Christina Jane Murray - Savige

Biography

Christina Jane DIVER was born in 1876 in Creswick, VIC, Australia. Her parents were Sampson Jabez DIVER and Grace PRATT.

Christina married James Murray in 1900 in Victoria, Australia. Together they had the following children:

• Ada ;
• Ethel May ;
• Reginald ;
• Amy Doris ;
• Stanley ;
• Oliver Clarence .

Her husband James died on 8 September 1910 and Christina married Charles SAVIGE in 1911 in Victoria, Australia. Together they had the following children:

• Hazel Jean .

Christina died on December 10, 1945 in Sale, Victoria, Australia and was buried in Hazelwood Cemetery, Morwell, Victoria, Australia.

MARRIAGE 1 Name: Christina Jane Diver Spouse Name: James Murray Marriage Place: Victoria Registration Place: Victoria Registration Year: 1900 Registration Number: 2074

ELECTORAL ROLL Name: Christina Jane Murray Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1905 Subdistrict: Morwell State: Victoria District: Gippsland Country: Australia Residence Address: Tanjil East Occupation: Home Duties [Lives with James, a farmer]

Name: Christina Jane Murrai Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1908 Subdistrict: Moe State: Victoria District: Gippsland Country: Australia Residence Address: Tanjil East Occupation: Home Duties [With James who is a farmer. Other Murray families are close by at Trafalgar, and Tyers]

Name: Christina Jane Murray Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1909 Subdistrict: Moe State: Victoria District: Gippsland [Christina is at Tanjil East with James, a farmer.]

MARRIAGE 2 THIS IS A WRONG ATTRIBUTION
The Christina Jane Murray was BORN MURRAY and did not marry James Murray.
First name(s) Charles Last name Savige Sex Male Marriage year 1911 Spouse's first name(s) Christina Jane Spouse's last name Murray State Victoria Country Australia Record set Victoria Marriages 1836-1942 Registration number 5839

DEATH & BURIAL Name: Christina Jane Murray Maiden Name: Diver Birth Date: 1876 Death Date: 10 Dec 1945 Death Place: Sale, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia Cemetery: Hazelwood Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia Spouse: James Murray

Grave Christina Jane Diver Murray BIRTH 1876 DEATH 10 Dec 1945 (aged 68–69) Sale, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia BURIAL Hazelwood Cemetery Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia

NB: Christina Jane Murray is a different person, daughter of William Murray and married Charles Savige.

OR IS SHE??? The Argus 12 Dec 1945 SAVIGE.—On December 10, Christina Jane, of Brown Coal Mine, widow of Charles Savige, and loving mother of Ada, Ethel. Reg. Amy, Stab, Clarrie, and Hazel aged 70 years.

This is very odd since Charles Savige married Christina Murray, daughter of William Murray of Trafalgar, who died in 1910 with a different set of children. Charles remarried and had one more child, but none of these. In fact, Charles Savige's first wife, Christina Murray died in 1910, as did her brother James Murray. Charles Savige then married James Murray's widow, Christina Jane Murray (nee Diver) --- his sister-in-law -- and took her children into his family. They had one more child together and were married for 31 years until Charles' death in 1942..
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From Tribal Pages, Bronny's Tree Diver, Christina Jane, Born 1876 in Creswick, Died 1945 in Sale

BIRTH & BAPTISM Name: Christina Murray Birth Registration Date: 1860 Birth Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: William Murray Mother Maiden Name: White Reference Number: 5599

