Jean (Gaston) Reid (1911)

Born 31 Dec 1911 in Queensland, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Cyril Ian Reid — married 23 Dec 1937 (to 17 Dec 1948) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Descendants

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Biography

Jean was born in 1911.^[1]

In the Electoral Rolls for Queensland:

• 1936, 1937 - Jean Gaston Jnr., a resident of Gray's Rd., Gaythorne. a tailoress.^[2]

In 1937, Jean married Cyril Ian Reid.^[3] They had one daughter.

1. Jocelyn (Reid) Otto

In the Electoral Rolls for Queensland:

• 1943 - Cyril Ian Read, taxi driver and Jean Reid, home duties, residents of 209 Bonney Ave., Clayfield.^[2]

The following report appeared in The Truth in 1948 on the awarding of a decree nisi on the application of Jean.

Brought Teen- Age Girl Home

WIFE ORDERED OUT OF HER HOUSE

THINGS became very mixed in the Wacol home of the Reids, when Cyril Ian Reid brought home a Missing Person in the shape of a 17-year-old girl. The girl was a Missing Person in the official files of the police, and when Mrs. Reid discovered this, and asked her husband why he had brought the girl home, he replied: "I promised the detectives I would look after her." But things got further mixed, when the girl stayed on for three months, still further mixed when she ordered Mrs. Reid out of the house, and still further mixed again when she used to come into the Reids' marital boudoir and kiss Reid goodnight! Surely, 'twas a strange menage! Was "Missing Person"

MRS. REID explained that when her husband brought the teen-ager home, it was for a night— but the girl stayed three months, and it was during this time that the wife noted the youngster's picture in the newspapers as a Missing Person, and drew from her husband his explanation of his alleged promise to the detectives. Mrs. Reid (a Miss Gaston when she married taxi-driver Cyril Ian Reid in 1937) told an unusual story of the women friends her husband brought home. He would drive them home In his cab, and ask her to put them up for the night "because they had missed their last train," she said. This she often did, Mrs. Reid declared, and eventually he arrived home with the 17-year-old girl, who came to stay the night, but lingered on in the home for three months.

Mrs. Reid said she saw the girl's photograph in a newspaper, where she was reported as a Missing Person. She asked her husband about it, and he said, "I promised the detectives I would look after her." Finally, it was her husband who ordered the girl out of the house because she was going out with other men, the wife deposed. Up to then the girl used to come in to their room at night, and kiss Reid goodnight, Mrs. Reid declared. On one occasion, she continued, the girl had ordered her out of the home. After detailing other unhappy events in her life, Mrs. Reid said that eventually in September, 1945, her husband left, and she had not seen him since. His Honor granted her a decree nisi, and ordered Reid, who lives at the Royal George Hotel in the Valley, to pay the costs of the action.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ Queensland Register of Births Deaths and Marriages - Birth. Jean Gaston 31/12/1911. daughter of Joseph Gaston and Jean Craighead https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/8d95a88d6967eadf4a42debc1f062f7cdb55eb29526990e3077c98673711abba. Registration Details: 1912/C/9836.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Lilley, Ennogera, 1936 & 1937]
3. ↑ Queensland Register of Births Deaths and Marriages - Marriage. Cyril Ian Reid to Jean Gaston 23/12/1937. https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/b6010d59f93c0a999b22e465be6d2a860f80e20b9d937140a411845aa014060c. Registration Details: 1937/B/30196.
4. ↑ Truth, Sun 19 Dec 1948, p. 20.
5. ↑ Brisbane Telegraph, Fri 17 Dec 1948. p. 2. MISSED TRAIN, STAYED ON.