Mundane to Magnificent - Ancestors from 100 years ago
The lovely Carmel Galvin has come up with this meme for National Family History Month.
Which of your ancestors were alive 100 years ago, and what did their daily life encompass?
So which of my ancestors were alive? I'm only going to look at the direct line of ancestors.
My aunt and uncle on my father's side of the family were both alive. My aunt Hazel would have turned two years old in 1926, and my uncle was born in 1926. Their parents, Ted and Ethel, were both alive and turned 26 and 22, respectively, in 1926.
On my mother's side of the family, both my grandfather and my grandmother were alive. But I don't know if they even knew each other at that point in time. They didn't get married until 1934. My maternal grandfather, Tom, would have turned 28 years old and my maternal grandmother would have turned 24 in 1926.
All my great-grandparents, bar one, would have been alive.
Edwin Conner was to die the following year, 1927, in the Greycliffe disaster in Sydney Harbour at the age of 58. His wife Eleanor lived until she was 68.
George Henry Charles CARRETT III was alive, as was his wife Daisy - my paternal grandmother's parents.
John McLOUGHLIN and his wife Margaret were both alive - my maternal grandfather's parents.
Walter FORFAR was alive, but his wife had died 21 years before at the age of 33- my maternal grandmother's parents
Some of my 2nd great-grandparents were alive in 1926.
Only one on my mother's side of the family - Emma TAYLOR (nee CASE) lived to be 81 years old and died in 1936 .
On my father's side, James COOK and his wife Caroline were both still alive, but not for much longer as they both died in 1928. George Henry Charles CARRETT II lived until he was 73 and died in 1929. His wife Sarah (nee STORES) died in 1934. Unfortunately, we are not too certain about my great-grandmother's ancestry, but we know that her mother Mary Ann Taylor (nee MULHOLLAND) was still alive in 1926 and died in 1936.
So - what does that give us?
Two children - babies really - Hazel and Ted CONNER
Young parents - Ted and Ethel CONNER
Young adults Tom McLOUGHLIN and his future bride, Kit FORFAR.
Parents/Grandparents Edwin and Eleanor CONNER, George CARRETT III and his wife Daisy, John and Mary McLOUGHLIN and Walter FORFAR, possibly estranged from his second wife.
Great-Grandparents included Emma TAYLOR, James and Caroline COOK, George CARRETT II and his wife Sarah and Mary Ann TAYLOR.
For this exercise I am just going to look at the CONNER extended family.
Let's set the scene first. And a heads-up: I employed the help of Claude AI to write some of this account, but the research is entirely mine, as are all mistakes and errors.
My
grandmother's first home as a new mother was very familiar to her. She
was, in fact, born on the same street - Riverview Road at Undercliffe, now part of Earlwood, in Sydney's south-west. Indeed, her family, on her father's side, could be traced back to Undercliffe in 1848 as part of the Stores and Parkes families.
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| 58 Riverview Road Undercliffe |
In an old diary she remembered the following:
"my father building over Ewart St and cutting stone out of his quarry, and old Ned our handyman driving one of the carts full of stone from Undercliff to Wardell Rd where Dad started to build in earnest whole streets of houses with all his brothers and father brick laying for him." [i]
Ethel's
father was George Henry CARRETT III - from a long line of bricklayers from
Brixton in England.
Ethel
emerged from Nurse Gee's private hospital in October 1924 with her first baby
Hazel in her arms and a new home waiting for her — a home her own father had
built on land her husband had cleared on weekends.
Ethel
and Ted CONNER set about filling their new home with a kitchen table and
dresser, a bedroom suite, carpet for the bedroom and the hall, linoleum for the
kitchen floor, and a cot for Hazel. Ethel's father gave her a sewing machine,
and she put it to good use to make curtains. In her own words, years later, it
was "a lovely time." She even made light shades to
match.
When
Ethel invited her in-laws to tea to celebrate Hazel's first birthday in 1925,
in her mother-in-law's eyes, the house was done up a little too nicely -
evidence of a daughter-in-law trying to rise above her station. "I was
too extravagant then," Ethel remembers. "I was trying to be
better than my station in life and making a fool of myself." My
grandmother was deeply hurt by her mother-in-law's disapproval but was fondly
remembered her father-in-law's kindness. "Dear old Mr Conner always
came with us on picnics and outings," she wrote, "and I really
believe he liked me."
Sydney was a very different city from what it is today. The iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge was only just under construction. If you wanted to cross the harbour, you had to do it by boat or ferry.
