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Biography - Graham Family

Graham, William John Wignall
135 Farrell Street 1935-1958 Property

William was a cordial manufacturer. He married Millicent Sawyer. Their son Eric Wignall was born about 1916 in Devonport, Tasmania.

After they moved to Port Melbourne Eric married Vera Olive Hewitt, a tailoress, who had been born in Port Melbourne. Eric was a clicker one of the trades in the shoe manufacturing business long since obsolete.

The marriage of Eric and Vera was in Port Melbourne 16 August 1941. Later Eric worked as a government employee and later still as a soldier. They had two children:

Jeffrey Alan born 11 October 1942, Jeffrey married Dorothy and had one daughter Michelle Louise Graham born in 1962.

Glenda Joy born 20 June 1944. Glenda married John Lingrad Riddle in Goldalming Surrey, England in April 1966.