Born in Echuca, Victoria (Australia)
Ancestors 
Daughter of Robert Southby
and Rose Helen (Neale) Southby
Sister of
Robert Southby, Richard Southby, Mary Elizabeth (Southby) Donahoo, Henry Southby, Arthur Southby and Hayward Southby
Wife of
Charles Henry Patmore
— married
1926 in Victoria, Australia
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 72
in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Mar 2015
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Biography
Helen Maria 'Nellie' Southby was born in 1879 in Echuca, Victoria (Australia). She was the daughter of Robert Southby and Rose Helen Brodribb nee Neale. [1]
Nellie married Church of England (Anglican) minister, Reverend Charles Patmore, fourteen years her junior, in 1926 in Victoria. [2]
Charles was commissioned as an army chaplain during the Second World War and was killed in February 1943 whilst a prisoner of war of the Japanese on Ambon Island, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia).
Helen passed away, aged 72 years, on 10th June 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland and is buried in the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery. [3]
Sources
- ↑ Victoria Birth Index #2241/1879; mother's maiden surname listed as Brodbibb; as it appears on her marriage record also
- ↑ Victoria Marriage Index #10396/1926
- ↑ Queensland Death Index #1951/C/2450; mother's maiden surname listed as Neale
- Death Citation
The Argus (Secondary evidence) Text: Family Notices. (1951, June 12). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 14. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23068224
- Birth Citation
Victoria BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: 2241 Date: 1879
- Marriage (m. PATMORE, Charles Henry, Rev) Citation
Victoria BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: 10396 Text: First name(s) Charles Henry Last name Patmore Sex Male Marriage year 1926 Spouse's first name(s) Helen Maria Spouse's Last Name Southby State Victoria Country Austr
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