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Name
(FAMILY NAME, Other Names) |
COLLEY,
Frances Emma, later GAYWOOD, then WAUGH |
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Date
of Birth |
June
1842 |
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Place
of Birth |
Prospect,
SA |
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Date
of Death |
28/3/1926 |
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Place
of Death |
East
Malvern, Victoria |
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Place
of Burial |
Raywood,
Victoria |
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Arrived
in South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
NA |
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Addresses/Dates
in Prospect Council Area |
Section
349, allotment 51, western half. 1839 until about 1845. |
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Addresses/Dates
outside Prospect Council Area |
Near
to Prospect 1845-1858. Cathcart, near Ararat, Victoria 1858-1859. Lamplough, Victoria 1860-1863. Raywood, Victoria, 1864
till at least 1924 |
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Names
of houses (if any) |
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Parents
- names; DOBs etc (if known) |
James
Colley 1804-1879, Mary Elizabeth Ball Colley, 1823-1897 |
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Spouse(s)
- including maiden name; DOBs etc. (if known) |
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Date(s)
of Marriage(s) |
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Place(s)
of Marriage(s) |
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Children
- names and dates of birth/death if known |
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Education
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Literate |
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Occupation(s) |
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Interests/Activities |
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Religion/Churches
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Notes
(points of interest etc.) |
Frances Emma Colley was born to James
Colley and Mary Elizabeth Ball in Prospect, Adelaide, in 1842. She was
baptised 11 September 1842, having been born on an unspecified date in June.
Her father's occupation was that of agriculturist. When she was 18, she married Charles Gaywood at Ararat on November 14, 1859, at the Church of
England parsonage. Her parents, James
and Mary Colley, witnessed the marriage, James giving his profession as
miner. Frances Emma and Charles Gaywood started their married life in Cathcart, a couple
of miles away from Ararat. Charles Gaywood was a butcher, like his father John before
him. There is no-one alive to tell us
anything of Charles Gaywood but Bess Tobin
remembered her grandmother, Frances, as a kind and cheerful woman; although
not well educated, she was intelligent and capable. Charles Gaywood
died in 1878 when Frances was 36;
their youngest child was still a toddler. Frances Gaywood
remarried many years later, in 1893, when she was 51. Her second husband John
Waugh was, it seems, a little leprechaun of a man whom she always called Mr
Waugh. Although the Waughs were a well-known local family, her second
marriage came at a cost. Apparently,
Charles Gaywood had left her well provided for - so
long as she did not remarry. When she
did, her legacy was split between her children, and she was left with very
little to come and go on. Frances Emma
died in 1926, aged 84, at the home of her daughter Elizabeth, "Mrs E Atherton." She is buried with her first husband,
Charles Gaywood, and their grand-daughter Marjorie
in Raywood cemetery. |
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Local
Government experience (if any) |
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Sources
of information |
BDM
records and family oral history. |
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Principal
Researcher |
Margaret
Harrison |
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