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| View showing ferry & other ships berthed in Campbells Cove. Southern Pylon of Harbour Bridge under construction seen behind Photo courtesy of City of Sydney archives |
January
Ethel's father, George, turned forty-seven on the 9th January. [ii] He was the eldest of nine children, born in Dubbo.
A
week later, Ted and Ethel celebrated their second Wedding Anniversary.
Cotton was the traditional gift for this anniversary. Did Ted buy Ethel
some fabric to make herself a new dress? Did Ethel make Ted a new shirt? Given
that it was just after Christmas, money may have been tight, and maybe Ethel
was still smarting too much after her mother-in-law's comments to be using the
sewing machine. She was a fine needlewoman, so maybe she just settled for
hand-stitching after that.
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| Ethel far left as bridesmaid to Millie with her fiancé Ted beside her |
Ted was a draughtsman with the Municipal Council of Sydney's Electricity Department — a secure, respectable, salaried position at a moment when the whole city was hungry for more electricity than the network could comfortably supply. Sydney's population grew to 1 million in 1926. [iii] Somewhere in an office in the city, over drawing boards and blueprints, men like Ted were sketching the substations and distribution lines that would eventually let Sydneysiders plug in their new electric jugs and vacuum cleaners without the lights browning out. A tiny article found in Trove on 12 January indicates that despite a petition from local authorities, Undercliffe was not considered big enough to warrant its own post office.[iv] Ted no doubt took any mail with him into town when he went to work to post at the GPO. He would have commuted by tram, walking to the end of Riverview Road and catching the tram from Dover Street or Illawarra Road on the bridge.
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| Courtesy Frank McQuade, Sydney Tramway Museum and City of Canterbury Council Local History Photograph Collection |
and into the city.....
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| Streetscape with tram George St Sydney 1926 |
February
Whilst
nothing extraordinary happened to the young family this month, Ted and Ethel
were probably aware by now that Ethel was expecting their second child.
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| Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sunday 7 February 1926, page 1, courtesy of Trove |
I can't help but wonder how Ethel coped as a young mother without all the benefits of today's modern conveniences. She would have used a copper to wash the clothes, and the nappies would have been cotton rather than disposable. She would have had no refrigerator. Ethel used to be a champion swimmer[v] but her days of leisure were now over. She would have been concerned for her children's health too. Infant mortality had fallen a lot since the 1880s but was still real: all-cause infant death rates had dropped from around 131 per 1,000 male births in 1880 to about 80 by 1912, continuing to fall through the 1920s, thanks largely to the spread of baby health clinics — NSW was actually the first place in the southern hemisphere to build a network of them. [vi]Sydney also had a citywide health push in the 1920s: "Health Week" campaigns publicised the fact that NSW had lost tens of thousands of babies to preventable disease over the preceding decade, so a mother expecting her second child in 1926 would have been living alongside genuine public anxiety about diarrhoea, whooping cough, and respiratory illness in infants — not abstract history, but front-page stuff. [vii]
March
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| Edwin seated far left |
Ted's father turned fifty-seven on 29th March.[viii] He was English by birth, a Royal Navy man for most of his working life, and by 1926 he was still working, in one capacity or another, for the Navy in Sydney Harbour —attached to the dockyard at Garden Island, where naval vessels were serviced and where, as it happened, the ferry that ran between Circular Quay and Watsons Bay made a regular stop to collect dock workers on their way home each evening. It is entirely possible he made that exact crossing hundreds of times without incident, the ferry a small, unremarkable part of his working week for over a decade.
He
had married Eleanor Cook in 1892, in Portsea, England, when he was
twenty-three.[ix] Connie
was born the following year, [x]then
Lilian in 1897[xi], then
Ted in 1900 [xii]— three
English children, growing up in a Navy household with all the postings and
uncertainty that implied. Sometime around 1912 or 1913, with Ted on the edge of
adolescence, the family made the long voyage out to Australia, landing first in
Melbourne[xiii]
before eventually settling in Sydney, in Military Road Watson’s Bay — a suburb
that, fittingly for a Navy family, looks straight out over the harbour he would
spend the rest of his working life crossing.[xiv]
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At the end of the month, a terrific gale damaged parts of Sydney including the new Masonic Hall in the city. The Sun included a photo taken at Undercliffe of seagulls flying inland, confused by the floodwaters. [xv]The rainfall around the state was noteworthy and included a flood warning for the Macquarie River in Dubbo. Earlier that month a 43-year-old tram driver William James Boxall had drowned in the Cooks River while taking a swim. He had been in ill-health apparently but these were reminders that life was not to be taken for granted. [xvi]
April
While the Conner family went about its own small business in Undercliffe, the wider world carried on making its own kind of history. In England that month, a royal birth was announced — a second daughter for the Duke and Duchess of York, named Elizabeth, who nobody yet had any reason to think would one day be queen. [xvii] The Duke and Duchess were to visit Australia the following year to open Canberra.
