Jeanie died on September 1, 1941 in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, aged 78.
The Age (Melbourne), Tuesday 2 September 1941, page 6:
Mrs. J. Hughes
Mrs. Jeanie Hughes, of Hawksburn-road, South Yarra, widow of the late Mr. E. W. Hughes, died on Monday. Mrs. Hughes was the daughter of the late Mr. S. P. Hawkins, who was an early pioneer of the Portland Bay district, following the Hentys there soon after the first settlement at Portland. He owned several well-known properties, including Spring Bank, Wando Vale and Melville Forest. Mrs. Hughes was born on the lastnamed property. She is survived by one daughter, Beatrix, wife of Sir Trent de Crespigny, of Adelaide, and two sons — R. H. Hughes and C. S. C. Hughes, of Melbourne. Sir Harry Lawson is her nephew. She will be privately interred today at the Brighton Cemetery.[1]
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DNA confirmation
Paternal and maternal relationships confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Rafe de Crespigny and his second cousin once removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Rafe's great great grandparents, Samuel Proudfoot Hawkins and Jeanie Hutcheson. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd – 3rd Cousin, based on sharing 110 cM across 6 segments; Longest segment: 34 cM.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jeanie by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jeanie: