Selina (Wheeler) Jones (1834 - 1899)

Born 1834 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Crump — married 30 Dec 1850 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 25 Jul 1899 at about age 65 in Yarra River, Kew, Victoria, Australia

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Sandra Williamson [send private message]

Biography

Selina was born in 1834, Gloucestershire, England.^[1]

1841 Census: Selina Wheeler (7) was living with her parents in Besbury, Burley Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, in the parish of Stroud. Her father appears to unemployed.^[1]

At the end of 1841, the family migrated as assisted passengers to Australia. They left at Plymouth on the 30 Oct 1841 aboard the Himalaya and arrived on the 26 Feb 1842 in Port Philip, Victoria, Australia.^[2]

The Ship records show that

1. Reuben was aged 38 and a labourer and the government paid a bounty of 19 pounds.
2. Elizabeth was aged 37, a housekeeper and the government paid a bounty of 19 pounds.
3. George was 5 and the government paid a bounty of 5 pounds.
4. Selina was 7.5 and the government paid a bounty of 10 pounds.

Selina married twice

1. Thomas Crump on 30 December 1850 in the Melbourne Wesleyan Church, Port Philip(now Victoria), Australia.^[3] Thomas died on 13 April 1874 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. ^[4]
2. Abel Jones on 14 March 1876 Fitzroy, Victoria.^[5] Selina became a widow for the second time on 20 February 1897 when Abel died on 20 February 1897 in Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, Hawthorn, Victoria, after 21 years of marriage.^[6]

Two years after Selina's second husband died Selina also died in July 1899. She was found drowned in the Yarra River at Studley Park on the 25th of July 1899 and buried in Kew Cemetery, Boroondara, Victoria, Australia.^[7] Although Selina drowned the cause of her drowning is unknown the inquest returned an open verdict, as there "was no evidence to show how she got into the water".^[8][9][10]

The Epitaph on her grave reads:

In / Memory of / Thomas Crump / Died 13 th April 1874 / Aged 59 years / Also his wife / Selina / Died 25th July 1899 / Aged 65 years and her daughter / Christina Barton / Died 2nd Octr 1915 / Aged 51 years / and her children / Albert and Myrtle / Died in infancy

Interred together in adjoining graves are:^[11]

1. Reuben Wheeler buried 22 July 1873
2. Elizabeth Wheeler buried 12 July 1871
3. Thomas Crump buried 15 April 1874 (son in law of Reuben Wheeler & Elizabeth Wheeler)
4. Selina Jones (1834-1899) buried 27 July 1899 (daughter of Reuben Wheeler & Elizabeth Wheeler, the remarried wife of Thomas Crump)
5. William Henry Barton buried 24 April 1946 (husband of Christina).^[12]
6. Christina Barton buried 4 October 1915 (daughter of Reuben Wheeler & Elizabeth Wheeler)
7. Christina Musgrove buried 15 May 1917(grandaughter of Christina Barton)
8. Myrtle Rose Barton buried 31 March 1896 aged 0 (daughter of William Henry Barton)
9. Albert William Barton buried 25 July 1883 (son of William Henry Barton )
10. Desmond Walter Borradale (1910-1912) buried age 1 on 4 March 1912 (grandson of Thomas Crump & Elizabeth Wheeler)

Note not everyone is not mentioned on the headstone

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} 1841 Census: "1841 England Census"
   Class: HO107; Piece: 362; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Minchinhampton; County: Gloucestershire; Enumeration District: 8; Folio: 23; Page: 10; Line: 23; GSU roll: 288774
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8978 #4231942 (accessed 11 July 2023)
2. ↑ Ancestry, Shipping record for the Wheeler Family #35 on the Himalaya, February 1842 ‘Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896’. State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip (Agent's Immigrant Lists);Series: 5318; Reel: 2144; Item: [4/4814] Vessel Himalaya, p.236 [image 4 of 7] Accessed 25 January 2018. Accessed 25 January 2018.; Ancestry, Alphabetical entries #101-104 for Bounty Immigrants of the Wheeler family from the United Kingdom on the Himalaya 1842. ‘Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923’ Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kingdom. Microfiche VPRS 14. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. p213 [image 420 of 753].
3. ↑ Victoria, Australia Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages.; Marriage Certificate of Thomas Crump and Selina Wheeler, married 30 December 1850, Melbourne 2648/1848; citing Wesleyan(Methodist) marriages solemnized in Victoria between the years 1844 and 1853, nos 3474-3808
4. ↑ Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia, Death Certificate Thomas Crump (Year 1874, Reference #4922
5. ↑ Victoria State Government, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria; Marriage certificate of Abel JONES & Selina CRUMP married on 14 March 1876 Fitzroy, Registration number 871 / 1876.
6. ↑ Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia, Death Certificate Abel Jones (1897 #1865).
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 14 April 2021), memorial page for Selina Jones (1834–27 Jul 1899), Find A Grave: Memorial #208214826, citing Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by woowoo (contributor 49949980) .
8. ↑ 1899 'MELBOURNE.', Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), 28 July, p. 4. , viewed 11 Jul 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89824629
9. ↑ 1899 'TOPICS OF THE DAY.', The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), 26 July, p. 2. , viewed 11 Jul 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241872153
10. ↑ 1899 'YARRA VICTIMS.', The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), 27 July, p. 4. , viewed 11 Jul 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241855444
11. ↑ Burial records for graves United Methodist Graves # A 0050 & # A 0051, (Boroondara General Cemetery : accessed 11 July 2023)
12. ↑ 1946 'Funeral Notice for Mr William Barton', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), 24 April, p. 10. , viewed 11 Jul 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206098733