Twin to her brother George Roderick (Rod) Wills.
Came to Australia, date unknown.
Married Harold Mold in Victoria in 1920.
Edward was a farmer in WA.
Wheat and sheep farmer.
393. Frank Graham Wills
In King Island Police Force about 1947.
242. Charles Eric Neilson Wills
Notes by Max Parsons written in 1989.
Charles E.N.Wills was the first child of Frank & Jenny Wills, born 31 May 1880 at Launceston. Like some of his relatives, Charles learned the trade of shoemaking, possibly from his future father-in-law who was a shoemaker by trade.
A widower with two children, William Graham, took Mary Gemmell as his second wife in 1574 together they produced another six children. After Mary's death William married again, his third wife being Maria Jane Haynes, they had four children. The third child of William's second marriage, born February 13,
1879, was Myra May and when she was 21 she married Charles Eric Neilson Wills.After an interval of fifteen years Charles and Myra May produced their first child on March 5, 1915, they named him Francis Charles (Frank) after his grandfather. Frank had two sisters - Edna Mae born October 1917 and died February 1920 (she was buried at Footscray cemetery, Baptist section A3 509), the youngest of the family, Marjorie Enid was born February 13, 1920 less than a week before the death of her sister, Edna.
In 1929, Charles and his family lived at 7 Point Nepean Road, Elsternwick. In 1932 Charles' mother died, he was trustee and executor of the estate so the family moved into the old Wills' home at 66 Murray Street, Caulfield. Later, the property was sold, the house demolished and a number of flats known as "Newlyn Court" were built on the large block in 1937.
Charles then purchased their family home at 62 Allison Road, Elsternwick. Over the years he followed a number of trades - surgical bootmaker, bricklayer and wharf-labourer; he enjoyed cricket, football, horse-racing, fishing & shooting and was a member of the Carnegie male choir.
The family attended the Baptist Church and it was there that Frank met Ethel Rimington. When the 1939-45 war commenced Frank volunteered for the AIF and prior to sailing for the Middle East with 2/B Bn. 6 Division, he married his sweetheart, Ethel, at their Church in Elsternwick on 6 January 1940. Frank was captured on Crete and spent nearly five years as a prisoner-of-war - part of the time at Stalag XVIIIA. When the war ended he went to England on leave before being repatriated home to Australia. Frank & Ethel went to live in Gippsland where they raised their five children. Frank died at Heidelberg on February 20, 1979 - Ethel lives at Morwell.
Marjorie married Frank Chapman (born Dandenong, 25 April 1918) and lived in Perth and Melbourne before finally settling over in the west. They raised a family of four children before Frank (Chapman) died in Perth on January 20, 1988. Marjorie lives at Bassendean, WA.
Myra May Wills died at Elsternwick 8 November 1942 and was buried at Brighton Cernetery in the same grave as Charles' parents and his sister Clara. Charles continued to work on the wharves and re-married February 19, 1944, his second wife Meg (Maude Emily Groat) died at Mildura in 1946. About 1956 went over to WA to live with Marjorie and Frank Chapman. Charles became ill, entered Sunset Hospital, Dalkeith, where he died in 1959. He is buried at Karakatta Cemetery.