(Addendum: Having lunch with my father yesterday, I was reminded that my grandmother would tell a story of being able to go out to see the Royal yacht the following year. An uncle (of Ted's perhaps) was a footman or something to the royal household and showed Ethel that the Duchess's clothes were so fine that an entire dress could be pulled through a wedding ring.)
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| THE ROYAL BABY. (1926, April 29). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), p. 3. Retrieved September 7, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55023036 |
The Conners were more likely to pay attention to news from The Propellor a local newspaper advising that the Minister for Works had placed 450 pounds on next year's Estimates for the erection of a footbridge over Cook's River Undercliffe. [xviii] Or an article advising that vacant land on Riverview Road was selling for £359 when Ethel's father had sold land only a couple of years before for one hundred pounds. A cottage on Riverview Road sold for £845. [xix]They must have been feeling very secure.
May
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| The only photo I have of George and Daisy together taken much later in life with daughter Norah on the right |
On the 20th, Ethel's parents — George and Daisy— marked twenty-four years of marriage.[xx] They were married in 1902, when George was twenty-three and the eldest of nine children out of Dubbo, and Daisy — whose own origins remain something of a family mystery even now — was described on their marriage certificate simply as a housemaid, likely somewhere in her late teens or early twenties.
I
suspect that Ted and Ethel did not read The Labor Daily, but if they had, they would have been delighted to learn that the plans for a new school
building at Undercliffe had been completed and the local member Mr JJ Cahill
said the construction would be expedited. [xxi]Ethel
had been taught by a governess in her youth – a Miss Wrenwick. She then went to
Dulwich Hill school, and when they moved to Parsley Bay at the age of seven, she
attended Watson’s Bay school. Ethel couldn’t spell “kitchen” so was put into the infants
school for six months and then moved to 1st class. [xxii]
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| Undercliffe School 1928 Courtesy Joyce Waterworth and Canterbury Bankstown City Library image collection |
Ethel was far too young to think about being a widow, but the Widow’s Pension was introduced in 1926 in New South Wales. Mrs M.H. of Undercliffe asked,
“Would you please tell me how many widows’ pensions have already been paid out? And I made application some time ago for the pension. When I receive it will it be retrospective?"
The answer was 3000 pensions paid out since March 24 and yes, the payment would be
retrospective.[xxiii]
June
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| Ted Senior in swing with children |
Ted turned twenty-six on the 10th, in the middle of a Sydney winter and roughly six months into Ethel's second pregnancy. Ethel would have been well past the point of hiding her condition, and well into the particular exhaustion of caring for a toddler while carrying a second child through a Sydney winter with no central heating and a copper boiler to manage on washing day regardless of the cold.
I suspect that this young
family was too busy to be involved with the Cook’s River Improvement League[xxiv] ; then again, with the river at the bottom of their street, the very same that
Ethel had probably learned to swim in, maybe they were involved if only as
subscribers. I’m sure Ethel wanted her children to be able to swim in a clean
river if not at Parsley Bay – the beach of her teenage years.
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| THE MAN IN (1926, April 21). The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW : 1924 - 1938), p. 4. Retrieved September 9, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239802739 |
July
Ted's eldest sister, Constance (Connie),
turned thirty-three on the 26th. She was the first of the three Conner children
— English-born like her siblings, and, by 1926, married for eight years to
Henry Claude Morrison, a dentist.
It's a detail worth pausing on,
because it marks Connie out as having done rather well for herself by the
standards of the day. Dentistry in the 1920s was a solidly professional
occupation, and a dentist's wife occupied a rung of respectability and comfort.
Meanwhile, down the road from Ted and Ethel's, were plenty of reminders of all the fun they were missing. An article from the Evening News on 6
July noted that a blacksmith had complained about the noise, particularly the
screeching, that was coming from the Progress Hall – also on Riverview Road –
on a Saturday night. He said that during
the dancing, those who patronised the functions “screamed like people who
were demented” and it was impossible to get any rest.”[xxv] Remember that this is the time of the
Charleston, when world records were set for endurance. Do you know how to do
the Charleston? I remember my grandmother Ethel doing the Charleston on the
paddle steamer in Brisbane just before Expo in 1988.
