Muriel Grace May WARREN (1915-1943)

Family Stories > 4th GENERATION > Charles Warren's Family > Linden M. Warren's Family

1. Muriel Grace May Warren

1. Nola Irene Warren

2. .... George Ernest Edward Warren & Iris Ella Ford

3. .... .... Leonard Leslie Warren & Burdett Launder

4. .... .... ... Charles James Warren and Elizabeth (Agnes) McNay

... Children - 1. Mabel May Warren & Robert Darlington Buckley
2. Myrtle May Warren
3. Clifford James Warren & Myrtle Mary Young
4. Charles Victor Warren & Lily May Eastwood
5. Linden Melville Warren & Grace Aimers & Annie Veronica Murphy
... Children 1. Muriel Grace May Warren

2. Dorothy Enid May Warren
3. Michael Joseph Warren
4. Dorothy Bernadette Warren
5. Patricia Mary Warren
6. Helen Maureen Warren

6. Leonard Leslie Warren
7. Ivy Olive Warren
8. Carol Vera (Catherine) Warren
9. Lloyd Loch Warren
10. Vera Loveday Warren

MURIEL GRACE MAY WARREN

Birth 1915 at Park Street, Brunswick, Victoria

Father Linden Melville Warren

Mother Grace Aimers

Death 1943, September at Victoria

Burial Fawkner Cemetery, Victoria

After Linden’s divorce from his first wife, Grace Aimers, Linden’s daughter, Muriel, aged 9 years went to live with Linden and his second wife. But not for long. Shortly afterwards, Muriel was placed in a convent in Bendigo to live with the nuns where she was employed as a housemaid and laundry-maid. Even after Muriel became an adult, she was forced to continue to live at the convent where she did all the laundry and other chores.

My mother, Iris Ella Warren, nee Ford told me about Muriel. She said that Muriel was allowed to leave the convent to visit her family in Melbourne for a day now and then and she visited my mother and also my auntie, Muriel Irene Warren, nee Ford (mum’s sister, known as Rene). My mother said that Muriel could starch and iron clothes like no other person she knew – with such skill and expertise. No matter how hard my mother tried, she could never achieve the same results as Muriel with the laundry.

Eventually, Muriel escaped the convent and went to live with her uncle, Leonard Leslie Warren and his wife, Burdett, nee Launder at 97 Flinders Street, Thornbury (my grandparents).

Unfortunately, pressure from her parents and the nuns and priests became too much for her and Muriel felt she would never be free to live her own life, so rather than go back to the convent, while she was visiting my auntie, Muriel Irene Warren, she committed suicide in 1943 aged 28 years by taking an overdose of aspirin. This is family hearsay as I have not been able to obtain a copy of an inquest into her death.

1943 – Death – Muriel Grace May Warren

Name:                                            Muriel Grace May Warren
Birth Year:                                    abt 1915
Age:                                                28
Death Place:                                Victoria
Father's Name:                           Linden Melville Warren
Mother's Name:                         Annie Veronica Murphy
Registration Year:                      1943
Registration Place:                     Victoria
Registration Number:                9701
Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

1943 – Funeral – Muriel Grace May Warren

WARREN. —
Requiem Mass for the Repose of the Soul of the late Miss MURIEL GRACE MAY WARREN will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church. Preston. THIS DAY, at S a.m.

The Funeral l will leave the church at 10 a.m. for the Fawkner Cemetery. T. BATHURST and Co. Caulfield.

Age (Melbourne, Vic. 1854 - 1954), Monday 13 September 1943