Mordecai Solomon (1800 -1883) and Elizabeth Haines (1809 - 1852)

ELLENSOLOMON, the fifth child of Mordecai and Elizabeth Solomon, was born on 20 Jul 1842 in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

On 18 March 1863, at the age of twenty, she married Simon Lipstine (born circa 1833 in Milabra, Russian Poland) in the York St Synagogue, Sydney,

They then moved back to Auckland where over the next eight years six of their seven children were born : Elizabeth Longford (1864), Sarah (1865), Isaac (1867), Annie (1869), George (born and died 1870) and Lewis (1871).

During this time Simon ran a business as a General Dealer, importing much of his stock through the Sydney business of Myers & Solomon. However, the business eventually went bankrupt and Simon was forced to auction not only all of his stock but also a lot of land in the Auckland region that he had acquired over the years.

In 1870 the bankruptcy ended up in the New Zealand Supreme Court, where it took ten months for the protracted proceedings to be concluded and during which Lipstine’s honesty and integrity in connection with unaccounted for stock and money were found to be wanting.

In December 1870, towards the end of the Supreme Court hearings , Lipstine was charged with, “having on the 13^th instant violently assaulted A.E.Cohen by striking him on the body with a hunting whip, and also with having tried to choke him in Queen Street.”

Lipstine had accused Cohen, a Commission Agent, of concealing a ‘book” (an account or stock book) which Lipstine believed would have been crucial in clearing his name before the Supreme Court and was thus so severely aggrieved when this book failed to appear that the enraged “defendant” took matters into his own hands.

The Court found the charged proved and Lipstine was forced to pay a fine of 40 shillings. It was not to be the last time that his temper got the better of him.

In 1874 the family migrated to Sydney, where in 1876 they lived 45 Kent Street and Simon is listed in the Sands Directory as a Commercial Traveller.

In that same year he made his way to the town of Thornborough on the Hodgkinson Goldfields, West of Mareeba in Far North Queensland. As he was there at the same time as his brother-in-law, Joseph Solomon, in all likelihood they travelled there together. The records of the Mareeba Historical Society have an S.Lipstine as a jeweller in the then thriving goldfields town.

As this extract from the Brisbane Courier (5 August 1905) reveals, he was also responsible for constructing the first brick building in Thornborough, a Masonic Lodge.

Although there is no detail of the circumstances leading to the following public apology by Simon Lipstine, it once again draws attention to his somewhat fiery character:

In December 1877 Lipstine applied for and was granted the license for the hotel at Pimpama, a small village South of Brisbane on the road (now the Pacific Motorway) some 30 kms North of what is now known as the Gold Coast.

It was here that their seventh and final child Jane (Janie) was born in 1879.

Lipstine held this license until a fire destroyed the hotel in June 1880. This is the disturbing report of the court case that followed the fire at the hotel. His daughter, Sarah was 15 at the time.

Brisbane Courier Sat 17 July 1880

On the 14th instant an enquiry concerning the late fire at Pimpama was held before Mr. R. Alexander, P.M. Mr. Spencer appeared for Mr. Lipstine, and Mr. Potter watched the case for the insurance company.

John Watkins, postmaster at Pimpama, deposed :

On the 17th June I went to bed shortly after 10 o'clock, and was aroused as I was just dozing by Miss Sarah Lipstine ; she cried out, " Oh my God! the house is on fire ;" she also said, " Oh dear, Mr. Watkins, I am going to have a baby ;" she was standing at my door when I went out, and then said, " He intended to burn me, but has not ;" I went to get my horse, and met her halfway, and she told me again that her father had done it; she said, "I heard him go into the dark room, and then heard a crackling, after which he went out ; directly after there was smoke and fire;" she repeated to me several times that she knew her father had done it ; she would not then return, saying that her father had a revolver and would shoot her ; I did not question her ; the statements were given voluntarily ; Miss Lipstine then left me and proceeded to Mrs. McKavanagh's at my request ; when I came out of my house I saw the hotel was on fire ; the fire was in the back part of the premises.