Ethel would also have been very familiar with
the song “5 foot two, eyes of blue”. It’s debatable whether Ethel reached the dizzying height of 5 foot 2 inches and her eyes were hazel, but I’m sure it was
whistled a lot in their home.
August
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| International News photo of Rudolph Valentino, last photo taken of him before tragic death at age 31 Photo by Henry Waxman Wikimedia Commons |
I suspect the only news story
that may have captured Ethel’s attention in 1926 was the death of Rudolph Valentino. Many years later she talked
enthusiastically of his role in The Sheikh. Remember, silent films
were the norm in 1926. Sound didn’t hit the screens in Australia until 1928. Rudolph Valentino died of a perforated ulcer at the age of 30. [xxvi]
Ethel may also have been interested to read that 20-year-old Gertrude Ederle swam across the English Channel, beating the men’s record by 2 hours.[xxvii]
Ted and his father, no doubt, discussed Alan Cobham's successful flight from England to Australia, landing in Darwin on 5th August. You can see footage of his landing here.
September
Edwin Oswald CONNER aka Ted
Junior was born 12 September[xxviii],
a brother for two-year-old Hazel and a second child for Ted and Ethel to raise
in the house Ethel's father had built.
It was, by any measure, a full
month for the wider family. Ted Senior's sister Lilian (Lil) turned twenty-nine on
the 18th — the same Lilian who had come home to her parents the previous
October, her marriage to Clarrie Williams in Melbourne already unravelling in
everything but the paperwork. A divorce, when it eventually came through around
1929, [xxix]was
still enough of a social event in 1920s Australia to carry real weight; for
now, in September 1926, Lilian was simply home, rebuilding a life that had gone
differently to plan, in the same city as a new nephew just a few days old. And
on the 21st, Eleanor Connor — Ted's mother, the same woman whose disapproval
still coloured so much of Ethel's daily life — turned fifty-two.[xxx]
October
Hazel turned two this month, [xxxi]and
for the first time did so as a big sister — a newborn brother now a few weeks
old in the same house.
Whether this birthday was celebrated with anything like the fanfare of Hazel's first — the tea and the lunch that had so upset her grandmother the year before — history, or at least Ethel's diary, doesn't say. It's tempting to imagine a slightly quieter affair this time around, whether from exhaustion, caution, or a lesson learned.
This photo is from a bit later, when a third child Trixie was born into the family, but it gives you a sense of dress at the time for children.
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| Hazel holding baby Trixie with Ted standing by |
The Columbia Gramophone Record company opened its factory in Hombush on 14th October. You can listen to a speech from the opening ceremony here.
November
Ethel turned twenty-two on 10th
November. [xxxii]This
would have been a very different birthday to her 17th, which from memory was a surprise party held in a hall.
Melbourne Cup Day fell in early
November and by 1926 it was already the closest thing the
young nation had to a shared, secular holiday — offices closing early,
sweepstakes run in workplaces up and down the country, and radio sets (still a
genuine novelty in most Sydney homes) carrying the race call to anyone lucky
enough to own one.
For Ethel, turning twenty-two
with a two-year-old and a two-month-old in the house, the Cup was likely a
welcome bit of national theatre rather than a personal event — something to
half-listen to over the wireless while getting on with the far more immediate
business of two small children.
December
The year closed the way most
Sydney years do: with heat, with Christmas, and with the particular chaos of a
household trying to fit an entire extended family around one table. We are not
sure in which house Christmas was celebrated – Ted and Ethel’s place or Edwin
and Eleanor’s place at Watson's Bay. Ethel was estranged from her mother, so it was
unlikely to have been at Parsley Bay.
By December, Ted and Ethel had
been married just under three years, in a house now genuinely finished —
curtains hung, lampshades made, carpet down, two children asleep down the hall
on Christmas Eve instead of one.
An article in the Australian
Worker (another publication I suspect Ethel and Ted never read) gives us an
idea of the folk at Undercliffe. Written
by E.S. Sorenson it describes Undercliffe’s transformation as follows:
“The once forbidding Undercliff, where the rocky escarpments and tangled scrub were being transformed into a model village of pretty bungalows, and where Jerry, the slapdash builder of cheap tenements, hardly ever found a job.
