Name: Ada Ethel Bruce

Date of Birth: 16th  January 1887

Birth Location: Capel, Western Australia

Maiden Name: Ada Ethel Hutton

Also Known As:

Age at Burial: 88 years

Date of Death: 27 May 1975

Death Location: Busselton Hospital, Western Australia

Date of Burial: 30 May 1975

Denomination: Anglican section D

Row/Grave: Row 5, Grave #47

Grave Transcription:

In Loving Memory of

ADA

Beloved Wife of ARTHUR (DEC)

Loved Mother of ARTHUR, CLARENCE, DOREEN, ETHEL

GWEN, SYLVIA, BEAT, CECIL, KEITH, RON & THELMA

Born 1887. Died 27th May 1975

Rest In Peace

Father:

John James Hutton, born 31st December 1854, Busselton, Western Australia.  Died 10th August 1936, Capel, Western Australia. Buried Capel Cemetery, Anglican Section D, Row 4, Grave #40.

Married 26th January 1876, Picton, Western Australia.

Mother:

Ann Alice Jackson, born 8th October 1855, Bunbury, Western Australia. Died 4th January 1905, Capel, Western Australia. Buried Capel Cemetery, Anglican Section D, Row 4, Grave #39

Grandparents (father):

Haycock James Hutton (James) born 1798, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Died 13th December 1865, Busselton, Western Australia.

Married 24th January 1850, York, Western Australia.

Elizabeth Churchill, born 1830, London. Died 31st August 1917, Capel, Western Australia.

Grandparents (mother):

Thomas Pavia Jackson, born abt 1819, England. Died 25th November 1885, Bunbury, Western Australia.

Married 5th April 1852, Bunbury, Western Australia.

Catherine Lyons, born 1834, London, England.  Died 19th November 1929, Bunbury, Western Australia.

Siblings:

William Walter Hutton, born 1877 in Balingup, Western Australia.  Died 13 November 1972, buried Capel Cemetery, Anglican A, Row 3, Grave 20. Married Bertha Fanny Christine Payne, born 1877 in Vasse District, Western Australia. Died 12 November 1962, buried Capel Cemetery, Anglican A, Row 3, Grave 21.

John Thomas Hutton, born 1878, Blackwood District, Western Australia. Died 22 October 1948, Carnarvon, Western Australia. Married Catherine Sophia McCaffrey, 1882–1907.

Catherine Bertha Hutton, born 1880 Blackwood District, Western Australia. Died 7th August 1953, Perth Western Australia. Married Thomas George Warner, 1874-1957.

George William Hutton, born 1882 Blackwood District. Died 6th May 1962, Perth, Western Australia.  Married Louisa May Weiner, 1893-1958.

Charles Henry Hutton, born 1884 Blackwood District/Greenbushes, Western Australia.  Died 12th February 1959, Perth, Western Australia. Married Gwladys Lila Griffiths, 1897-1964.

Jane Matilda Hutton, born 1889 Capel, Western Australia. Died 1965, Perth, Western Australia. Married Reginald Leonard Cavanagh.

Clarence Edward Hutton, born 1891, Capel, Western Australia. Died 19th August 1915 KIA – Gallipoli

Beatrice Ellen Hutton, born 1894, Capel, Western Australia.  Died 1975, Carlisle, Western Australia.  Married Hector Baile.

Cecil Leonard Hutton, born 1899, Capel, Western Australia.  Died 3rd October 1972, Nedlands, Western Australia.  First Marriage – Robina Peden. Second Marriage – Mary Agnes Polhill.

Spouse: Arthur Bruce, born 1886, Jarrahdale, Western Australia.  Died 8th December 1962, Boulder, Western Australia. Buried Karrakatta Cemetery.  Son of Eugene Bruce and Ellen Spencer

Married in Bunbury 1906

Children:

Arthur James Bruce, born 29th October 1906, Bunbury, Western Australia.  Died 18th September 1936, Busselton Government Hospital, Western Australia. Buried Nannup Cemetery.  Married Pearl Agnes Cowley in Busselton 1936.

Clarence William Bruce, born 1908, Bunbury, Western Australia. Died 8th September 1869, Perth, Western Australia. Buried Karrakatta Cemetery.   Married Violet Amy Brand.

Doreen May Bruce, born 13th April 1911, Bunbury, Western Australia.  Died 21st May 1994, South Perth, Western Australia. Buried Karrakatta Cemetery.  Married Joseph Albert Kolin.

Ethel Bruce, born 1912, Bunbury, Western Australia. Died 1912 Bunbury, Western Australia. Aged 3 weeks.

Gwendoline Gladys Bruce, born 1913, Katanning, Western Australia. Died 14th July 1982, Wembley, Western Australia. First Marriage – John Victor Logan, Second Marriage – Henry Gibson Hope.

Sylvia Irene Bruce, born 3rd March 1917, Donnybrook, Western Australia. Died 17th December 1997, Perth, Western Australia.  Married John Edward Ellis.

Beatrice Ellen Bruce, born 1919, Bunbury, Western Australia. Died 5th December 1998, Busselton, Western Australia. Married Walter Henry James Waterhouse.

Cecil Leonard Bruce, born 31st May 1921, Bunbury, Western Australia.  Died 1st April 1945, New Guinea, Service Number: WX30502.   Married Elsie Ada Irene Burton.

Keith Albert Bruce, born 13th October 1923, Nannup, Western Australia. Died 28th July 1994, Roma, Queensland.  Married Florence Lorna King.

Ronald Ernest Bruce, born 1926.   Died 1926, aged 3 months. Buried Nannup Cemetery.

Thelma Mavis Bruce, born 1929, Western Australia.  Died 5th September 1995, Rockingham Hospital, Western Australia.  Married Charles William Bird.

Occupation: Home duties

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