Laura Frances Eliza Thomas

Parish baptism record for Laura Frances Eliza Roe, father James Roe, cleric, mother Susanna, baptised 27 March 1853, St Clement, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Ceremony performed by James Roe, officiating minister.

1861 England census - Louisa F E Roe, 8 (born about 1853), born Condweeow, Cornwall, England. Also in the house : mother Susan Roe, 40 (born about 1821), born Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, translator foreign languages; sister Hellen E Roe, 5 ( born about 1856), born Combe Hay, Somerset; and sister Louisa Roe, 2 (born about 1859), born Gloucestershire, England.

Address - 23 Hatton Wall, Saffron Hill, London, Middlesex, England.

Father James was convicted of forgery in 1861 and transported to Western Australia, arriving on 31 December 1862. Laura, 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.

Western Australia Marriage registration index record for Laura Frances Eliza Roe marrying Henry Edward Thomas, at Gingin, Gingin registration district, No. 3000004 of 1906.

Western Australia Death registration index record for Laura Frances Eliza Thomas, father James Roe, mother Susanna Moore, died aged 72 at Osborne Park, Perth registration district, No. 101173 of 1924.

Daily News (Perth, WA), Monday 8 September 1924, page 8; West Australian (Perth, WA), Tuesday 9 September 1924, page 1

THOMAS.— The Friends of the late LAURA FRANCES THOMAS, widow of the late Henry E. Thomas, loving sister of Mrs. Gallop and Mrs. White, and sister-in-law of Mrs. F. C. Thomas, of Lyall Hall, Osborne Park, are respectfully invited to follow her remains to the place of internment, the Anglican Cemetery, Karrakatta. The Funeral is appointed to leave Messrs. C. H. Smith and Co.'s Private Mortuary, 281 Neweastle-street, Perth, at 2.15 o'clock TO-MORROW (Tuesday) AFTERNOON, per road. Friends wishing to attend the Funeral may proceed by the 3 p.m. train leaving Forth. C. H. SMITH and CO, Undertakers 281 Newcastle-Street, Perth. Tel. A1231.

Metropolitan Cemeteries Board record for Laura Frances Elizabeth Thomas, died 8 September 1924, aged 72 at Osborne Park. Buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Anglican area, section KA, grave 223.