Grace Mary (Collings) Money (1855 - 1909)

Born 1855 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Wife of Wigram Montagu Money — married 30 Oct 1879 in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England

Died 4 May 1909 at about age 54 in Brighton, Sussex, England

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Biography

Life events

Grace Mary Collings was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1855, the daughter of Adolphus Collings, Esq., M.D., and Georgiana, his wife.^[1][2]

On the 30th October 1879, she married Captain Wigram Montagu Money, 61st regiment, in Clifton, Gloucestershire.^[3][4]

Grace Mary Money, née Collings, died at Brighton, Sussex, on the 4th May 1909, aged fifty-four years.^[5][6]

Census enumerations

1871 census (England):

• Adolphus Collings, head, married, age 55; M.D., Surgeon, USA, M.D. Glasgow, M.R.C.S. London; born in St Peter Port, Guernsey
• Georgiana, wife, married, age 50; born in Barbados, West Indies
• Georgiana E., daughter, unmarried, age 20, born in England
• Grace M., daughter, age 16, scholar; born in Victoria, Australia
• household servants (3)
• census place: Grange Road, St Peter Port. Guernsey.^[2]

… and in 1881:

• Wigram E. Money, head, married age 71, annuitant, born in East India
• Anne J., wife, married, age 64, born in do.
• Wagram[?] M., son, married, age 38, Captain H.M. Army, born in do.
• Grace, daughter [in law], married, age 25, born in Australia
• household servants (3)
• census place: 21 Cambridge Road, Hove, Sussex.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Australia: Birth Index, 1788–1922. Grace Mary Collings, daughter of Adolphus Collings and Georgina, his wife; born c.1855 in Melbourne, Victoria; registration no. 19192. Index online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-09-18). Confirmed to the the State of Victoria’s Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria website, https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/ (2018-09-18).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Channel Islands 1871 Census. Adolphus Collings, age 55, with wife, Georgiana (50), and daughters, Georgiana E. (20) and Grace M. (16); in St Peter Port, Guernsey. Original records: Census Returns of the Channel Islands, 1871 (Kew, Richmond, Surrey. National Archives of the UK, 1871); PRO ref. RG10, piece 5767, folio 73, page 7, household schedule no. 32, registration district: Guernsey, subdistrict: C, enumeration district 5a. Digital images of PRO record online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-09-18, by subscription).
3. ↑ London Evening Standard, 7 November 1879 (pg 1). Marriage notice: “MONEY—COLLINGS.—Oct. 30, at the parish church, Clifton, Bristol by the Rev. P. Fairfax Nursey, Captain Wigram Montagu Money, 61st regiment, son of Wigram Elliot Money, Esq., formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, to Grace Mary, younger daughter of the late Adolphus Collings, Esq., M.D., of Grange Hill, Guernsey.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-09-18).
4. ↑ Index of civil registrations of marriages, England. Wigram Montagu Money and Grace Mary Collings, 4th quarter ending 31st December 1879, Barton Regis RD (Gloucestershire), vol. 6a, pg 238. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-09-18).
5. ↑ National Probate Calendar, England and Wales. “MONEY, Grace Mary, of 16 Charing Cross, Middlesex (wife of Wigram Montagu Money), died 4 May 1909 at Brighton; Probate: London, 3 August [1909] to William Augustus Collings, colonel, His Majesty’s Army.” (ref. 1909, pg 201.) Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-09-18, by subscription).
6. ↑ Index of civil registrations of deaths, England. Grace Mary Money, aged 53 years, 2nd quarter ending 30th June 1909, Steyning RD (Sussex, vol. 2b, pg 160. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-09-18).
7. ↑ England 1881 Census. Wigram E. Money, age 71, with wife, Anne J. (64), son, Wigram M. (38) and daughter-in-law, Grace (25); in Hove, Sussex. Original record: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881 (Kew, Surrey: The National Archives); PRO ref. HO 110, registration district: Steyning, enumeration district no. 2, piece 1095, folio 50, pg. 35. Digital image online at findmypast.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-09-18).