Albert Raymond Anderson (1928 - 2010)

Born 23 Mar 1928 in Oakleigh Victoria

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Died 28 May 2010 at age 82 in Alice Springs Northern Territory Australia

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DNA

(Albert) Ray is descended from Brian Boru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boru

https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/timeline/county-clare-1830s

Europe 100% Western Europe Ireland 69% Scandinavia 14% Central Europe 10% Southern Europe Italian Peninsula 6% Greece & Balkans info <1% ref FTDNA 2021

ELEC

ELEC Emiritus Professor O & G

Date: 2010

Place: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

DEG

M.B.B.S. , F.R.A.C.O.G, F.R.C.O.G F.A.C.R.R.M

Date: 2010

Place: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

DNA analysis of family history

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Rays DNA journey Plug in R-DC14 into the following URL

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Rays Eulogy

EULOGY Albert Raymond Anderson 23.03.1928-28/05/2010 To those of you who do not know me I am Tors Clothier. I have been a paediatric doctor at the Alice Springs Hospital for 21 years. Ray was a friend and mentor. I was honored when he asked me to prepare a eulogy. We are here to celebrate a remarkably full and distinguished life, to mourn the loss of a great Australian and to offer our sympathy and condolences to Ray’s family. I would like to begin with an exhortation to the faithful, derived from Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians chap. 5 v13-22, which, I think, describes the life and qualities of Albert Raymond Anderson “Go forth into the world in peace; be of good courage; hold fast that which is good; render to no one evil for evil; strengthen the faint hearted; support the weak; help the afflicted; honor all people; love and serve the Lord” Ray completely fulfilled my idea of a hero that often abused and misused word. He was a loving and faithful husband, a devoted attentive father and grandfather, an honorable honest, able professional. He made a significant contribution to the community. Treated all with respect and bore no malice. He left the world a better place. Ray decided to be a doctor at the age of five after witnessing the work of the Church of Christ missionary doctors, Swe and Ray Kilmeir, in the walled compound of the mission his parents worked at in China (He told me that his parents and siblings all communicated in fluent Mandarin) After the family’s return to Adelaide in 1934, where Ray’s father took up the post of superintendent of Missions and Chairman of the Board, Ray attended St. Morris primary school and Kings College ( later Pembroke) on scholarships (an early indication of his acute intelligence) While at school Ray supplemented the family income by working at the eccentric Mr Stone’s market garden and delivering groceries by bicycle in the Eastern suburbs. Ray left school at the age of 16 with exemplary marks having picked up Latin, then a requirement for medicine, in his last year. Ray won a prestigious Commonwealth scholarship to Adelaide Medical School which he entered in 1944 in a class of eighty with eight women and forty returned men. In order to pay for his tuition and board at home Ray continued work at the market garden and also sewed wheat bags in his holidays, 400 bags a day, 6 days a week at Mr Lawrie’s farm on the Eyre peninsula. He estimated that he sewed 10,000 bags earning one pound for each 100 bags. With his love of precision, Ray commented that each bag required 18-20 stitches. Snakes amongst the bags were a constant hazard. After graduation in 1950, at a time when most Doctors entered General Practice without doing an internship, Ray did two years as an R.M.O, one at Royal Adelaide and the other at the Children’s Hospital. This was followed by a registrar year in the chest clinic at the Royal Adelaide. He then became Medical Superintendent, at the 150 bed Bedford Park Chest Hospital, where he acquired an extensive knowledge of the pulmonary complications of Tuberculosis. He also continued as a clinical assistant (1953-1959) at the R.A.H Chest Clinic assisting with a wide variety of chest surgery. While superintendent at Bedford Park he earned the munificent salary of 7 pounds a week and paid 1 pound a week board and lodging. At this time he also worked with the blind at Melrose House and contemplated doing Ophthalmology. At the age of 26, in 1954, he entered General Practice in Prospect, in rented rooms with Peter and Collin Robertson. When the brothers departed, Ray continued in practice from 1959 with Bob Nettle, Jan’s brother. In 1959 Ray was a lecturer in Anatomy at Adelaide University where he acquired a very useful knowledge of human anatomy. Ray developed extraordinary, self-taught surgical skills by reading text books while in general practice, doing everything but craniotomies and thoracotomies. In the early days he also gave anaesthetics for the surgery. He also managed the confinement and delivery of approximately 100 women each year and did the full range of Obstetric and Gynaecologic surgery. Ray was completely dedicated to his patients doing weekend rounds with his children in tow. I am told that he often provided groceries for those in need. Ray’s intelligence and profound knowledge of anatomy and physiology meant that, unlike most of us who are pattern recognizers’ and followers of guidelines and protocols, Ray operated from first principles a very unusual attribute, which I have only seen in a handful of Doctors in a working life time. According to Ray he met Jan in 1951 in the plaster-rolling room at R.A.H which had only one door. This meeting culminated in their marriage in 1954, the same year that Ray went into practice. Ray had always wanted to specialize, preferably in thoracic surgery. By the time he was in a position to do so with a wife and four children to support there were four Australians already being trained overseas in thoracic surgery. He therefore decided to specialize in O and G, because, and I quote “It was the easiest surgical discipline, with only twenty core