There was a building covenant which demanded a class of house that was above the means of the ordinary worker: yet the places were nearly all workers’ homes, and most of them attracted notice by reason of their neat appearance, their situation, or artistic lay-out...
It was a slow process with most of them. The back parts of some of the houses were run up quickly: and there the family lived until the rest of the premises were finished. The workers were not all tradesmen, but many helped one another to speed up the building.”
You can read more about E.S. Sorenson’s here. He lived in Marrickville and wrote prolifically.
Whatever the year's
undercurrents — the cold letters from a mother-in-law, a sister-in-law
rebuilding her life after a failed marriage, the ordinary exhaustions of two
small children and a husband working 44 hours per week — Christmas in 1926
would have brought at least the appearance of harmony: roast meat if the family
could run to it, a pudding thick with dried fruit regardless of the heat, and,
if Mr Connor Senior had anything to do with it, everyone gathered together at
least once before the year was out.
It's worth sitting with this
image for a moment, because it's the last full, ordinary Christmas this
particular version of the family would ever have.
Epilogue: 3 November 1927
A little over a year after Ted
turned twenty-six, and almost exactly a year after his own son was born, Ted
Senior's father boarded the Watsons Bay ferry Greycliffe at Circular
Quay, likely after finishing a day's work at the Garden Island dockyard, on
what by every account was an unremarkable, sunny Thursday afternoon.
At around 4.30pm, off Bradley's Head, the ocean liner Tahiti struck the ferry amidships. Witnesses described the liner's bow cutting through the smaller vessel "like a huge knife" — the Greycliffe split in two and sank within three minutes. Forty people died. [xxxiii]It remains, a century later, Sydney Harbour's worst maritime disaster.
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| Sydney Harbour Ferry GREYCLIFFE - remains lifted from harbour after collision with SS TAHITI - courtesy Archives City of Sydney |
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| Ambulance at Fort Macquarie after GREYCLIFFE disaster, 3 November 1927 |
| This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection |
He was fifty-eight years old — the same man who, in Ethel's own words, had "always come with us on picnics and outings," who "so loved his only son and grandson," and whose quiet, uncomplicated affection had stood in such gentle contrast to his wife's coldness throughout 1926. He never saw Ted Junior reach more than a year old. He never saw Hazel grow past three.
It is a hard note to end a
family history on, and there is no tidy way to soften it. But it belongs here
all the same — not to overshadow the year that came before it, but because it
is, in its own terrible way, the reason a year like 1926 is worth writing down
so carefully in the first place. Ted and Ethel could not have known, filling
their new home with curtains and cots and quiet arguments about extravagance,
how little time was left for the grandfather who showed up to every single one
of their small, ordinary days. Neither did he.
According to the 2021 census, there were 18,053 people living in Earlwood. The most common backgrounds reported were Greek (22.3%), Australian (16.9%), and English (14.9%). About 61.9% of people were born in Australia. Other common birthplaces include Greece (7.4%), China (3.0%), and Portugal (2.4%).About half of the people (49.8%) speak only English at home. Other languages spoken include Greek (18.1%), Arabic (5.6%), and Italian (3.4%). For religion, the most common choices were Catholic (29.0%), No Religion (24.4%), and Orthodox (24.2%).
Earlwood, New South Wales facts for kids
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| Graphic in Ancestry email to Alex dated 27th August |
[i] Ethel
Conner, “I was born 10 November 1904...,” p1; MS, 1904-1952 (Buckland
Retirement Village Springwood Australia); privately held by Alex Daw
[ii] George
Henry Charles Carrett birth certificate, citing birth of 09 January 1879 at
Dubbo; Conner Family Papers, privately held by Alexandra Daw, Registrar General
NSW No. 12611 7 Sept 2026
[iii] “Australia's
Numbers,” Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania), 10 September 1926, Page 5, column
2, section 7; image copy, Trove (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4841826
: accessed 7 September 2026), Newspapers and Gazettes.
[iv] “General News,” The Daily Telegraph (Sydney
NSW), 12 January 1926, Page 7; image copy, Trove
[v] FamilyTreeFrog; “The President's Cup,” blog post by Alex Daw,
https://familytreefrog.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-presidents-cup.html, 05 Feb.
2013.
[vi]High
Infant Mortality Rates in Sydney, NSW State Archives and Records, 2025,
viewed 7 September 2026,
<https://wayback.archive-it.org/22771/20250103003717/https://nswanzaccentenary.records.nsw.gov.au/on-the-homefront/establishment-of-baby-health-clinics/>.
