Daisy (Mayfield) Netterfield (1894 - 1969)

Born 24 Dec 1894 in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Wife of Richard Travis Netterfield — married 25 Feb 1919 in Queensland, Australia

Died 30 Apr 1969 at age 74 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Daisy (Mayfield) Netterfield was born in the Colony of New South Wales (1788-1900)

Daisy was born in 1894. She passed away in 1969.

On the 16 May 1917, Nurse Daisy Mayfield of the General Hospital, Maryborough Qld wrote :

To the Secretary

Dear Sir

As I have not had any mail from my brother, No 6218, Cpl. F. W. Mayfield, 15th Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade, A.I.F., B company, for some considerable time, I am anxious of his whereabouts.

If you could, supply me with any information whatever, I would be very much obliged.

Trusting you will favour me with same.

Thanking you in anticipation.

I am Yours faithfully,

(Nurse) Daisy Mayfield

General Hospital, Maryborourgh, Queensland

In reply to her letter, the Officer in charge of Base Records on 25May1917, informed that her brother was officially reported to be missing since 11Apr1917 and that "this message was sent to the Military Commandant, Brisbane, on 8May1917 for transmission to the soldier's mother, whose address is recorded as Wetheron, Gayndah, Q."

However on the 13Nov1917 a note was made in base records that advised Frank had been Killed In Action on 11Apr1917. He had died 5 days after his 21st birthday - still 7 months younger than he had attested at his enlistment. ^[1]

Timeline

->1894 Birth @ Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Birth Registration #7838/1895 of Daisy MAYFIELD, child of Walton (father) and Ada E (mother), on 24Dec1894, registration district: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.^[2]

->1919 Marriage @ , country, Queensland, Australia

Richard Trovis Netterfield and Daisy Mayfield were married on 25Feb1919. The Queensland marriage index (Reg#1919/C/231) also lists the registration district as being , country, Queensland, Australia.^[3]

• Residence (1918) "Oakvale", Wetherton, via Gayndah, Queensland, Australia
• Residence (1925) "Oakvale", Wetherton, via Gayndah, Queensland, Australia
• Residence (1949) "Oakvale", Wetherton, via Gayndah, Queensland, Australia
• Residence (1954) 66 Torquay Road, Scarness, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia
• Residence (1968) "Wahroonga", Neptune Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

->1969 Death @ Wahroonga Nursing Home, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

Daisy Netterfield died on 30Apr1969. The Queensland death index (Reg#1969/C/2627) also lists father as Walton Mayfield, mother as Ada Emma Cooley, with the registration district as being , country, Queensland, Australia.^[3]

->1969 Burial @ Mon-O Plot-289, Maryborough Cemetery, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

Below is a table of the register details of those buried in Monumental O Plot 289, at the Maryborough Cemetery, Walker Street & Bruce Highway, Maryborough, Queensland:-^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ National Archives of Australia, Military Service Records, Online repository https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8030428 accessed 13Mar2022
2. ↑ 'Births Search Results BROKEN HILL', Government of New South Wales, Justice, Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, online repository https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search Accessed 01Feb2021, Reg.#7838/1895
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} 'Birth Death and Marriage indexes.' Qld Govt Search Historical Records, https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/ Accessed 01Feb2021.
4. ↑ Fraser Coast Regional Council, online deceased search https://www.frasercoast.qld.gov.au/cemeteries-online
5. ↑ Daisy Netterfield (unknown-1969) - Find a Grave Memorial on Find A Grave: Memorial #193668547 retrieved 13 March 2022

• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestrylibrary.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/81998316/person/162048050109/facts : accessed 14 March 2022), profile for Daisy Mayfield.
• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/8886751/person/-185087791/facts : accessed 1 February 2021), profile for Daisy Mayfield.