The Days of Lizzie Jones
Lizzie Jones 1895 - 1980 My Grandma Jones, was born as Lizzie Nolan in 1895 at Lady Musgrave Hospital, Maryborough. She was the only surviving child of Eliza Tinkler and David Nolan although she had 5 step-siblings from her father’s first marriage and 2 from her mother’s second marriage! In 1898, when she was 3 years old, Grandmas father died of “Mania” leaving Grandma’s Mum, Eliza, with a newborn baby of 17 days, Grandma and 5 step children. But that is a different story! Two years later Grandma’s mother married Andrew Jessen in 1900 at Bundaberg. Andrew was a widower with 16 children aged between 4 years and 28 years! They all lived on the Jessen property named Goorah near Gundiah west of Tairo until sometime between 1908 and 1913 when they moved to Wooroolin. Grandma was between 13 to 18 years old when they moved to Wooroolin so her schooling years were at Gundiah and I remember being told Grandma lived there when we drove down to Hervey Bay on Holidays. I so wish I had asked more