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2nd Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers. This Census form is clearly one for "institutions" (schools, barracks, etc).
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Living with his wife in a 14 room house with a Butler, Cook, Maid & Housemaid. Now described as a "Retired Merchant".
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Left a comparatively modest (considering his father's enormous wealth) £10,843 to his widow. No children, it would appear.
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Northern Suburbs Crematorium - 42DMG8
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* From Aunt Topsy:
Leo Tilley enlisted in the Light Horse in WW1, and afterwards was a printing compositor
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http://www.coggins.id.au/individual.php?pid=P253&ged=Coggins.id.au
Coggins Genealogy - 2012-11-26
Leo was born 25 August 1897 in Jeparit, Vic. Leo clashed with his father constantly, and as a result received many beatings. He was eager to join the war, signing up with the Light Horse on 8 November 1915 at the age of 18 years and 3 months, and serving as a signaller in Egypt. Leo listed his next-of-kin as his sister Mary Griffiths of St Kilda, Vic, as he claimed his mother's whereabouts was unknown. Later this was changed to his mother's address at Collingwood, Vic. There is a letter on his service file from his mother advising a change of her address from Kensington, Sydney, NSW to Railway View in August 1918.
Leo was not an exemplary soldier; he was fined for bad conduct twice, and was treated twice for Syphilis. When he returned from the war on 29 July 1919 he used some his deferred pay to buy his mother Kate a hearing aid, which was greatly appreciated. Leo was listed as a Striker when he enlisted, and when he was discharged he completed his training as a Compositor. (These printing trades no longer exist.) Leo married Vera in 1929 in Sydney and had four children. He seems to have lived with Topsy at Guildford for a while before he died in 1968 at Parramatta.
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Ferntree Gully, Flinders, Victoria, Australia. Station Street, Bayswater. Madge is at home and "James" is a salesman.
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Madge is living at Woy Woy Bay, New South Wales, Australia
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http://www.coggins.id.au/indiI2.html --- 2008-10-26
Ruth Valmai Lawson
25th Feb 1922 - 19th Oct 2007
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Life History
25th Feb 1922
Born in Haberfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia
30th Apr 1922
Baptised in St Barnabas, Sydney, NSW
20th Apr 1946
Married Robert George COGGINS in Sydney, NSW, Australia
1947
Birth of son David Edward Richard COGGINS in Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
1952
Birth of son Geoffrey Robert Kenneth COGGINS
1954
Birth of son Alan John COGGINS in North Sydney, NSW, Australia
1963
Birth of daughter Valmai Joy COGGINS in Hornsby, NSW, Australia
1963
Birth of son Peter George COGGINS in Hornsby, NSW, Australia
13th Apr 1992
Death of Robert George COGGINS in Mt Kuring-gai, NSW, Australia
19th Oct 2007
Died in Hornsby, NSW, Australia
24th Oct 2007
Buried in Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Ryde, NSW, Australia
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* Ruth Coggins was born at Haberfield, Sydney, the first of three children of Herbert and Margaret Lawson. She grew up in the inner suburbs of Sydney, attending Croydon Public School and Fort Street High School. She then passed an Engineering Tracing course and worked for the Main Roads Department as a tracer. Ruth was very proud of the fact that she had traced plans for several large road bridge projects and took pleasure in pointing out 'her' bridge whenever we happened to pass one.
In 1942, at 20 years of age, Ruth joined the Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force. She trained as a wireless telegraphist and was stationed at Frognall in Victoria, where she sent top-secret messages in Morse code around the world. She remained there until her discharge in 1945. Ruth took great pride in her war service - she marched on Anzac day whenever she could, regularly attended reunions and kept in touch with her many service friends. However, she was annoyed that she could never get the same government benefits as those people who served overseas - and what particularly got her hopping mad was the fact that Tasmanian girls who served beside her at Frognall got full service benefits because they did travel overseas
all the way from Tasmania to the mainland
Back home in Sydney after the war, Ruth met and fell in love with a handsome British sailor, Bob Coggins, who visited her family while he was on shore leave. After a short engagement they were married in April 1946,and Bob was able to obtain his discharge from the Royal Navy in Australia later the same year. They settled in Croydon where their first child, David, was born in 1947.
In 1950 they moved to High Street, Mt Kuring-gai where Bob built a houseon weekends, as well as working for the Housing Commission and training as a Quantity Surveyor. Geoffrey and Alan were born while they were living in High Street. Disaster struck when Bob was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. He spent 18 months recovering in hospital, and Ruth suffered terribly trying to keep her young family going during that time. There were no government benefits available in those days and despite evidence that Dad got his TB infection during the war, the British Government refused to help in any way. Ruth had to rely on help and handouts from family and friends to survive those terrible months.
In 1955, after the death of Ruth's father, the family moved to Bayview Street to look after her mother, where Valmai and Peter were born. Most of the family's growing years were spent at Bayview St, until the property was resumed for the F3 freeway in 1984.
Ruth and Bob shared a very strong Christian faith - they helped establish the Holy Trinity Church at Mt Kuring-gai, and were staunch supporters of the church until that building was also resumed for the freeway. They then began attending St Peters and became deeply involved in the church life there. Mum sang in the St Peters choir for many, many years - as recently as a few months ago she was still singing in the choir, in spite of all her problems.
Ruth was devastated when Bob died suddenly in 1992, but she kept going - her faith, and her love for her family keeping her strong. She moved to Hornsby to be near her beloved church, but was struck another cruel blow when she lost most of her sight. Ruth still managed to be independent though and looked after herself, with the support of her family and her many dear friends. And she still kept singing in the choir, using a hymnal that was especially printed for her in giant sized text.
In the last few years of her life Ruth suffered a series of health problems, which slowly but surely weakened her determined spirit, until her body had finally had enough and she left us. She lived a full and very busy life - with her church, tennis and voluntary work, she was never still for long. She loved most forms of music, but her great passion was for opera
and having a daughter who regularly played in the Opera House and could give her all the news from backstage was a great source of enjoyment for her. But most of all, Ruth Coggins loved her family and she devoted her life to them.
from Eulogy for Ruth Valmai Coggins, written by David Coggins and read at the funeral by Elaine Coggins.
BURIAL: Remains at Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW - Location 41 DMG 8
Record last changed 12th Jan 2008 21:19:19
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