Eliza Aldersey (1824 - 1883)

Born 5 Jun 1824 in St Johns Hackney, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Died 29 Mar 1883 at age 58 in Adelaide, South Australia

Biography

Eliza Aldersey was born or was christened on 5 JUN 1824 at St Johns Hackney, Middlesex, England. She was the daughter of Richard Baker Aldersey and Rachel Ainsley.

Eliza never married.

Her family migrated from London to South Australia via the ship Dorothy, arriving on the 6th June 1849.^[1] On board were Richard Baker Aldersey, his 2nd wife Elizabeth Emma (Wilkinson), and their children Eliza, Mary Ann, Harry Lee, Joseph Hayden, Arabella Harriet, Algernon Lumley, and Mary Ainsley.

The Aldersey home was built off Amery Rd, McLaren Vale South Australia, at what is now a private property called Aldersey located behind the Kay Brothers winery.

Eliza and her sister Mary Ann inherited the property "Tsong Gyiaou" from their aunt Mary Ann Aldersey and created a boarding school for girls in 1868. The school is now part of the McLaren Vale Districts War Memorial Hospital.

She died at Adelaide, South Australia, on 29 MAR 1883, aged 59,^[2][3] and was buried in the McLaren Vale Congregational Church Cemetery.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ The DOROTHY 1849. Bound for South Australia website, retrieved 21 Apr 2021.
2. ↑ Family Notices (1883, March 31). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), p. 4. Retrieved April 21, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43466404
   DEATHS. ALDERSEY.— On the 29th March, at the house of F. W. Cox, Wakefield-street, Eliza, second daughter of the late R. B. Aldersey, of Maclaren Vale.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 April 2021), memorial page for Eliza Aldersey (5 Jun 1825–29 Mar 1883), Find A Grave: Memorial #169362841, citing Congregational Cemetery and Memorial Wall, McLaren Vale, Onkaparinga City, South Australia, Australia ; Maintained by Lazblom (contributor 48179735)

• "Australia, South Australia, Will and Probate Records," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPT2-P3S6 : 26 September 2019), Eliza Aldersey, 24 Apr 1883; citing Will, South Australia, Australia, Probate and Administration Books, Supreme Court of South Australia, Adelaide; FHL microfilm 103271690.