By Sir. Porter: When Sarah Lipstine came she was in her nightdress ; I am sure that the statements were made ; I had no conversation with her afterwards.

In answer to Mr. Spencer, the witness said no one was present when the conversation with Sarah Lipstine took place ; he did not go to render any assistance at the fire, but to save his home, which was in tho stables opposite.

John Golding deposed : I am a shoemaker, residing at Pimpama ; on tho evening of the fire Sarah Lipstine came to where I was residing at the post office ; she came through teo back part of the house ; I heard her say, " Oh, God ! Mr. Watkins, I am going to have a baby ; father has burnt the house ; he meant to burn me too ;" I said, " Nonsense ;" I looked up and saw the house on fire ; she said, " I heard father going into the dark room and striking something like matches ; I heard a crackling like fire ;" she also said, " Johnny, I know he had done it, and I then jumped out of the window ;" I said to her, " Sarah, you had better come back to the house, as they will be looking for you ;" she said, "No, Johnny, father is sure to shoot me, as I am going to have a baby;" I then went to the fire and assisted to save some of the property ; Lipstine asked me to go and bring Sarah; she refused to return ; I said to her, "It was a good thing, Sarah, that you were not asleep ;" she replied, " I have not slept an hour, I believe, for six or seven weeks, on account of the medicine both of them have been making me take;" afterwards she went with me to her father.

In answer to Mr. Porter, witness said: I do think that when the girl came to me she had her senses about her ; she knew quite well what she was saying.

Then Mr McKavanagh, on oath, said : I remember the night of the fire ; when I saw the fire it seemed to be in the back part of the hotel ; I was at my own place when I noticed the fire first ; my husband and myself then came down to the road, and we there met Sarah Lipstine ; I asked her how the place got on fire ; she said, " I believe my father did it ;" she said, " Will you take , me over to your place ; I am in the family way, I am frightened my father will shoot me ; my father always carries a revolver with him ;" afterwards I saw Sarah Lipstine sitting on the hotel verandah, opposite to the burning hotel ; she then said to me, " Mother has been asking me if I have told you anything, and told me to tell you and McKavanagh and Golding not to mention anything that I have told you. " Sarah Lipstine was a little excited, but she seemed to know what she was saying.

Sarah Lipstine, duly sworn, stated : I am daughter of Simon Lipstine, the keeper of the Pimpama Hotel ; on the night of the fire at father's hotel, I went to bed at half-past 7 o'clock ; I slept in the back part of the house, in a room by myself ; no one slept in the next bedroom ; Mr. Grieves was the only stranger in the house that night ; I had slept after going to bed, and was awakened by a cracking as of bottles bursting ; I heard no footsteps of any one in the next room ; I listened a while, and it seemed as if a fire was roaring; I got up and escaped through the window ; the window was nearest to me ; I wanted to make out what the noise was ; there is no lock on my bedroom door, when I went out I saw a smoke coming from the kitchen ; I then ran through the slip-panel and down the road to the post office ; when I got to the front gate Golding rushed out, and I said, "For God's sake come quick, the house is on fire ;" Golding then said to Watkins "Get up, Drew's place is on fire ;" Golding came out and said to me, "Will you go to McKavanagh's;" I said "No, you run up and try and save something ;" he left then and I left ; I met Mr. and Mrs. McKavanagh ; McKavanagh said, " What is the matter;" I said, "The house is on fire ;" I could not run as I was so frightened, but they both ran to the fire.

By Mr. Porter : I did not say anything to Watkins about my father setting fire to the house ; I did not say to either Golding or McKavanagh that my father had done it ; my father did not at any time threaten my life ; I reside with my father and mother now. (The witness here contradicted all the statements of the three witnesses respecting the setting fire to the house, the threat of her father to shoot her, and the alleged admission of being enceinte ) She remembered giving evidence to the police ; what she then said was true ;she did not remember telling the police that when she went to Golding's she was frightened of her father ; she had not been talking to her father about the fire since it took place.

