1897 - 1963 (66 years)
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Name |
Eva May Butcher |
Birth |
16 Sep 1897 |
8 Campbell St Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia. |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
22 Sep 1963 |
12 Napoleon St Sans Souci, New South Wales, Australia |
Person ID |
I2442 |
Tucker Family Tree | Bottcher family tree |
Last Modified |
9 Oct 2008 |
Father |
Wilhelm August Christian Bottcher, b. Abt Dec 1860, Kleinow, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany d. 12 Feb 1928, Liverpool Hospital, N.S.W, Australia (Age ~ 67 years) |
Mother |
Wilhelmina Louise Christine Dahn, b. Abt 1860, new berlin, Germany d. 28 Mar 1904, Brown Street, St Peters, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Age ~ 44 years) |
Marriage |
18 Nov 1881 |
Blankenburg, New Berlin, Prussia, Germany |
Family ID |
F0700 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
Roy Moore Flack, b. 28 Aug 1888, Toledo, Ohio, USA d. 1975 (Age 86 years) |
Marriage |
12 Jun 1915 |
Baptist Church, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia |
Children |
| 1. Roy William Flack, b. 30 Jan 1916, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia d. 1975 (Age 58 years) |
| 2. Alta May Flack, b. 13 Jul 1918, Granville, New South Wales, Australia d. Apr 1980, California, U.S.A. (Age 61 years) |
+ | 3. Irvin Frederick Flack, b. 09 May 1920 d. 27 May 1994, Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Age 74 years) |
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Family ID |
F1945 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
8 Jul 2022 |
Family 2 |
James Patrick Ramsay, b. 21 Dec 1896, London, England d. 07 May 1971, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia (Age 74 years) |
Marriage |
1929 |
Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia |
Children |
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Family ID |
F1947 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
22 Jul 2008 |
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Photos |
| Eva May Bottcher Eva may Bottcher is the 8th child of Wilhelm August Christian Bottcher & Wilhelmina Louise Christine Dahn. |
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Notes |
- Eva May Butcher is the ninth child of Wilhelm and Wilhelmina Bottcher (n. Dahn). She was born on 16 September 1897 at 8 Campbell St Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia.
Eva was 17 years old and working as a Tailoress when she met and married an American Sailor, Roy Moore Flack.
Roy deserted her when their third child was two months old.
She had to struggle to support her three children, even after placing them in Burnside home in February 1924 at a cost to her of five shillings per child per week and helping with their clothing.
Roy (8 years), Alta (5 years) and Irvin (4 years), all have unhappy memories of their 4 year stay at Burnside. Eva continued to work as a Tailoress to provide for herself and contribute to the upkeep of her children.
In 1926 Eva was admitted to the Coast Hospital Little Bay with inflammation of the kidneys and was luck to escape an operation to remove a stone from the kidney,which would have prevented her from making the once a month visit to her children, permitted by the home. Even though Eva was struggling financially to look after herself, she kept her commitments to her children in care.
Life was very hard for a single mother during this period.
Eva age 30, was employed at Murdoch's Clothing Factory, At Reservoir Street. She was earning two pounds eighteen shillings per week. The children were discharged from Burnside on the 14th April 1928. In 1929 Eva married James Patrick Ramsay aged 33 and started a new family.
In 1929 Eva had her fourth Child, James Patrick Jr, to her new husband.
Eva and James lived at 12 Napoleon Street Sans Souci in a large federation house, they raised ducks for extra income. They had the ponds covered with nets to protect the ducks from hawks. The Sold duck eggs and home made Christmas puddings.
Eva died on 22 September 1963 aged 66.
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