subjects to learn in obstetrics and gynaecology” It is a measure of the man that he was prepared to go to the UK and start again as a resident at the age of 45 to achieve his goal. As always he was supported by Jan with her superb organsiational skills. The family moved to London in 1973 and Ray successfully sat the primary MRCOG exam after a brief course at the College of Surgery while also doing GP locums to keep the wolf from the door. Ray was a resident, registrar and assistant in O& G at Whipps Cross Hospital from 1973-1978. He passed his MRCOG in 1978 and was elected a Fellow in 1993. He returned to Darwin as a senior registrar in O&G to complete the Australian Fellowship which he passed in 1980. Ray was a Staff Specialist at RDH from 1982-1988 before moving to Alice Springs as head of the department of O& G in 1988. He served in this capacity until his semi-retirement in 1995. This was followed by another stint of part time General Practice at Mall Medical during which he was awarded a Fellowship of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. As an obstetrician, Ray was a lecturer in O& G at the School of Medicine in Adelaide. He was also an associate Fellow of the Menzie’s School of Health, Darwin. He published a number of papers and became a leading expert in Aboriginal Obstetrics and Gynaecology. During his long, busy and exacting career, Jan in her inimitable fashion looked after the children, ran a beautiful, calm, hospitable home and involved herself in a wide range of activities while always being Ray’s refuge and support. They had a successful, loving, supportive marriage which lasted 56 years though both were feisty individuals with strongly held opinions. Ray was much loved at RDH, where on his departure the hospital magazine described him as a well read, jolly, workaholic with an incredibly bright mind who was adored by his patients and admired, for his expertise and knowledge, by his colleagues. His good rapport with junior doctors was noted. It was also noted that he liked and understood women and had “a particular way of picking up on nuances in body language which aided his management of patients” Rays move to Alice was prompted by his interest in Aboriginal O&G and by a desire to run his own department. I met Ray and Jan for the first time in1989 when as a family we had the great good fortune to live next door to them in one of the hospital houses. We all remember their beautiful garden and their amazing hospitality and friendship. My daughters then 8 and 10 years old respectively remember Ray’s keen and genuine interest in what they were doing and his gifts of home grown snow peas over the garden fence and also his advice, worked out from first principles about how to optimally spay a puppy we had acquired. I also remember Ray’s remarkable general knowledge and his love of history and his extensive library of nonfiction. His was the only library that I have seen with a copy of Herodotus’ Histories. Ray was never pompous or opinionated and always listened carefully to what people had to say. He was humble, despite his superior intelligence and knowledge and because of his background appreciated and learnt from people from all walks of life. He had, in spades, that wonderful Australian characteristic of giving everybody a fair go. It is said that for evil to prosper it is enough that good men do nothing. It is probably better if one good man stands up for what is right and I saw Ray alter widely held adverse opinions by doing just that. Ray was always fair and took the trouble to listen to both sides of a story before making a judgment. His judgment calls were always wise. As Paediatricians my colleagues and I were the happy recipients of Ray’s expertise. His obstetric management was always well planned and safe and we never got frightening surprises because Ray anticipated trouble and circumvented it. He was always calm and decisive even in those terrifying moments when unavoidably bad things happen. I particularly remember a case of shoulder dystocia’ an obstetric emergency. Ray delivered the baby with no drama and on his way out of the room whispered in my ear “I think that you will find that one of the clavicles is broken” He had quietly done this to deliver the child. A Ray maxim was that premature Aboriginal babies were always four weeks older than sold so we were never unnecessarily called to premature deliveries. Over the years I learnt that the maxim was invariably right. Sandy Mc Elligott the CNM in Ray’s time told me that Ray’s Judgment was always excellent, that he was always approachable and always listened to what midwifes said. He supported them in their endeavors to achieve independent practice but also supported his junior Obstetric colleagues, a difficult tight rope to walk! Although he was a man and it is not culturally appropriate for men to be involved in Women’s business Ray was loved by Aboriginal women because of his quiet and gentle manner and his ability to patiently extract their concerns. Margy Ingamells another senior midwife told me that Ray made no distinction between his public and private patients. He was invariably courteous and kind and understood instinctively the anxieties of pregnant women. He always took the time and trouble to ensure that his patients knew what he was going to do and why he was going to do it. John Hester who was an O&G trainee in Ray’s time told me that Rays O&G department was a happy place to work. Ray was firm and kind but expected and got high standards. Ray worked incredibly hard spending long hours at the hospital with his patient’s needs always coming first. In the last few years, when called in late at night, Ray would appear in his pajamas and put his surgical scrubs over them. He always asked the midwife to ensure that the patient knew what was going to be done but invariably checked that the patient did know. Famously, one night, after a difficult forceps extraction he said to Jim Thurley then a paediatrician “I hope you watched that” When Jim answered in the affirmative Ray said “Good, you can do the next one and resuscitate the baby and I will stay at home” Jim naturally declined this kind offer.

