Mary Elsie May Ross was born in 1918 as the third child of Alexander Herbert Ross and Mary Emma May Hockey. She had three siblings, namely: William Charles, Alexander Henry Percy, and Spencer.

When she was 20, Mary married John Richard Sampson, son of Samuel Sampson and Ethel Lillian Woolley, in 1938[1] in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Mary was known as Polly, and John was known as Dick.

John Richard Sampson and Mary Elsie May Ross had the following children:

1. Denny Sampson

John died on 7 June 1994 in Queensland, Australia, age 80.

Mary  died on 29 August 1994 in Queensland, Australia, age 76.

Citations:

1. Queensland Government - Births, deaths, marriages and divorces, B32155

External Links:

Blazing Car Runs Down Hill - Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Qld. : 1926 - 1954) Sunday 8 May 1938 p 3

Blazing Car Runs Down Hill with flames and smoke pouring from its engine and floor-board, a tourer car ran backwards for 20 yards down a hill in Trout's Road, Everton Park on Friday night, and stopped at the bottom against a large stump. The driver, John Sampson, of Boundary Street. Spring Hill, and his companion, John Hand, of the same address, had jumped out when the fire started. The engine had seized when going up the hill, and on the third attempt to start, the car backfired and caught fire. The car, which was insured, was destroyed.

In the Courts FINES UP TO £5 IMPOSED Many Breaches of Baking Award - The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Wednesday 30 June 1937 p 12 Article

Another shopkeeper, John Richard Sampson of Boundary Street, 'Valley, was fined £2/14/ or 12 days, for having received bread on a Sunday.

Advertising - The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Saturday 21 January 1939 p 10

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION - Notice Is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between Samuel Sampson and John Richard Sampson in the business of Storekeepers carried on at 300 Boundary Street Spring Hill under the firm name of S. Sampson & Son has been dissolved.The business will be conducted in future by Samuel Sampson, who will be pleased to receive a continuance of the patronage afforded to the former firm of S. Sampson & Son. Dated this Seventeenth day of January, 1939.

S. SAMPSON. J. R. SAMPSON. Witness to both signatures, C. KINSEY BENNETT. Solicitor, Brisbane.

Heaven Address - Mary Elsie May Sampson

Heaven Address - John Richard Sampson

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