[vii]“Health Week,” Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 09 October 1926, p12; image copy, Trove (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16322146 : accessed 7 September 2026), Newspapers and Gazettes.
[viii]England, birth certificate (certified copy) for
Edwin Conner, born 29 March 1869; registered June quarter 1869, Portsea Island
District 2B/377, Kingston Sub-district, Southampton; General Register Office,
Southport.
[ix]England, marriage certificate (certified copy) for
Edwin Conner and Eleanor Eliza Cook, married 24 May 1892; registered June
quarter 1892, Portsea Island District 2B/898, Parish Church Sub-district,
Hampshire; General Register Office, Southport.
[x]Births Index (CR) England & Wales. RD Portsea, [Hampshire]. September Q., 1893. Conner, Constance Nellie. Vol. 2b. p. 444.
[xi]Births Index (CR) England & Wales. RD Portsea, [Hampshire]. December Q., 1897. Conner, Lilian Ada. Vol. 2b. p. 427.
[xii]Births Index (CR) England & Wales. RD Portsmouth, [Hampshire]. September Q., 1900. Conner, Edwin Arthur J. Vol. 2b. p. 391.
[xiii] Electoral roll entry for Edwin Conner, 26 Forster Street Williamstown, Subdivision of Williamstown, Division of Melbourne Ports, Victoria, 1914, in Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936, Ancestry, accessed 7 September 2026.
[xiv] New South Wales, death certificate (certified copy) for Edwin Conner, died 3 November 1927, registration number 17576, Sydney district; NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Chippendale.
[xv]“Through the eye of a camera,” The Newcastle Sun
(NSW), 26 March 1926, P8; image copy, Trove
(http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163390430 : accessed 7 September 2026),
Newspapers and Gazettes.
[xvi]“Drowning at Undercliffe,” Sydney Morning Herald
(NSW), 8 March 1926, p12; image copy, Trove
(http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16263383 : accessed 7 September 2026),
Newspapers and Gazettes.
[xvii] “Duchess of York,” The Daily Telegraph (NSW), 22 April 1926, p1; image copy, Trove (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245768801 : accessed 7 September 2026), Newspapers and Gazettes.
[xviii]
NOTES OF THE WEEK. (1926, April 16). The Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 -
1954), p. 3. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237001366
[xix] REAL
ESTATE. (1926, April 24). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954),
p. 10. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16288064
[xx] New South Wales, marriage certificate (certified
copy) for George Henry Charles Carrett and Daily Mildred Taylor, married 20 May
1902, registration number 4623/281, Sydney district; NSW Registry of Births
Deaths & Marriages, Chippendale.
[xxi] UNDERCLIFFE
SCHOOL (1926, May 28). The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW : 1924 - 1938), p. 3.
Retrieved September 6, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239797297
[xxii]
Conner, “I was born 10 November 1904...,” pp1-2
[xxiii]In
reply to yours (1926, May 20). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930),
p. 6 (The Daily Telegraph Woman's Supplement). Retrieved September 6, 2026,
from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245756464
[xxiv]
COOK'S RIVER IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE. (1926, June 11). The St George Call (Kogarah,
NSW : 1904 - 1957), p. 5. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232064708
[xxv] DANCERS
"SCREECH" TRAFFIC BILL (1926, July 6). Evening News (Sydney, NSW :
1869 - 1931), p. 9. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114388555
[xxvi]METEOR'S END
(1926, August 29). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 3.
Retrieved September 7, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222723928
[xxvii]
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-6/gertrude-ederle-becomes-first-woman-to-swim-english-channel
[xxviii]National Archives of Australia;
Canberra, Australia; RAAF Personnel files of Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs)
and Other Ranks, 1921-1948; Series: A9301
[xxix]Public
Records Office of Victoria (PROV); North Melbourne, Victoria, Divorce Records,
1860-1940, ancestry.com, 2017
[xxx] England, birth certificate (certified copy) for Eleanor Eliza Cook, born 21 September 1874; registered December quarter 1874, Portsmouth District 2b/430, Portsea Town Sub-district, Southampton; General Register Office, Southport.
[xxxi]New South Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for Hazel Eileen Conner, born 4 October 1924; registration number 44643/1924, Sydney district; NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Chippendale.
[xxxii] District of Canterbury at Canterbury ,
Birth Registered Number 31218, Ethel Irene Carrett, 1904, Registrar General’s
Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
[xxxiii]
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