Applin family
OTTO & ALICE WEISE (née Hickmont)
After their marriage at Lalbert, Victoria, in 1910, Otto and Alice Weise went to live in Western Australia. The 1912, 1913 and wartime electoral rolls have them at ‘The Gums‘ near the WA wheat-belt town of East Pingelly where Alice’s parents and some of her siblings had also settled. By 1922, Otto had given up farming and was working as a blacksmith and carpenter’s labourer at Boyup Brook. The 1931 to 1943 electoral rolls have them registered as living at Katanning, initially on Daping Street then Albion Street and, in 1943, on Austral Terrace. They eventually moved to Mount Lawley where Otto died in 1947 and Alice the following year.
Notices honouring Otto published in The West Australian on 6 September 1947, tell us he was the ‘loving father of Owen, father-in-law of Leaf and grandfather of Barbara and Susan’; ‘loving father of Betty and Bill and loving Poppa of Kaye’; ‘dearly beloved father of Muriel, father-in-law of Rex and grandfather of Diane’; and the ‘dearly beloved father of Thelma. Father-in-law of Tom and grandfather of Faye, Lola and Kerry’.
Alice’s death notice, published in The West Australian on 18 and 23 March 1948, reads: ‘WEISE: On March 16, 1948 at Perth. Alice Annie Weise of 5 Third Avenue Mount Lawley, widow of the late Otto Weise, fond mother of Thelma, Owen, Verna, Betty, Bill and Muriel, mother-in-law of Tom, Leaf, Frank and Rex, loved grandma of Faye, Lola, Lynn, Kerry, Kaye, Barbara, Susan, Diane and Denise; aged 63 years’. According to the Find-a Grave website, Otto and Alice are buried/memorialised together in the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (Memorial ID 171094350). It also states their children were: Thelma Elizabeth Louisa Applin, Henry Hickmott Owen Weise, Verna Hope Taylor, Elizabeth (Betty) Valma Quartermaine later Tate, William Arthur Weise and Muriel Faith Egerton-Warburton.
Thomas Edward, Christian Martha Applin and their nine children sailed from Liverpool to Fremantle in Western Australia in 1912. The Australian electoral rolls show the family headed straight to the township of Katanning located some 270km southeast of Perth where Thomas took up dairy farming.
Their nine children included Edward James Applin; Amelia Applin; Robert Harry Applin; Lilian Christian Applin; Priscilla Applin; Freda Applin; Phillip Victor Applin, Thomas Edwin Applin and Arthur George Applin.
ROBERT HARRY APPLIN
Robert Harry Applin
Robert Harry Applin, sailed back to England in 1916, after enlisting in the First AIF but was killed in action on 12 October the following year while serving with the 48th Infantry Battalion at Paschendaele.
THOMAS EDWIN APPLIN
Thomas Applin
Thomas and Thelma
Thomas was working as a shop assistant at Katanning when he courted and married Thelma Weise. Their wedding took place in the local Anglican church and was duly reported on by The Southern Districts Advocate as follows:
“To the strains of the “Wedding March” (1) the bride entered the church on the arm of Mr N. Wells (who gave her away) in the absence of her father. She was exquisitely gowned in white morocain, fashionably pin-tucked to fit the figure, with trimmings of kilting at neck and sleeves: Her beautiful veil was held in place with a coronet of orange blossom. She carried an artificial bouquet of white roses and maiden hair fern.
The bride was attended by Miss Ethel Stallwood, smartly dressed in flowing blue lace, fashioned on close-fitting lines, the skirt inlet with godets (2) to form fullness. She wore a crinoline picture hat of the same blue, with grey shoes, stockings, and gloves to match. She also carried an artificial bouquet of pink and white roses, entwined with maiden hair fern. The train-bearer, Miss Muriel Weise (youngest sister of the bride), looked sweet in her pretty frock of deep saxe blue, with pink sash, and headband, and she also carried a bouquet of pink roses. The duties of best man were performed by Mr S. C. Barclay.
After the service, the wedding march was played by Mr Gordon Beeck, who presided at the organ. The reception was held at the Masonic Hall, where relatives and friends were received by Mrs Weise (mother of the bride), who was dressed in black reversible satin relieved with white, and black hat to match. She was attended by Mrs Applin (mother off the bridegroom), who wore navy blue morocain with beige trimming arid black hat to tone; both carrying posies of mixed roses and fern.
The usual toasts were honoured, with Mr A. Barclay carrying out the duties of master of ceremonies; then came the cutting of the beautiful three-tiered wedding cake (made by the bride’s mother). After the reception, the tables were cleared and the hall was partaken of for dancing, to the music supplied by Mr F. Martin, until a late hour, when supper was indulged in and the bride and bridegroom retired to leave for their honeymoon, which is being spent touring through Perth and the South-West, the bride travelling in a frock of floral pink and white morocain, with white hat, shoes and gloves, to match.
After the joining of hands and the singing of “For They Are Jolly Good Fellows,” “followed by “Auld Lang Syne,” (3) the happy couple left mid a shower of confetti and rattling of kerosene tins. Many useful and handsome presents, including several cheques, were received by the happy couple.”
The Australian Electoral Rolls show that Thelma and Thomas lived all their married lives at Katanning where Thomas worked variously as a shop assistant and milkman. Thomas died in Perth in 1986 but is buried at Katanning along with Thelma, who died there in 2007.
They had three children – Audrey Faye Applin who married twice, first to Thomas John Harrison (1935-62) and second to Eric Desmond Lake Wickland of ‘Spring Hill’ in Kirup; Lola Naomi Applin married Frederick James Bielby (1932-2012) at Katanning in 1957; Thomas Kerry Applin also married twice, first to Lesley ?? (dates?) and second to Mary Lee-Higgins.
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