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Position:Home>Genealogy> Does anybody have information on Francis James Hansford.?Question:He lived In Hillside via Bairnsdale Vic Australia. He married Fairy Moon on the 14th April 1930 at the Buchan Caves victoria Australia. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: He lived In Hillside via Bairnsdale Vic Australia. He married Fairy Moon on the 14th April 1930 at the Buchan Caves victoria Australia. www.ancestry.com.au Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936 Name: Francis James Hansford Gender: Male Electoral Year: 1931 State: Victoria District: Gippsland Subdistrict: Bruthen (on the original view, it showed--left to right--"842-Hansford, Francis James-Buchan South-Contractor-M---for 1931). Other listings for the Electoral Rolls: Name: Francis James Hansford Civil: 1914 - Bruthen, Gippsland, Victoria Name: Francis James Hansford Civil: 1924 - Bruthen, Gippsland, Victoria Name: Francis James Hansford Civil: 1936 - Bruthen, Gippsland, Victoria Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936 Name: Fairy Constance Caroline Moon Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1931 State: Victoria District: Gippsland Subdistrict: Bruthen www.ackman.org/journal/67/A%20Caving%2... (about an early 20th century Australian cave explorer, Frank Moon. Need Adobe Reader to view the article. This small bit of 9 pages tells of Frank Hansford's marriage to Fairy Moon. On page 4 of the article is a picture of the wedding couple inside the cave) His eldest daughter, born in 1908, he named Fairy after the Fairy Cave and when she married Buchan cave guide Francis James Hansford on 14 April 1930, the wedding ceremony was conducted by Reverend Albert Ethelbert Clark from Bruthen, in the presence of approximately fifty guests, inside the Fairy Cave in the King’s Chamber, in front of what has since been known as the Crystal Altar. Frank Moon sought special permission from the Committee of Management for this ceremony and to this day it is the only wedding to have been performed in the Buchan caves. In accordance with her father’s wishes, Fairy later named her first-born son Cave. |