Info 3d, Elsie Cumming Bates

Info 3d, Cumming Bates Marriage

Mary Elsie highway Cumming, daughter of Charles Walter Cumming,
and Kate Frances Henrietta Jones
born 29th May 1885, Puna, registered Grey South Australia.

1910-11 Electoral Rolls
Fremantle, Claremont.
Keane Street, Cottes loe Beach, 
Elsie Mary Hieghway Cumming, Typist.

Elsie M H Cumming Married 1915 Sydney NSW (reg. No. 637)
to Francis H. Bates

The Western Australian, 28 June 1916
BATES (nee Elsie Cumming). - On June 13,at Katoomba, New South Wales, to Mr. and Mrs F. H. Bates a daughter (still born).

The Blue Mountain Echo, 21st Dec 1917
Family Notices, Births, Bates At her residence, Desmond Twynam Street Katoomba, on the 5th December 1917, the wife of the Late Francis herbert Bates, of a son both doing Well.

Francis herbert heighway Bates, born 5 dec 1917 served in WW2, Elisted 13 jan 1941

RIP

Elsie Mary Heighway (cumming) Bates, daughter of Katherine F.H. and Chsrles
died 5th March 1959 aged 73, at Blackwood, Western Australia
buried Manjimup Old Cemtery, Manjimup Shire, Western Australia
plot MOC 1205

Francis Herberet Bates died 20th May 1917 at Katoomba City,
Buried Katoomba City Cemetery, Church of England section, KCE2, Row E, Plot 32.

The Blue Mountain Echo, Friday 2th May 1917, page 4
Local; and General, Sudden Death, The Wicked Westerlies claimed a victim last week, in the person of Mr. Fancis Herbert Bates, a fine stong man, only 32 years of age. Like hundreds of others, he contracted a cold, but beyond the usual inconvenience , little notice was taken of it. With but little notice ,pleurisy set in and in a few days the strong man was no more, paasssing out at his home in Twynam Street on Sunday Last . He was buried on Tuesday , the Rev. W.E. Gordan officiating at the graveside . The case is a sad one, the deceased leaving a young wife and two children. Wood, Coffill and Co. attended to the burial.

The Blue Mountain Echo, Friday 2th May 1917, page 4

Local; and General, Sudden Death,
The Wicked Westerlies claimed a victim last week, in the person of Mr. Fancis Herbert Bates, a fine stong man, only 32 years of age. Like hundreds of others, he contracted a cold, but beyond the usual inconvenience , little notice was taken of it. With but little notice ,pleurisy set in and in a few days the strong man was no more, paasssing out at his home in Twynam Street on Sunday Last .
He was buried on Tuesday , the Rev. W.E. Gordan officiating at the graveside . The case is a sad one, the deceased leaving a young wife and two children.
Wood, Coffill and Co. attended to the burial.