Thomas Howard LAUNDER (1880-1963)

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9. Thomas Howard Launder (1880 - 1963)

Spouse : Daisy Caroline Ormond (1880 - 1956)

1. Nola Irene Warren

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

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

4. .... .... .... Roberts Launder & Mary Burdett Salisbury

5. .... .... .... .... George William Launder & Sarah Gardiner (Roberts)

... Children - 1 Eleanor Ann Launder & John Collins

2 William Launder & Sarah Moody

3 George Launder & Jane Walker
4 Sarah Launder & William Smith

5 Thomas Howard Launder & Emily Wood
... Children 1. Emily Launder & John Herbert Creese

                2. Alice Kath Launder
                    3. Arthur Thomas Launder
                    4. Herbert Thomas Launder & Ellen Theresa Nolan
                    5. Ernest Arthur Launder & Ellen Mary Ursula Gissane
                    6. Horace Percival Launder & Caroline Elizabeth Evans
                    7. Eva Kate Launder
                    8. Edith Kate Launder
                    9. Thomas Howard Launder & Daisy Caroline Ormond
                    10. Ada Amelia Launder
                    11. Percy Albert Launder
6 Amy Launder

7 Jane Launder
8 Roberts Launder
9 Harold James Launder
10 Mary Ann Launder
11 Unnamed Female Launder

Thomas Howard Launder and Daisy Caroline Ormond

Thomas Howard Launder

Born                 1880, June 23 in Hotham East, Victoria
Father              Thomas Howard Launder
Mother              Emily Wood

Married            1904 in North Melbourne
Spouse             Daisy Caroline Ormond

Born    1880, July 18 in Footscray
Died   1956 in Camberwell, Victoria

Residence       Ballarat Road, Footscray (opposite Footscray Park)

Travel              1935, August - Various in including from Southampton, UK Via Quebec, Canada
                                  on route to Melbourne Australia

Death 1963, June 24 in Hawthorn

Children 1. John Pedley Howard Launder

Born    1906 in Footscray
Father Thomas Howard Launder
Mother Daisy Caroline Ormond

Married 1930, February 8
Spouse Grace Stewart Browse (1908 - C2009)

Died     1978 in Fitzroy

Children    1. Judith Stewart Launder

Born 1934, October 4
Father John Pedley Howard Launder
Mother Grace Stewart Browse

Married
Spouse Michael Lawrence

2. Bessie Myrtle Launder

Born 1909 in Footscray
Father Thomas Howard Launder
Mother Daisy Caroline Ormond

Married 1934, March 3
Spouse Ernest Wharton Braithwaite (1905 - 1981)

Death 2005, June 28 in Melbourne

Children 1. Margaret Caroline Braithwaite

Born 1936, November 8
Father Ernest Wharton Braithwaite
Mother Bessie Myrtle Launder

Spouse Hugh Desmond Batten

2. Peter Wharton Braithwaite
Born 1941, June 15
Father Ernest Wharton Braithwaite
Mother Bessie Myrtle Launder

Spouse Suzanne Caroline Martin

Launder's Furniture Store

Thomas managed a highly successful furniture store in Footscray that has since been replace with a supermarket. In 1955, the store was burnt out, but was soon restored to full operation.

Thomas and his wife, Daisy, lived for a long time in Ballarat Road, opposite Footscray Park. His son, Jack, ran a branch of the furniture store in Ivanhoe.

The family owned a seaside week-end house at Mentone.

1919 - The Right Spirit - Mr. T.H. Launder's Gratitude

Mr. Thomas H. Howard, one of Footscray's leading business men, has on numerous occasions given convincing proof of his regard for and gratitude towards returned sailors and soldiers. On every occasion since the troopships began to bring men back from the war zones he has been on the pier with his car to take the boys to their homes. In dozens of other ways he has helped Australia's fighting men and their families.

At the general meeting of the RSSAILA held on Wednesday last, the secretary announced that Mr. Launder had offered a piece of land between the Federal Hall and Hooper's workrooms in Nicholson Street as a site for the Memorial Hall for the sum of 1,000 pounds. The piece of land is worth considerably more than this, and in letting it go at the figure mentioned Mr. Launder is making a considerable concession.

Further than this, he has promised 500 pounds towards the building fund. There are many men in the district who can afford to give quite as generously as Mr. Launder, and if they were possessed of his appreciative spirit, the boys would soon have their hall.

Source:P http://www.trove.nla.gov.au

1924 - Sailing to United States

Thomas Launder, his wife, Daisy, his 18 year old son, Jack Pedley and his daughter, 14 years, Bessie, sailed on HMS "Tahiti" leaving Sydney on February 28, 1924, headed to the United States.

Their destination on this trip was London.

1935 - Sailing to Canada

Sailing on SS "Empress of Britain", Thomas and his wife, Daisy, sailed from Southhampton on August 10, 1935, arriving at Quebec on
August 15, 1935.

They were in transit to Australia via Niagara, Vancouver.

Their son J.P.H. Launder was listed as their nearest relative of 4 Sunnyside Avenue, Camberwell

1937 - Sailing to New York

Sailing on SS "Queen Mary" they left England on their way to New York, arriving September 20, 1937.