FatherMagnus Ferdinand Elchior Riedell b. 1 Jul 1836, d. 2 Jul 1924
MotherCatherina Dorothea Naugardt b. 31 Jan 1843, d. 19 Aug 1908
Pedigree

Birth, Death, Marriage

Lilian Catherina Riedell was born on 16 November 1887 in Shepparton, Victoria.1 
She married Harold William Percival White in 1912 in Tallygaroopna, Victoria.2,3 
She died on 12 July 1979 in Kew, Victoria, at age 91.4,5 

Family

Harold William Percival White
Child

Story

Around 1897, Magnus, Catherina and youngest daughter, nine year old Lillian, moved to Melbourne to live. Lilian had finished at the one-roomed Congupna school and continued her education in Melbourne.

In a 1975 letter to her family, Lilian said it was a bit of a lonely time coming from a big household in the country to be only three in the big city. After about four years, Catherina bought a nearby property and built a spacious house. They were not there long as Catherina's health began to fail. So they built yet another house, this time in Tallygaroopna where Minna and Anna and their families lived.6
Magnus Riedell family home, Tallygaroopna
Image: Tallygaroopna Times & Tales 1990

Citations

  1. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, Lillian Catherina 'Reidell' entry, birth registration no. 6868, 1887.
  2. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Harold Wm Percival' White and 'Lilian Cath' Riedell entry, marriage registration no. 3174, 1912.
  3. [S220] 'Marriages: White-Riedell', The Argus, 1848-1957, newspaper, Argus Office, 27 April 1912, p. 13, viewed 25 January 2019, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11671077
  4. [S474] Magnus Riedell & Catherina Naugardt, family history, 1999.
  5. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, 'Lilian Catherine' White entry, death registration no. 16080, 1979.
  6. [S89] The Riedell Family, letter, 1975.