Sarah had obviously been convinced not to tell the truth at the enquiry and from what I can find, no charges were laid against Simon Lipstine and the insurance claim was granted.

The family then moved to Rockhampton where he became licensee of the Dunmore Arms Hotel, a license he held until 1897.

As the following report reveals (Capricornian - Rockhampton 28 Jan 1882) in 1882 he applied to have his 10 year old son, Louis to be sent to a reformatory.

As this death announcement shows, tragically, Lewis died only three years later:

LIPSTINE. - On the 28th September (1884) , on the Ravensbourne-road, Louis Myer, youngest son of Simon and Ellen Lipstine, of Rockhampton, aged 13 years and 3 months.

This article tells of the circumstances of his death and also of what his father did two years later:

The Morning Bulletin Rockhampton 8 Nov 1886

COMMENT was excited by the publication the columns of the daily papers on Saturday of an advertisement inviting the friends of Mr. Simon Lipstine, publican, to meet at the Dunmore Arms Hotel at four o'clock that afternoon to follow the remains of his son who died on the 28th of September, 1884, to the Rockhampton Cemetery. On inquiry we learn that a little more than two years ago Mr. Lipstine's youngest son, Louis George, who was about fifteen years of age, left Rockhampton with a bullock team, and while journeying in the west was attacked by fever His master hastened to bring him to the Blackall Hospital, but he died on the way and was buried by the roadside forty miles from Blackall. A few months ago Mr. Lipstine felt a desire to have the boy's remains deposited in consecrated ground, and wrote to the Colonial Secretary for permission to exhume them. This request being granted, he journeyed to the burial place of his son, and watched the transference of the relics to a box prepared for their reception. He brought them to Rockhampton, and deposited them in the Cemetery yesterday afternoon. He recognised a coat in the grave as one he had made for the boy.

Ellen died in Rockhampton at the age of 51 on 27 March 1894 and was buried in the South Rockhampton Cemetery. At this time her eldest child, Elizabeth was 30 and the youngest, Janie was 15.

By 1900 Simon Lipstine had moved to Brisbane where he became licensee of the British Empire Hotel (1900 – 1901) and the Alderley Arms Hotel, Enoggera (1902 – 1906).

He died on 14 May 1907 in Jeays-street, Bowen Hills, Brisbane and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery.

Throughout his adult life, both in New Zealand and Australia, he had been an enthusiastic and highly respected member of the Masonic Lodge. Upon his death this tribute was paid to him by the Zetland (Sydney) Lodge (Sydney Morning Herald 5 July 1907)

Descendants of Simon & Elizabeth Lipstine

1. ELIZABETH LONGFORD LIPSTINE was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1864. On 24 Jun 1890, at the age of 26, she married Levi (Louis) Blumberg of Boonah (near Ipswich) in Rockhampton, Queensland.

In the 1880s, Levi, Adolph and Max Blumberg had opened a small store on the rise where the town is now situated. The town was first gazetted under the name of Dugandan, but the high part of town was still known locally as Blumbergville.

Australian Hotel Boonah 1902

THE Australian Hotel, which Boonah locals affectionately call the Aussie, is thought to be the town’s first pub. It was built on its existing High Street site in 1888 and was established by the Blumberg family and opened under the management of Mr FW Wilkins. However Mr Wilkins’ tenure was not long-lived and in 1890 Adolph Blumberg took over the hotel.

Levi died of consumption (aged 41) in Roma (Qld) and for some time Elizabeth took over the running of the Australian Hotel.

According to the Australian Electoral Rolls between 1903 and at least 1919 Elizabeth lived at various addresses in Brisbane but she next appears on the rolls in 1930 in Coogee (NSW) where she lived at 27 Division Street with her daughter (Frances) and her husband (Jacob) until her death on 22 December 1942 at the age of 88. She was privately cremated.

Elizabeth & Levi had two children, Frances (b Spring Hiil, Qld) on 23 March 1891 and Stanley Oscar (b Brisbane, Qld) in 1892.

i. Frances married Jacob Cyril Lewis (b 1893) in Albion, Brisbane (Qld) on 9 September 1914 and they had three children – Marjorie, Allan and Ralph.

