert George Lousada, a solicitor and director of the Anglo Jewish Association of London, and Marion Helen (nee Mocatta) Lousada of 27 Green Street in London.
He left Hazelwood School at Christmas 1892 for Malvern College where he was in Faber House leaving in 1896.
On leaving school he became a clerk at the London Stock Exchange.
In 1915 he was a warden of the West London Synagogue of British Jews at Upper Berkeley Street, London W1.
During the Great War he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Cavalry Remount Service and was promoted to Lieutenant and was appointed as a 2nd Assistant Superintendent in the Remount Service on the 23rd of January 1918. He went to France in April 1918 and also served at the War Office that year. On the 18th of April 1919 he was promoted to Captain and to 1st Assistant Superintendent.
He was married to Maude Lilian (nee Speilmann) in 1904; they had three children, Jack Claude born on the 10th of July 1906 (who served in the Royal Artillery in World War Two), Eric George born in 1909 and Marion Irene born in 1917.
He died at his home, 152 Gloucester Terrace in London on the 28th of August 1934.
Death from JGSGB
Buried at Hoop Lane
Marriage Notes for Claude Lousada and Maude Lilian Spielmann
Marriage from JGSGB
223. Air Comm Charles Rochford Lousada
http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Lousada.htm
this contains biography
photographs of him are on www.barrow-lousada.org
Mrs. Elizabeth Lousada traveled by boat to Egypt to join her husband in the Canal Zone in 1955. The three youngest brothers flew out by RAF Avro York; Peter Lousada recalled that he was back in UK for final term before joining the RAF in April. The oldest (Anthony) was serving Her Majesty in the Lancs. Fusiliers in Germany/Italy/Trieste.