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Tracey (Sumner) Rigney (abt. 1892 - abt. 1923)

Tracey "Tracy" Rigney formerly Sumner
Born about in Point McLeay, South Australia, Australiamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Mother of
Died about at about age 31 in South Australia, Australiamap
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Biography

Tracey (Sumner) Rigney is an Indigenous Australian.

Tracey Sumner was born in 1892 at Point McLeay, South Australia, Australia [1], the daughter of John Sumner (1845-1905) and Rebecca Giles (1859-1925) and her siblings were Rachel Sumner (1874-1911), Jonathan Sumner (1876-1936), Ellen Sumner (1878-1946), Elizabeth Sumner (1880-1882), Effie Sumner (1881-1943), Arthur Sumner (1883-), Matthew Sumner (1884-1938), Major Sumner (1886-1909), Andrew Sumner (1888-1957), Hector Sumner (1887-), Fanny Sumner (1888-1892), Adeline Sumner (1890-1938), Wiltshire Sumner (1894-1971) and Everett Sumner (1896-1958) [2]

She married Gordon Wilfred Rigney in 1910 at Point McLeay, South Australia, Australia [3]and their children were Victor Read Rigney (1911-1965), Graham Ivan Rigney (1914-1938), Elva Maude Rigney (1917-1955), Cyril Rufus Rigney (1920-1980), Lilian Madge Rigney (1921-1976?) and Lionel Rigney (1923-1923).

Tracey is said to have died in 1923 [4] from Pneumonia, soon after the birth of Lionel [5], leaving Gordon with five young children to care for.

Sources

  1. ↑ Birth: South Australia, Australia Births: YEAR: 1892 NAME: SUMNER "NULL" FATHER: John SUMNER MOTHER: Rebecca GILES DISTRICT: Wellington REG#: 511/96
  2. ↑ Genealogy: DOCUMENT: Ngarrindjeri Genealogies c. 1840-1912 - FirstSources.info: Compiled by Maria Rigney and Joe Lane from the Raukkan, Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages and from A World That Was, 1993. January 1996. by R.M. and C.H. Berndt.
  3. ↑ Marriage: South Australia, Australia Marriages: YEAR: 1910 REG#: 242/742 NAME: RIGNEY Gordon Wilfred SPOUSE: SUMNER Tracey DISTRICT: Wellington
  4. ↑ Death Record not Yet found: Source Required
  5. ↑ Death of Son: South Australia, Australia Deaths: YEAR: 1923 REG#: 464/476 NAME: RIGNEY Lionel RELATIVE NAME: Gordon W RIGNEY [F] DISTRICT: Adelaide




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