 1863 - 1919 (55 years)
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| Name |
Watson, Blanche Elliott |
| Born |
9 May 1863 |
Balmain, New South Wales, Australia  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
27 Mar 1919 |
Bell, Queensland, Australia [1] |
| Person ID |
I00116 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Nov 2019 |
| Father |
Watson, William Bourn Russell, b. 20 Jun 1815, Sussex, England , d. 15 May 1877, William Street, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Age 61 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Leach, Esther Emma, b. 10 Jun 1824, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , d. 22 Jul 1914, "Dalkeith", Alma Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Age 90 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Married |
29 Jan 1841 |
Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia. [2] |
| Family ID |
F00005 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Rowland, Charles John, c. 14 Jun 1860, Coulsdon, Surrey, England , d. 11 Feb 1926, Dalby, Queensland, Australia (Age ~ 65 years) |
| Married |
12 Aug 1891 |
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Rowland, Stephen Henry, b. 25 Sep1898, Croydon, Surrey, England , d. Aft 11.1933 |
| + | 2. Rowland, Blanche Esther, b. 13 Jan 1892, Shepherd St., Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , d. 25 Oct 1983, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (Age 91 years) |
| + | 3. Rowland, Dorothy Juliet, b. 1 Oct 1895, Marwood, Devon, England , d. Abt 1995, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Age 99 years) |
| | 4. Rowland, Francis Richmond, b. 21 Jul 1897, Waddon Court, Croydon, Surrey, England , d. 22 Mar 1918, Belguim (Age 20 years) |
| | 5. Rowland, Charles Vylett, b. 22 Aug 1899, Waddon Court, Croydon, Surrey, England , d. Jan 1913, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (Age 13 years) |
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| Last Modified |
16 Nov 2017 |
| Family ID |
F00061 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- ROWLAND-WATSON - March 12, at St Andrew's
Cathedral, Sydney, by the Rev A R, Rivers, MA, Charles third son of S. N. Rowland, Wadden Court, Waddon, England, to Blanche Elliott -youngest daughter of the late William Watson, M.L.A., of Balmain (Sydney Morning Herald 28.03.1891)
0bituary
Mrs. C.J.Rowland
The many friend of Mr. C.J.Rowland, of "Dalmoora", Bell, will be deeply grieved to hear that his wife passed away at her home yesterday afternoon, after a long illness. Mrs. Rowland, despite continual ill health, ...
BRISBANE COURIER MAIL
The Babies of the Allies' Clothing Society has received a letter from the Bell branch announcing with deep regret the death of its secretary, Mrs. Rowland, last Thursday. "We feel very keenly the loss of such an able chief, who worked so hard up to the last," the writer states. "We were to have had a meeting at her bedside yesterday. The eleven years spent by our friend in Bell have been a time of constant work on behalf of others, although suffering intense pain and three operations.
DEATH
Rowland: On March 27, 1919, at her residence, 'Dalmoora', Bell, Blanche Elliot, wife of Charles J. Rowland and youngest daughter of the late William Watson, M.L.A., Balmain, Sydney, N.S.W., aged 56 years.
DALBY HERALD, Early April, 1919
REMINISCENCES OF MY WIFE'S LIFE
(BY C.J.R.)
By the unfailing courtesy of the editor of "The Leader", and at the request of a large number of friends, I am penning a brief account of the life ended on Thursday last, and preface same by distinctly saying that my wife never considered herself in the light of a paragon. She was very human and had her faults, and was ever cognizant of same. Still, she was a marvellous woman, the world always told me so, and tonight in my loneliness I know it for truth. My wife was the youngest daughter of the late Captain Watson, of Sydney, one of the keenest yachtsmen the harbor club ever had, his measurements and tonnage being the governing standard of yacht-racing to-day, and in the "Ella," built under her father's directions, the subject of these lines proved herself very smart. At the death of her father, the family removed to a suburb of Sydney, and it was here that her magnetic power of organising displayed itself. "Will you build me a church?" the speaker was an Anglican minister, standing at a tent door after the evening service, and the reply came, "I will." That night the realm of art lost one who would, without a doubt, have risen to world-wide fame, for at the age of 17 my wife was sweeping all before her with her pencil in some of the exhibitions, beating close on a thousand competitors in "black and white". In less than four years the clergyman referred to held his services in a substantial church, lived in a two-storied parsonage-both brick buildinggs-his home being furnished from top to bottom. A spacious schoolroom, asphalted paths, and a good fence. The next effort was to help the Sailors' Home then in course of erection, and my wife's band of workers took part in a three days' bazaar, all pinafores. H.M.S. Pinafore was their stall, at which they took over £600, a record for many years. Crossing to England she worked just as hard for Dr. Barnard's Home, and her efforts at Bell are well known. Neither did she spare herself on Sundays, for many years holding the children's classes twice a day. The morning she passed away was the day fixed for closing the "Working Bee" so far as work was concerned, and all members were coming to "Dalmoora". When the end came it was at the last that her indomitalbe spirit burst forth. Some few hours before her death she called her elder daughter and asked her to enter up one or two items in connection with the Society's work, and when this was done she gently said "My life's work is finished, and I am ready for a long sleep".
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| Sources |
- [S00134] Queensland Australia Death Certificate.
- [S00147] New South Wales Australia Marriage Certificate.
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