Maria Jenkins (1853 - 1924)

Born 13 Feb 1853 in Marwood, Devon, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Eakin — married about 1878 (to about 1917) in Kew, Victoria, Australia

Died 22 Feb 1924 at age 71 in Kew, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Maria was born in 13 feb 1853. ^[1]She was the daughter of Charles Jenkins and Elizabeth Bear. ^{[2] [3]}

She passed away in 22 Feb 1924. ^[4]

Maria Jenkins and Thomas Eakin

As an infant [6 months] she sailed to Geelong with parents Charles and Elizabeth in 1853 to live at Leigh Rd. Victoria, Australia. ^[5]Today Leigh Rd is called Bannockburn.

She would have remembered little of the first journey that she took in her new land from the Port of Geelong to a small hut close to the Moorabool River at Russell's Bridge [near Bannockburn].

She and Thomas conceived the following children: Louisa, Stewart Hartley, Else may, Amie Maria, Lena Jane, Sarah Elizabeth, Florence Grace. ^[6]

Apart from her marriage to Thomas Eakin and the registration of her issue of seven children to Thomas, six of which were girls little is known of her life in Australia.

She married Thomas circa 1878 and died in Kew, Melbourne, at the age of 71. ^[7] She is buried at the Kew Cemetery.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Census 1851
2. ↑ Census 1851
3. ↑ Family Bible
4. ↑ Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages, Victoria
5. ↑ Woods Verna
6. ↑ Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages, Victoria
7. ↑ Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages, Victoria
8. ↑ Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages, Victoria

1. Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages, Victoria. Registry: Births, Deaths and Marriages. (Government Printer, Treasury Place, Melbourne, VIC 3001, 1834 - 2001).

2. Census 1851: United Kingdom; The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. TW9 4DU

3. Woods Verna, Descendants of Charles and Elizabeth Jenkins of Ilfracombe (Compiler Address: Winmallee St., North Balwyn, Vicoria, Australia).

4. Family Bible: In possession of Joan Hamblett, Queenscliff Rd. Leopold, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.