Elizabeth May TOLEMAN

1917 - ____

• BIRTH: 1917, Camperdown, Victoria
• EVENT: Birth Certificate: 9937

• MARRIAGE: 1945

1. +Margaret FAVALORO
2. +Gaye FAVALORO
3. +Anne FAVALORO
4. +Elizabeth FAVALORO

                       _Joseph TOLEMAN _____
                      | (1843 - 1897) m 1873
 _Edmund TOLEMAN _____|
| (1878 - 1958) m 1909|
|                     |_Margaret DELANEY ___+
|                       (1845 - 1932) m 1873
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|--Elizabeth May TOLEMAN 
|  (1917 - ....)
|                      _____________________
|                     |                     
|_Louisa ALLENDORF ___|
  (1888 - 1963) m 1909|
                      |_____________________
                                            

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[NI0248] When my grandfather, Joseph Toleman died, Dad was about 17 years old and rode his horse all the way from Victoria to Queensland, to seek his fortune. He ended up in a very historic part of Brisbane, Early Street, and became chauffeur to a Judge Real who lived in a beautiful Queenslander house ( which is now an historic building open to the public). Dad was proudly in charge of the carriage and pair of horses and it was there he met my mother Louisa Allendorf, who lived nearby and was learning to be a seamstress at the Judge's house. They were married in St Stephens Cathedral in Brisbane and my two older brothers, Edmund and Thomas Stanley, were born in Coorparoo and then the family all returned to Victoria. Dad had a butcher shop in Birchip and Mum continued her beautiful sewing for their growing family as Margaret, Gladys, myself, Louise, Joseph, Mary and John were born. We were a big, active family but Dad was such a soft hearted and caring man that he was always bringing home more mouths to feed or someone down on their luck to let sleep on the veranda for the night, so when we woke up sometimes we never knew who would be at the table or singing outside as they sobered up. During the depression when some unemployed were sent to work in the country for the dole, Dad was always generous with any extra meat he could spare from the shop and Mum would bake extra for some of the workers that were housed nearby, as she was worried about them being away from their families. She particularly treasured some beautifully embroidered handiwork that the wives of these men sent back to her with thanks. When I think of it now and remember my mother always being so ready to help others in spite of her workload, it was all part of how she lived her Catholic religion I suppose; but saying the decades of the rosary every night was certainly something we all tried to gallop through. Apparently we used to say "pray for us, pray for us" so quickly, that some people thought we were actually saying "horse racing, horse racing". Sometimes on our schools holidays, we would all go down to Camperdown, to our grandmother Margaret Toleman (nee Delaney). She was just a little lady, but could really keep all of us lively ones under control. Dad's great love, apart from Mum, was horses and he trained some for the country racing and even one that went into the big Melbourne league after he sold it. He taught us all to ride bareback and the only concession to the girls was that we were allowed to sit on a blanket. The other great passion in the house, apart from following the races, was cards: which we played with vigour and long into the night, as no-one was allowed to go to be until we were all square again. Even now, when some of the Tolemans get together, the neighbours must know they are in for a long noisy night, when they hear the table being cleared and the cards come out. When I was 17, I went to nursing training at the Bendigo Base Hospital, which I enjoyed very much. (In 1978 we went to the Delaney reunion and I met two ladies there that I knew in Bendigo, but did not realize they were in our clan - a lovely surprise). One day I was catching a train back to Bendigo, when a handsome young soldier asked if he could carry my bag. I sat with him in the "dog box" even though I had a first class ticket, and found out his name was Bart Favaloro. He was heading back to Bendigo on leave and to help in the family bakery. He says that I was reading my book upside-down all the way home - and maybe I was because the rest is history and we were married in the Hamilton Catholic Church. Our daughters Margaret, Gaye, Elizabeth and Anne were all born in Bendigo an we used to visit Dad and Mum in Hamilton, where they now lived. It was great for our girls to meet up with assorted family members, depending who came home for Christmas. The card nights continued unabated but Bart had got more cunning over the years and managed to escape to bed as early as he could. Bart and his family were Italian, so he learned many things about Aussie families (especially the Delaney/Tolemans), and I learned about Italy and how to cook spaghetti, though in my many visits to Italy, I have never mastered the language. After a few years in Shepparton in a cake shop with Bart's brother Jo e, we moved to East Bentleigh in Melbourne and bought our own business. Bart was a great pastry cook and cake decorator, creating many beautiful cakes over the years, including one for Don Chipp, M.P. Our eldest daughter Margaret did nursing at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne and midwifery in Launceston, before going to N.T. and becoming a nursing sister at the Health Clinic on a vast cattle station, Victoria River Downs, N.T. There she met her future husband, Lindsay McLean and married on the station, where all the guests had to fly, drive or ride horses to attend. Bart carried the wedding cake on his knee all the way from Melbourne. Marg became a nurse practitioner in remote Health Centres, delivered countless - mainly aboriginal - babies, and was recently presented with an award by the Chief Minister of N.T., for her work in remote nursing care. Our daughter Gaye, also did nursing at St. Vincent's, and went with Marg to work at Darwin Hospital. She loved nursing in the north and met a Scotsman named Peter Robertson, who had driven overland from Britain, and landed in Darwin to work and to continue travelling. Well again the rest is history, they drove south to Melbourne for the wedding in East Bentleigh, before setting finally settling in the Gold Coast Hinterland, after working in Canberra, Gladstone, Palm Island and Yamba. They have constructed many roads, bridges and sub-divisions through their civil construction company. Our daughter Anne was a teacher in Melbourne when we went to Marg and Lindsay's wedding in N.T., and there met her future husband Alan Gitsham, who followed her home to Melbourne, where they married in East Bentleigh. They have lived on the Sunshine Coast for many years, initially running their own butcher shop, but now Ann specializes in Natural Medicine, Homeopathy and massage, and runs her own business. While our daughter, Liz was teaching in Sale, Victoria, she met her future husband Steve Hallows, and a couple of years later moved to Queensland and married in the garden of our home in Beenleigh, as Bart and I had already moved north by then. Over the years Liz taught art and did some beautiful painting and photography, They now live in Houston, Texas, USA, and Liz is writing a book on Handscapes - Hand Analysis Theory and Psychological Types. In 1999 I was presented with an award by the Bishop of Brisbane for my long term service to St. Vincent de Paul. I had enjoyed it immensely and have tried to pass the importance of volunteering in the community, to my family the way I learned for my ancestors. We are very proud of our granddaughter and six grandsons who live around Australia and in the U.S.A.. They are all happy and successful across a range of industries, including Information Technology, Law Enforcement, Sport, Animal Husbandry, Psychology and Electrical. It was an exciting time in 2000 when Adam Gitsham represented Australia at the Olympic Games in the Running Target Shooting Team and performed very well. We are also delighted to introduce our two great granddaughters, Josie and Jarita into the family and are sure that the clan, with all the new members in the other families over the years as well, is in very good hands for the future.

