Eleanor Mildred WELLS (1878-1968) - Warren and Ford Family History

Born      June 3, 1911 in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria

Father  Ernest William Upton

Mother  Eleanor Mildred Wells

Death    April 10, 1941 at Tobruc in WW1

Age at Death  29 years

Burial  Tobruk, Al Butnan, Libya

2.  Winifred Maud Upton

Born         1916

Father  Ernest William Upton

Mother  Eleanor Mildred Wells

Married    1951

Spouse    Ernest Glanfield

Death       1983, May at Preston, Victoria

Age at Death  67 years

Buried       Preston Cemetery

Name                        Eleanor Mildred Upton

Gender                     Female

Role                         Petitioner Divorce

Age                          33

Birth Date                abt 1882

Birth Place               Brasted, Kent, England

Marriage Date         2 Jul. 1910

Marriage Place       South Melbourne, Victoria

Court Date              1915

Divorce Date          1915

Divorce Place         Victoria, Australia

Spouse                   Ernest William Upton

Case No                 62

Source - in the Victoria, Australia, Divorce Records, 1860-1940

AN INVETERATE DRUNKARD.

Wife Tells of Her Tribulations.

Eleanor Mildred Upton, 33, of Hotham street, Preston, pleaded desertion as the ground of her application for divorce from her husband, Ernest William Upton, 53, of unknown parts—an address peculiar to re-spondents in like position.

The petitioners was a tale of long suffering, Upton, who was a boiler maker by trade, was an inveterate drunkard. He lost position after position, and time and again she begged his reinstatement. She interceded for him at Newport several times, and at the Austral Otis works over and over again, and each time he betrayed the confidence she had induced others to place in him.

More than that, he deliberately "went on the drunk," refusing to be sober, and declaring his intention to go the whole hog. And he certainly was a hog. Once she clad him in a new suit of clothes, towards the cost of which her mother had contributed, and he went away consumed with thirst, and returned in rags that stank so frightfully, she employed the tongs to convey them to the copper. He was so confirmed in his drinking habits that she arranged for his transfer to the Lara Institute from which he escaped twice, and was at length told be would not be tolerated any more.

After that petitioner and her mother gave him several more chances to reform, but though he took the pledge again and again, he invariably broke it in a few minutes, and returned to them in a most pronounced state of intoxication. Finally to their mutual relief, he took him-self off, and had not been seen for several years.

The suit being undefended, his Honor granted a decree nisi.

Truth (Melbourne ed.) (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Saturday 22 May 1915, page 6

UPTON, Pte Ernest George, VX.2234, A.I.F. 9 Div. Petrol Coy. Australian Army Service Corps.

10th April, 1941.  Age 29.  Son of Ernest William and Eleanor Mildred Upton, of Richmond, Victoria, Australia

Coll. grave 3, K.1-13.

Source - UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947

1939-1947  -  Libya  -  Tobruk War Cemetery Part 2 (Lac-Zul)

Name                                   Eleanor Mildred Upton

Death Registration Date     1968

Death Registration Place   Victoria, Australia

Father                                George Wells

Mother                               Launder

Reference Number            28391

Source - Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1840-1992