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Eric Francis LAVENDER
1920 - 1940 (19 years)
Has 12 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Eric Francis LAVENDER Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 20 Dec 1920 Gender Male Residence 1940 Kurrajong, New South Wales, Australia 
- At the time of his death.
Died 23 Aug 1940 Western Suburbs Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - His tragic death was reported in the papers:
"YOUTH KILLED BY TRAIN.
Eric Lavender, 19, of Kurrajong, tried to
board a moving train at Strathfield railway
station yesterday, but slipped between the
carriages. Both his legs were severed near
the knee. The Western Suburbs Ambulance
took him tn the Western Suburbs Hospital
where he died about midnight."
(from The Sydney Morning Herald , Sat 24 Aug 1940, p. 13, near end of col. 8. View on the Trove website)
"THE death took place under tragic circum-
stances on Friday last of a popular young
Kurrajong resident, Eric Lavender (19), who
succumbed in the Western Suburbs Hospital
to injuries received during the afternoon
when, in attempting to board a moving train
at Strathfield station, he slipped between the
carriages, both his legs being severed near
the knee. The news of the sad occurrence
caused a profound shock in the community
in which deceased had resided, and sincere
sympathy is extended to the bereaved family
in their unhappy loss."
(from Windsor and Richmond Gazette , Fri 30 Aug 1940, p. 4, 'Personal' column. View on the Trove website)
Siblings1 brother Patriarch & Matriarch 
George Francis LAVENDER, b. 15 Oct 1881, Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, d. 30 Dec 1967 (Age 86 years) (Father) 
Sarah Edith HADLOW, b. 23 Jun 1866, Borden, Kent, England, d. 7 Oct 1946, 9, Orchard Cottages, Church Road, Murston, Kent, England (Age 80 years) (Grandmother) Person ID I22894 All | England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , The descendants (and other halves) of George Goatham and Ann née Winch Last Modified 29 Dec 2016
Father George Francis LAVENDER, b. 15 Oct 1881, Wellington, New South Wales, Australia , d. 30 Dec 1967 (Age 86 years) Mother Maisie GOATHAM, b. 16 Jan 1900, Bredgar, Kent, England , d. 27 Jul 1989 (Age 89 years) Married 17 May 1919 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England - GRO ref: Goatham, Maisie to Lavender, George F q2 1919 Milton RD 2a 2815
Details from marriage PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 2 April 2019) and report in the East Kent Gazette (31 May 1919, p1, col. 1):
"Lavender - Goatham - May 17th, 1919, at
Bredgar Church, by the Rev. H. S. Aiken,
George Francis, A.M.F., of Richmond, N.S.W.,
and Maisie, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Goatham, Dean's Hill, Bredgar."
How did George and Maisie meet? - I wonder if Maisie, like her mother, was a nurse and worked with the Australians in Weymouth. If you know I'd love to hear. With both of their fathers being farmers they would have something in common, though rather different in age. The PR gives George's age at marriage as 34 but he appears to have knocked a few years off, actually being nearly 38, twice Maisie's age.
Family ID F391 Family Group Page | Family Chart