This telegram signed “Mother” was sent from the North Hobart Post Office (Tasmania) by Emily Maud (Davis) Nevin (1891-1971), wife of Albert E. Nevin (1888-1955), who was the youngest son born to Elizabeth R. (Day) Nevin (1847-1914) and photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923). The intended recipient at Camperdown, Sydney was Emily and Albert Nevin’s second eldest daughter Hilda Maud Nevin who was born in Hobart Tasmania (1919-2007) but moved to Sydney NSW in the 1930s to join their eldest married daughter Eva Elizabeth (Nevin) Morris (b. Hobart, 1917- d. Melb. 2008) and husband Albert Frederick (Bert) Morris (b. Birmingham UK 1917-d. Melb. 1997). The message simply stated that their aunt, Mary Sophia (Day) Axup, sister of Hilda and Eva’s grand-mother Elizabeth Rachel (Day) Nevin, had died. Known as “Aunty Axup”, Mary Sophia Day was in fact the great-aunt of Hilda, Eva and their siblings, not their aunt. She was called Aunt Axup by all members of the Nevin family, regardless of generational level mainly because she lived a very long life (died in 1942, 90 yrs old, born in 1853.) She was Thomas J. Nevin’s sister-in-law… … More Nevin family telegram 1942 on the passing of Mary Sophia Axup