They lived first in Brisbane before moving to Sydney, where their names appear on the Electoral Rolls as living at 27 Division Street Coogee between 1930 and 1934.

Frances died (aged 43) on 8 July 1934 and is buried in Rookwood Jewish Cemetery. Jacob died in Carlton (Sydney) on 9 March 1956 at the age of 73.

ii. Stanley Oscar tragically died at the age of 23 on 7 March 1915. This is the report as printed in the Brisbane Courier on 8 March 1915:

Oscar Blumberg, aged 23, residing in Albert-street, off Ipswich-road, was taken by the Ambulance to the Mater Misericordiae Public Hospital yesterday morning, and died soon after being admitted to the institution. It is stated that Blumberg was a clerk, and he is supposed to have taken lysol.

( Lysol, an antiseptic disinfectant, was the most common means of suicide in Australia at that time)

2. SARAH LIPSTINE was born on 06 May 1865 in Auckland NZ.

On 20 October 1884, four years after the fire at the Pimpama Hotel, at the age of 19 she married Alfred Comer Dent a hairdresser and tobacconist, in Rockhampton, Queensland.

Over the next ten years they had five children: i. Henry Isidore Comer (b 1886), ii. Ellen Beatrice (b 1887), iii. Bertha Isabelle (b 1889), iv. Ruby Estelle (b 1892) and v. Annie Muriel (b 1894).

By 1890 Alfred was suffering financial problems and the hairdressing business went into liquidation. He and Sarah then became licensees of the Mt Victoria Hotel, West Mt Morgan but Alfred was killed in a buggy accident near Duaringa on 17 August 1894.

Sarah then had the hotel dismantled and re-constructed at Mt Morgan and for many years conducted the thriving business at the hotel, which she renamed The Imperial.

Imperial Hotel Mount Morgan

Following her sale of the lease of the hotel, some time after 1905, Sarah & the family moved to Sydney. By 1930 she was living at Randwick with her daughters Annie & Ellen. By 1936 she had moved with Ellen to Bayswater Road Darlinghurst and it was here that she died on 13 Nov 1947.

This obituary was printed in The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) on 19 November 1947:

OBITUARY

MRS SARAH DENT

Old Rockhampton and Mt Morgan residents will regret to learn of the death of Mrs Sarah Dent, who passed away suddenly at her residence Varverion, Bayswater, King's Cross, Sydney, recently.

Mrs Dent was the eldest daughter of the late Mr Lipstine, owner and licensee of the Dunmore Arms Hotel, a one-storied hotel then situated in William Street, Rockhampton, where she was born 82 1/2 years ago. Her husband predeceased her many years ago as the result of an accident. They conducted an hotel at Mt Victoria, West Mt Morgan, a mining field, for which there were great hopes that it would become a second Mt Morgan mine; but such hopes were not realised and the mine closed down.

Mrs Dent had the fine hotel dismantled and re-erected in Morgan Street opposite the QN Hotel, and it was known as the Imperial. It was conducted by Mrs Dent, and was the leading house in Mt Morgan. Prior to the first war, it was the rendezvous of commercial travellers, permanent officials of the great mine.and executives of the business houses. The population of the town was then in the vicinity of 15,000. Selling the lease, she left for Sydney with her family. On many occasions she revisited Mt Morgan. This hotel was wiped out by the fire that destroyed the School of Arts and all the business premises to the Grand Hotel (1923) . Strange to say, like all other fires, the hotels were saved.

During her residence in Mt Morgan Mrs Dent took interest in public movements. She loved sport and was fond of swimming, horse riding, tennis and bush and outdoor life. Up to the time of her death she enjoyed her weekly game of bridge and solo.

