I wish for you a life...

wild songs
I wish for you a life where your blood sings
with the voice of an eager, wild thing.
With a voice that says I am here
& in this short time,
this is the song I sing
because I can.
- storypeople

Monday 3 April 2017

the Mifflins...


just a scant identity...
This old headstone at Tyabb Cemetery just mentions first names...
a mother who died 15th April 1909 at the age of 56...
a sister, Estella, who died a year later 9th March 1910... aged 18 years
and another sister, Esmeralda, who died the next year on 10th March 1911...aged 21 years...
In 3 consecutive years, autumn was a sad season for this family...
Records HERE suggest that the family name was Mifflin...
And the mother's name was Sarah...
(But Estella's name is recorded twice - for 1910 and 1911...)

Further searches revealed more of Sarah...
Her maiden name was Light and she was born in Kyneton, Victoria...
Sarah married William Sydney Mifflin (1848-1878 - died in Kyneton - see HERE)... 4 children...one was Estella...
and married Joseph Bickley (1821-1899 - suicide? in Hastings - see HERE) and had 7 children...one was Esmeralda...

- more HERE


The above article was published in the Mornington Standard, May 2 1901...
It reads:
A very pretty wedding was solemnised in Holy Trinity Church last week, when the Rev P. J. Edwards united in holy wedlock Mr Richard W. Benton to Miss Florence A. Mifflin of Hastings. The bride, who was tastefully attired in a creme cashmere dress trimmed with passementrie and creme lace, wore the usual veil and orange blossoms. Miss Haddock, Miss Stella Mifflin (sister of the bride), and Miss Nellie Cox (cousin of the bride), attended as bridesmaids, and all three were dressed in white with bouquets of white Cosmos and dahlias, and wore gold brooches, the gifts of the bridegroom.

(The article goes on to list notable wedding presents...)

If Stella was a bridesmaid in 1901, she must have been a very young one... 9 years old...

And yes...
The wedding was in April...

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