Evelyn Mabel Lockwood

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Her education took place in the New South Wales state education system in schools located at Kogarah, Bexley, Leichhardt, Greystanes and Merrylands. Evlyn completed her formal education at the age of 14 and became a member of the workforce through an Apprenticeship with Henderson Hats of Sydney, as a Straw Machinist.
Evlyn stayed with Henderson Hats for four years while she completed her apprenticeship even though she was never happy in the Millinery field. Shortly after the completion of her apprenticeship Evlyn resigned from Henderson Hats and obtained a position with the Grace Bros organisation where she began working in the Dissecting Office. A later move within the organisation saw Evlyn become a Cashier in the Tool Department.
The couple had only one child, Laurel Evlyn Little, who was born at Lidcombe, New South Wales, on Thursday 27th February 1930. After Laurel was born the family moved to live with the Little family at Marrickville for a short time before they obtained a flat of their own. This was not a happy union and Evlyn and Bob separated and were later divorced. After the couple separated Evlyn took daughter Laurel and moved to Brisbane in Queensland.
In 1936 while Evlyn and Harold Shaw were living in Toowoomba, Queensland when their twins, Kenneth Sydney and Rosemary Shaw were born on Wednesday 10th June 1936. Not long after this Evlyn and Harold separated and Evlyn was left to raise the children on her own. She did this while moving around the country and finding work in various places. One of the main reasons for moving around was that Kenneth suffered from Asthma and Evlyn was trying to find somewhere that the climate was right for him.
This place turned out to be the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales and to this end Evlyn spent some years in this area working at the Niagara Beautiful and Savoy Coffee Lounges, both located in Katoomba, where she met a lot of interesting people and to use her own words "enjoyed her life immensely". At one point in time Evlyn managed a guest house in Waratah Street, Katoomba and was responsible for the Catering for the Blackheath Golf Club and the Katoomba Bowling Club at other times.
When Evlyn left the bowling club she gained employment in a hardware and china shop where she learned the art of window dressing. After leaving here Evlyn purchased a kiosk at Gordon Falls, in the Blue Mountains area where she stayed for some years selling to the locals and tourists alike. It was during this time that Evlyn met the man she was later to marry.
Evlyn and Harry were married, in a ceremony at the Parsonage attached to the Harris Park Methodist Church on Friday 24th February 1956. In 1962 when Harry retired from the Blue Mountains City Council, the couple sold up and left the Mountains after buying a property at Laurieton, on the New South Wales North Coast.
The couple spent many years here, which to again quote Aunt Evlyn were "the happiest of my life". Later on the couple sold the house at Laurieton and purchased a retirement unit sited at Gannons Road, Caringbah, New South Wales. It was while they were living here that Harry passed away in 1980.
Evlyn remained at Caringbah for some time after Harry passed away and spent quite a lot of her time, travelling around to various parts of the statevisiting friends and family members until her death in 1991.
Quoted from the Web site of Keith and Margaret Collier

Evelyn married Living

Evelyn next married Henry William Symonds on 24 Feb 1956 in Harris Park Methodist Church, Nsw, Australia.⁷¹ (Henry William Symonds was born on 22 Jul 1887 in West Maitland, Nsw, Australia,⁷¹ died on 9 Nov 1980 in Caringbah, Nsw, Australia ⁷¹ and was buried in Katoomba Council Chambers, under the rose bushes. ⁷¹.)