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Emma TOLEMAN

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Ethel Amelda TOLEMAN

1912 - 1973

• BIRTH: 1912, Camperdown, Victoria
• DEATH: 1973, Fitzroy, Victoria
• EVENT: Birth Certificate: 9740
• EVENT: Death Certificate: 23340, at 61 years

• MARRIAGE: 1935, Victoria
• EVENT: Marriage Registration: 8357

                          _Joseph TOLEMAN _____
                         | (1843 - 1897) m 1873
 _William TOLEMAN _______|
| (1876 - 1941) m 1905   |
|                        |_Margaret DELANEY ___+
|                          (1845 - 1932) m 1873
|
|--Ethel Amelda TOLEMAN 
|  (1912 - 1973)
|                         _____________________
|                        |                     
|_Mary Elizabeth MILLER _|
  (1884 - 1949) m 1905   |
                         |_____________________
                                               

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Geoffrey Allan TOLEMAN

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Gerald Francis TOLEMAN

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Gertrude Catherine TOLEMAN

13 NOV 1886 - 1975

• BIRTH: 13 NOV 1886, Garvoc, Victoria
• DEATH: 1975, Cobden, Victoria
• EVENT: Death Certificate: 10480, at 88 years
• EVENT: Birth Certificate: 26331
• REFERENCE: C11.

• MARRIAGE: 1914, Victoria
• EVENT: Marriage Registration: 4727

1.  Partick Gerard NEHILL
2.  Joseph John NEHILL
3.  Alexander NEHILL
4.  Peter NEHILL

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 _Joseph TOLEMAN _____|
| (1843 - 1897) m 1873|
|                     |_____________________
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|--Gertrude Catherine TOLEMAN 
|  (1886 - 1975)
|                      _John DELANEY _______+
|                     | (1794 - 1876) m 1841
|_Margaret DELANEY ___|
  (1845 - 1932) m 1873|
                      |_Bridget DUNNE ______+
                        (1813 - 1884) m 1841

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Gladys Mary TOLEMAN

3 JAN 1915 - 4 MAY 1986

• BIRTH: 3 JAN 1915, Cobden, Victoria
• DEATH: 4 MAY 1986, Warrnambool, Victoria
• EVENT: Birth Certificate: 2353
• BURIAL: Hamilton, Victoria
• EVENT: Inquest: 23 JUN 1986, RRef: 895

                       _Joseph TOLEMAN _____
                      | (1843 - 1897) m 1873
 _Edmund TOLEMAN _____|
| (1878 - 1958) m 1909|
|                     |_Margaret DELANEY ___+
|                       (1845 - 1932) m 1873
|
|--Gladys Mary TOLEMAN 
|  (1915 - 1986)
|                      _____________________
|                     |                     
|_Louisa ALLENDORF ___|
  (1888 - 1963) m 1909|
                      |_____________________
                                            

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Gypsy Rose TOLEMAN

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|--Gypsy Rose TOLEMAN 
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|                      _Stanley TOLEMAN ____+
|                     | (1940 - ....) m 1964
|_Danni-Jo TOLEMAN ___|
  (1965 - ....)       |
                      |_Ann REID ___________
                        (1941 - ....) m 1964

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Ian TOLEMAN

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India TOLEMAN

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|--India TOLEMAN 
|  
|                      _Stanley TOLEMAN ____+
|                     | (1940 - ....) m 1964
|_Danni-Jo TOLEMAN ___|
  (1965 - ....)       |
                      |_Ann REID ___________
                        (1941 - ....) m 1964

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