Early in Feb 1939 William (11) and Thelma (8) were playing in a cubby they had built in their backyard. They had boxes and blankets and a cellulose doll and had taken some candles from the house to play with. There mother was unaware of the danger till she smelled smoke and found both children asphyxiated. One can only imagine the grief of Thomas and Thelma making the trip to the cemetery again to place their children with their siblings. Their only surviving child, Joan Margaret, BORN 1925, was to marry Leonard McRae Robertson in 1943 and moved to Victoria park, near Peeth, she died in 1972.
Lillian was to see all of her 8 children pre decease her.
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Joan Baldock is my mum. This story is about my grandparents and my mothers siblings. So sad.