FatherEdward Patrick Milovitch b. 26 Feb 1872, d. 9 Jun 1929
MotherMary Reid b. 22 Dec 1879, d. 22 May 1950
Pedigree

Birth, Death, Marriage

Gertrude Ann 'Toti' Milovitch was born on 9 October 1914 in Mooroopna, Victoria.1,2 
She married George Sloper in 1934.3 
She died on 4 December 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria, at age 82.4 

Family

George Sloper
Children
ChartsMilovitch, Thomas, descendant chart

Story

Gertrude Ann Milovitch is one of nine children, and the youngest of four girls.
 
Nellie (Ellen Agnes), Vincent Patrick, Bub (Peter Maurice, back), Mary (Reid) with Toti (Gertrude Ann), Korizo, Thomas & Paddy (Edward Patrick) Milovitch, c. 1916
Image: Jeanette Henderson
The birth of 'Annie' Milovitch was registered three months after the start of the First World War. She is still known as Annie in her 1927 school enrolment.1,5
 
In a Milovitch family bible, she is Gertrude Ann, and this is the name used on her marriage registration and her father's probate documents.2,3,6
 
To relatives who spoke of her, she was 'Toti'.7,8,9,10
 
In 1927, Annie Milovitch is shown as commencing at St Brendan's primary school in Shepparton.5
 
Toti worked for a time at Shepparton Fruit Preserving Co (later SPC). In 1933, while attending the cannery ball in the Paramount Dance Palais, Toti and Mr Lawley won a competition prize for their cap dance.11
 
Marriage and Family
George Sloper and Gertrude Ann Milovitch married in 1934.

They had six children, three boys and three girls.3
 
Toti had met George while working in the Mooroopna cafe run by her cousin and his wife, Bill and Mag O'Connell.9
 
She helped with the large and growing family of her brother and his wife, Thomas and Doreen Milovitch.7
 
Toti died in Mooroopna aged 81 or 82.4
 

Citations

  1. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Annie' Milovitch entry, birth registration no. 33633, 1914.
  2. [S241] Treasury of Catholic Doctrine, family bible, 1919.
  3. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Geo Leo' Sloper and 'Gert'e Ann' Milovitch entry, marriage registration no. 11794, 1934.
  4. [S21] Lorraine Phillips, personal communication, 6 December 1996.
  5. [S165] History of St Brendan's Primary School 1891-1991, St Brendan's Centenary History Committee, 1991, p. 69.
  6. [S394] 'Edward Patrick Milovitch', VPRS 28 Probate and Administration Files, no. 292/921, probate, 14 February 1938.
  7. [S82] Jeanette Henderson, personal communication, 5 February 2013.
  8. [S73] Iris Clark, personal communication, 31 July 1996.
  9. [S80] Ken Haddock, personal communication, 4 March 2001.
  10. [S21] Lorraine Phillips, personal communication, 5 August 1996.
  11. [S201] 'News and Notes: Cannery ball', Shepparton Advertiser, 1914-1953, newspaper, Thomas Pettit and William Callender, 24 April 1933, p. 4, viewed 12 November 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168642939