I've gone way back to 1970 with the passenger card of WW leaving Aust and the hand writing with the circles over the letter I's and the swirls in the letter B's - VERY similar hand to the Departure passenger card of
Fredi David in 1971.
The incoming passenger card of
FredY David 1971 in a different hand, and his address of 59 Dolphin Cresent Whale Beach.
59 Whale Beach - the address he gives for his 3 month stay is an address that belongs to the Penney Family - a long line of Anabaptists.
James Penney married Edna Poole in NSW. She was a teacher as was one of her sons .
One of their sons J.( a clerk) and his wife are living at this address also when FD arrives.
3 years earlier in May 1968, a year before WW arrives in Aust there is a job advertisment placed using the same address .
trove.nla.gov.au
In 1970 another son M. ( born 1936) resigns from teaching.
In February 1997 Edna Penney - retired school teacher - dies and is buried in Leura, Blue Mountains -
was she also teaching in the blue mountains at one time?
So many teachers in this saga!
Could it be Marion and Edna crossed paths during their teaching career in the Blue Mountains and a connection to RB as he is known today, was made through the funeral of Edna Penney?
Is this why MB chose the name Florabella? A connection to a lady both knew for different reasons?
2012 - M. Penney son, living at 59 Dolphin Cresent Whale Beach.