The Florabella name has been mentioned many times before- and reference to Marion's time teaching in the Blue Mountains. It seems she married Ray Barter in Lapstone- is this around about the time she lived and taught in the Blue Mountain region?
It has been mentioned that Florabella Street in Warimoo, is home to the local primary school. It also straddles the Florabella Pass that runs between Warimoo and Blaxland. The pass seems to run very near also to Blaxland Public School. I know Marion probably didn't teach at either of these schools, but if she lived in the region she was likely familiar with at least the name of the Florabella Pass. She may have taken walks in the area and the name stuck with her.
In addition to this someone mentioned the record of a Florabella Stocks- Florabella Hazel Stocks to be precise- is recorded in censuses and directories from 1958 right up to 1980.
We don't seem to have heard too much of Marion's childhood. But she was born in the Marrickvale area of Sydney- this is an 11 minute drive from Belmore- where in 1958 to 1968 Florabella Stocks lived with a Gordon Robert Stocks- and an address is on the main Canterbury Street where there now appears to be a rundown vacant build for lease. Marion was 13 or thereabouts in 1958. Could Florabella have been someone she knew from her childhood or looked up to?
Florabella then is registered as living in Peakhurst also with Gordon Robert Stocks throughout the 1970s and in 1980. Not far from Marrickville either- but Marion would have left the area by then. All I can find on either Gordon or Florabella is these registrations in censuses and directories. No marriage records on either, death or births. The only thing is their last listed address from 1980 comes up as having last been sold in 1995- possibly a death date for one or the other?
Gordon Stocks comes up as a photo engraver and then later a printer, Florabella Stock's occupation is simply "home duties" - similar to Florabella Remakel (but that would not be uncommon for a woman who was an adult by 1958!) ..could mean nothing, but looked for as much as I could as it seems the only Florabella of much note coming up in Australia..I can't find anything on google. In the absence of marriage records, this Gordon and Florabella could have been brother and sister rather than married and have reamined unmarried.
Could Florabella have been a stay at home unamrried woman, with no kids who took a shine to Marion and Marion to her? I am maybe going too far with this..but although it may have seemed irrelevant, Marion's history- as far back as her childhood could be very important. Was she close to her own mother, what was her home life like? People wonder why her sisters are not as involved...they will be the ones who knew about anything important or noteworthy from her childhood. Sally may not know much depending on what Marion was comfortable to tell her.
Was Marion on good terms with Jack (her dad)? He obviously desperately wanted to find her too, but what was their relationship like? It is senstive questions, but the way she was in her adult life could be explained in part by how she found her childhood, how she was with her own kids and whether or not she had it in her to just dissappear on them voluntarily..
