Hazel Maud (Hanks) Talbot (1889 - 1947)

Born 1889 in Armadale, Victoria, Australia

Wife of Augustus Ian Green — married 1914 (to 19 Jun 1923) in Victoria, Australia

Died 1947 at about age 58 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Hazel was born in 1889. She passed away in 1947.

Sources

• Vic BDM:Event: births Registration number 155 / 1889

Family name: HANKS Given name(s) Hazel Maud Place of event: ARMADALE, Australia Mother's name Henrietta Jane Mother's family name at birth MILLER Father's Name: James

• Vic BDM: Event: marriages Registration number 699 / 1914

Family name: GREEN Given name(s) Augustus Ian Spouse's family name: HANKS Spouse's given name(s) Hazel Maud

• 20 June 1923 "The Argus" Melbourne trove.nla.gov.au

DOCTOR OBTAINS DECREE. Wife's Strange Conduct. Before the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine) in the Divorce Court yesterday, Augustus lan Green, of St. Vincent's Place. Albert Park, aged 34 years, medical practitioner, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Hazel Maud Green, aged 38 years, on the ground of desertion. Dr Green in evidence, said that the marriage took place in 1914. In 1919 he was treating his wife for nervous trouble. She suggested that she should go away for a holiday. He agreed; and his wife went to Brighton for a month. At the end of that time he asked her to return, but she said she desired to stay another month He agreed to let her remain. When he went to bring her home a month later she told him that she neither desired to go back to him, nor him to go to her. She gave no reason for her refusal to return to him. The Chief Justice ordered that Mrs Green should be brought into court. He adjourned the case pending her arrival. In her evidence, Mrs Green said that she had no particular reason to offer for her conduct, but she did not wish to return to her husband. The Chief Justice, in granting a decree characterised the wife's conduct as "most extraordinary"

• Vic BDM:Event: marriages Registration number 9114 / 1924

Family name: GREEN Given name(s) Hazel Maud Spouse's family name: TALBOT Spouse's given name(s) Robert Jno Decourcy

• Vic BDM:Event: deaths Registration number 12893 / 1947

Family name: TALBOT Given name(s) Hazel Maude Place of event: SOUTH YARRA, Australia Mother's name Henrietta Mother's family name at birth MILLER Father's Name: HANKS James