4th_generation_descendants_of_thomas_and_nora_m-p

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4th generation descendants of Thomas and Nora M-P

The trail gets murky for Meta Hobbs' and for Eileen Hickson's descendents. We'd love to hear from them and know more!

1. Edwin Murray Barton (Barty) Hobbs' children: No evidence has been found of any children of the marriage of Meta's son Edwin Murray Barton (Barty) Hobbs to Alice Michod in 1938. His earlier marriage in New Zealand to Isabel Devereaux resulted in a son Anthony (Tony) Barton Prior Hobbs (1930-79).1) A newspaper article in 1932, referred to 'Mrs Barton Hobbs' and her young son 'Tony'.2)3) Tony Hobbs grew up to marry Phyllis Marion Watson (?-24 November 2013); after Tony died she remarried. Tony Hobbs was the manager of East Hills (migrant) Hostel, located near Liverpool, Sydney, NSW.4) Tony and Phyllis had two sons.

2. Alice Hobbs' children: Alice married William Robinson. They had a daughter, Meta Jean Sinclair (nee Robinson), 1925-82, and two sons, Arthur West (Polo) Robinson 1922-98, and William Barton Robinson, 1927-71.5) There is a family site on My Heritage, for the Robinson Hobbs Murray-Prior Barton Darvall Families, maintained by Kim Gardner.6) who was 22 years old when she died. He married in 2016. Sue grew up on a property called Mani near Orange in the central west of New South Wales. She met the Leka Zog at a dinner party in Sydney and they married in 1975. She died of lung cancer, spending her two last years living in the Albanian capital Tirana. As Albania had abolished the monarchy, Leka and Susan were titled the King and Queen of the Albanians (cf Albania).
Sue at her first wedding, with her parents.
Her second wedding, with her husband Leka, parents and mother-in-law

Many images of her can be found by googling Susan Cullen-Ward or Queen Susan of Albania or similar. For a recent (January 2024) summary with photos see ABC news online


2)
Sunday Mail , 25 September 1932, p.18.
3)
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4)
Marie McCulloch to Mary McCulloch, 11 August 1999, re family research by Phyllis Sowerby, copy with TA & MT M-P; http://www.migrantweb.com/hostelsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1214&sid=87eba17497ed858a97691761c9b69da6; wp>East_Hills_Hostel
6)
https://records.myheritagelibraryedition.com/research/record-2-52251221/robinson-barton-web-site-in-myheritage-family-sites

==== Hickson descendents ==== Robert (Bob) Rowan Barton Hickson (Eileen Hickson nee M-P) and Edna Hickson had two sons. His brother John Hickson and Lillian Hickson had 3 sons and 2 daughters. ===== Cullen-Ward descendents===== Phyllis (Phyl, nee Murray-Prior) and Alan Cullen-Ward had five children: 1. a daughter b. 22 January 1936; 2. Malcolm David (27 October 1937-March 2020;he married Sandra (Sandy) and had two daughters; 3. Susan Barbara b. 28 January 1941; 4. a son b.30 December 1942; and 5. a daughter b.7 August 1944.
Susan Barbara (1941-2004) was the most prominent of this generation. She married (first) Richard Williams then(secondly)King Leka of the Albanians. She had one son Leka((given the prominence of this family, there is little point in withholding his name even though he is very much alive
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