A staunch friend of pleasing personality, her death will be regretted. Of late years she suffered from bronchial asthma. She is survived by one sister, Mrs H. Myers (Brisbane), one son, Henry, a director of Park Davies, wholesale chemists, Sydney, four daughters, several grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

i. Henry Isidore Comer Dent (b Rockhampton 1886). Henry studied Pharmacy at the University of Queensland, passing his final exams in 1908. The Australian Electoral Rolls have him working as a Chemist at Rockhampton (1908), Herberton (1913) & Brisbane (1921) and he was a member of the Queensland Pharmacy Board until 1923.

In 1921 he married Ada Isaacs(b 1897) in Brisbane and their son Hal Ian Comer Dent was born in that year.

By 1930 the family had moved to Sydney where Henry became a Director of the Wholesale Chemist firm, Park Davies. From 1930 until at least 1958 they lived at ‘Coolabah’ 52 Salisbury Road, Bellevue Hill

Henry died at the age of 75 on 22 September 1961 & Ada died on 29 September 1974 at the age of 77.

This item, published in the Hebrew Standard of Australia (17 June 1943) , tells us of the life and tragic death of their son Hal Ian Comer Dent

Like so many of the flower of Australian manhood, Hal Ian Comer Dent, of Sydney, went voluntarily to war. As an observer with the rank of pilot-officer of the R.A.A.F., he was only a small cog in the air machine. But a letter he wrotehbis parents some months ago reveals that, as a patriot and as a Jew, he had full stature.

First, his background. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dent, of Salisbury Road, Rose Bay, he had a fine record at Sydney High. He was a prefect and a triple blue- athletics, tennis and cricket.

He enlisted in the R.A.A.F. when he was 18. He graduated observer in Canada, and was there given his commission. Pilot Officer Dent was flown to England and assigned to Coastal Command. He served in Sunderland flying boats on anti-submarine patrol and escort work.

The following are extracts from the letter mentioned, earlier :-"I hope this letter never reaches you, but I am writing it just in case. For this morning I am going on to another squadron for a month on a job which has been described as 'important,' and which entails more risk than usual. I am pleased I am going, not because I am one of those brave, foolhardy lads that you read about so often, but for these two reasons. Firstly, if I come through, and there is no reason - to suppose I shouldn't, I will have had some very good experience. Secondly, if I don't, then you will know that I 'bought it' on an offensive action.

Please remember, darling that I volunteered not only for the cause of all free people, but also as a Jew, so that I might add my small effort to aid in the downfall of the Nazi machine. 'I have enjoyed myself to the utmost in those quick 15 months I have been away from home, and whilst I treasure my life and all that it holds for me, I would like you to know that if I am one of the unlucky ones who does not return that my passing on has been painless. ' 'Live the future in the knowledge that I chose this life knowing full well what the future was, and that, if ever I had my choice again I shouldn't hesitate in doing the same again.'

Young Hal Dent did 'come back from the particular duty he mentioned in his letter. But a little later his Sunderland went out over the Bay of Biscay. There came back an S.O.S. and then - silence. Sea and air search revealed no trace of men or flying boat. Hal Dent was posted 'missing, believed dead.' Afterwards his mother got 'the letter. With it came another from a squadron pal. He wrote: 'You can feel very proud of your son, for he did his job, like, a (word indeciphable) and for the cause of his Homeland.'

Mr. and Mrs. Dent are proud of - their son. With every cause

ii. Ellen Beatrice Dent (b Rockhampton 19 December 1887), remained a spinster and lived with her mother and sister Annie firstly in Mt Morgan and then in Randwick and Darlinghurst, Sydney until her death on 27 March 1951. She is buried in Rookwood Cemetery (Jewish section).

iii. Bertha Isabelle Dent (b Rockhampton 26 July 1889), married Archibald Edward Nicholls in Queensland on 18 November 1914.. Before 1919 they were living in Clermont, Qld and his occupation was listed as Engineer. It was here that their son first son, (i) Roy Henry Nicholls, was born on 7 November 1915. He was followed by (ii) Charles Edward Nicholls (b 12 Jan 1917) & (iii) Joan Estelle Nicholls (b 30 Oct 1918).

