Elsie Hope Aberdein

  Research Notes:

source: & Betty Deverell who notes:
I am interested in Elsie Hope Aberdein (Sier/s) who married Lewis Domenichetti, for family history puposes.
I am a grand niece of her first husband, Arthur Siers.

Betty Deverell later notes:
My mother's uncle was Arthur Sier, who married Elsie Hope Aberdein in 1926. They only had the one daughter, also called Elsie Hope. Arthur & Elsie divorced about 10 years after their marriage and both parties remarried. The family lost contact after this and had no idea what happened to both Elsies (Arthur died in 1964) He was supposedly driving a train when he had a heart attack, we couldn't confirm this fact - I do have his death certificate which states he died between two railway sidings so the story could be true.

I found the younger Elsie married a Colin Frederick Everson in 1958, I then found the family on Ancestry where a number of people had Colin's wife as Donna! Donna? Where did she come from.

To cut a long story short I then got Colin's Death Certificate when he died in 1974- Elsie still listed as his wife and they had 3 children. Elsie and the eldest child were both on Electoral Rolls at the address where Colin and Elsie had lived for some time before his death.
Via Ryerson I found a Death Notice which had been published in the S.M.H. stating he had left his loving wife, Donna, plus the children and son-in-law of Elsie Snr. and her husband.

Why she was known as Donna I don't know - I have been in touch with another family member and she is as confused as I am, but we are convinced Elsie and Donna are the same person. The only conclusion was that she was known as Donna to distinguish herself from her mother. Elsie Snr. is also very confusing - she remarried to a fellow who anglicized his name which makes things confusing as the marriage is registered as one name and the death is registered as another.

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. One connection between Betty Deverell & me through my paternal Grandmother is:

Betty Deverell . . .
Is the Grand Niece of Arthur Siers who married Elsie Aberdein (1909)
Her father was Warwick Aberdein (1867) who married Jessie Stafford (1872)
Her father was John Stafford (1834)
His father was William Stafford (1811) who married Elizabeth Goodall (1814) & they also had William Stafford (1842)
He had Eva Stafford (1874) who married Arthur Clinton (1868)
They had James Clinton (1895) who married Martha Walker (1901)
Her father was Thomas Walker (1854)
His father was William Walker (1820) & he also had Martha Walker (1865) who married John Sutherland (1861)
His father was John Sutherland (1829) who married Margaret Elliot (1835)
They had Elizabeth Sutherland (1863) who married John Nicol (1844)
They had Margaret Nicol (1889) who married G. A. Davies (1925)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Another more convoluted connection between Betty Deverell [betdev7@bigpond.com] & me through my paternal Grandfather is:

Betty Deverell . . .
Is the Grand Niece of Arthur Siers who married Elsie Aberdein (1909)
Her father was Warwick Aberdein (1867) who married Jessie Stafford (1872)
Her father was John Stafford (1834) & he also had Alfred Stafford (1853)
He had Harold Stafford (1884)
He had Neta Stafford (1914) who married Clive Nixon (1912)
They had Patricia Nixon (1937) who married Barry Neasmith (1936)
His father was David Neasmith (1912)
His father was David Neasmith (1873)
His father was William Neasmith (1825) & he also had Margaret Neasmith (1864) who married Alfred New (1863)
His father was Thomas New (1838) & he also had Thomas New (1858) who with his second wife Catherain Wirth (1813) had Marizles New (1915) who married James Kirkwood (1913)
They had Lois Kirkwood (1943) who married Keith Shrimpton (1936)
His father was Claude Shrimpton (1904)
His father was William Shrimpton (1869)
His father was Richard Shrimpton (1826) & he also had Richard 3^rd Shrimpton (1855) who married Susannah Jeffery (1857)
Her father was John Jeffery (1834)
His father was John Jeffery (1808)
His father was James Jeffery (1781) & he also had William Jeffery (1803)
He had James Jeffery (1837)
He had Mary Jeffery (1860) who married William South (1854)
They had Annie South (1891) who married Leslie Rice (1885)
They had Hazel Rice (1913) who married Emmett Whyte (1899)
They had Sandra Whyte (1943) who married Colin Parker (1936)
His father was Arthur Parker (1894)
His mother was Martha Parker (1872)
Her mother was Elizabeth Roser (1844)
Her father was John Roser & he also had John Roser (1838)
He had George Roser (1868)
He had Charles Roser (1897)
He had George Roser (1923) who married Olive Elliot (1924)
Her mother was Doris Emery (1903)
Her mother was Phoebe Davies (1876)
Her father was Joseph Davies (1852) & he also had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Elsie married Arthur Richard Sier in 1926 in Canterbury, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Arthur Richard Sier was born on 6 Mar 1903 in Cootamundra, NSW Australia and died on 2 Apr 1964 in Muswellbrook, NSW Australia.)

Elsie next married Lewis Alfred Domenichetti, son of William L. Domenichetti and Ethel Yeates, in 1938 in Ashfield, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Lewis Alfred Domenichetti was born in 1903 in Sydney, NSW Australia and died on 1 Jan 1979 in NSW Australia.)