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Mavis Germaine Blue (1897 - 1971)

Mavis Germaine Blue
Born in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealandmap
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Died at about age 74 in Ormond, Victoria, Australiamap
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Biography

Mavis Germaine Blue was born in ~July 1897, to parents Ada Blue (née Geddes) and Daniel Blue in Invercargill, New Zealand. [1]

Mavis' mother Ada was a well-known singer - known as the Nightingale of Southland, and her father Daniel was a well-known violinist. The year before Mavis was born, her mother Ada was playing the lead female role 'Germaine' in the opera 'Les Cloches de Corneville', so I believe that is where she got her middle name.[2]

Father's Death

Shortly after Mavis was born, it seems that her father Daniel’s health took a turn, a notice in the paper reported that he was advised by his doctor to travel north for the winter to ‘recruit his health’.[3] Ada and her daughter Mabel stayed in Invercargill, living with Ada’s parents John and Martha Geddes in Jackson Street, East Invercargill.[4] Daniel took ill with an “affection of the lungs”, his obituary stated that “he struggled bravely against the in-roads of ill-health, but gradually weakened until the end came”.Daniel Blue’s obituary - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SOCR19061215.2.17 Southern Cross, Volume 14, Issue 42, 15 December 1906, Page 8 - 3rd paragraph from the bottom - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand Daniel died at his mother’s house in Oamaru on the 10/11th of December, 1906.[5]

Travel to Australia

In 1900, Ada and Mavis travelled to Melbourne, where Ada took lessons with Madame Miranda - who was considered the most successful singing teacher in the colonies.[6] They arrived back into Bluff Harbour on the 23rd of July 1900 on the ship Mokoia.[7]

After Mavis' father Daniel’s death, it appears that Mavis and her mother moved back to Australia. Their friends threw them a large farewell party at which over a hundred people were present! Ada naturally treated her guests to a song.[8] Ada and Mavis travelled to Melbourne on the ship Moeraki, arriving on the 25th of April, 1908, There were also two Geddes passengers aged 48 and 36, though those ages don’t match her parents, and I can’t pick who they might be.[9]

Once in Melbourne, Ada and Mabel lived at 184 Amess Street, North Carlton, Victoria, Australia.[10] In ~1915/1916 Ada and Mabel moved into her parent’s new Melbourne residence, 35 Hartpury Ave, Balaclava, Victoria,[11] until Ada's death on the 10th of June, 1917 in Victoria, Australia.[12] Mavis was just 19 years old when her mother died.

Death

Mavis died on the 26th of July, 1971 in Ormond, Victoria, Australia, and was buried alongside her mother and maternal grandparents in Plot 904 of the Prebysterian A section of the Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery in Coburg, Moreland City, Victoria, Australia.[13][14]

According to her probate registry, Mavis died a Spinster, so it appears she never married, and had no children. [15]

Sources

  1. New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950 Folio Number: 3278; Ref #: 1897/10990
  2. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SOCR18960829.2.37 Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 22, 29 August 1896, Page 12; https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SOCR18960905.2.36 Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 23, 5 September 1896, Page 11 - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand
  3. Daniel travels north due to ill health - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SOCR18980219.2.33 Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 46, 19 February 1898, Page 9 - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand
  4. New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981: 1900 and 1905/6
  5. Daniel Blue’s Death Notice - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NOT19061213.2.12 North Otago Times, 13 December 1906, Page 2; https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19061212.2.6 Southland Times, Issue 10911, 12 December 1906, Page 2; https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19061213.2.6 Southland Times, Issue 10911, 13 December 1906, Page 2 - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand
  6. Ada returns from Melbourne: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19000802.2.9 Southland Times, Issue 14711, 2 August 1900, Page 2 - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand
  7. Ada arrives back from Melbourne 1900: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19000724.2.4 Southland Times, Issue 14703, 24 July 1900, Page 2 - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand
  8. Ada & Mavis’ Leaving Party: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19080316.2.20 Southland Times, Issue 12084, 16 March 1908, Page 2 - Papers Past, the National Library of New Zealand
  9. Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923 Series: VPRS 13439; Series Title: Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (New Zealand Ports) [Microfiche Copy of VPRS 947]
  10. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980, years 1909, 1912, 1913, & 1914
  11. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980, years 1916 & 1917
  12. Ada’s death record: The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Victoria, Australia, Death Records, Reference Number 6685
  13. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207986755/mavis-germaine-blue
  14. The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Victoria, Australia, Death Records, Reference #: 17773
  15. Public Record Office Victoria; North Melbourne, Victoria; Victorian Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841-1925; Series: VPRS 7591




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