Gertrude Edna WHEELER / FRAME

Born 1889 in Brighton, Sussex, England ^{[20] [21]}
Daughter of James Edward WHEELER and Mary Ann ^{[30: item 4033119]}
Her name was registered at birth as Eliza Ellen WHEELER and as a child she appears to have been known as Ellen ^{[20] [21]}
     Grew up with her parents and siblings at 50 Southampton Street in Brighton, Sussex, England ^[20]
     Her father worked as a Chemist Packer or Pill Packer, and later as a Wholesale Druggist and Chemist ^{[20] [30: item 4033119]}
     She appears to have been the youngest of six children with older siblings James, Florence, Sarah, William and Elizabeth ^[20]
     Her mother passed away in 1900 at the age of 45 years and in 1902 her father was remarried to Emma Eliza LIVETT ^[21]
In 1911 she was working as a Hospital Nurse at Brighton & Hove Hospital for Women in Brighton, Sussex, England ^[20]
     When the 1911 census was taken she gave her given name as Gertrude Eliza Ellen WHEELER ^[20]
     Nurse during the First World War, during which time she met wounded Australian Imperial Force soldier John FRAME ^[P311]
Married "Jack" John FRAME on 29 April 1919 at the Parish Church in Saint Marylebone, London, England ^{[30: item 4033119]}
     She married under the name of Gertrude Edna WHEELER and thereafter gave her given names as Gertrude Edna ^{[2] [30: item 4033119] [19]}
     Before and following her marriage her address was 37 Beaumont Street in London, England ^{[30: item 4033119]}
Herself and her husband departed Liverpool, England on the steamship Shropshire on 2 December 1919 ^{[30: item 4033119 [70]}
     After a voyage of just over a month they arrived on the Shropshire in Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 January 1920 ^[70]
     She already had family in Western Australia as her sister Mrs Florence Edith BARNARD had immigrated in 1913 ^[70]
Resided on Fairview Farm on the Inering Estate in Carnamah 1923-1932 ^{[2] [19] [39: 13-Sep-1935]}
     Her husband's farm was Lot 10 of the Inering Estate on the Carnamah-Perenjori Road northeast of Carnamah ^[3]
     Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1926 ^{[9: 25-Jun-1926]}
     Resided in Carnamah until her death in 1932 ^[2] which was said to have been caused by a brain tumour ^[P311]
Mother of Peggy, John and Arthur ^{[39: 13-Sep-1935]}
Died 13 September 1932 at the Perth Hospital in Perth; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WA, 483) ^{[2] [39: 13-Sep-1935]}

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