By 1921 the family had moved to Warrnambool, Victoria where Archibald took up a position as a Transport Manager & their final child (iv) Alan George Nicholls was born on 23 October 1921.

Both Archibald (on 10 October 1955 at the age of 68 )and Bertha (in 1959 at the age of 70) died in Warrnambool .

(For further generations please see link to the family tree).

iv. Ruby Estelle Dent (b 1892). This item, printed in the Northern Star (Lismore NSW) on 10 September 1946 tells us much about Ruby’s life:

“Miss Dent started teaching at Brisbane nine years ago after travelling the world for 18 years. For the last ten years of that period she was accompanist and secretary for one of J. C. William son's most popular artists — Daisy Jerome who later became one of the highest paid artists ever associated with the Fuller circuit in pantomime and vaudeville.

Miss Dent, who was born in Queensland, started her long association with Miss Jerome in Auckland, New Zealand. During her time abroad Miss Dent had three years in Great Britain, three years in the United States and Canada and three years in India. In the other nine years there were few countries in the- world in which she did not know the theatres.

Miss Dent has been associated with many fine Australian singers, one of the outstanding being Miss Esma Lind, a descendant in the third generation of world-famous Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale.

Miss Dent is married to former Indian Army officer, Mr. Cameron Gillies.”

Ruby and Ewen Cameron-Gillies were married in Bangalore, India on 22 September 1922 and their son Ewen Alistair was born there in 1924. By 1930 they had returned to Australia where they lived firstly in Sydney (1930) where her husband worked as a Commercial Traveller. By 1936 they had moved to Brisbane. In the various Electoral Rolls from that point onwards until his death in 1952, he is listed as a Salesman and then Shipping Clerk.

Ruby stayed in Brisbane until at least 1958 and is listed as a ‘Teacher’ in the Electoral Rolls. No record of her death has been found

During World War II, their son Ewen Alistair Cameron-Gillies was a Supply Assistant with the Royal Australian Navy. He later became a journalist working in radio in Sydney.

v. Annie Muriel Dent (b Rockhampton 1894). As for Ellen Beatrice, Annie remained a spinster and lived with her mother and sister Ellen firstly in Mt Morgan and then in Randwick, Sydney. Her last known residence is at 26 Centennial Ave, Randwick between 1930 and 1933. She was still alive upon the death of Ellen in 1951 but nothing is known of her beyond this point.

3. ISAAC BENJAMIN LIPSTINE was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1867. On 18 June 1898, at the age of 31, he married Florence Adelaide Victoria Victorsen in Enmore Sydney and they had four children, (i) Eric John Simon (b 1899 Rockhampton, Qld), (ii) Gertrude Ellen (b 1902 Rockhampton), (iii) Victor (b 1904 Duaringa, Qld) and (iv) Rosa Audrey (b 1904 Esk Qld).

By 1888 Isaac had joined the Queensland Government Railways. Between 1903 and 1908 he was Station Master at Duaringa and between 1909 and at least 1913 at Esk, North West of Brisbane

Duaringa Railway Station c 1902

By 1919 the family had moved to Brisbane, where his occupation was listed as ‘Clerk’. He died in Brisbane, at the age of 76, on 17 May 1943. His wife, Florence also died in Brisbane at the age of 83, on 23 May 1959.

This obituary was printed in Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) on 26 May 1943:

The death occurred in Brisbane on May 17 of Mr Isaac B. Lipstine, 77, retired railway station master, who was well known in the Central District. Mr Llpstlne joined the service of the Railway Department in Rockhampton in 1888. He was first employed in the goods office and was later assistant ' stationmaster at Rockhampton for four years. He was subsequently station- master at Duaringa and, in 1909, was transferred to a similar position at Esk. He retired from the department on reaching the age limit. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons.

His wife, Florence died in Brisbane on 23 March 1959.

