AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
NameEric Harold IRONMONGER 
Birth Date189019868
Birth PlaceMelbourne East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death Date23 Feb 196619869 Age: 76
Death PlaceGosford, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationArmy WW1 & sheep station worker (1918)
MotherCatherine Emma HIGGINS
Spouses
Birth Dateca 1892
Birth PlaceTorquay, Devon, England
MemoHer marriage to Horace Parker suggests a birth date of 1898 but her marriage to Eric Ironmonger suggests 1893, the latter thought more likely as Caroline Redwood, Alma’s claimed mother, died in 1893.. The marriage to Horace Parker records her being born in Torquay in Devon but her death record gives birth in Fulham in London. No birth index has been found so wonder if her name and that of her parents at birth were not as later recorded. Perhaps she “adopted” by the Gilley family but not found on any census..
Death Date197019842 Age: 78
Death PlaceKyneton, Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia
MemoDeath with surname Ironmonger. Death record gives father as Thomas George and mother as Caroline Redwood. See was aged 78 years ( circa 1892) and born Fulham, England, marriage of 1930 gives birth in Devon.
OccupationVariety Artist (1918), Milliner (1930)
Alias/AKASOMNER-GILLEN, SOMNER-GILLEY, Mabel Sophia?
FatherThomas George Sumner GILLEY (1865-<1907)
MotherCaroline REDWOOD (1861-1893)
Marr PlaceSt. George Hanover Square, Westminster, London, England
Marr MemoAt the registry office London Eric Harold Ironmonger, 27 a 2nd corporal rifleman & sheep station worker married Alma Stephanie Somner-Gilley, 25 a Variety artist. Bothe gave address as 78 Cambridge Street, Pimlico. Eric’s father was Charles William Ironmonger, a manufacturer’s agent and Alma’s was Thomas George Somner-Gilley a Captain in the merchant service.
Notes for Eric Harold IRONMONGER
He was aged 28 when he left UK in 1919 so born circa 1891. See wife Alma’s reference 2 Apr 1919.
Notes for Alma Stephanie Sumner (Spouse 1)
Alma is on Electoral rolls 1949 & 1963 as Alma Stephanie Somner-Gilley, never as Parker or Ironmonger. She married Eric Ironmonger as Somner Gilley. Her death found as Ironmonger. She migrated to Australia in 1919 with her soldier husband of just over a year Eric Ironmonger bound for Sydney.
Death & marriage records show Alma’s parents as Thomas George & Caroline Redwood. Nothing has been found to confirm these were actually her parents and she recorded her father’s occupation as mariner not Florist, however the father of Thomas George Sumner Gilley was also Thomas George and he was a mariner married to Sophia Sumner and lived around Torquay.
Have not found Alma on any census. Could Alma be Mabel?
Death & marriage records show Alma’s parents as Thomas George & Caroline Redwood. Nothing has been found to confirm these were actually her parents and she recorded her father’s occupation as mariner not Florist, however the father of Thomas George Sumner Gilley was also Thomas George and he was a mariner married to Sophia Sumner and lived around Torquay.
Have not found Alma on any census. Could Alma be Mabel?