SHORT, Annie Ethel
Name – SHORT, Annie Ethel
Born – 04/1865
Died – 21/05/1949
Location – No 121 Anglican Section
Mother – Alice (Harriet) Cardy
Father – Charles Podd
Notes – Annie Ethel was born in April 1865 in Bures, England to Alice (or Harriet) Cardy and Charles Podd. Her siblings were – Charles, Herbert and Ellen. They all came to Australia when Annie was nine years old on the ship Ramsey.
Her father Charles had a position of Gardner at the Toowoomba Church of England in Russell Street, Toowoomba.
Annie married Frederick Alexander Short when she was 19 years old and he was 20. Annie and Frederick had 10 children – Frederick , Jane, William, Annie, Thomas, Purvey, Jack, Joseph, John and Alice. Fred was born in Roma. They were working at Baramba Station where Jane and William were born. They lived in a hut near Cunnamulla where Annie was born and John was born at Goodna Station. They seemed to have moved around quite a lot.
The family moved to Quinalow by 1904, where her husband Fredrick was killed in a timber felling accident.
Her census records are 1903 at Yuelba with Frederick who is a labourer, 1905, to 1909 on Roll at Ringing Plain, Moola a Domestic by herself, and from 1943 to 1949 with Bert and Stella Short in Tara. Bert must have run the local picture theatre, as his occupation is listed on the rolls as Showman and Picture Propietor, Tara.
Annie has a headstone that reads – In loving memory of our dear mother Annie Ethel Short, died 21st May 1949, aged 88 years. R.I.P.
Newspaper Article – Article on Frederick’s accidental death.
War Service File –
Learn more about the Tara Cemetery here.
Annie and her grandsons Allan and Aubrey Short
Photo supplied by Julie Perrin.