Bio from Ancestry Charles Savige, third son of John and Emma was born at Lake Lonsdale, near Stawell where John had been following the gold rushes, on 10th November 1861. He died in Melbourne in 1942. Charles married Christina Murray, daughter of William Murray and Mary Ann (nee White), of Trafalgar.Christina, born Camberwell 1859, died Morwell Bridge 10th October 1910, married Charles at the Church of England, Trafalgar, in 1886. My father was a butcher at the time at Coalville.Later he moved the shop to Narracan Falls, where he used to supply meat to the camps of the railway workers who were constructing the new line from Mote to Thorpdale. When the line was comple­ted, he opened another butcher's shop at Narracan. A lot of country was being opened up along the McDonald's Track and Charles supplied meat to the surveyors as far as Leongatha, Mirboo and Meeniyan. He told me he lost two horses while crossing the Tarwin River at Mirboo South on one trip. It certainly must have been a hard life.Mother and Father lived on a property which Father had bought in its natural state, about miles north‑west of the falls; he cleared the land when not on trips with meat, but he must have employed labour to have done all this work.I can recall my mother talking about the great bushfire sometime in the 1890's when she hi get into a dam with her four children. I think it was known as Black Friday bushfire.When my grandfather went to "Riverside", Moe, my father selected a block of land near Morwell Bridge, not far from "Riverside", but did not go there. Charles went into a tailoring business his elder brother, John, at 176 Flinders St., Melbourne. I think he had the call of the land a, only stayed a short time, then he bought the adjoining block of 365 acres at Morwell Bridge which been partly cleared. I believe it belonged to the old briquette company which had become bankrupt. Father bought the old brick factory, pulled it down and built a lovely home with a big lounge, five bedrooms, large dining‑room and kitchen, plus a brick dairy. He named the property of 640 acres "Hope Dale", and that was where I was born on 21st September 1900.I was told that Father employed his brother Bert to help build the house, bringing the bricks from the brown coal mine on a trolley and then carting them to the house site by bullock team; I still see the old wagon with solid wheels cut from red gum.Bert Savige did quite a bit of bridge‑building and Father used to cart the timber onto the job with his bullock team."Hope Dale" was a beautiful property and the Latrobe River ran right through it. Its big lagoons always had duck on them and perch in the river weighed up to 5 lbs. Very often Father would invite people from Melbourne to shoot quail and snipe. I think that shooting was one of his main hobbies. He was a good horseman and always had a good pair of horses for his buggy.One pair he called Don and Murmer. Once, my brother Harry, home for Christmas from University was shearing a sheep when it kicked and drove the blade into his leg cutting the main artery. We harnessed the pair up and drove to Morwell, a distance of six miles, in under half an hour. Harry survived and later became a doctor.Once a year, my father would go out to buy cattle around his old meat round ‑ Leongatha, Mirboo and Narracan ‑ and would often bring back up to 200 and 300 head. He would then hold an auction sale arranged by Theo. B. Little and Co. and people would come from miles around. 1 am sure he made quite a lot of money from it.We had a big bend in the river near the old coal mine and this was a favourite place for picnic Once a year, a football team from Walhalla would corm down and play a local team; this would be about 1905 to 1912.In 1910 my mother died. I was 10 years of age, the youngest of the family of seven. My brothers, Allan and Lindsay, were away and the remainder still lived at home. In 1912 my father married Jane Murray, widow of my mother's brother, Jim, who died September 1910, and brought the whole family of six Murrays home to "Hope Dale"; as my father said: "Like a hen with six chickens" – the eldest child was 12 years old.There was one child by this marriage, Hazel, born at Morwell on 28th March 1913. Traralgon in 1966.In 1914 when the Great War started, my sister Thella was a nurse at Heidelberg Hospital on 2/6 a week, Harry a medical student at Melbourne University, Allan a schoolteacher, Roy and I were at home and Lindsay went to the war. Harry later went to the war as a doctor.About this time the family seemed to break up, Mary went to Melbourne to do office work, Roy was a cattle‑dealer and I went into a motor garage at Sale. Later, I came to Melbourne in the motor industry, in 1921 joined the air force as a gunnery and armament instructor and, after leaving the air force in 1928, I worked in the motor industry then started my own business as a clothing manufacturer in 1931.I must add here that my brother, Lindsay, after returning from the war in 1919, was the first person to be employed with the State Electricity Commission at Yallourn; he was forest ranger and No.1 on the payroll. Lindsay was one of those who welcomed Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Yallourn in 1954, and gave her the outline of the history and growth of Yallourn. In 1919 the S.E.C. acquired "Hope Dale" to get the brown coal to generate power for the state. The price offered to Charles was unacceptable to him so he took them to Arbitration Court and was awarded a higher figure. Where the open cut is today, was once "Hope Dale".My mother, father and Roy are buried in Morwell, Thella at Trafalgar, Lindsay at Lakes Entrance, Allan, Springvale, Harry, Brisbane Crematorium and Hazel was cremated at Springvale. Mary and myself are the only surviving children of Charles.(Jane, second wife of Charles, died on 10th December 1945 at Morwell.) [Edgar Savige, in "Savage 1739 - Savage 1974" by Margot Titcher (Dandenong, 1974)]

