Last
update July 2009 Created by Tony Maple: imlac2005@grapevine.com.au
William Henry Maple & Ethel Marion Pridham
William
Henry MAPLE
b. 13-06-1871 d. 23-09-1950
1m. 3-09-1896
Marion
Ethel PRIDHAM b. 15-06-1875 d. 29-06-1903
2m. 2-01-1905
Catherine
Jane PAYNE
b.
13-06-71 d. 19-08-1955
Garnet
James MAPLE 27-12-1897 to 21-09-1985 French-Polisher
Howard
Clifford MAPLE 1-12-1900 to
11-06-1997 Mounted Policeman
William
Henry (Harry) Maple was the fourth child of Charles and Elizabeth Maple. He
too became a farmer. In 1896 he
married Ethel Pridham, the 2nd daughter of
Harry
and Ethel may have met through kinship connections. Ethel’s aunt, Ann,
was married to James Treasure, a neighbour to Charles Maple, and from whom
Charles bought Parkfield and Hillside.
After
their marriage, Harry and Ethel lived at Hillside where their two sons, Garnet and Howard, were born.
Tragedy struck when Ethel injured her back when picking fruit. Precisely what
problem was diagnosed is not clear, but Harry’s grand-daughter, Nancye
Kopunic (nee Maple) believes it was
tuberculosis of the bone. This would explain why Ethel was hospitalised
for a long period in Adelaide as the disease attacked her bones and cartilage.
Ethel
died in June 1903 and was buried in the Aldinga Wesleyan (now Uniting) Church
cemetery. Harry lived on at Edwardstown, Adelaide and in 1905 married
Catherine Payne by whom he had three further children. In later years the
family moved into the Adelaide Hills and lived at Stirling and Mt Barker. Harry operated a baking business
without great success, and continued a little farming and carting on the side.
Harry retired to Stirling where he died in 1950.
Garnet
Maple took up the trade of french-polishing with the SA Railways. He married
but had no children.
Eric
Laurence MAPLE 01-03-1906 to 31-05-1990
Marjorie
Christina MAPLE 09-06-1907 to 23-11-1996
Frederick
Walter Kenneth MAPLE 11-10-1909 to 22-11-1986
1896
Ethel and William
