Wendy | March 27, 2008
Sarah Sophia Willis (Reynolds) was born 1859 in the Victorian country town of Clunes. Her parents were:
Joseph Wells Willis (died Forbes 1902) and
Maryann Maria (Davidson) born – 1824 Bombay, India (died 5th August 1909 Forbes)
They married in Bombay, India, in 1854.
The parents of Maryann Maria Davidson were:
William Davidson – born Scotland – Surgeon in the Black Watch Regiment stationed in Bombay, India.
Maryann [...]
Wendy | March 25, 2008
Dad always loved his career in showbiz. He often used to say that while other men were waking up and going off to the office, he was able to lie in bed. This mean’t that Dad was always away at nights, and during my childhood he was often away working and on weekends as a [...]
Wendy | March 25, 2008
From this point I will call June ‘Mum’ for obvious reasons. I must back track here: not long after Dad moved from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, about 1950/51, he made a visit to Sydney to visit his mother, Bernice, in Auburn. He found Bernice suffering from dementia and living alone in the house and [...]