Florence Beatrice Gilbert

Tyseley, Birmingham - train station Tyseley, Birmingham - Hay Hall. Tyseley, Birmingham - incinerator and Grand Union Canal Tyseley, Birmingham - Hay Hall

Florence was born on February 10th, 1879.  Florence's father was Stephen Gilbert and her mother was Mary Ann Tune. She had two brothers named Tom and Edward.  She died at the age of 86 in 1965.

• General Notes

  Frank Tippin Ballard in his diary written late in life (in the possession of Ralph Ballard) records that:
  "Florence was born at the "Barrel Inn", Great Hampton, Birmingham, England.
  After her father's death, her mother remarried to Thomas Foxall.
  Florence was then sent to a convent boarding school along with her aunt Rose Tune who was only 1 or 2 years older.
  Florence's brothers Edward and Tom Henry did not get on with their stepfather and left home.
  Florence married Frank Ballard on 21 May 1899.
  They lived in Warwick Road, Tyseley, Birmingham.  Later Florence opened a small mixed grocer's shop in Warwick Road.
  Her children were Frank (born 1901), Florence (born 1903 and died aged 15 months), and Tom.
  In 1922 she came to Australia with Frank and Celia.  She then spent time living with Frank and Celia, and with Rose Tune and her husband George Paisley."
  
  

Details of Florence's family with Frank Ballard