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Lightoller Photographs
The next photo is from Nora M-P's album and labelled 'Mrs Lightoller, 9 September 1879'. Maria Theresa (Minnie) Haly (1854-1911) married Dr Harry Martin Lightoller that year.1) Minnie Haly was Matilda M-P's niece and Thomas B. M-P's aunt as well as future mother-in-law. 2)
Dr Henry Lightoller: Minnie's husband, Dickie's father, and eminent Brisbane doctor though his rigid views of denying women pain relief in childbirth appalled Nora, especially as it applied to his own wife who had a deformed pelvis. Dr Lightoller's father had a large cotton factory in Lancashire. Henry and Minnie Lightoller were “hosts of many social functions at their pretty residence Highlands, in Albion”, Brisbane.3) 4)
Henry and Minnie Lightoller's children were:
1. Charles Haly b.6/9/1880 - d.23/10/1881;
2. George Henry Standish (known as Standish) b. 11/8/1881;
3. Cyril Haly b.27/7/1882- d.18/5/1885;
4. William Claude (known as Claude) b.9/9/1884 - d. 1948;
5. Minnie Rose b.7/5/1886;
6. Lizzie Kate (known as Dickie) b. 29/10/1887.
As seen, two sons died in infancy. Standish Lightoller also became a doctor - he married Isabella, the only daughter of Prof. (later Sir) and Mrs Mungo MacCallum in 1912. His brother Claude was a solicitor who first worked in the firm of Hawthorn & Lightoller of Brisbane, but by 1927 had moved to Sydney. He married widow Barbara Palmer in 1924.5)
The next photo is of Minnie Lightoller and her younger daughter, Minnie Rose, in the 1890s.6)
'Dickie' Lightoller.7)
The two girls in the next photo are probably the sisters, Dickie and Minnie Lightoller.8)
This unidentified photo is perhaps Dickie M-P or Minnie Palmer (nee Lightoller) or their mother. This next photo too looks like one of the Lightoller women.
Can you help to identify them?