Julia Louisa Wallace (Wallace) Jones (1835 - 1908)

Born 1835 in Cape Colony, South Africa

Ancestors

Wife of John Jones — married 18 Mar 1857 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Died 21 Feb 1908 at about age 73 in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, England

Biography

Julia Louisa Wallace Wallace was born in 1835 in the Cape Colony, where her father William Wallace was serving as an Army officer, accompanied by her mother Frances Elmslie.

In the 1851 census, she was at Braddan on the Isle of Man with her uncle George Harris Wallace and grandfather Peter Margetson Wallace.^[1]

In 1857 at Cheltenham she married John Jones, a retired Army officer and widower, witnesses including her father, her grandfather, and her aunt Charlotte Beatrice Wallace.^[2][3]

In the 1871 Census she was a married woman and head of household living with her widowed mother in Westbury on Severn. In 1875 she was a widow living with her widowed mother at 7 Suffolk Square, Cheltenham, and that year she acted as her mother's executrix. In the 1891 Census she was still living in Cheltenham at Suffolk Square, as she was in 1901. She died on 21 Feb 1908 at Elm Lea, 6 Palace Road, Kingston on Thames, and was buried on 25 Feb 1908 at Swindon, Gloucestershire. Probate of her estate worth nearly 16,000 pounds was granted to her unmarried niece Fanny Julia Buchanan.

Sources

1. ↑ Name: Julia L Wallace Event Type: Census Event Date: 1851 Event Place: Braddan, Isle Of Man, England Gender: Female Age: 16 Marital Status: Unmarried Birth Year (Estimated): 1835 Birthplace: Cape Of Good Hope Relationship to Head of Household: Niece Page Number: 11 Registration Number: HO107 Piece/Folio: 2525 / 427 Affiliate Record Type: Household Affiliate Image Identifier: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC/1851/4508097/00844&parentid=GBC/1851/0018260968 Household Role Sex Age Birthplace George H Wallace Head M 39 England Charlotte B Wallace Wife F 25 England L B H B Wallace Daughter F 4 , Isle Of Man P M Wallace Father M 69 England Julia L Wallace Niece F 16 Cape Of Good Hope Mary Henitt Servant F 30 England Caroline Summers Servant F 26 England Hannah Elliott Servant F 22 England John Coulter Servant M 32 England Peter Head Servant M 23 England Household ID: 3647229 Line Number: 11 GS Film Number: 101796923 Digital Folder Number: 101796923 Image Number: 00844 Citing this Record "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGR3-C8G : 12 September 2019), Peter Head in household of George H Wallace, Braddan, Isle Of Man, England; citing Braddan, Isle Of Man, England, p. 11, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
2. ↑ Register of St Luke's, Cheltenham
3. ↑ Name: Julia Louisa Wallace Wallace Event Type: Marriage Event Place: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England Registration District: Cheltenham County: Gloucestershire Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar Registration Year: 1857 Volume: 6A Page: 495 Affiliate Line Number: 29 Possible Spouse: John Jones Citing this Record "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DQZ-BP2 : 13 December 2014), Julia Louisa Wallace Wallace, 1857; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1857, quarter 1, vol. 6A, p. 495, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.