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I have just started to record the details of my paternal side; Reid, Reynolds and eventually Wagner, Willis and whatever comes after that. My Dad’s side is a bit more tricky but I am only now just starting to gather info about it.

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My paternal Grandmother, Bernice Isabel Reynolds, was born at Brown Street Forbes, NSW, on the 5th February 1877. Pictured, left, is the Govt. Lands Office in Forbes.

Her father was Charles Wagner Reynolds. He was a Printer by trade and was 28 years old at the time of his daughter’s birth. Her mother was Sarah Sophia Willis, aged 18. The couple were married on the 10th July 1876 at Parkes, NSW. Sarah was pregnant at the time of the marriage.

Charles Wagner Reynolds was born 1848 in London, England to parents Charles W Reynolds and Eliza. Sarah was born in 1858/9 at Clunes in Victoria to parents Joseph and Maria Davidson. Charles died at Parkes in 1892.

Bernice married George Albert Reid in 1901 and died at Goodna, QLD, in 1954.

The Town Hall at Clunes today.

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My father, George Reynolds Reid, was born June 8th 1912 in Kogarah NSW, Australia. His parents were Bernice Isabel Reynolds and George Albert Reid, a railway worker, married Sydney 1901. He was the second youngest child in a family of 12 children. Of those 12 children only 2 survived to adulthood; Dad, and his sister Doris (Pearce) born 1902. All 10 children in between died either at birth or in infancy.

My Grandfather, George Albert Reid, was born in Penrith, NSW, in 1866 to George Reid, a miner, and Charlotte E. Turner (married 1859, Penrith, NSW, Australia). The family was:

Micheal b. 1860; Susan b. 1862; Charlotte b. 1864; and George A b. 1866

I only have information for now, going that far back, relating to my Dad’s grandmother Charlotte Turner:

Charlotte E. Turner was born at Penrith, NSW in 1835. Her parents, Jacob Turner and Sarah Skelton, were married in 1834 at St James Church of England in Phillip Street in Sydney. The St James Church is the oldest church in the centre of Sydney and began life as a courthouse for the colony, being designed by the convict and architect Francis Greenway.

In 1824 the building was consecrated and became the first church of what was still the colony of Sydney. It still stands there today and plays an important role in the life of Sydney both tourist-wise and spiritually.

Here is a lithograph, by Robert Russell, of St James Church Sydney circa 1836. This lithograph was made two years after my great great grandparents married there.

St James Church in Sydney as it looks today. How times have changed!

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