I have heard from Anne Corey the first independent midwife in Alice who said that Ray always supported her and the other midwives. She recalled an instance, when there was a shortage of funds for a birthing bath, when Ray and Alan Hughes appeared in workman’s clothes on a week end to demolish a wall in the hospital so that the bath could be built. Despite his amazing capacity for work and the long hours he spent at the hospital Ray had wide outside interests some of which both Michael and I have alluded to. Ray loved horses and owned some .He knew the content of the stud books and studied form and loved a flutter. He was a keen and knowledgeable gardener who, with Jan built beautiful gardens where ever they lived. He was an enthusiastic and able cook, especially of Chinese food and was a generous, amusing and genial host with perfect manners who always made all his guests feel special. He was a keen bridge exponent and also a long serving Lions member. He and Jan had a wide friendship group and never burdened their friends with any of their personal problems. Ray never complained about his diabetes which he managed with great skill and knowledge for almost 20 years. He bore his last long illness with amazing fortitude grace and dignity. He had a sure faith in the central message of the Christian doctrine. Rays life was an example to us all and he will live in all our memories. I am sure that you will join with me in offering our sympathy and condolences to Jan, Kathy, Michael, David and Peter and to Ray and Jan’s six grand children and both their extended families. Vale Ray.

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Ray has been DNA anlaysed and is part of the group L226 In November 2009, the FTDNA Walk The Y project discovered a new SNP, L226, that has since been found in all members of the Irish Type III haplogroup that have tested to date. A comprehensive website exists that has much information on this interesting Dalcassian haplogroup. See:- Irish Type III website http://www.irishtype3dna.org/index.php

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-l226-project/about This haplogroup originated in the counties of Clare, Tipperary and Limerick around the time of King Brian Boru who lived, 926 - 1014. Several distinctive markers indicate the probability of a person being part of this haplogroup, but the presence of SNP L226 is final confirmation. https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database/brian-boru This is the story of Brians death https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/timeline/battle-clontarf

Albert Raymond Anderson's latest place in the DNA tree is

http://www.ytree.net/DisplayTree.php?blockID=198

And Aberts journey through history & the world is tracked here http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html

Rays Family History

was written in the 1930s here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtrapati_Niwas

A copy can be viewed here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GbKjciP4c-O6oOVMvZ1U25gqnFYlglSR7yptx8xw7Eg

Sources

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12rTJu76i0p18Lq5T4psA123JeQ3bmGyq5dOv8DoHZUbH54f6SPp3CuC_Rn6L/view?usp=sharing