Birth: October-December 1958 Derby, Derbyshire, UK
Father: Philip Gordon Anderson Onions 1927-2003
Mother: Jean Elworthy Shapland (Shopland, Shapiro) 1931-a1980
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Husband: Christopher George Capel 1958-a1973
Death: After 1980
Two sons
Entry in the Register of Births for Philippa O'nions (sic - on the typed original, but corrected by Philippa), mother's maiden name Shopland (sic - on the typed orginal) in October-December 1958 in Derby (3a 467).
Entry in Ancestry Fremantle, Western Australia, Passenger Lists, 1897-1963 for Miss Philipa Onions arrived on 17 February 1962 in Freemantle on the Himalaya, address 19 Park Avenue, Avalon Beach, Sydney, accompanied by Philip and Mrs Jean Onions (parents?) and Miss Suzanne Onions (sister?).
There are two entries in Ancestry All Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Philippa Onions living at 73 Dolphin Crescent, Avin Bth Barrenjoey, Mackellar, New South Wales in 1977 and 1980, a nurse, other occupants Philip Gordon and Jean Elworthy Onions (parents?) and Suzanne Mary (sister?).
Maureen (Curtis) Kristjanson had an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Christopher George Capel, parents Percy T G Capel and Joy M Godfrey, and his marriage to Phillipa Onions. In a email she states that the family emigrated to Australia in 1959, and his brother was born in Mona Vale, New South Wales in 1963.
Philippa Capel has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for the daughter of Philip Gordon Anderson Onions and ? Shapland, married to Capel with two sons.
Philippa Onions was the wife of Christopher George Capel, my fifth cousin three times removed.
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