Georgina Alice Roe

England & Wales Birth registration index record for Georgina Alice Roe, Mother's Maiden Surname: Moore, July-September quarter 1844, Chelmsford registration district, Essex, Vol. 12, p. 35.

Parish baptism record for Georgiana Alice Roe, father James, cleric, mother Susannah, baptised 4 August 1844, Great Baddow, Essex, England by James Roe, officiating minister.

1851 England census - Georgina Alice Roe, 6 (born about 1845), born Galleywood, Essex, England, Curate's Daur Scholar. Also in the house: father James Roe, 28 (born about 1823), born Lincolnshire, England, Curate Of High Ham; mother Susanna Roe, 26 (born about 1825), born Widdington, Lincolnshire, England, Curate's Wife; sister Mary Susan Roe, 1 (born about 1850), born High Ham, Somerset, England, Curate's Daur; sister Catherine Agnes Roe, 5 months (born about 1851), born High Ham, Somerset, England, Curate's Daur; grandmother Catherine Sarah Roe, 75 (born about 1776), born Alverstoke, Hampshire, England, widow, Independant; visitor, aunt (mother Susanna's sister) Frances Moore, 24 (born about 1827), born St Peters, Derbyshire, England, Independant; servant Hannah Hobbs, 26 (born about 1825), born Dulverton, Somerset, England, Nurse; servant Sarah Scriven, 29 (born about 1822), born High Ham, Somerset, England, Hous Servant; and servant Hannah Taylor, 21 (born about 1830), born Upperton, Herefordshire, England, Cook.

Address - High Ham, Langport, Somerset, England.

Father James was convicted of forgery in 1861 and transported to Western Australia, arriving on 31 December 1862. Georgina, her mother and her siblings arrived in WA on 17 December 1864 on the Hastings.

Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA), Wednesday 21 December 1864, page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVED.

19 [ie 17 December]. ... — Hastings, 541 tons, Captain McQueen, from London, with general cargo. Passengers — ... Mrs Roe, Miss Roe and 8 children, ...

The family presumably lived in York (father James met his family at Fremantle when they arrived and immediately escorted them back to York, where he was privately employed as a schoolmaster) until early 1867 when father James commenced as a teacher at Greenough and mother Susannah at a teaching position at Geraldton and later at Greenough.

From the Bicentenial Dictionary of Western Australians, Vol IV p2663.

m (1) 24-12-1873 (Geraldton) Joseph Walton b 1832 (expiree); m (2) 30-1-1880 (Singapore Greek Orthodox) Paul L. Martina (druggist), son of Zachary & Mary (nee Nanajin); m (3) (Singapore) De Silva. Matron at Singapore Hospital. Retired on half pay & went to London with failing eyesight.

England & Wales Death registration index record for Georgiana Alice Martin, died aged 63 (born about 1845), July-September quarter 1908, Paddington registration district, London, Vol. 1A, p. 5.

England & Wales Probate registration index record for Georgiana Alice Martin, of 62 Warrington crescent, Maida Vale, Middlesex, widow, died 29 July 1908. Administration London 7 August 1909, the Joseph William Walton, traveller, effects £32 6s 3d.