James Buxton -Donald Carlo

[sparrett]

This looks like the death of Rosina in Victoria
 
 WILSON Rose Ellen
Father Buxton James A
Mother Helen  FINDLAY
Death Place SUNS
Age 71
Year 1969
Reg  10353

Sue
 

[wivenhoe]

At Kyabram Cemetery   BUXTON James Alexander  16 Jul 1914  45 years  CE/2/27

BDM VIC birth
BUXTON James Alexander  parents  James / Rosa HARWOOD  1867 #13570

James Alexander BUXTON and Rosina Eleanor HARWOOD have children 1864 - 1889 in Victoria, including Rosina and Rhoda (sisters to James Alexander b. 1867)

[wivenhoe]

Assuming these are children of Eleanor FINLEY - and see reply #17
The death notice, 1914, for James Alexander BUXTON has Rose (b 1898), Florrie(b. 1902), Gwen (b. 1904) and Will.   So correct birth order, and suggests Will born after 1904.

Possibly?
BDM NSW
19383 / 1906 BUXTON William J   parents James / Ellen     @ Waterloo.

[kasden]

Thank you all.......the information I have is from a distant family member , most of what I have received fro you all ties in with what I have been told...Eleanor muddied the waters a lot by using lots of names Helen, Ellen, Nellie, etc as well as Buxton, Carlo. Findley....add to that her 'partner/husband names of Donald and James...she once said one of her daughters fathers was Robert Carlo...Robert was actually her own fathers name.
It is a belief in our family that she bigamously married George Foster before her 1st husband, Donald Carlo,  had died and also prior to her defacto James Buxton's demise....It was a surprise to see her mentioned in Hannah's wedding notice though because it was always believed that Hannah knew nothing of her parents and was raised by a foster family.

[sparrett]

More on the death in July  1914 of James A Buxton of Epping who died at Kyabram
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/152634183

Sudden Death.— A man named James A. Buxton, licensed hawker, residing at Epping, who styled himself ' The Remnant King,' died suddenly at the Albion Hotel, Kyabram, yesterday morning. He had been hawking goods in a wagon through the district and came into Kyabram a few days ago and put up at the Albion Hotel. Being in ill-health, he consulted Dr Harconrt, who found him suffering from heart trouble. Yesterday morning Buxton said he was improving, but half-an-hour later be was found dead. The police took possession of his goods and notified his wife at Epping of her husband's demise.



This link is to a letter written to the newspaper by Rosena Ellen BUXTON when she was 13. It tells a little about herself.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/222242138

Rosina Ellen WILSON on theft charge whilst living at Horsham. 1937
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/73111841

Sue

[sparrett]

Florence Rhoda married
BUXTON, Florence
McLAUGHLIN Andrew Thomas
#3040
Year 1923.

She can be found on the Victorian Electoral Rolls to 1980.

She died in 1993 and is interred Fawkner Memorial Park.

MCLAUGHLIN  Florence Rhoda
Location Fawkner Bruce Robinson Gardens
CR Interment on 06 Dec 1993
Death date   02 Dec 1993
 
Headstone photo
https://billiongraves.com/grave/Florence-Rhoda-McLaughlin/3726981#

Sue
 

[kasden]

Thanks Sue, I had not seen either of the Trove articles nor the headstone and am most grateful for your efforts. Rosina was obviously getting an education at the age of 13 but was a little old to be 'in the 4th grade' at that age, unless the system was somewhat different back then.
Again many thanks.
Karen

[sparrett]

Pleased to have helped.
In closing I do feel a little sympathy for Ellen.  We do not know the full story of her relationships and the facts of who deserted whom and why.

Perhaps the older CARLO was not a good husband and by the time she married FOSTER many years may have passed since she'd had contact with him.
I think the law was forgiving in the matter, and, if at least seven years of "whereabouts unknown" had elapsed, another marriage was allowed.

As for James BUXTON, well there is mention of "his wife" in the 1914 news item about his death, so someone was perhaps sharing family life with the children left behind by Ellen.

The wording of the marriage announcement placed by Gwendoline BUXTON sounds as if she was either not aware of, or not acknowledging the marriage of her mother to George FOSTER.

Interesting to note too, that in the death notice for James Alexander, the .existence of Ada as his child is not acknowledged.
 
Son Will remains a mystery
Sue

[kasden]

you're right Sue...Ellen was only 17 when she married Donald Carlo, a man 30 years her senior, and so perhaps not what she expected...I know that George Foster lived in a nearby street to her while she was in the Buxton relationship though...and young Ada Buxton was always known as Bonnie Foster almost from the start....we can't look back at those days from today's perspective and make critical judgements...they were different times. But oh my, isn't it fascinating 
Karen