"Al" Alice Jane DAVISON / GRIERSON
Born 2 August 1905 in Wallsend, Northumberland, England [P97]
Daughter of "Bill" William DAVISON and "Carrie" Caroline JOHNSON [P97]
When the 1911 census was taken she was living with her parents at 1 Diamond Street in Wallsend, Northumberland, England [20]
Her father and uncle departed England on the steamship Armadale and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia 10 July 1911 [70]
A year later she departed England on the steamship Belgic with her mother and aunt Hannah Spence JOHNSON [203]
They arrived on the steamship Belgic in Fremantle, Western Australia on 11 June 1912 [338]
Resided with her parents on Murray Street in the Perth suburb of Bayswater and then at 228 Lord Street in Perth [50]
She was an only child until 1916 when her sister "Nan" Hannah Spence DAVISON was born [P1]
They later lived at 13 Marlborough Street in East Perth [P97]
She and Maud R. E. MOLLETT spent a holiday with David and Rachel GRIERSON in Koorda in November 1929 [81: 24-Nov-1929]
Two years later she married David and Rachel's son Bill, and 25 years later their son married Maud's daughter Alice [P1]
Married "Bill" Leonard William GRIERSON in Perth on 28 February 1931 [P97]
Resided with her husband in Koorda 1931-1939 [P50]
During the 1930s she visited Carnamah regularly to visit her parents and sister Nan [P50]
Along with her husband and son, travelled to Carnamah on 27 October 1934 to spend a short holiday [5: 2-Nov-1934]
With her son spent an extended holiday with her parents in Carnamah before returning to Koorda in April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Spent a vacation with her father and sister Nan in Carnamah during December 1935 [5: 20-Dec-1935]
She and her son Billy spent a holiday with her father in Carnamah during late February and early March 1936 [5: 6-Mar-1936]
Attended the Mad Hatter's Leap Year Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 29 February 1936, wearing black matelasse [5: 6-Mar-1936]
She and her son holidayed in Carnamah with her father over February and March 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937, 2-Apr-1937]
Resided on La Colline Farm near Prowaka Siding in Carnamah from 1940 to 1977 [P50]
In early 1940 shifted with her husband and son from Koorda to Carnamah [P50]
She occasionally helped her father in his bakery at 21 Macpherson Street in the Carnamah townsite [P50]
Member of the Carnamah Ladies' Rifle Shooting Club 1941-1944 [0: images 02933, 02971 & 04262]
Member of the Carnamah Miniature Rifle Club 1946-1952 [0: images 04394, 04501 & 04654]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Country Women's Association - was President 1947-1949 [115]
Steward of the Fancywork section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1947 and 1949 [13]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club - was President of the Associates 1954-1958 and in 1960 and 1961 [7: page 213]
She was later made a Life Member of the Carnamah Golf Club [7: page 210]
Member of the Carnamah Small Bore Rifle Club 1956 [4: 3-Aug-1956]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society -1971 [13]
Known to many younger people in and around Carnamah as "Aunty Al" [P50]
Upon their retirement in 1977 she and her husband left Carnamah and shifted to 66 Port Leander Drive in Dongara [P50]
Resided at 66 Port Leander Drive in Dongara until breaking her hip in 1990 [P97]
Resided at Geraldton Regional Hospital and at Nazareth House in Geraldton in 1990 and 1991 [P97]
Mother of Bill [P50]
Died 31 October 1991 in Geraldton; ashes interred at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (EC Section, Garden 17, 184) [2] [P97]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Alice Jane Davison / Grierson' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 12 August 2026 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/alice-jane-davison [reference list] |
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