Biography

Little Eleanor May was the third of 14 children born to this couple between 1895 and 1917. Alfred and Annie Bertha were married 13 June 1894 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, where their first child, Louisa Mary, was born on 14 December 1895 ((Birth Registration 7831/1895, Broken Hill).  It seems they then came to Western Australia, where Alfreader Menzies Kate was born in Menzies in 1896 (Birth Registration 635/1897) and Eleanor May was born Menzies 1897 (Birth Registration 636/1897). Other children born in this family were: Vera Bertha born in Menzies 1898 (Birth Registration 1005/1898); Dorothy May born 1900 at Malcolm; Alfred John born 19 September 1903 at Mount Malcolm (Birth Registration 3561/1903); Albert George born 2 September 1904 at Mt Malcolm (Birth Registration 3855/1904); Myra Annie born 11 August 1906 at Mount Malcolm (Birth Registration 4300116/1906, Mt Margaret); Francis William born 10 December 1908 at Mount Malcolm (Birth Registration 4300022/1909, Mt Margaret); Sylvia Marjory born 15 August 1910 at Mount Malcolm (Birth Registration 400125/1910, Mt Margaret); Phillip James Ritchie born 26 August 1911 at Mount Malcolm (Birth Registration 4300098/1911, Mt Margaret); Walter Adolph born 5 May 1913 at Mt Lawley (Birth Registration 100837/1913, Perth); Robert Anzac born 18 April 1916 at Mount Malcolm (Birth Registration 100675/1916, Perth).

The children's father, Alfred, born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1867, died 1925 in Royal Perth Hospital, aged 57 years, and his wife, who was born in Germany in 1877, died 14 April 1928 at 36 Gardiner Street, Mt Lawley, aged 51 years.

Little Eleanor May's older sister, Alfreader (Freda) Menzies Kate, married a stockman, Robert Wilson, and died 9 June 1919 at Ord River Station. Her story appears on this website.