Ethel May BRUSE [15163]

  General Notes:

1877 SA Birth BRUSE Ethel May, Marquis Henry BRUSE, Margaret JAMES, Burra 190/440

Queensland BDM:
Ethel May Toshach
Event date: 04/07/1929
Event type: Death registration
Registration details: 1929/C/3513
Mother: Katherine James
Father/parent: Marcus Bruce

Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) Wed 26 Jun 1907
PERSONAL
Mrs. Tosbach (nee Miss Ethel Bruse) and family arrived in Adelaide on Sunday, and journeyed to the Burra to stay with her parents for a fortnight. Mr. Toshach went to Broken Hill to fulfil lecturing engagements, and when there received a telegram informing, him of the death of his only daughter. This is the second death in the family within a few weeks.

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Tue 16 Jul 1929
Death Notice:
TOSHACH.-Wilga Hospital, Toowoomba, 4th July, 1929, Ethel May Toshach, beloved wife of, the Rev. Wm. Laidlaw Toshach, and devoted mother of Robert, Douglas, Bruce, Maxwell, and Joffre.

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Wed 17 Jul 1929
Social Column:
Much sympathy is felt for the Rev. Wm. Laidlaw Toshach and his five sons on the sudden death of Ethel May Toshach, after a brief illness of 27 hours, Mrs. Toshach, nee Ethel Bruce, was a singing pupil of Mr. C. J. Stevens, of Adelaide, and her volce was praised by Darne Nellie Melba and Clara Butt. She was often engaged to sing the contralto solos In tho "Messiah." She had been trained as an opera singer, having taken part with leading artists from the Old Country, and had declined lucrative offers In order to devote her talents to helping her husband In his evangelistic work. The funeral was largely attended.

  Other Records

• Australian Electoral Roll 1903-1980: home duties, 1909, Fitzroy St., Geelong, Australia.

• Australian Electoral Roll 1903-1980: home duties, 1912, Henry St., Geelong, Australia.

• Australian Electoral Roll 1903-1980: home duties, 1913, Henry St., Geelong, Australia.

• Australian Electoral Roll 1903-1980: home duties, 1925, Bridge st. East, QLD Australia.

Ethel married Rev William Laidlaw TOSHACH [15161] [MRIN: 5572], son of Rev. Alexander TOSHACH [15173] and Janet Rutherford CLARK [15175], on 20 Dec 1899 in Wesleyan Methodist Church, Jamestown, SA. (Rev William Laidlaw TOSHACH [15161] was born on 26 May 1872 in Edinburgh, MID, Scotland, died on 11 Mar 1943 in Prospect, South Australia and was buried on 12 Mar 1943 in Payneham Cemetery, Adelaide.)

  Marriage Notes:

1899 201/1045 SA Marriage TOSNACH William Laidlaw, BRUSE Ethel May, Clare

Critic (Adelaide, SA : 1897-1924) Sat 15 Oct 1898
Engagements:
The engagement is announceed of Mr. Wm. Laidlaw
Toshach (Scottish Evangelist), fourth son of the late
Rev. Alexander Toshach Edinburgh, Scotland, to Miss
Ethel M. Bruise, youngest daughter of Mr. H. Bruise,
late Burra and Parkside.

South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Thu 25 Jan 1900
Marriage Notice:
TOSHACH-BRUSE.-On the 20th December, 1899, at the Jamestown Wesleyan Church, by the Rev. E. Gratton, assisted by the Rev. John Lloyd (Wallaroo), William Laidlaw (Presbyterian Evangelist), second son of the late Rev. Alexander Toshach, Scotland, to Ethel May, youngest daughter of Marcus H. Bruse, Jamestown.