![]() ![]() The family moved to Brisbane and three more children were born. The Wildings lived for a time in a tent at Kingaroy while Frank worked on peanut-farms, earning 'government relief'. In 1936 the business failed and they lost their money. Reaching North Queensland, the brothers leased land on Long Island, near Proserpine, and invested all their funds in a banana-growing venture. ![]() They broke their journey in Burma, where they were joined by Frank's brother Harry. Next year their first child was born at Portsmouth and, shortly after, the family migrated to Australia, taking with them the proceeds of the sale of a Wilding family inheritance. She had met Frank when he delivered milk to the convent at which she was employed as housemaid. On 18 July 1932 at St Colman's Catholic Church, Cosham, Portsmouth, she married Francis James Wilding, a milk roundsman. Orphaned at the age of 11, 'Joyce' was sent to a convent. Winifred Doris (Joyce) Wilding (1909-1978), community worker, was born on 3 January 1909 at Portswood, Southampton, England, daughter of Job Henry Harman, army pensioner, and his wife Sarah Florence, née Minty. ![]()
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