Alma Maria Edwards , 1868–1948 (aged 80 years)
- Name
- Alma Maria /Edwards/
- Given names
- Alma Maria
- Surname
- Edwards
- Married name
- Alma Maria /Ponting/
| Religious marriage | THEY WED TO-DAY; 78 & 76 13/10/1945 They met for the first time just over two years ago. Mrs. Edwards revealed last night that her future husband's music attracted her to him. Mr. Ponting is organist at the Spiritual Church in Logan Road, South Brisbane. Mrs. Edwards met him there when she attended a service. Three children of the bride, two daughters of the groom's, and some their 25 grandchildren will at tend the wedding at 4 p.m. to-day. Silver-haired Mrs. Edwards will wear a lilac frock and a spray of pansies on her shoulder. Fifty-year-old Mrs. L. Rickman will attend the bride, and Mrs. Edwards' son-in-law, Mr. Tom Harris, the groom. In his flat at Windsor, Mr. Ponting last night smiled over his tea cup. 'No more tea I make my self,' he said. 'I think this will be a shock to my son when he returns from Thailand,' he added. Driver Albert Henry Ponting has been in a Siam prison camp for more than three years. He is now on his way home. |
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| Religious marriage | Note: Courier Mail Saturday 13 October 1945 |
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| Birth | Alma Maria Jones (daughter of John Morris Jones and Jane Roberts) was born 27 Feb 1868 in Llandwrog Caernarvon Wales, and died 28 Sep 1948 in Brisbane. She married John Thomas Edwards on 15 Dec 1887 in Barrow-in-Furness Lancaster, son of Edward Edwards and Margaret Williams. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/Mick-Jones-Queensland/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0077.html |
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| Marriage | Lutwyche Methodist Church |
| Death | Death Certificate 1948/B19008 |