All information on this family was supplied by Wendy Taylor - 1994
Mary Wain says that Emily used to mind children at Southport and that is where she met Thomas.
VALE MRS EMILY WAIN.
The sudden death of Mrs Emily Louisa Wain of Nerang St Southport, came as a great shock to her family and numerous friends, who believed she was recovering from her recent illness.
Mrs Wain, who was 84 years of age had lived in Southport since her marriage here in 1888 (sic). Until her death, she was well known as a keen gardener, and her garden was always a blaze of colour. She is survived by her husband who is 90 years of age, and ten of her eleven children (six sons and five daughters). Those living are Daisy (Mrs Gilby, Brisbane), Ethel (Mrs Flitcroft, Stanthorpe), Arthur (Sydney), Joseph (Brisbane), William (Southport), Mary (Mrs Tarbit, Melbourne), Mabel (Mrs Leppien, Southport), Leonard (Southport), and Roy (Marborough). Emily (Mrs Harper, Nambour) pre-deceased her mother by eleven years.
After a short and impressive service at the Southport Methodist Church of which Mrs Wain had been a member for so long, the funeral moved to the Southport Cemetery attended by a very representative gathering of mourners.
FUNERAL NOTICE - South Coast Bulletin 4th June 1954.
WAIN. Relatives and friends of Mr Thomas Wain and Family, of Nerang St, Southport are invited to attend the Funeral of his dearly beloved Wife, and their Mother, Mother-in-Law, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, Emily Louisa WAIN, to leave the Methodist Church, Southport, after service commencing at 2 pm. Tomorrow Saturday, for the Southport Cemetery.
Southport Funeral Directors. Phone 670.
Death ref#1954/B002219, Brisbane