Joyce Elizabeth Telfer

Role: Fifth child of Mark Telfer and Julia Seebohm

Relation	Name
Father	Mark Telfer (1877–1946)
Mother	Julia Matilda Seebohm (1876–1939)
Siblings	Floris Ethel Victoria Telfer (1904–1951), Kenneth William John Telfer (1906–1970), Gilbert Melville Telfer (1908–1973), Jean Maryann Martha Telfer (1910–1984), Maifie Beryl Telfer (1913–1948), Lindsay Roland Telfer (1920–1976)

Joyce Elizabeth Telfer was born in 1912, the fifth child of Mark Telfer (1877–1946) and Julia Matilda Seebohm (1876–1939) of Tantanoola, South Australia.

She lived to 100 years of age, passing away in 2012.

Note on the Downs family link. Joyce married Clarence Walter Downs, whose brother Alan Theodore Downs (1905–1959) was the first husband of Gwendoline Victoria (Campbell) Telfer (1910–1966). That gives a second, independent Telfer↔Downs connection in the same Millicent district as the Campbell/Telfer line — worth noting, with Joyce's own Telfer parentage here established (daughter of Mark Telfer and Julia Seebohm).

Family Stories

Joyce was the fifth child of Mark and Tillie Telfer. She attended Mount Gambier Technical School and gained an Advanced Grade III Certificate in Dressmaking in 1935. On 3 July 1937 she married Clarence Walter Downs at the Methodist Church, Mount Gambier. They spent their honeymoon at Tanunda and settled at Mount Gambier, where she was a member of the CWA and a Life Member of the Tantanoola PA&H Society. She reached the remarkable age of 100, passing away in 2012. (From the Borders to the Bush, pp.244–245)

Sources

• From the Borders to the Bush by Donald Telfer (1986) — page 243 (listed as a child of Mark Telfer)