BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FROM CLEMENTINA HAY MARSHALL BORN 22ND APRIL 1879 IN DORNOCK NORTH SCOTLAND

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FROM CLEMENTINA HAY MARSHALL BORN 22ND APRIL 1879

CLEMENTINA WAS BORN IN DORNOCH NORTH SCOTLAND AT THE FAMILY HOMESTEAD,  CUTHILL FARM, WHERE CLEMENTINA`S FAMILY LIVED FROM 1878 to about 1887,

CLEMENTINA HAD 3 BROTHERS,

ALEXANDER  1881, WHOM SHE LOVED, THEY WERE VERY CLOSE TOGETHER ALL THEIR LIVES, LIVING TOGETHER  NEXT DOOR ON THE MARSHALL ISLAND IN THE BELLINGEN RIVER NORTHERN NSW FROM ABOUT 1940 TO 1951 FLOOD WHICH WASHED THREE OFF THE ISLAND. ( SEE FLOOD OF 1951 STORY BELOW. )

ROBERT WILLIAMSON MARSHALL BORN  1884, MARRIED OLIVE VICTORIA FAULKNER IN PAMBULA NSW IN 1913, WORKED AS BUTTER FACTORY MANAGER THROUGHOUT NSW & VICTORIA,  ALSO SETTING UP THE CARNATION BUTTER  FACTORY IN MERRIGUM VICTORIA ABOUT 1948. ROBERT  DIED MERRIGUM VICTORIA 1953, & IS BURIED IN KYABRAM CEMETERY  VICTORIA.  (ROBERT IS MY , DONALD MALCOLM MARSHALL, GRAND FATHER. )

& BABY JAMES BORN 1885, DIED AGED 2 YEARS 1887,BEFORE THE FAMILY EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA 1888.

& 1 SISTER ELIZABETH 1882, DIED URUNGA NSW  ABOUT 1955.

THESE CHILDREN WERE ALL  BORN TO MARGARET HAY MARSHALL & THOMAS WISEMAN MARSHALL

IN 1888 MARGARET MARSHALL EMIGRATED WITH THE 4 ELDEST CHILDREN ON BOARD THE STEAM SAILING SHIP SS ABERDEEN FROM LIVERPOOL APRIL 1888 TO RIO DE JANERIO  VIA CAPE HOPE MELBOURNE THEN ARRIVED SYDNEY JULY 1888.

 

DURING WORLD WAR ONE CLEMENTINA BOARDED THE HOSPITAL SHIP HS GASCON AT LEMNOS HARBOR ON HER 36 TH BIRTHDAY, 22ND APRIL 1915, JUST  3 DAYS BEFORE ANZAC DAY 1915.

THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND,  QUEEN ELIZABETH 2ND, HAS THE SAME BIRTHDAY 22ND APRIL AS CLEMENTINA. QUEEN ELIZABETH IS THE  DAUGHTER OF KING GEORGE 5TH, WHO HONORED NURSE CLEMENTINA MARSHALL WITH A ROYAL RED CROSS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE IN 1917.

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