Ancestors of Ruby Margaret FORSTER

Luke FORSTER
(1805-1886)

Anne BLACKETT
(Abt 1812-1897)

Edward McLEAN
(Abt 1817-1853)

Eliza BOAK
(Abt 1820-After 1869)

William Mark FORSTER
(1846-1921)

Mary Jane McLEAN
(1849-1908)

Ruby Margaret FORSTER
(1886-1934)

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Spouses/Children:
Frederick MANSFIELD

Ruby Margaret FORSTER

Born: 17 Jan 1886, Toorak, Vic. ³
Marriage: Frederick MANSFIELD on 23 Jan 1912 in Malvern Presbyterian Church, Vic. ¹ ²
Died: 6 Mar 1934, Chatswood, NSW at age 48 ⁴

bullet General Notes:

Aunt Ruby and Jean and Gerald (Hilda's godson) met Hilda at the boat in Sydney, having come from Falconbridge, April 1924, and took her to Rothbury, Roseville where the Barkers lived.
Peg's Aunt Ruby sent her a 21st birthday present in 1930.
Peg met Uncle Stan, Aunt Mabel, Kathleen and Aunt Ruby for lunch 4/2/1931 during her visit to Sydney with the Blairs.
Evidently had no children?

bullet Noted events in her life were:

• Residence, 1909, Toorak, Vic. At 135 Canterbury road with parents and Gordon Ewing

• Travel: Granted US passport, 10 Nov 1917, New York. ⁵ ⁶ See Copy of application in WM Forster file. Has many details of them, but doesn't make it clear whether husband is still alive. In any case he did not travel to Sydney with her on the "Ventura". See passenger list in same file

Ruby married Frederick MANSFIELD on 23 Jan 1912 in Malvern Presbyterian Church, Vic..¹ ² (Frederick MANSFIELD was born about 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ¹.)

2 The Argus, Monday 11 March 1912. MANSFIELD-FORSTER. - On the 23rd January, at
Malvern Presbyterian Church, Ruby Margaret,
second youngest daughter of William M. Forster
of 240 Auburn-road, Auburn, to Frederick Mans-
field, of U.S.A.

4 Death and funeral notices from unspecified newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 8 March 1934. MANSFIELD -March 6, at a private hospital. Chatswood, Ruby Margaret, loved wife of Fred Mansfield and daughter of the late William and Jane Forster, of Toorak, Victoria. Privately cremated March 7th.

6 New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922, about Mrs R M Mansfield.

Ruby Margaret FORSTER

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