May Melinda KeziaROWNEY, 19031934 (aged 30 years)

Name
May Melinda Kezia/ROWNEY/
Birth March 29, 1903 33 26
Birth of a brotherArthur Edward JohnROWNEY
August 22, 1908 (aged 5 years)
Birth of a brotherRoderick Adolphus CharlesROWNEY
May 29, 1911 (aged 8 years)
Birth of a brotherSamuel Leslie AlbertROWNEY
June 4, 1914 (aged 11 years)
Birth of a daughterMerle Victoria AgnesCARMES
February 23, 1922 (aged 18 years)

Birth of a daughterRoma CARMES
August 16, 1923 (aged 20 years)

Birth of a sonKeith CARMES
February 2, 1930 (aged 26 years)

Death 1934 (aged 30 years)
Burial
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage1895Hopetoun, Vic.
2 years
elder brother
18961962
Birth: 1896 26 18Hopetoun, Vic.
Death: October 2, 1962Dandenong, Vic.
2 years
elder sister
2 years
elder sister
3 years
herself
19031934
Birth: March 29, 1903 33 26Hopetoun, Vic.
Death: 1934Mildura, Vic.
6 years
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
19111980
Birth: May 29, 1911 41 34Hopetoun, Vic.
Death: June 23, 1980Patchewollock, Vic.
3 years
younger brother
19141984
Birth: June 4, 1914 44 37Hopetoun, Vic.
Death: February 12, 1984Stawell, Vic.
Family with Frederick John CARMES
husband
herself
19031934
Birth: March 29, 1903 33 26Hopetoun, Vic.
Death: 1934Mildura, Vic.
daughter
Private
daughter
19221937
Birth: February 23, 1922 22 18
Death: January 6, 1937Warracknabeal, Vic.
18 months
daughter
19232003
Birth: August 16, 1923 23 20
Death: February 3, 2003
7 years
son
19301996
Birth: February 2, 1930 30 26
Death: September 9, 1996
Birth

No. 11123

Death

No. 18716

Note

May was born around Hopetoun (Vic) in 1903.

In 1920, she married Frederick CARMES, when she was around 17 years of age. Frederick was about 21 years old.

Frederick and May appear to have initially lived around Hopetoun after their marriage. Their first child, Iris was born there in 1920. Their movements after that time are not clear, although they seem to have remained in north-west Victoria, the birth places of their subsequent children have not yet been determined. Their daughter Merle was born in 1922, and Roma followed in 1923. Their only son, Keith, was born in 1930.

In 1934, May died at Mildura (Vic). Her age was recorded as 34 at the time of her death, but it would appear that she was just 31 years of age. She was buried in the cemetery at Hopetoun. Her family at that time would have been her husband Frederick (aged 35) and their four children, Iris (aged 14), Merle (aged 12), Roma (aged 11) and Keith (aged 4). It does not appear that Frederick remarried.

Merle died just a few years later, in 1937, when she was 14 years old.

Frederick died in 1942 at Williamstown (Vic), near Melbourne (Vic), when he was 43 years of age. With the loss of both parents, the family now comprised just the three surviving children; Iris (aged 22), Roma (aged 19), and Keith (aged 12). The circumstances of the children immediately after Frederick's death is not known. Iris was married to Clive CHARLES, the following year, in 1943. The other siblings possibly lived with them for a time. Roma married in 1948 and Keith in 1953.