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Robert died 23/4/1947 at State Hospital and Home, Lidcombe.

Name: Ena C Collier
Marriage Date: 1926
Marriage Place: Parramatta, New South Wales
Registration Date: 1926
Registration Place: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse: Leslie R Price

Name: Ena Constance Price
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1908
Death Date: 12 Jul 2000
Cemetery: Palmdale Lawn Cemetery & Memorial Park
Burial or Cremation Place: Palmdale, Central Coast Council, New South Wales, Australia

Headstone commemorates 'Loving Mother and Nanna'

Name: Kate M Collier
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec 1971
Registration District: St. Marylebone
Inferred County: Greater London
Spouse: James H Hilborn
Volume Number: 5d
Page Number: 1698

Name: Kate Marie Hilborn
Death Age: 69
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1925
Registration Date: Oct 1995
Registration District: Lambeth
Inferred County: Greater London
Register Number: E49
District and Subdistrict: 2411E
Entry Number: 70

ErikaH

Thanks for your quick response, in relation to your question of later births in London, I have strong suspicions that they may not be his children which is why I am trying to establish their movements during the 1920's.

In your reply with the enlistment place and service number is this record available on line? Also Mabel's Death Record is there an online record available?

Once again thanks for the information.
Ronnie Quick

Another marriage for Mabel??
Listed as both Pearson and Collier:

Mabel E Pearson
in the Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
Name: Mabel E Pearson
Marriage Date: 1925
Marriage Place: Katoomba, New South Wales
Registration Date: 1925
Registration Place: Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse: Jack Stapleton
Registration Number: 7465


Mabel E Collier
in the Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
Name: Mabel E Collier
Marriage Date: 1925
Marriage Place: Katoomba, New South Wales
Registration Date: 1925
Registration Place: Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse: Jack Stapleton
Registration Number: 7465

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Mabel Eliza Stapleton
in the Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003
Name: Mabel Eliza Stapleton
Age: 67
Birth Date: abt 1885
Death Date: 31 Jul 1952
Burial Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cemetery: Macquarie Park
Section: W
Row: 6
Inscription: a wife & mother
Denomination: Catholic

With Jack Stapleton at 73 Harris Street, Harris Park:

Mabel Eliza Stapleton
in the Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980
Name: Mabel Eliza Stapleton
Gender: Female
Electoral Date: 1930
Electoral Place: Parramatta, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

In Parramatta in all years up to 1943, as far as Ancestry's records go -

By 1943 they're at 105 Marsden Street, and also Hilda Martha Stapleton and Arthur Edward Stapleton.

Arthur Edward - maybe Jack's brother? Not a son, anyway:

Arthur Edward Stapleton
in the Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current
Name: Arthur Edward Stapleton
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1888
Death Date: 3 May 1949
Death Place: Parramatta, City of Parramatta Council, New South Wales, Australia
Cemetery: Rookwood Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria
Burial or Cremation Place: Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia
Has Bio?: N
Spouse: Hilda M Stapleton
Children: Colin Arthur Stapleton

ArgyllGran

Thank you, again for the information, this confirms what I already believed. Mabel divorced her first husband Robert Leo Collier in 1924, the decree absolute was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27/05/1925 and Jack Stapleton was known to Kate Collier (born 1925) as "Uncle Jack" but reading between the lines maybe Jack wasn't "Uncle" at all. However all this happened in Australia and Kate was born in London, England and her daughter (my ex wife born 1946) used to talk about going to see Mabel in London during the late 40's. This suggests that Mabel must have visited England between 1946 and her death in 1952 in Australia.

Once again, many thanks
Ronnie Quick

It would have been helpful if you had given all the information at your disposal at the start