Frederikke Josephine Nissen

1898 - 1984  (86 år)

• Navn	Frederikke Josephine Nissen
  Kælenavn	Freda
  Fødsel	6 maj 1898	Australien, South Australia, Adelaide
  	Adresse: Wall St. Norwood
  Køn	Kvinde
  Død	22 jun. 1984	Australien, Queensland, Townsville
  Person-ID	I85686	My Family Genealogy | Familen Ravnholdt & Hansen
  Sidst ændret	14 jan. 2026

  
  

  Far	Hans Johannes Trules Nissen,   f. 31 mar. 1872, Danmark, Vejle Amt, Elbo Herred, Fredericia- d. 17 mar. 1941, Australien, New South Wales, Gosford (Alder 68 år)
  Mor	Josephine Rollinson,   f. 30 okt. 1866, Australien, South Australia, Adelaide d. 1 jun. 1910, Australien, New South Wales, Sydney (Alder 43 år)
  Ægteskab	16 dec. 1895	Australien, South Australia, Adelaide
  	Adresse: J Horskins Cottage Royal Av and Gillies St.
  Familie-ID	F24116	Gruppeskema  |  Familietavle

  
  

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• Notater

  In 1908 Freda attended Raymond Terrace Public School near Newcastle, NSW. She was 12 when her mother died and is said to have hated her father for deserting the children after that happened. Freda reported being looked after by an aunt Dora in Adelaide. However Harry’s sister, Dora, had died in 1902. So it was probably his sister Magdalene’s oldest daughter, Dora, who looked after her for a while. Freda also talked of “the Sisters”, and was able to recite the Rosary, therefore presumably at some stage she was sent to a Catholic orphanage. She never spoke much of her family, so it is not known when she went to join her half-brothers, Chris and Angus BYERLEE, in North Queensland, but at some time she kept house for them on their sugar cane farm. She later worked as a nurse at Charters Towers Hospital, where she met her future husband when he was a patient. She was married on 20 February 1923 in Charters Towers, Qld, to Robert Alexander Samuel CALDWELL (known as Alex) who was born 23 March 1893. Freda and Alex moved to Townsville, Qld, on 18 September 1923. She looked after Chris’s oldest two children, Joyce and Jim, when their mother died in 1928 till an aunt took over their care. Alex had worked with the PMG and as it was a reserved occupation he had not been allowed to join the Services during the First World War. After the war he worked as a linesman with the Council. They helped bring up their grandson, David, after his parents separated. They made a trip to NSW with their daughter Ruth and her husband in the 1960s and met up with various members of the family. Alex died on 28 April 1970 in Townsville, and Freda died on 22 June 1984 also in Townsville, Qld.