STONE Family, Melbourne, 1881 Census COMPLETED

[tropicalj]

http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4462175?searchTerm=Sister+Ellen+Mary+Claver+Stone

Here is her death notice, I  do  hope  it hasn't allready been posted and I  have doubled up.

Jenn

[judb]

Hi Tom - and Jenn and anyone else still following this marathon!

There is a Catholic school still in Sandringham but by the look of the photo and the address it is a new building, however it was established by the Presentation Sisters, and is not far from the address

http://web.cecv.vic.catholic.edu.au/schools/schoolinfo.asp?searchfor=E1081

http://www.shsandringham.catholic.edu.au/

As for Table Talk, see if we can work out a date for when she would have been emplyed there and I'll have a look at a few issues.  It is the funniest magazine with all kinds of social chit-chat - a little bit like The Lady.  I only found it by chance and luckily you had given a date - how did you have that information??

Oh, just seen Jenn's post but not had a look yet - how did I miss that LOL
Jenn, if you would like a copy of the article which is quite hysterical (in my opinion!); I think you'd enjoy it-  PM me your email and I'll send it to you.  Can't quite figure out how to do attachments to PMs

Cheers, J

[Tom Piper]

Judith,

Confession time!!  Some kind soul in the past had had a look for me. I asked about this family before, on another system, not rootschat, and this person found this article.

But I don't have it all nor do I know anything else about Eugenia's time in Oz prior to her coming to England. I know she wrote articles here her husband's newspaper, on similar lines, and later when she moved to London, after George's death, she continued with these articles. We know she travelled to Uk, I think in February 1907, which was when "Macedonia" left Sydney or was it Melbourne and  it "coaled" in Marseilles, besides who would be a passenger in the Bay of Biscay, a bit like the Bass Straits I understand.

I am hoping that the articles she wrote in the newspaper in Melbourne will tell us something about her as well.

I like that Newspaper site, the one with the announcement of Sister Claver's death. I now know this information as a result of receiving an e-mail from the Star of Sea College in Melbourne. I have already found the Argus report  of John Stone's death. It will be interesting to see they if  reported Thomas Stone's death in 1940 and his other sister's death in 1942, both papers here in Uk mentioned "copy to Melbourne Newspapers"

Another bone worrier!

Tom

[Tom Piper]

Judith & Richard,

I suppose we are no nearer discovering where this Henry Reed was born apart from Devon, no place name.

IGI has the following Henry Reed's born around 1827:

HENRY REED - International Genealogical Index
  26 MAY 1826 Combe Martin, Devon, England
HENRY TOMS REED - International Genealogical Index
  29 OCT 1826 Ilfracombe, Devon, England
 HENRY READ - International Genealogical Index
  18 JUN 1826 Crediton, Devon, England
HENRY BUSSELL REED - International Genealogical Index
  04 NOV 1828 St Gregory'S, Dawlish, Devon, England


I see from Judith's last post that she is no nearer finding birth of John Henry Reed, son of Henry & Martha Mitchell.

Do we know when Martha Mitchell came out to Australia. We know she was born in Denby, Derbyshire, near Alfreton, where there is now a famous pottery. Her father was Charles Mitchell and mother Bessie Vallance, with siblings of Sarah, Emma & John.

Tom

[judb]

Hi Tom - do we have actual dates for those deaths?  I am happy to look them up as The Nat Library has excellent holdings but I'm not trawling through a whole year's worth!!!!!

The online BETA newspapers are an ongoing project so are by no means complete.  The Argus digitisation finishes in the 1920s at this stage.

Judith

[Tom Piper]

Judith

No we don't have actual dates so don't go trawling, that was what Sir George's fishing boats did!!

To anyone else following this tale, this is what "Table Talk" was all about: Table Talk 18/7/07
There was a large photo of her with a long chatty paragraph about her social success achieved by her culminating in her engagement to very wealthy ship owner.
She has been everywhere through Mr Shares introduction and been entered as Austral Institute as a brilliant Australian journalist & had every facility for succeeding. She made conquests on shipboard which opened doors of fashion and wealth. Mr Williamson introductions gave her open sesame to theatrical world. Once Sir George announced engagement she was summoned to Kings garden party wearing a dream of a frock! She was described as a true Celt impulsive, impressionable warm, heated ,witty ,plenty of dash, found of ready smart repartee  pungent not spiteful whilst  Sir George was reserved and quiet  He is a widower with a married son and daughter and is up in the millionaire way! He owns Waltham Hall and a sumptuous London flat, and a Grimsby newspaper. She began her career on this paper 8 years ago schooling at Table Talk where she published verses and stories. She will be married at Brompton Oratory. Sir George is strict High Church and he has been given permission to marry in front of altar, rather in a side chapel which suits those of Roman Catholic upbringing. She has an elder sister, Mrs Reed who also married a Protestant widower of 50.

Tom

[Tom Piper]

I think Holstein House was once a school in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.

Tom

[Richard Howlong]

Hi Tom

I had previously tried to obtain a Google photo of Holstein House but no luck.

I have added it to my list of photos on my next trip to Melbourne.


Richard

[Tom Piper]

You wont find it, it's a block of flats

Tom