Louisa (Harris) Josey (1886 - 1964)

Born 1886 in Ballarat

Wife of William Louis (Wort) Morton — married 25 Dec 1907 (to May 1928) in Water street, Brown Hill, Victoria, Australia

Wife of William Thomas Josey — married 1928 in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 14 Feb 1964 at about age 78 in Concord, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Her husband was once a sailing ship's boatswain.

According to her son Charlie's foster records, she lived at 53 Bridge rd, Glebe in 1918, then Denison st, Hornsby, then Tennyson ave, Turramurra from 1919.

It seems when she was in hospital having her son Reggie, her other children were picked up by the State and fostered out for about two weeks.^[1]

Marriage

Married to William Morton on Christmas day at her father's house by a methodist minister (Flockart?). The witnesses are her father and sister Emily, and Charles Henry Watkins. Mother's maiden name is hard to make out (Caffto?)

Louisa filed for divorce in 1926, as William had left in '22. This was granted and made absolute in 1928,^[2] at which point (now deaf) she already had a marriage proposal and promptly married William Thomas Josey.^[3] Josey even wrote to the court to confirm the date so that they could marry as soon as possible.

The marriage certificate affixed to the divorce papers has a handwritten note on the back saying: Please let me have it back - L. Morton. Evidently they did not.

Residence

Jun 1923: 80 George street, Parramatta NSW^[4]
Feb 1828: 13 North Parade, Auburn

Electoral Roll

1913 - 4 Camden ave, Newtown. With husband WL Morton
1935 - 20 Newton st, Auburn. With husband WT Josey.
1937,9 - 9 Norval st, Auburn. With husband.
1946 - 123 Homebush rd.

Sources

• WikiTree profile Harris-7131 created through the import of Personal_2013-01-19.ged on Jan 18, 2013 by Callum Simms. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Callum and others.

• Birth: Victoria bdm record 511/1886 (Mother's surname MacCaffery)
• Death: NSW bdm record 802/1964 (Mother's name Charlotte - may be daughter Lottie as informant)
  The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Melbourne), 17 Feb 1964 (vi the Ryerson Index)

1. ↑ NSW State Archives, Dependent Children register NRS-13358-[11/22129], pp 1176, 1178, 6074-9
2. ↑ NSW State Archives, divorce record NRS-13495-8-[13/13367]-792/1926
3. ↑ NSW bdm record 11178/1928
4. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251765781/27985744