Given Names: Christobel Ruby Kemp Surname: WILSON Married Name: Christobel Ruby Kemp MARTIN
Gender: Female
Birth:1 March 18862428 -- National Bank, Northcote, Victoria, Australia Death:11 August 1968 (Age 82) -- Private Hospital Heath Street, Sandringham, Victoria, Australia
Note: At the time of her 1921 marriage Ruby was teaching at the Geelong Grammar School and in the following December went with Frank to China for him to take up an appointment as a lecturer at Foo Chow University. (Now Fuzhou, Fujian Province.) During their 13 years in China Ruby learned to speak and write Chinese. They returned (permanently) to Australia in October 1934, where Frank's next appointment was at the Sydney University. When he died in 1944 Ruby returned to Sandringham to her father's house "Fernholme" and following his death in December 1945 took up residence in one of the two houses he built in Abbot Street and which he had willed to her.
Ruby occupied her time with church work and charities and had no interest in anything else. When her health failed in 1967 she went into a private nursing home and died there aged 82 in August 1968. Her surviving brother Stanley Wilson wrote to Violet Stevenson, his cousin in South Australia, that he was having a difficult time clearing her house ready for sale as she had literally tons, not only of newspapers, but of every other kind of paper. These must have included those of her father in which, for family history purposes E.M.S. was interested, particularly a 34 page screed from Mr. Sharpe to Osmond. But no-one had the energy to sort through them and a charitable institution was invited to remove them en masse for waste paper.
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