Frances (Roach) Pascoe (1833 - 1921)

Born 14 Jul 1833 in Uny Lelant, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Pascoe — married 21 Feb 1852 in Penwortham, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 6 Oct 1921 at age 88 in White Hut, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Fanny (Roach) Pascoe came free to the Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)

Fanny Roach was born on 14 July 1833 in Lelant, St Ives, Cornwall, England, the daughter of Thomas Roach and Mary A Thomas and the sister of Thomas Roach, Robert Roach, John Roach, Mary Roach, William Roach, Henry Roach, James Roach, Kitty Roach, Paul Roach, Jane Thomas Roach, Sarah Roach, Frances Roach, Jacob Roach, Isaac Roach, Jacob Roach, Henry Roach, Mathew Roach and Peter Thomas Roach.

Fanny travelled on a four month journey to South Australia, Australia with her parents and six siblings, aboard the "Bussorah Merchant", arriving at Port Adelaide on 10 November 1848 ^[1].

She married Thomas Pascoe, the son of Thomas and Fanny Pascoe on 21 February 1852 in Penwortham, South Australia, Australia ^[2] and their children were Thomas Roach Pascoe, Francis Pascoe, Frances Anne Pascoe, William Bruse Pascoe, Mary Roach (Pascoe) Stephens, Sarah Bruse Pascoe, Joseph John Pascoe and Ella Louise Pascoe.

After their marriage they moved to the Victorian Goldfields where Thomas had been working previously, and in 1854 their first child, Thomas Roach Pascoe, was born. Sadly, baby Thomas died soon after they returned to South Australia in the same year. Their other children were all born in South Australia.

Fanny died on 6 October 1921 at Clare, South Australia, Australia ^[3] and was buried in the White Hut Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery, Stanley Flat, South Australia, Australia ^[4].

Sources

1. ↑ Immigration: Bussorah Merchant 1848 Passenger List: Citing: Thomas Roach & wife & seven children
2. ↑ Marriage: South Australia, Australia Marriages: YEAR: 1852 REG#: 10/426 NAME: PASCOE Thomas SPOUSE: ROACH Fanny DISTRICT: Adelaide
3. ↑ Death: South Australia, Australia Deaths: YEAR: 1921 REG#: 449/354 NAME: PASCOE Fanny RELATIVE NAME: Thomas PASCOE [DH] DISTRICT: Clare
4. ↑ Burial: South Australia, Australia Burials: RESTING PLACE: White Hut Wesleyan Methodist NAME: PASCOE Fanny AGE: 88y YEAR: 1921

• Obituary: Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931) Sat 15 Oct 1921 Page 34 Obituary: Mrs. Thomas Pascoe, sen. Mrs. Thomas Pascoe, sen., of Hope avenue, Clare, mother of the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. T. Pascoe), died on October 6, at the age of 88 years. Mrs. Pascoe was born at Lelant, near St. Ives, Cornwall, and until recently retained a remarkable memory of her girlhood days in the "delectable duchy." and of the perilous sea journey from England in 1848, in the three-masted barque Bossorah Merchant (750 tons, Capt. Edwards), which, took over four months to do the journey, and did not once sight land from Plymouth to Port Adelaide. Mrs. Pascoe vividly recalled sensational experiences with her husband, on the Victorian gold diggings, of bushrangers on the track inland to the diggings, and murders and robberies connected with the gold escorts, the excitement in finding the elusive nugget, the return to South Australia and settling in the Clare district at White Hut in 1853, and lastly, the hardships and strenuousness of pioneering. The deceased was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roach, of Burra and Penwortham, both of whom were among the first to be buried in the Penwortham Church of England Cemetery. More than 60 descendant branches of this grand old tree answered the call of King and country in the Great War, and several will not return. Mr. Pascoe. sen., died at Clare, in 1918, in his eighty-seventh year.

• Passengers for 07/07/1848 - 10/11/1848 from the PASSENGERS IN HISTORY website. first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2021 at: https://passengers.history.sa.gov.au/voyage-passengers-all/944445/07/07/1848%20-%2010/11/1848?page=6

• BUSSORAH MERCHANT 1848 from the Bound For South Australia website. first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2021 at: https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/1848BussorahMerchant.htm

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201881279/fanny-pascoe : accessed 20 September 2021), memorial page for Fanny Pascoe (14 Jul 1833–6 Oct 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #201881279, citing White Hut Cemetery, Stanley Flat, District Council of Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia, Australia ; Maintained by J (contributor 50048377) .