Reginald Benton Passau

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Jennie Morgan who notes:
The post-Federation prosperity and developing middle-class confidence seems to have been kind to the now long-established Passau business. F C
was listed as 'watchmaker, jeweller, silversmith and optician' \endash the addition of silversmith suggesting the new prosperity. F C's fifth-born son, Reginald
Benton Passau had now joined the George Street business as 'optician', making him the fourth son to partner his father (son Horace died in 1877 aged only 7). Reginald was living with his father at 'Bellerive' in 1903, before moving to his own home on North Steyne, Manly in 1904.

• connection. Carolyn Darby 's connection to Robert is as follows:

Carolyn Symes (1940) married ? Darby
Her father was Keith Symes (1903)
His father was Robert Symes (c1870) who married Mary Kennedy (1872)
Her father was James Kennedy (1844)
His father was Alexander Kennedy (c1810) & he also had Margaret Kennedy (c1842) who married John Plant Wright (c1850)
They had Ethel Wright (1883) who married Reginald Passau (1879)
His father was Frederick Passau (1842)
His father was Samuel Passau who married Matilda Dawes (1818)
Her father was Aaron Daw (1779) & he also had Edward Dawes (1813)
He had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (192)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Reginald married Ethel Margaret Wright, daughter of John Plant Wright and Margaret Kennedy, in 1903 in Ashfield, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Ethel Margaret Wright was born on 7 Oct 1883 in Ashfield, Sydney, NSW Australia and died on 28 Jun 1948 in Manly, Sydney, NSW Australia.)