Una Felecia Grace Roe

Parish baptism record for Una Felicia Grace Roe, father James, clergyman, mother Susanne, living Combe Hay, Somerset, baptised 8 November 1857, by her father James Roe, curate.

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

Not further identified.

On 14 June 1926, Sister Mary Anastasia of the St. Joseph's Convent Sydney died, aged 68. She wrote extensively in Catholic magazines under the nom-de-plume of 'Una Roe'.