Dinah Flavel Paynter

Stub entry filled from primary sources, 24 Aug 2026. See Sources below.

Lifespan

Born: 18 July 1869 — Finniss Point, South Australia
Died: 10 June 1958 (aged 88) — Mukinbudin, Western Australia
Buried: Mukinbudin Cemetery, WA

Family

• Father: Richard Paynter (1838–1869) — school teacher at St Kitt's Creek
• Mother: Jean Telfer (1840–1892)
• Spouse: Thomas Dennis (1862–1914) — m. 2 July 1895, Appila, SA
• Children: Lavinia Daisy (→Williams), Dalby Cecil (1897), Amy Pearl (→Dempster), William (1900), Kathleen Lydia (→Gray), Gordon Percival (1904), Jean Telfer Dennis (1906), Hamilton Hobart (1908–1974), Mary Evelyn (1914)

Life Summary

Dinah was the youngest child of Richard Paynter and Jean Telfer, born posthumously in July 1869 (her father died in February 1869). She was named for her maternal grandmother, Dinah Flavel. She married Thomas Dennis at Appila, SA in July 1895, and the family later moved to Mukinbudin, Western Australia, where she died in June 1958 aged 88. (Death year 1958 resolves the previously blank end-date in the tree.)

Sources

Family Stories

🖊️ Anecdote — as told in A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement 2008), pp.115–120:

Dinah, the posthumous daughter. Richard Paynter died in February 1869; his youngest child was born five months later, in July. Jean named her Dinah Flavel after her own mother — the grandmother the baby would never meet. Dinah later married Thomas Dennis, and the family moved right across the continent to Mukinbudin in Western Australia's wheatbelt, where she died in 1958 aged 88.

(Anecdote only — family colour. Does not establish any relationship, date or place.)