Their children:

i. Eric John Simon Lipstine was born in 1899 in Rockhampton, Queensland. Between 1919 and at least 1925 he was a railway employee living in Brisbane and in later years became a Commercial Traveller (c 1937), Engine Driver (c 1943) and Auctioneer (c 1949 – 1954)

At some time before 1949 he married Zipporah (Orah) Reubin but they had no children. He died in 1957 in Brisbane, Qld.

ii. Gertrude Ellen Lipstine was born in 1902 in Rockhampton. She married Geoffrey Charles Nigel Mackay at St Albans Church of England, Cunnamulla, Qld on 12 April 1927.

They lived in Brisbane from at least 1936 onwards & his occupation is listed on Australian Electoral Rolls as Engineer . He served in the Australian Army during World War II, rising to the rank of Major. He died in Brisbane on 26 May 1947.

During the 1950’s Gertrude served as President of the Queensland branch of the War Widows Guild and she continued to live in Brisbane until her death in 1961.

Gertrude and Charles had no children.

iii Victor Lipstine was born in 1904 in Duaringa, Queensland. He married Olga Crawford Russell (b 1904) on 03 Jan 1934.

They lived in Brisbane where Victor’s occupation is listed as ‘Electrician’. He died in Brisbane on 9 October 1951. Olga died on 14 December 1993.

They had two children Ruth Olga (b Brisbane 3 December 1935) and Colin Victor (b 3 June 1939)

iv Rosa Audrey Lipstine was born in Esk, Qld in 1911. She became a trained nurse and lived with her parents until her marriage to Albert Arthur Goward, a Process Engineer, in Brisbane on 21 February 1948. They had no children.

She died in Brisbane on 22 November 1964. He died in 1979.

4. ANNIE LIPSTINE was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1869. In 1917, at the age of 48 she married Jacob Tow, a watchmaker, in Brisbane. He died in 1943 and she died in Brisbane Hospital on 17 August 1947. They had no children.

5. JANE (JANIE) LIPSTINE was born in 1879 in Pimpama, Queensland., was born in 1879 in Rockhampton, Queensland. At the age of 21, on 4 July 1900, she married Herbert Philip Maurice Myers( b abt 1870) in Brisbane. His occupations are listed as a Commercial Traveller (1905) and Merchant (1913).

This article, written by her son, Meredith Simeon Myers, was printed in the Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 30 January 1935 MISS JANIE LIPSTINE Local Artist Recalled

NOW MRS. MYERS OF BRISBANE

Writing from Brisbane with reference the weekly column which the "Morning Bulletin" devoted to the theatrical history of Rockhampton, Mr. M. S. Myers states: In that column about two or three weeks ago, you made mention of the concert in which the name of a then young woman figured, one Janie Lipstine, who was a member of a large and well known family in your town for many years. At the present lime she is residing in Brisbane, and happens to be my mother.

At that time she was a very good and well-known amateur pianist and violinist, who studied her music at the Convent and later under Professor Hage, and she was also connected with amateur productions of plays in the capacity of accompanist.

She is able to recall all of those with whom she was associated, and often remarks on the jolly and happy times she had while she lived in Rockhampton.

Herbert died in Brisbane, at the age of 66 on 20 May 1936 and Jane died, also in Brisbane on 18 January 1949.

Herbert and Jane had two children, both born in Brisbane: Arthur George Stanley Myers (b 2 September 1902) and Meredith Simeon Myers (b Brisbane 1913).

i. Arthur George Stanley Myers (b Brisbane 9 September 1902). His occupation in 1948 listed was as ‘Traveller’. He married Hilda Rosetta de Groen in Brisbane on 9 April 1930. They had two children : Helen Evelyn Myers (b 26 January 1931) and George Benjamin Myers (b 14 December 1934)

ii. Meredith Simeon Myers (b Brisbane 1913). Following in his mother’s footsteps, Meredith became an accomplished pianist who performed at numerous eisteddfods and functions in the Brisbane district.

Meredith married Zelda Ruth Abrahams and between 1954 and at least 1972 they lived at Wavell Heights, Brisbane. Before 1968 his occupation is listed as Bank Clerk and in 1972 ‘Manufacturer’s Agent.’

He died in Brisbane in 1979.

[Adrian Paul]

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