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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


Surname

Florence Edith HOLMES / BRYANT

Born 1888 in New South Wales, Australia [32]
Daughter of Richard HOLMES and Jane Hannah HICKS [15]
In 1906 her sister "Lottie" Charlotte HOLMES married Frank Ringol BRYANT in Williams, Western Australia [15]
Her sister gave birth to children with her husband in 1907, 1908, 1910, and 1911 [15]
During the early 1900s she also appears to have entered into a relationship with her brother-in-law Frank Ringol BRYANT [15]
She gave birth to children with Frank in about 1909, about 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1917, and 1921 [15]
In 1914 she was living on Picton Street in South Bunbury [50] and in 1921 in Welshpool [2]
Her youngest child, Frank Ringol BRYANT (Jnr), passed away at the age of three months on 16 February 1921 [2] [15]
Although she never appears to have married, by the mid 1920s she was using the surname of BRYANT [50]
Resided on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1925 [50]
Later in 1925 and in 1926 she was working as a Housekeeper and living at 74 Carnarvon Street in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [50]
Housekeeper on the HOLMES family's Brighton Farm in Narrogin 1939-1949 [50]
In 1954 and 1958 she was working as a Housekeeper and living at 24 Falcon Street in Narrogin [50]
Resided at 53 Katanning Street in the Perth suburb of Bassendean in 1963 [50]
In 1968 she was living at Lot 104 Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite [50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bassendean [2]
Mother of Alice Christina, William George, "Maida" Florence Maud, "Jock" Clarence Jock, Mabel Violet, Harold, and Frank Ringol [15]
Died 20 March 1980; ashes scattered to the wind at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia [2]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Florence Edith Holmes / Bryant' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 16 September 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/florence-edith-holmes [reference list]




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