Elizabeth Alice Knight Vail was the eldest child of Luke Knight Vail, a tailor, and Catherine Jane Sergeant. She was born in 1882 at 127 Chapel Street, South Yarra. The family later lived above their tailor shop in Glenferrie road, Malvern. In 1899, her mother died and her father disappeared, leaving Elizabeth and her grandmother to care for the family.
Elizabeth trained to be a teacher and was engaged for 5 years before she married Frank Wellington at St Georges in Glenferrie Road in June 1912. By this time her younger sister, Amy was 21.Elizabeth and Frank lived in Armadale, raising four children. They were closely associated with the Holy Advent Church in Armadale, the girls going to Lauriston school in Malvern and the boys to Caulfield Grammar.
Elizabeth was on the Lauriston School council and also supported Invergowrie where her younger daughter later studied. In 1940 they moved to Camberwell and became active in St John's church on Burke road. For the next 15 years, Elizabeth was the Commonwealth Literature Secretary of the Mothers Union, an Anglican church group.
They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1962 and had a trip to New Zealand to visit their son, Keith and his family. Frank died in 1963.Elizabeth moved into a small semidetached unit in Malvern and died in 1968.
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