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Elvie Jean Burns Troake 1921 - 2008

Elvie Jean (Burns) Troake of Melbourne Australia was born on November 11, 1921. She was married to John Leslie Troake in 1943 in Victoria, and had a child Graeme Neil Troake. Elvie Troake died at age 87 years old on November 18, 2008 at Rowville VIC, Australia in Rowville, City of Knox County, VIC.

Elvie Jean (Burns) Troake

Melbourne Australia

November 11, 1921

November 18, 2008

Rowville VIC, Australia in Rowville, City of Knox County, VIC, 3178, Australia

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Elvie Jean Burns was born to Charles Gibson Burns (1895-1955) and Minnie Sutherland (1890-1964) and had siblings Gordon Gibson (1920-1990), Nellie (born and died in 1923), Ronald Richard (1928-1954), and Laurence David Burns who was born in 1931. She was married to John Leslie Troake in 1943 in Victoria Australia.
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1921

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November 11, 1921

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Ethnicity & Family History

Both Elvie's parents were born in Australia. Charles Gibson Burns was born in Moonee Ponds Victoria, and her mother Minnie Sutherland was born in Emerald Hill South Melbourne Victoria Australia. Minnie's father Thomas Alexander Sutherland (August 12th 1855 - April 16th 1934) was born in Helmsdale Sutherland Scotland.
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2008

Death

November 18, 2008

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Rowville VIC, Australia in Rowville, City of Knox County, VIC 3178, Australia
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Elvie Jean Burns Troake lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.

The average age of a Burns family member is 72.

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In 1921, in the year that Elvie Jean Burns Troake was born, hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

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In 1942, at the age of 21 years old, Elvie was alive when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

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Elvie Jean Burns Troake Nov 11, 1921 - Nov 18, 2008

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