"There was also a cousin of my Mums called Ivy, her father when.to to Australia when she was very young promising to send for her & her mother, never heard of again".

Now proved that this not entirely true- her mother having died in 1919 but her father did indeed return to Australia in 1922

Ivy Hedley was born in Kirri Kirri NSW on 23/3/1919 and her mother died 22/7/1919- buried 29/7/1919 - Kurri Kurri .

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The I.O.O.is the Independent Order of Odd Fellows

William Hedley, 29, miner, returned to England on 2/2/1920 with infant Ivy

1922. Her father, W. Hedley, miner, of 23 Oswald Road, Newbiggin by the Sea, returned to Sydney, leaving on 20/1/1922 - seemingly with another local miner - on the Orvieto. His destination was Eighth Street, Weston, Maitland - Weston ~2 k from Kurri Kurri, the Maitlad Seam was a rich minefield there

Seemingly nothing else was then heard from him back in England. But he was fined in Kurri Kurri in 1925 for being drunk and using improper language in a hotel/pub[ he had also been fined in 1915 for riotous behaviour] .

From Ancestry Australian Electoral Rolls:

1930 . He, miner, was living Frances Street, Paxton, Bellbird

1936. 1927. 1943. 1949, 1954 . He, miner, was living Glover Street, Belmont, Charleston

1930, 1940, 1944, 1952. He was fined for various offences- assault, indecent language, offensive behaviour, drunk & swearing - all drink induced.

He never remarried. Presumably died soon after 1954 in the same area- no more references

Likely Ivy Hedley stayed living with her paternal grandparents at 23 Oswald Road until she married in 1940.

1939. Ivy Hedley , 20, is living with her Hedley grandparents at 23 Oswald Road, Newbiggin by the Sea - in 1939 Register

1939 Charles Lymer, b.1914, steam road roller driver, H W , is living 6 Bridge Street,Newbiggin by the Sea- FMP 1939 Register

1940. Ivy E Hedley married Charles G Lymer NorthC Jun 1940  & had Judith 1946, Charles 1947, Diane 1955, & Eileen 1959 - they moved to County Durham between 1947 & 1955 : these 4 children received 12.5% of the estate of their uncle George Amos' when he died, intestate, in Hawick in 1976 : but Eileen likely never received her share as she had vanished - with a gypsy- around 1973.

Does Charles have a photo of their wedding??

Bella had no brother Will, but her sister Ann Sanderson married William Hedley. This photo would have been sent in August 1919, just after his wife Ann had died

As Bella's mother died in 1900, & her mother in law died in 1911, who does Will mean when he writes about 'your Ma'? - could this be what Bella called Granny Floyd?? . She does have a brother John who might have been known as Jack . And Mrs Murdy was a friend of Ann's, likely had a child at the same time, - she remembers Ann's death a year later on 22/7/1920 - newspaper cutting above

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Ann Sanderson- Bella's 1894 sister - married a William Hedley in Sydney 1914 - so this is she above.

Ivy Lymer's ? youngest daughter  14/15 yrs old - Eileen b. 1959 - , ran away with a gypsy after there had been a fair where they lived, never to be heard of again,
    broke her parents but especially her father's heart.

Pat trying to contact son Charles Lymer 1947

2011. Ivy Edna Lymer, aged 92, dies on 3/12/2011 Dunmow Essex CM6 - Ancestry. She was buried on 15/12/2011 in Felsted - google

 

Background on William Hedley

1891C. Cramlington

William	Hedley	Head	Married	Male	22	1869	Coal Miner	Seghill, Northumberland, England
Bessy	Hedley	Wife	Married	Female	24	1867	-	Calstock, Cornwall, England
Thomas	Hedley	Son	-	Male	2	1889	-	Horton, Northumberland, England
William	Hedley	Son	-	Male	4 mths	1891	-	Cramlington, Northumberland, Englan

 

1901C. Poplar Street, Hurst

William	Hedley	Head	Married	Male	33	1868	Coal Miner Hewer	Seghill, Northumberland, England
Bessie	Hedley	Wife	Married	Female	34	1867	-	Calstock, Cornwall, England
Thomas	Hedley	Son	-	Male	12	1889	-	Hartford, Northumberland, England
William	Hedley	Son	-	Male	10	1891	-	Northumberland, England
Ellen	Hedley	Daughter	-	Female	8	1893	-	Hartford, Northumberland, England
James	Hedley	Son	-	Male	6	1895	-	Hartford, Northumberland, England
John C	Hedley	Son	-	Male	4	1897	-	Hirst, Northumberland, England
Margaret	Hedley	Daughter	-	Female	1	1900	-	Hirst, Northumberland,

 

1911. Hedgehope Terrace, Chevington Drift

William	Hedley	Head	Married	Male	Coal Miner Hewer	42	1869	Northumberland Teghill
Bessie	Hedley	Wife	Married	Female	Domestic	44	1867	Cornwall Calstock
Thomas	Hedley	Son	Single	Male	Coal Miner Hewer	22	1889	Northland Horton Hartford
William	Hedley	Son	Single	Male	Putter Underground	20	1891	Northland Horton Shankhouse
Nellie	Hedley	Daughter	Single	Female	Domestic	18	1893	Horton Hartford Northland
James	Hedley	Son	Single	Male	Apprentice Shoe - Maker	16	1895	Horton Hartford Northland
John	Hedley	Son	-	Male	Driver Underground	14	1897	Seaton Hirst New Hirst Northland
Ralph	Hedley	Son	-	Male	-	8	1903	Seaton Hirst New Hirst Northland
George	Hedley	Son	-	Male	-	4	1907	Chevington Chevington Drift Northland

So likely William Hedley knew Ann Sanderson - she then living Linhope Terrace, Chevington Drift - by 1911.

Map showing Hedgehope Terrace and Linhope Crescent- likely Linhope Terrace was off the latter

1911. A possibility: W, Hedley, 21, maybe miner, arrives Brisbane 23/8/1911, from Liverpool- Ancestry