MARRIAGE Name: Christina Murray Gender: Female Marriage Registration Year: 1886 Marriage Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Spouse: Charles Savige Reference Number: 3222

ELECTORAL ROLL Name: Christina Savige Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1903 Subdistrict: Moe State: Victoria District: Flinders Country: Australia [Christina is at Morwell Bridge with Charles, a farmer]

Name: Christina Savige Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1906 Subdistrict: Driffield State: Victoria District: Gippsland Country: Australia Residence Address: Morwell Bridge Occupation: Duties

Name: Christina Savige Gender: Female Electoral Year: 1909 Subdistrict: Moe State: Victoria District: Gippsland [Morwell Bridge with Charles, a farmer. Most of the Saviges are at Moe Swamp with some in Moe and others at Narracan.]

DEATH & BURIAL Gippsland Times 10 Oct 1910 SAVIGE.-On the 5th October, at her late residence, "Hopedale," Latrobe River, Morwell, Christina, the dearly beloved wife of Charles Savige, and daughter of the late William Murray, of Trafalgar, aged 50 years. Deeply regretted.

Morwell Advertiser 7 Oct 1910 DEATH. SAVIGE --On 5th inst., at her residence, " Hopedale," Latrobe, Christina, dearly beloved wife of Charles Savige. Aged 50 years. Deeply regretted.

FUNERAL NOTICE. THE Friends of Mr Chas. Savige are respectfully invited to follow the remains of his late wife to the place of interment- the Hazelwood Cemetery. The funeral will leave "Hopedale," tomorrow (Saturday), at 1 o'clock. GEO. BILLINGSLEY, Undertaker.

THANKS. MR CHAS. SAVIGE desires to tender his sincere thanks to the many friends for the kind expressions of sympathy and condolence received during his recent sad bereavement. He desires to especially thank Nurse Thompson and Drs McLean and Hagenauer for their untiring and devoted attention in striving to save his beloved wife.

Name: Christina Savige Maiden Name: Murray Birth Date: 1860 Death Date: 5 Oct 1910 Death Place: Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia Cemetery: Hazelwood Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia Spouse: Charles Savige Children: Charles Roy Savige

Christina Murray Savige BIRTH 1860 DEATH 5 Oct 1910 (aged 49–50) Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia BURIAL Hazelwood Cemetery Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia Father: William Murray Mother: Mary Ann White [Christina is buried with her husband and son]

Charles Savige BIRTH 1861 DEATH 5 Mar 1942 (aged 80–81) Coburg, Moreland City, Victoria, Australia BURIAL Hazelwood Cemetery Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia

Charles Roy Savige BIRTH 1896 Narracan, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria, Australia DEATH 10 Oct 1958 (aged 61–62) Yallourn, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia BURIAL Hazelwood Cemetery Morwell, Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia

NB: Christina Jane Murray is a different person, wife of James Murray, born Diver, and was the sister-in-law of Charles Savige's first wife.

Probably a son of Charles and Christina Toowoomba Chronicle and darling Downs Gazette 23 May 1925 SAVIGE—FLETCHER.—On 4th Feb- 1925, at Presbyterian Church, Manly, NSW., by the Rev. Jameson Williams, Harold William, son of Mr. and the late Mrs. Charles Savige, Gippsland, Victoria, to Doris Jeanne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Fletcher, Toowoomba, Q.