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Horace Lance Skelton 1879 - 1951

Horace Lance Skelton of Bdale Australia was born in 1879 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire County, England United Kingdom. He was married to Alice Lines Skelton, and had children Lancelot Phillip Skelton and Alicia Victoria Skelton. Horace Skelton died at age 71 years old on May 9, 1951 in Elsternwick, City of Glen Eira County, VIC Australia.

Horace Lance Skelton

Bdale Australia

1879

Gloucester, Gloucestershire County, England, United Kingdom

May 9, 1951

Elsternwick, City of Glen Eira County, VIC, 3185, Australia

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[NAME/SUMMARY] Skelton, Horace Lancelot (1879 ~ 9 May 1951) [NOTE] {🞺} Occupation: Carriage Painter @FamilySearch [BIRTH] {🞺} circa 1879 (9th MAY 1951; AGE 72 @Epitaph) {🞺} 1879 @BurialInfo {🞺} BORN: circa 1879 @DeathRecord {🞺} Can't find VIC birth record {🞺} 1879; Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom @FamilySearch [MARRIAGE] {🞺} Can't find VIC marriage record {🞺} MARRIAGE: Horace Launcelot Skelton to Alice Lines         1902; Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom @FamilySearch [DEATH: ELSTERNWICK] {🞺} 9th MAY 1951; AGE 72 @Epitaph {🞺} 9 May 1951 (this is the service date) @BurialInfo {🞺} VIC B[D]M # 6537/1951; DIED: 1951 (ELSTERNWICK); AGED: 72 years, NAME: Horace Lancelot [SKELTON]; BORN: circa 1879; FATHER: Philip Taylor [SKELTON]; MOTHER: {missing} (maiden name {missing}) {🞺} result of accident @DeathNotice [DEATH NOTICE] {🞺} SKELTON. — On May 9 at Elsternwick; (result of accident), Horace Lancelot; of 11 Ellington Street, Caulflield; South, Dearly loved husband of Alice; (dec) and loved father of Lance (dec.),; Sybil (Mrs Wilson) end Alicia (Mrs; Rout)         Newspaper: The Herald (Melbourne, Vic.); Thu 10 May 1951; Page 6; Family Notices
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- 'trove.nla.gov.au' [FUNERAL NOTICE] {🞺} SKELTON.— The Funeral of the late MR HORACE LANCELOT SKELTON will leave the Bathurst Memorial Chapel, cnr. Glenhuntly and Kooyong Roads, Elsternwick, TOMORROW (Friday), after a service commencing at 11.15 a.m., for the Springvale Crematorium.         T. BATHURST & CO. (late AIF)         LF6337         Newspaper: The Herald (Melbourne, Vic.); Thu 10 May 1951; Page 6; Family Notices
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- 'trove.nla.gov.au' [CHILDREN] {🞺} father of Lance (dec.),; Sybil (Mrs Wilson) end Alicia (Mrs; Rout) @DeathNotice {🞺} @FamilySearch:          }❱} Lancelot Philip Skelton (1903 @Gloucester ~ 1941 @Bairnsdale)
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- 'familysearch.org'         VIC B[D]M # 16586/1941; DIED: 1941 (BAIRNSDALE); AGED: 38 years, NAME: Lancelot Phillip [SKELTON]; BORN: circa 1903 AT: GLOUCESTER ENGLAND; FATHER: Horace Lancelot [SKELTON]; MOTHER: Alice [{missing}] (born LINES)          }❱} Alicia Victoria Rout (born Skelton, 1915 @Victoria ~ Deceased @Victoria)
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- 'familysearch.org'         VIC B[D]M # 23315/1942; DIED: 1942 (HAMILTON); AGED: 63 years, NAME: Alice Victoria [ROUT]; BORN: circa 1879 AT: BALLARAT; FATHER: Frederick [WEBER]; MOTHER: Catherine [{missing}] (born WILLIAMS)         {{Parents are wrong...}}          }❱} Sybil Effie Skelton (1905 @Gloucester ~ Deceased @Victoria)
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- 'familysearch.org'         Barratt, Sybil Effie (born Skelton, 8 Aug 1905 ~ 14 Aug 2007), PreviousSurnames=McDonald
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- 'findagrave.com' [PARENTS] {🞺} FATHER: SKELTON, Philip Taylor @DeathRecord {🞺} @FamilySearch:          }❱} Skelton, Philip Taylor (June 1843 ~ 1929)          }❱} Skelton, Emily (born Nixon, 1843 ~ 1916) [RESIDENCES/Electoral Roll] {🞺} @FamilySearch:          }❱} 1881; Wotton St Mary, Gloucestershire, England          }❱} 1891; Kidderminster Borough, Worcestershire, England          }❱} Mar 31 1901; Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom {🞺} 1951: 11 Ellington Street, Caulfield; @DeathNotice [SAME/CLOSE CEMETERY PLOT AND/OR LIKELY RELATED PEOPLE] {🞺} FATHER:         NAME: Horace Lancelot Skelton; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 11 May 1951; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 1, Rose 17
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- 'findagrave.com' {🞺} MOTHER:         NAME: Alice Skelton; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 25 September 1950; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 1, Rose 17
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- 'findagrave.com' {🞺} DAUGHTER:         NAME: Sybil Effie Barratt; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 1, Rose 17
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- 'findagrave.com' [BURIAL/CREMATION] NAME: Horace Lancelot Skelton; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 11 May 1951; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 1, Rose 17         GRAVE INFORMATION @
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- 'findagrave.com' [MORE INFO] {🞺}
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- 'familysearch.org' {🞺} DUPLICATES:          }❱} Horace Lancelot Skelton          }❱} Horace Lance Skelton [BY: DENNIS BAREIS, 2022-08-22.1621 - for BIOGRAPHY] This information should help you find relatives for your family tree as well as link them into a tree. [EPITAPH/INSCRIPTION] HORACE L. SKELTON 9th MAY 1951 AGE 72 --- SEE GRAVESTONE, MORE BURIAL INFO ETC @
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1879

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1879

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Gloucester, Gloucestershire County, England United Kingdom

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Kew, Australia
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1951

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May 9, 1951

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Elsternwick, City of Glen Eira County, VIC 3185, Australia
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Horace Lance Skelton lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 72.

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In 1879, in the year that Horace Lance Skelton was born, on April 26th, the National Park - later renamed the Royal National Park - the 2nd oldest national park in the world, was formally proclaimed in New South Wales, Australia. It was the first park to have the word "national" in its name.

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In 1885, by the time he was only 6 years old, on June 17th, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. Two hundred thousand people and hundreds of boats greeted the statue. It had to be assembled but that had to wait until the pedestal was completed the following April.

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Horace Lance Skelton 1879 - May 9, 1951

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Alice Lines Skelton