Living

Notes:

living - details excluded

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FNRL: 24 Sep 2022, Capella Cultural Centre, Capella, Queensland, Australia

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Online article written by Timothy Cox for CQ News.

BLUE wrens chirp in the garden of 96-year-old Col Randles.

They also greet visitors entering the ?Randles Nest? on a plaque centred among those commemorating Col?s dual service to the country in World War II and Central Queensland ever since.

Born in Bundaberg in June 1923, Col enlisted in the army in 1941.

"That was in the Commonwealth Military Forces," he said. "I was only eighteen."

Later, as part of the Australian Imperial Forces, he was posted to an anti-aircraft battery near an airfield at Iron Range that helped load up Allied bombers. He was glad to have avoided administrative work.

"About a quarter of a mile away from the airstrip is where we were camped," he said.

"The yanks were taking off day and night."

"As far as I?m concerned, I never, ever wanted to be in charge. I wanted people to tell me to ?Do this!? I was happy that was my job."

After the war, Col worked for the council as a roads construction inspector, working with contractors to help build the highways used today.

"I was on the council here from ?59 to ?89," Col said.

"The roads are mostly bitumen now. We checked workers were doing the right thing."

In 1958, Col married Edna, and together they helped build up Capella and its surrounds.

"A lot of the originals," Edna said, meaning longtime Capellians, "if they haven?t passed on, have left the area. But we?re one of them."

"Col helped put all the bitumen down the highway from Theresa Creek. And he?s planted quite a few trees around town."

Beside an old photo of Col lay a book listing the men from the region who enlisted in the war.

"I knew quite a few of them," Col said.

"They?re all blokes from the district."

But it is gardening that animated Col the most. The residents of Capella, old and new, rest in the shade of trees he planted years ago. Col gestured with his green thumbs.

"See those trees up there?" he asked. "Put a nick in the branch and put moisturiser round it. It?ll send out roots. Cut them off. Then you can plant them anywhere, those trees."

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/central-queensland/cols-lifetime-of-service/news-story/563db0ae874dafa1f52fcb83dc3268dc

Birth:
Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
Name: Leslie Colin Randles Birth Date: 8 Jun 1923 Birth Place: Bundaberg, Queensland
Year Range: 1940-1947 Enlistment Place: Brisbane, Queensland
Service Number: QX38090 Q89839
Father: George Randles Series Description: B883: Army, 2nd Al F

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Died:
Family information.

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Leslie married Edna Emily SLEAFORD on 17 Dec 1958 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Edna (daughter of John Alfred SLEAFORD and Edna May COKER) was born on 28 Nov 1935 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia; died on 10 Oct 2022 in Emerald, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1963-72, Main Road Works, Cotherstone Rd, Capella, Queensland, Australia
• Residence: 1977-80, Langton St, Capella, Queensland, Australia
• _FNRL: 15 Oct 2022, Capella Cultural Centre, Capella, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
Family information.

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Residence:
Australian electoral roll

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Residence:
Australian electoral roll

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Died:
Family information.

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Married:
Family information.

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Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: John Alfred Sleaford Birth date: 16/02/1905
Mother's name: Rovena Elizabeth Hebbard Father/parent's name: Robert Arthur Sleaford
Registration details: 1905/C/11738

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: John Alfred Sleaford Death date: 04/03/1970
Mother's name: Rovena Elizabeth Hebbard Father/parent's name: Robert Arthur Sleaford
Registration details: 1970/C/1141

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John married Edna May COKER on 16 Sep 1931 in Kabra, Queensland, Australia. Edna (daughter of Harry COKER and Emily Helen Sophia ALDRIDGE) was born on 21 Oct 1908 in Mt Morgan, Queensland, Australia; died on 13 Nov 2000 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia; was buried on 16 Nov 2000 in Rockhampton Crematorium, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 199842058

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Edna May Coker Birth date: 21/10/1908
Mother's name: Emily Ellen Sophia Aldridge Father/parent's name: Harry Coker
Registration details: 1908/C/8628

