Violet Evelyn Soden (1895 – 1982)

Violet, twin sister of Florence, was born in Bathurst on 27/07/1895.

​She married on 29/09/1914 in Bathurst to Leslie John Flynn.
Leslie was born on 17/02/1896 in Rockley.

​They had 1 son:

  • Darrel Harcourt (Flynn) Clothier (1914 – 1981)

​Leslie deserted his family (see Police Gazettes 1915).
He died in Newcastle NSW on 11/04/1931

​Violet remarried in 1916 to Edward Joseph Clothier.
Edward was born on 10/06/1892 in Forbes.

They had 3 children:

  • Thelma Joyce Clothier (1918 – 1989)

  • Mona Lorraine Clothier (1922 – 2004)

  • Nancy Gwendoline Clothier (1930 – 2008)

​Edward died in Forbes on 15/12/1954.
Violet died in Young on 17/07/1982.
Both are buried at Forbes Cemetery.
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Darrell (Flynn) Clothier (1914 – 1981)

Darrell was born in Bathurst on 08/11/1914. His birth was registered as Darrell Harcourt Flynn. After the desertion of his father he and/or his mother and step-father changed/used his name as Darrell Clothier.

​In the service records Darrell listed Edward (his step-father) as next of kin.

​He married to Joyce Elizabeth Briant in 1946 in Ryde, Joyce was born in 1921 in the UK and arrived in May 1924 in Sydney, age 3, with her mother Edith A Briant (34) and brother John Edwin Briant (6), on the ship “Borda”, to join the husband and father Harold John Thomas Briant in Parramatta.

​They had 2 daughters:

  • Susan Clothier

  • Narelle Clothier

​Darrell died in Sydney on 09/06/1981.

Joyce died on 26/01/2012 in Sydney.

Thelma Joyce Clothier (1918 – 1989)

Thelma was born in Forbes on 04/09/1918.

She married to Joseph Harold Crow in 1936 in Forbes.

​The had the following children:

  • Les Crow

  • Mary Crow

  • Jan Crow

  • Harold James Crow (  ?   – 1938)

Around 1950 the family moved from Forbes to Charleville in Queensland.

Joseph died on 05/09/1980 in Charleville QLD.
Thelma died in Charleville on 08/08/1989.
Both are buried at Charleville Cemetery, Murweh Shire QLD.

Mona Lorraine Clothier (1922 – 2004)

Mona was born in Forbes in 1922.

​She died in Forbes on 02/03/2004.

​The Forbes Advocate of 05/03/2004 wrote with the notice: NB: Memoriam of deaths in Forbes – Eugowra – Bedgerebong (2004) from the registry of Michael Hanley’s Family Funeral Home

Nancy Gwendoline Clothier (1930 – 2008)

Nancy was born in Forbes in August 1930.

​She married in Forbes in 1950 to Christopher Allen Trevorrow. Chris was born in Wellington on 06/03/1926.

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​Chris died in Parkes on 24/03/1998.

Nancy died on 05/01/2008 in Parkes.