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Young Street, Cremorne

Gertrude Eileen Baldock

1898–1981

Married a Cremorne bricklayer in 1921 and stayed in the same house on Young Street for the rest of both their lives — sixty years, into her own final electoral roll.

Born
13 November 1898 · Newtown, baptised St Stephen’s
Died
24 November 1981
Married
Donald Fraser Elliott (1894–1963), a Neutral Bay bricklayer — married 11 June 1921, St Stephen’s Church, Newtown
Lived
83 years

Gertrude Eileen Baldock was born at Newtown on 13 November 1898 and baptised the following month, on 21 December, at St Stephen’s, Newtown — the family then living at 102 Hordern Street.1 She married on 11 June 1921, at that same church, Donald Fraser Elliott, a Neutral Bay bricklayer, son of Henry Elliott, a storeman, and Grace Elizabeth (Fraser).2

The couple settled at 95 Young Street, Cremorne, and stayed there for over forty years — into at least the 1980 electoral roll. Donald died in 1963; Gertrude outlived him nearly two decades, into the last roll of her own life, dying in 1981.3

Their son, Donald Roy, born in 1923, served with the Second A.I.F. and later moved to Queensland, where he died in 1996; their daughter, Patricia, married Stanley Ernest Miller in 1948, and the young couple later kept house together at 216 Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach, Stanley then working as an upholsterer.4

The Record

Sources & References

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    Baptism of Gertrude Eileen Baldock, 1898

    Church of England baptism register, parish of St Stephen’s, Newtown, entry No. 3031: Gertrude Eileen, born 13 November 1898, baptised 21 December 1898, parents William Stanley and Jessie Baldock, of 102 Hordern Street, Newtown; father’s occupation painter.

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    Marriage of Gertrude Eileen Baldock and Donald Fraser Elliott, 1921

    NSW Register of Marriages, entry No. 2093: Donald Fraser Elliott, bricklayer, of Neutral Bay, bachelor, aged 25, born Neutral Bay, son of Henry Elliott (storeman) and Grace Elizabeth (Fraser); married Gertrude Eileen Baldock, home duties, of Newtown, spinster, aged 22, born Newtown, daughter of William Stanley Baldock (painter) and Jessie (Brooks); married 11 June 1921 at St Stephen’s Church, Newtown, according to the rites of the Church of England. NSW BDM marriage registration 114949/1921.

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    Electoral rolls, 95 Young Street, Cremorne, 1931–1980

    Commonwealth Electoral Roll, Division of Warringah, Subdivision of Neutral Bay: 1931, entries 3527 and 3531, Donald Fraser Elliott (bricklayer) and Gertrude Eileen Elliott (home duties), both 95 Young Street. 1949 edition, entries 3969 and 3972, the same couple at the same address. Subdivision of Cremorne, 1977 edition (made up to 16 September 1977), entries 1190–1192: Donald Roy Elliott (plumber) and Edna Elliott (home duties) at 93 Young Street, and Gertrude Eileen Elliott (home duties) alone at 95 Young Street — Donald Fraser having died in 1963. 1980 edition (made up to 1 August 1980), entries 1051–1053: the same three, at the same two addresses. Cemetery transcription, Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, North Ryde: Gertrude Eileen Elliott, née Baldock, born 1898, died 24 November 1981; Donald Fraser Elliott, born 5 September 1894, died 16 September 1963. NAA service record: Donald Fraser Elliott, service no. N447503, Citizen Military Forces, enlisted North Sydney, next of kin Gertrude Elliott.

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    Deaths, and the next generation

    NSW BDM birth registration 17053/1924, North Sydney district: Patricia Elliott, father Donald F., mother Gertrude B. NSW BDM marriage registration 23432/1948, North Sydney district: Stanley Ernest Miller and Patricia Elliott. Commonwealth Electoral Roll, Subdivision of Bondi Beach, entries 6962 and 6965: Miller, Patricia (home duties) and Miller, Stanley Ernest (upholsterer), both 216 Campbell Parade. Cemetery transcription, Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, North Ryde: Stanley Ernest Miller, died 10 June 2010; Patricia Miller, born 12 May 1924, died 14 November 2021. NSW BDM death registration 1996/53116: Donald Roy Elliott, born 1923, died 10 April 1996, parents Donald Fraser Elliott and Eileen Gertrude Baldock; Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance, Toowoomba, Queensland. (An NAA service record for a Donald Roy Elliott, service no. NX10806, 2nd A.I.F., gives his birth as 25 May 1920 — three years earlier than the death registration; as with his uncle Harold Roy a generation before, this looks more like an age added at enlistment than an error in the later record. Neither his birth nor his marriage — if any — has yet been traced. A Prisoner of War/internee card index also lists a Sapper “Elliott, Donald Roy,” regimental number VX38951 — but the “VX” prefix marks a Victorian enlistment, at odds with this Donald Roy’s New South Wales background and his already-documented NX10806, so this branch treats the card as almost certainly a different, unrelated man of the same name rather than evidence of wartime captivity.)