Caroline (Ralph) Edwards (1850 - 1896)

Born 1850 in Camborne, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Wife of Francis Gilbart Edwards — married 1870 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 1896 at about age 46 in Brighton, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Caroline Ralph was born on 10 May 1850 in Centenary Street, Camborne, Cornwall to Francis Ralph and Caroline Ralph nee Rogers.^[1]

At the time of the 1841 census she and her parents and brother John were living at her grandfather's, John Ralph's, house at 157 Centenary Street, Camborne.^[2]

Caroline came to Australia at the age of four with her parents, Francis and Caroline, and her brother John. The Ralph family arrived in Portland, Victoria on 21 November 1854 on the Bloomer after a voyage of 124 days.^[3][4]

Caroline Ralph married Francis Gilbart Edwards on 27 Dec 1870 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.^[5] They had the following children:

1. Edith Caroline Edwards 1871–1946
2. Lucy Gilbart Edwards 1873–1908
3. Helena Mary Francis Edwards 1876–1950
4. Annie Tuckfield Edwards 1879–1906^[6]
5. Elizabeth Christina Edwards 1881–
6. Ethel Augusta Edwards 1885–1963
7. Benjamin Gilbart Edwards 1887–1888
8. Stanley Gilbart Edwards 1889–1917^[7]
9. Ernest Francis Gilbart Edwards 1891–1901
10. Arnold Leslie Morton Edwards 1893–1894

Caroline died on 22 July 1896 in Brighton, Victoria, when she was 46 years old.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth Certificate Name Caroline Ralph Registration Year 1850 Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar Registration district Penzance Inferred County Cornwall Volume 9 Page 217
2. ↑ 1851 England census Class: HO107; Piece: 1916; Folio: 105; Page: 44; GSU roll: 221070.
3. ↑ Young, Anne. "B is for the Barque Bloomer Arrived 1854." Anne's Family History, 1 Apr. 2016, https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/b-is-for-the-barque-bloomer-arrived-1854/
4. ↑ Public Record Office Victoria Series: VPRS 14; Series Title: Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kingdom (microform copy, VPRS 3502)
5. ↑ Marriage certificate Francis Gilbert Edwards Victoria 1870/3767
6. ↑ Young, Anne. "Annie Tuckfield Edwards (1879-1906) – Lieutenant of the Salvation Army." Anne's Family History, 13 July 2014, https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/annie-tuckfield-edwards-1879-1906-lieutenant-of-the-salvation-army/
7. ↑ Young, Anne. "Z is for Zillebeke." Anne's Family History, 30 Apr. 2015, https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/z-is-for-zillebeke/
8. ↑ Death certificate Name: Caroline Edwards Death Age: 46 Birth Date: abt 1850 Death Date: Abt 1896 Death Place: Victoria Registration Date: 1896 Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: Ralph Francis Mother: Carol Rodgers Registration Number: 8786