Edith May (Searle) Dau (1881-1965) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Edith May Dau formerly Searle aka Baird

Born 24 Sep 1881 in Nine Mile Creek, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Daughter of Joseph Thomas Ede Searle and Honor Jane (James) Searle

Sister of Walter Ede Theophilus Searle

Wife of Alfred Ernest Dau — married 14 Apr 1907 in Swanview, Western Australia

Descendants

Mother of Iris (Dau) Salvador

Died 19 Jun 1965 at age 83 in Camberwell, Victoria, 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.

Birth

Birth:

User ID: 56217E64E02165E710024019FCB34AEC

Record ID Number: MH:IF75

Date: 26 SEP 1881

Place: wunghnu, vic

Death

Death: Y

User ID: 56217E64E024F5E720024019FCB34AEC

Record ID Number: MH:IF76

Date: 19 JUN 1965

Place: Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

Age: 83

Record ID Number

Record ID Number: MH:I31

User ID

User ID: 54C19C2BDC70E445B001EC9B2EE863BB

Sources

↑ Searle-737 was created by Elaine Salvador through the import of latest tree.ged on Dec 14, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

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Memories: 3

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Elaine (Salvador) Hooper

My grandmother was married to someone whom she adored but who played fast and loose with other people. Eventually, she divorced him (whilst still pregnant with their last child - my mother). The divorce awarded maintenance to my grandmother. However, my grandfather changed his name, married his niece and moved interstate with his new wife leaving his family in abject poverty. His behaviour caused great scandal to the people around him who were all very religious and right living people. He was never mentioned in our family and it was only very recently that I caught up with this information. Poverty most likely had an influence on the shadow on my mother's lungs, her delicate health, fragile psyche and early death. Some histories are not happy ones, and some would say better left unknown. However, it is my belief that undisclosed facts like this potentially lead to a false picture and give distortions which otherwise deserve to be known, acknowledged and more critically examined. Fractured families often give rise to fractured families. Only by facing the past can we endeavour to ensure it is not replicated.

Bringing up happy, healthy and ethical children is the greatest task parents face.

posted 28 Dec 2016 by Elaine (Salvador) Hooper [thank Elaine]

Elaine (Salvador) Hooper

My uncle Les Dow played the violin and used to visit my grandmother regularly on a Friday evening to play music with her. Mozart, Bach and Schubert were a constant soundtrack to my early life. I learned piano from 4-8 and my brother and I both sang in church choirs. My mother was very into Nat King Cole, Rachmaninoff, Claire De Lune and Schubert. Both my father and grandfather had fine tenor voices and Salvador family gatherings always included many Irish ballads, Student Prince songs, Jerusalem and the Holy City. My Dow cousins played various instruments and Dow Christmases icluded classical music, carols and bush music.

Uncle played in various bush bands too. Music has always been very important and a strong backdrop to my life. I have weeks of music on computer covering an extremely eclectic range. I believe Laudate Dominum - Vespere Solemnis to be one of the most perfect pieces of music ever written but I also adore, Joan Baez, Bryan Ferry, and many other wonderful works and people.

posted 17 Jul 2016 by Elaine (Salvador) Hooper [thank Elaine]

Elaine (Salvador) Hooper

My grandmother, Edith May Searle (married Dau then Baird) was a very proud, upstanding Protestant person who set great store by manners and education. She was a piano player and music teacher; she bred dahlias and I lived with her and my brother from 4 years old during the weeks and my mother during the weekends (until my mother died when I was nearly nine).

posted 17 Jul 2016 by Elaine (Salvador) Hooper [thank Elaine]

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