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Died:
Queensland death certificate 2000/60047
Edna May Sleaford, home duties, female, 92 years, 23 November 2000, Rockhampton Hospital, Rockhampton
Parents: Harry Coker, carpenter, Emma Ellen Aldridge*, home duties
Married: Kabra, Queensland, aged 22 years, to John Alfred Sleaford.
Children: John 67 years, Edna Emily, 64 years, Robert Henry, 60 years, Rovena 59 years, Winston Lawrence, 55 years, Daphne Naomi, 52 years.
Cause of death: Bronchopneumonia, congestive cardiac failure and general deterioration. Ischaemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease.
Informant: J.Sleaford, son, 32 Bowen Terrace, Rockhampton.
NOTE: full birth name was Emily Helen Sophia ALDRIDGE

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Married:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Marriage registration: John Alfred Sleaford Marriage date: 16/09/1931 Spouse's name: Edna May Coker
Registration details:1931/C/3390

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Notes:

OBITUARY R. Sleaford, Sen.
Death occurred at the age of 83* of Mr Robert Arthur Sleaford, sen., a resident of Mt Morgan for the past 32 years.
He arrived in Australia with his family from Lincolnshire, England, at the age of 16 years.
His family lived in Gympie. He followed the timber industry for a number of years.
He then moved to Childers and worked for Mr Dick Hebbard making bricks.
He married at Childers Miss Rovena Elizabeth Hebbard and was then employed by Messrs Gant and Brand on the sugar fields.
In 1908 he moved to Mt Tom, Miriam Vale, and had the care of a dairy for Messrs Gant and Brand.
In 1910 he joined the Railway Department and was stationed at Rosedale, Canoona, Buneru and Mt Morgan.
He was a ganger from 1915 until he retired.
He is survived by a widow and two daughters, Mrs F. Coker (Kabra) and Mrs C. Coker (West Rockhampton) and seven sons, Robert Arthur (Mt Morgan), John Alfred (Kabra), Richard (Roma), James Ernest (Rockhampton), Theodore Claude (Mt Morgan), Arthur Cyril (Mt Morgan) and Percy Reginald (Three Springs, Western Australia). One sister, Mrs C. White, Cribb Street, Milton, Brisbane is still living.
APA citation OBITUARY R. Sleaford, Sen. (1951, December 27). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878-1954), p. 3. Retrieved May 23, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57111832
*Born 10 Jul 1871 according to online tree and aged only 16 when he arrived in Australia in 1888, so only 80.

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Birth:
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Robert Arthur Sleaford Registration Date: 1871 Quarter of the Year: Jul-Aug-Sep Registration Place: Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England Volume: 7a Page: 489

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Robert Arthur Sleaford Death date: 24/11/1951 Mother's name: Jane Brader Father/parent's name: Joseph Registration details: 1951/C/5040

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Robert + Rovena Elizabeth HEBBARD. Rovena was born on 1 Mar 1874 in Queensland, Australia; died on 22 Feb 1957 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Miner, builder
• _FGRAVE: 160445446
• Residence: 1903-08, Shandon Hill, Mt Morgan, Queensland, Australia
• Residence: 1913-19, Kabra, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
Harry Coker 1 Sept 1868 Limehouse.
(From Coker London Research group June 2004)

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Residence:
Australian electoral roll

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Residence:
Australian electoral roll

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Harry Coker Death date: 16/10/1924
Mother's name: Emily Lee Father/parent's name: James Coker
Registration details: 1924/C/4166

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Buried:
Coker family plot at the North Rockhampton Cemetery is in the Church of England area Compartment 3, Section 3. There are eight burials; three each in graves 4, 5 and two in grave 6. Buried in grave 4 are: Arthur Coker 28/2/1945, Emily Ellen Coker 24/6/1970 and Estel Frances Maud Coker 16/1/1886.
Buried in grave 5 are: Arthur Coker 22/12/1925, Harry Coker 17/10/1924 and James Thomas Coker 4/8/1920. Buried in grave 6 are: Constance Ellen Coker 28/3/1884 and Mary Florence Coker 6/12/1902

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Burial entry: COKER James Thomas M adult Wednesday, 4 August 1920 CE 3 3 6

