Lovell Glendower Tresham

Lovell Glendower Tresham (I have located his existing military records as he ended up in Aust in the AIF 8th Div RAE, taken in the fall of Singapore, Changi, worked on the Burma death railway then torpedoed and killed by US submarine Sealion in 1944; (the Rakuyo Maru incident). He was born: 4 may 1906 GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHELTENHAM as Lovell Glendower Smith.

I'm not sure when or how he came to be in Australia but have located him on the electrol roles from 1930 (wollongoing) and 1936 (north Qld). He married Stella Burton in 1944 (she was born in Thrapston Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK and came to Aust in 1917).

Olive Elizabeth Smith

My Great grandmother is a mystery. She claimed to be a number of people over her lifetime and it is clear that she could not have been them all. She could play piano rather well, read tarot cards from a normal deck and also claimed to be a gypsy on occasion. In 1915 her identity fractures, something happens and she starts taking on other peoples identities.

She had a son in 1906, Lovell Glenddower Tresham (Birth surname is Smith, 4 may 1906 GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHELTENHAM); he was the son of Jack Tresham. He ends up in Australia at least as early as 1930 (Wollongong), 1936 (Qld) and in 1940 he marries Stella Burton (born 1902 aprox in Thrapston Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK), she came to Australia in 1917. Lovell Glendower Tresham joined the AIF 8th Div RAE, taken prisoner in the fall of Singapore, he is inturned into Changi, and worked on the Burma death railway, finally being shipped to Japan in 1944 he was torpedoed and killed by US submarine Sealion (Rakuyo Maru incident).

In 1920 (18th October) she had a daugter Maud Olive Millard (whose fathers identity is the crux of this mystery in many ways, her birth certificate lists him as William Millard, a civil servant of Beach Grove, Durban, South Africa), but her mother insisted to her as a child that her father was really a William Ross of Durban South Africa. Maud Olive was not aware of her brother until 1940 when her mother recieved a letter from him telling her that he was getting married and that he had enlisted.

Olive Elizabeth had another daughter around 1926 Patricia Marcia Millard (whose father was Joseph Caldwell, A captain in the Royal Lancers in WW1, and who ran out on his own wife (the daughter of his commanding officer) and 2-3 Daughters to be with her).

He took the name Millard and they departed to Calgary Alberta Canada and West Vancover eventually.

Olive Elizabeth Smith died in New Zealand around 1976 and her ashes rest at Tata Beach Takaka.

Olive Elizabeth Smith claimed to be born:

Eliza Daughter of James Smith an iron miner of Ruffett Littledean RSD Gloster UK
21 Jul 1884 Birth Certificate BB537898
Note: She used this certificate to obtain the Canadian Pension Plan

But I belive this to is a lie...

Her real birth is probably:

Birth 1888 Jul-Aug-Sep 1888 Birth
Note: Name: Olive Elizabeth Smith
Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 241


Residence

1891 High ST, Mitchedean, Gloucestershire, England

Elizabeth Goode abt 1821 Mitchedean, Gloucestershire, England Head
Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire

Rhoda [SMITH] Goode abt 1869 Mitchedean, Gloucestershire, England
Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire

Olive Smith abt 1889 Mitchedean, Gloucestershire, England
Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire

1901 Vine cottage
Elizabeth Goode abt 1821 Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England Head
Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire
Henry Goode abt 1846 Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England Son Mitcheldean,
Gloucestershire
Olive Smith abt 1889 Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England
Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire

1906 GLOUCESTERSHIRE, CHELTENHAM
Birth of Son Lovell Glendower Tresham

Identity Theft 14 Dec 1914 Olive Beale to Samuel Millard
Note: Name: Samuel Millard
Name: Olive Beale
Year of Registration: 1914
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's Surname: Millard
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 624
Probably used by Olive Elisabeth Smith to gain a pension or some such. Believe
this is part of her identity theft

Residence 1920 Beachhouse, Beach Grove, Durban South Africa
Conceived and had a child to a William Ross of Durban South Africa

Residence 1920 Southend on Sea, England, UK
Birth of Daughter Maud Olive McNamara (nee Millard) almost born in South Africa (her mother told her as a child)

Residence 1928 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Note: Moves to Canada 1928 aprox assumed as Granny describes Pat walking on the
ship (2-3 years of age)
Moves to Canada with J.C (Joseph Caldwell)

Residence 1940 West Vancover, BC, Canada