Edward Victor Gilliver (1913 - 1992)

Born 4 Apr 1913 in Concord, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Beryl Grace (English) Gilliver — married 30 Dec 1950 in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia

Died 29 Dec 1992 at age 79 in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Death

Death: St. Joseph's Hospital, Auburn, New South Wales Australia

Date: 29 DEC 1992

Place: Auburn, New South Wales, Australia^[2][3]

Cause: Liver cancer

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1992

Place: Yagoona^[4]

Residence:

Place: Australia^[5][6]

Event

Event:

Type: Civil

Date: 1936

Place: Bankstown North, New South Wales, Australia^[7]

Burial

Burial: St Felix De Valois, Bankstown, NSW, Australia

Date: 31 DEC 1992

Burial: Ashes interred at St. Felix De Valois Catholic Church, Bankstown NSW B46

Alias

Alias: Ted Gilliver

Occupation

Occupation: Insurance Salesman

Note

Note: #N1131

Marriage

Husband: Edward Victor Gilliver

Wife: @I7763@

Child: @I59@

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: 30 DEC 1950

Place: Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia

Event: St. Felix De Valois Catholic Church, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia

Type: Single

Date: 30 DEC 1950^[8]

Husband: Edward Victor Gilliver

Wife: Ellen Olive Tracey

Child: Edward Victor Gilliver

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Event: St. Mary's Catholic Church, Concord, New South Wales

Type: Single

Date: 26 JUN 1911^[9]

Marriage:

Date: 26 JUN 1911

Place: St Marys Catholic Church, Concord, NSW Australia^[10]

Event:

Type: Death of one spouse

Date: 31 DEC 1943

Place: 42 Rookwood Road, Yagoona, New South Wales, Australia

Sources

1. ↑ Gilliver-9 was created by Michelle Gilliver through the import of Michelle Gilliver.ged on Jun 1, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S167 Page: GILLIVER Edward Victor Death notice 29DEC1992 Death 79 late of Yagoona Sydney Morning Herald 30DEC1992
3. ↑ Source: #S305 Data: Text: Record for Edward Victor Gilliver
4. ↑ Source: #S305 Data: Text: Record for Edward Victor Gilliver
5. ↑ Source: #S205 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edward Victor Gilliver Junior
6. ↑ Source: #S31 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.Original data - Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. Microform mc N 451-mc N 457. National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
7. ↑ Source: #S31 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.Original data - Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. Microform mc N 451-mc N 457. National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
8. ↑ Source: #S120 Page: 4135/1951
9. ↑ Source: #S120 Page: 4989/1911
10. ↑ Source: #S267 Data: Text: Name: Edward Victor GILLIVER CONT marriage date: 26 Jun 1911 CONT marriage place: St Marys Catholic Church, Concord, NSW Australia

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Notes

Note N1131Edward Victor Gilliver was the first born child of Edward Victor Gilliver and his wife, Hannah Tracey.

Ted used to love to tell the story that for all of his 79 years he had lived in Rookwood Road, with the exception of the first 2 weeks of his life when he was born at Concord. He lived the most part of his life in the family home at 42 Rookwood Road, then during the depression years they moved across the road to No.27 to let 42 for more rent. His parents also owned No.44 and at one time they lived there before moving back to the family home No.42.

His first job was with W. Newey, Estate Agents, in Bankstown.He was with them when they opened another agency at Lakemba and he went and managed this. It was during this time that he was laid off work because of the Depression.

He and his father decided to build a tennis court in the backyard of No.42. They were able to borrow some money from the bank to do this but carted quite a lot of the foundation from the quarry at Potts Hill. Tennis was very popular in Australia in the 1930’s and from all accounts they had a great tennis club and used to enter the competitions in the Sydenham-Bankstown area. The name of the court was "Wellwyn" and according to Ted was reputed to have the best hardcourt surface of any court in the district. He was quite proud of that.

Up until about 1937 he was interested in motorbikes and had a couple of "Indians" and one very showy one with an aluminium sidecar. In 1937 he had saved enough money to buy a brand new Chevrolet. Then in 1939 he updated to another new Chevrolet, reg. No. PE.289. It was while he was working at Neweys that he was approached by a man from the A.M.P. who asked him would he be interested in becoming an agent for them. He accepted the job and was doing it for a couple of years when he got called up to go into the Army.

Things had become increasingly worse for Australia after Japan entered the war in 1941. Ted had no desire to join up as he said to perhaps kill somebody or be killed himself. However, after he was conscripted he had no choice. At first he was in the camp at Wallgrove then was sent to Western Australia to Geraldton and other smaller camps over there. At this time his Chevrolet car was in the garage at No.42 up on blocks and stayed that way until he returned back into civilian life, this was in February 1946.

After leaving Western Australia he was then sent to the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland and it was while he was in camp here that word came through that his mother had died, aged only 58. This, of course, was a great shock to him. He was given compassionate leave but it took him over a week to get back to Bankstown, things don't move too quickly in wartime. He said the trains were so slow and kept stopping and troops were being moved all over the place that you just had to wait around.

Another thing was that in wartime the government takes over everything, including burials, and the funeral had to go ahead on the day and time stated. He finally got home but his mother had been buried so then he had all the carry-on of rejoining his unit in the Atherton Tablelands. When he finally got there he found out that they had moved on to New Guinea. So again another wait until he went with some other outfit and finally got to Port Moresby. At the staging camp there he was told that the war was nearly over and his unit, the 35th Battalion, would be soon coming back to Australia. How wrong that information turned out to be. He finally joined up with his company in Wewak and spent the next 2 years and 5 months in that hellhole in the tropics moving between Wewak and Finchshaven.

He was a Staff Sergeant in the Army in charge of the Stores which suited him just fine. He never engaged in actual fighting so therefore never killed anyone but had many times to stack up and burn dead Japanese soldiers and set the villages alight to stop the spread of disease. Because of the death of his mother and the terrible stress of being in a war zone, constantly being shelled, he developed duodenal ulcers. He said a pair of boots only lasted 2 weeks as they rotted off because of the wet. Some of his mates got scrub typhus and berri berri and died. Others were hit by shells. Imagine this existence for 2 years and 5 months without any leave. He did not at any time enjoy his army service. He would tell his wife that he did what he had to do and couldn't get out quickly enough. When he finally got home and was demobolised he told lies about his health as all he could think of was getting out and back to his job with the A.M.P.

After he came back home he had 17 attacks of malaria, was forever throwing up because of his stomach ulcers but his papers show that he was discharged A1. Of course this caught up with him in 1968 when he had to have the stomach operation and though not confirmed almost certainly caused his death in 1992, the primary cancer being in his stomach. He was an honourable man and a loving father.