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Jack Eades 1893-1971 fought on the Western Front in WW1. Remaining in the British Army he served in the North West Frontier of modern-day Pakistan. He married Guli in Srinagar, India in 1924 and they moved to Rangoon, Burma in 1926 where he worked as an electrical engineer.
Guli 1889-1955 was born Guli Goodbody to parents who were both raised as Quakers. After their deaths she sailed to India in 1923 as part of the "fishing fleet" of single women in search of husbands, in which she was successful.
Jack and Guli had three children:
The Great-Aunts that Sheila refers to were Elizabeth and Helen Sturge, younger sisters of Guli's mother "Archie" (Sturge) Goodbody, who was the only one of six sisters to marry. The others were all involved in the movement for women's education as described in "Five Sisters in Search of Learning". By 1930 only Elizabeth and Helen were still alive.
The Hickson Family was related to the Eades through Guli's maternal grandmother Charlotte (Allen) Sturge. Her sister Emma Elizabeth (Allen) Beck had a daughter Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Beck) Hickson who founded Oldfeld School. It was her son Arthur Hickson who took the school to Canada in 1941. Lizzie's sister Hannah Beck taught at Stanstead College in Quebec.
Herbert Milliken married Guli's sister Charlotte ("Char"). Their son Michael Milliken met the Eades in India in 1945 while serving there in the Army.
The Stephens Family was related through Guli's maternal grandfather William Sturge whose niece Mildred (Sturge) Stephens had a son Veryan Stephens (who the Eades met in Sydney) and a daughter Jenifer (Stephens) von Struensee who married Jack after Guli's death.
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