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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.