Jeanne Marie Louise Augusta Nicholson

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Jeanne was born on Monday, 18 July 1910 at Queenstown, Tasmania.¹ She was the daughter of Charles Leigh Clare Nicholson and Louise Augusta Fookes. Some of the extended family posed for a photograph in Queenstown, Tasmania, circa 1915. She presumably lived with her parents at at 24 Acland Street in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda in 1917.² She presumably lived with her parents at at 20 Dryden Street in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda in 1919.³ She presumably lived with her parents at at 5 Clarke Street in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda in 1922. Also living in the house was a Donald Nicholson - perhaps his father or brother.⁴ She presumably lived with her parents at at 177 Glenferrie Road in the Melbourne suburb of Glenferrie in 1925.⁵

Her father died 1930. 'Boy' Nicholson and Mavis 'Micky' Oaten met when Mavis and Hubert's sister Jeanne both worked at the Coles Department Store in Glenferrie Road. Jeanne invited Mavis home to their house in Coppin Grove, and it started there. Hubert's teenage brother Bon was also attracted to Mavis, but it was the older Hubert who won out.⁶

She likely attended the wedding of her brother in the marriage of Hubert Nicholson and Mavis Lily Oaten in a Church of England ceremony at All Saints on Saturday, 17 February 1934 at the Melbourne suburb of Kooyong. Mavis married with the consent of her mother. They went on to have some eight children together, only two of whom reached adulthood.^7,8 She lived with her mother at at 8 Coppin Grove in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn in 1936.⁹ Jeanne Marie Louise Augusta Nicholson was a saleswoman in 1936.⁹

She married James Victor Goldsmith Armstrong, in 1936.¹⁰ Jeanne Marie Louise Augusta Nicholson was a shop assistant in her adulthood.

Their niece Barbara Nicholson would stay with the Armstrong family in the summers at Portland; on one occasion when she about 8 she was caught in a rip and nearly died, and was rescued by her father.¹¹

Her mother died 1959.

Jeanne died on 23 September 2003 at Melbourne at age 93.¹² Her body was interred at Springvale Crematorium at the Melbourne suburb of Springvale.¹