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I am after information regarding the death of my great-great grand aunt Jane Coutts born 1 April 1845 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (My mother was a Coutts)

Her father was George Coutts B: 27 JANUARY 1814 • Deeside, Scotland D: 15 JULY 1852 Keilor, Victoria, Australia and her mother was Mary Peggie B: 19 SEPTEMBER 1813 Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland and D: 30 JANUARY 1876 Kingower, Victoria, Australia. They were married 26 May 1834 Parish of Dron, County Perth, Scotland and arrived in Melbourne, Victoria on 26 January 1842 on the "Robert Benn".

Jane married Francis Coventry (B: 17 MARCH 1836, Ontario, Canada, D: 3 FEBRUARY 1916, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia) in Geelong, Victoria on 23 January 1862, and she was divorced in Adelaide, South Australia on 4 April 1872 for adultery. In the divorce papers, Francis said she had returned to Victoria in July/August 1871 on the "Coorong" for Melbourne to return to her parents.

In the will of Jane's mother (1875), Jane is listed as a beneficiary, thus is alive in 1875, and that is the last heard of her.

I was the person from who supplied the family story handed down about Christina, which was found in a Bamix box after my mother's death in 2007, which contains various family research from her father's family (Coutts). At some point she began to gather information on my father's side of the family (Povey) with Christiana being my great great grandmother. I am happy to email this to anyone who would like a copy of it. I do not know where my mother obtained this information from.... possibly from my grandmother Ianthy Maydwell who was the granddaughter of Christiana.

In 2020, I shared this with HappySearcher, and also in 2020, I shared with her images that I had found of Christiana when she was residing in Sea Lake in the book Then Awake Sea Lake.

This is the letter I found