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Burial entry: COKER Harry M 58 Thursday, 16 October 1924 Friday, 17 October 1924 CE 3 3 5

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Harry married Emily Helen Sophia ALDRIDGE on 31 May 1899 in Methodist Manse, East St, Mt Morgan, Queensland, Australia. Emily (daughter of Henry ALDRIDGE and Harriet PHILLIPS) was born on 20 Jun 1876 in Logan Village, Queensland, Australia; died on 23 Jun 1970 in Kabra, Queensland, Australia; was buried on 24 Jun 1970 in Grave 4 North Rockhampton Cemetery family plot, Rockhampton, Qld, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 160445444

Notes:

Birth:
Transcript of birth cert. 1876 births in the district of Oxley in the Colony of Queensland. 3748/130, 20 Jun 1876 at Logan Village. Emily Helen* Sophia, female. Father Henry Aldridge, butcher, aged 29, born Hartford#, Herts, England. Married 16 Jun 1870 at Maryborough, Queensland, Living child Elizabeth 4 years. Mother Harriett formerly Phillips, aged 27, born London, Middlesex, England. Informant Harriett Aldridge, mother, Grey Street.
*Ellen in later documents
#Henry born Welwyn, Hertfordshire

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https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Emily Helen Sophia Aldridge
Birth date: 20/06/1876
Mother's name: Harriett Phillips Father/parent's name: Henry Aldridge
Registration details:1876/C/3748

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Died:
Deaths in the district of Rockhampton in the state of Queensland. No 348, 23 June 1970 at Kabra, Emily Ellen Sophia Coker, aged pensioner, female, 94 years. Cause: Pneumonia, five days. Parents: Harry Aldridge, assayer, Harriet Phillips. Buried 24 June 1970 North Rockhampton Cemetery. Where born, Brisbane, Queensland, life in Queensland. Where married Mount Morgan, Queensland, aged 23, to Harry Coker.
Issue living: Walter Frederick, aged 69, John Alex, aged 68, Harry Lawrence, aged 67, Daphne Harriet, aged 65, Archibald Aldridge, aged 63, Edna May,a ged 61, Arthur Roy, aged 57, Charles Cyril, aged 51.

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https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Emily Ellen Sophia Coker
Death date: 23/06/1970
Mother's name: Harriet Phillips Father/parent's name:Harry Aldridge
Registration details: 1970/C/3127

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Burial entry:
COKER Emily Ellen Sophia F 94
Tuesday, 23 June 1970
Wednesday, 24 June 1970
SALV 3 3 4

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Buried:
Coker family plot at the North Rockhampton Cemetery is in the Church of England area Compartment 3, Section 3. There are eight burials; three each in graves 4, 5 and two in grave 6. Buried in grave 4 are: Arthur Coker 28/2/1945, Emily Ellen Coker 24/6/1970 and Estel Frances Maud Coker 16/1/1886.
Buried in grave 5 are: Arthur Coker 22/12/1925, Harry Coker 17/10/1924 and James Thomas Coker 4/8/1920. Buried in grave 6 are: Constance Ellen Coker 28/3/1884 and Mary Florence Coker 6/12/1902

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Burial entry: COKER James Thomas M adult Wednesday, 4 August 1920 CE 3 3 6

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Burial entry: COKER Harry M 58 Thursday, 16 October 1924 Friday, 17 October 1924 CE 3 3 5

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Notes:

Married:
Copy of certificate of marriage
I David Boyd being a Methodist Minister do hereby certify that I have this day at the Methodist Manse East Mt Morgan duty celebrated marriage between Harry Coker Miner of West Mount Morgan aged 32 years born London Middlesex England Father James Martin Coker (Note: James Martin Coker was Harry's brother, his father's name was James Thomas Coker) clerk, mother Emily Lee AND Emily Ellen Sophia Aldridge of Shandon Hill, Mt Morgan, spinster aged 22, born Logan in Moreton Shire, Queensland. Father Henry Aldridge miner, mother Harriet Phillips. Witnesses Charles Dobbs and Elizabeth Dobbs. Dated this 31st day of May 1899.

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