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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

COLLEY, Frances Emma, later GAYWOOD, then WAUGH

Date of Birth

June 1842

Place of Birth

Prospect, SA

Date of Death

28/3/1926

Place of Death

East Malvern, Victoria

Place of Burial

Raywood, Victoria

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

NA

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

Section 349, allotment 51, western half. 1839 until about 1845.

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

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents - names; DOBs etc (if known)

James Colley 1804-1879, Mary Elizabeth Ball Colley, 1823-1897

Spouse(s) - including maiden name; DOBs etc. (if known)

  1. Charles Gaywood 1833-1878
  2. John Waugh, 1832-1924

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

  1. 14/11/1859
  2. 1893

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

  1. Cathcart, near Ararat, Victoria
  2. Raywood, Victoria

Children - names and dates of birth/death if known

  1. Sarah Gaywood, 16/8/1860-26/8/1913
  2. John Gaywood, 1862-1951
  3. Charles Gaywood, 1864-1959
  4. George Gaywood, 1866-1918
  5. Elizabeth Gaywood, 1868-1949
  6. Emma Gaywood, 1870-1956
  7. Caroline Gaywood, 1872-1948
  8. Jane Gaywood, 1874-
  9. James Gaywood, 1876-1946

Education

Literate

Occupation(s)

 

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

 

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.

 

 

Local Government experience (if any)

 

Sources of information

BDM records and family oral history.

Principal Researcher

Margaret Harrison

 

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