Today's post involves my Great Aunt Dorothy Jean Stevens. She was the daughter of John Patrick Stevens and his wife Ada Louisa (nee Jones) and the sister of my maternal Grandfather Roy Thomas Stevens. In 1946 she married George Wilfred Briggs at Young, New South Wales. The marriage apparently did not last very long with him applying for a divorce in 1953 on the grounds of desertion. According to the Stevens family history she went on to live in a de facto relationship for many years but unfortunately died of a stroke aged forty six in 1973 and is buried at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery in Sydney. It appears that George Briggs married again in 1953 and died in 1984. Dorothy Jean Stevens Source:YOUNG (1946, November 18). Cootamundra Herald (NSW : 1877 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143775671 Transcript: Miss Dorothy Jean Stevens, of Wombat Street was married in St. Mary's to Mr. George Wilfred Briggs, of Moppity ...
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