{"id":4325,"date":"2011-05-09T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T04:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanningfamilyhistory.com\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2018-01-19T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T04:16:15","slug":"wilson-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/09\/wilson-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Family History"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Grace<\/a>
Grace Annie Frances Cook 1893-1966<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My\u00a0grandmother\u00a0Grace Annie Frances Cook married Ernest Ralph Wilson in 1911 in . She was 18 and he was 27 years old.<\/p>\n

I remember hearing stories about Ernie and his sister Flo. I was told\u00a0Ernie\u00a0was a famous boxer. The famous boxer was\u00a0actually\u00a0Ernie’s brother, Herbert James Wilson, who fought under the name Herb McCoy. Flo, Ernie and Herbert were all very colourful characters. Flo lived to 103 and Ernie to 101, and Herb to 82.<\/p>\n

Ernie used to ride around in a motor bike which had a sidecar and Flo used to be in that. Apparently the police very regretfully had to take his motor bike license off Ernie as he was still riding well into his 80s.<\/p>\n

My \u00a0parents were very fond of Ernie and used to visit him. They used to tell the story of when they went to visit Ernie in Richmond. There was no response when they knocked. They stood there debating about whether to knock again as maybe Ernie was sleeping being of advanced years at the time. They went around the back and there was\u00a0Ernie\u00a0chopping wood!! so much for being old and resting.<\/p>\n

I also remember that he came to my grandmother’s funeral in 1966. They were divorced in \u00a01921 when Grace married Jim Knighton and Ernie married\u00a0Ellen\u00a0Jessie Black. The divorce came after the\u00a0marriage\u00a0in the case of my grandmother!<\/p>\n

Ernie and his second wife Ellen Jessie, and his sister Flo and brother Herbert, the boxer, are all buried in Springvale Cemetery in the Catholic section.<\/p>\n

And of course I remember my mother’s half brothers, my half uncles: Bobbie, Jacky and Jimmy Wilson.<\/p>\n

\"Ernest<\/a>
Ernie Wilson age 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ernest<\/a>
Ernie Wilson in The Richmond Times 16 Oct 1984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ernie<\/a>
Ernie and his sister Flo in 1984 on Ernie’s 100th birthday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Ernie<\/a><\/p>\n

Ernie on his motorbike or a motorbike in 1984 aged 100<\/p>\n

\"Ernie<\/a>
The story that went with the motorbike photo 1984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ernie<\/a>
Ernie Wilson and Flo Crilly, newspaper article, 1984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Flo<\/a>
Flo Crilly nee Wilson, her nephew Jimmy Wilson and his friend June 1991<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Florence<\/a>
Florence Crilly age 102 still living at home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grace Cook and Ernie Wilson had three sons: Robert (Bobbie), John (Jacky) and James Jimmy).<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The three Wilson Boys fishing in the Footscray River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bobby<\/a>
Bobby Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bobby<\/a>
Bobby Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jacky<\/a>
Jacky Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jimmy<\/a>
Jimmy and Evie Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"May<\/a>
Jacky and May Wilson nee Pavier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bobby<\/a>
Bobby and Kath Wilsons wedding, Jacky Wilson best man on left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Charles<\/a>
Charles Wilson Descendant Report 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ernest Ralph Wilson was my grandmother’s first husband. He was born in Carlton. They had three sons: Robert, Jacky and
\nJames. Ernie lived to 101. His brother was a famous boxer Herb McCoy. Ernie was well liked and loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[203,215,231,465,683],"class_list":["post-4325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wilson","tag-cook","tag-crilly","tag-descendant-report","tag-mccoy","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}