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Campbell, Maria Louisa
Birth : 14 FEB 1842 Jellasore, Bengal, India
Death : 28 JUL 1906 Marrickville, Sydney, N.S.W.
Gender: Female
Parents:

Father: Campbell, Thomas
Mother: Fiellerup, Helena Maria Elisabeth

Notes: Maria was born at Jellasore, in India, where her father had an indigo plantation. As there were no schools in India when she was young, her father undertook her education himself, instructing her and her eleven brothers and sisters in the classics, history and science, while her mother saw to their religious upbringing.
Maria and her husband Thomas departed England for N.S.W. in 1870 where four of Maria’s older brothers had already settled. Maria and Thomas both died in the same private hospital in Sydney. Maria from cancer and Thomas from cardiac arrest. Thomas had been suffering from “cerebral softening” for seven years.

Source: M.F. Few

Family:

Marriage: 28 NOV 1864 in Rajmahal? India
Spouse:

Davies, Thomas Alfred
Birth : 18 FEB 1839 St. Heliere, Isle of Jersey
Death : 13 MAY 1908 Marrickville, Sydney, N.S.W.
Gender: Male
Parents:

Father: Davies, Evan
Mother: Paddock, Sophia

Notes: Thomas was the son of a British naval surgeon, who had settled at St. Helier, on the island of Jersey some time before he was born. Thomas became a military officer and served with H.M. 20th Foot, East Devonshire Regiment before selling his commission and migrating with his family to New South Wales. His intention on arriving in N.S.W. was to become a Grazier and he settled on a property at Murrumburrah. Thomas became a Police Magistrate in New South Wales, possibly because farming was not proving as profitable as he would have liked.

Source: M.F. Few

Children:

Davies, Evan Alfred
Davies, Helena Maria Campbell (Nell)
Davies, George William Hope
Davies, Alice Catherine
Davies, Lilian Gertrude
Davies, Llewellyn
Davies, Madeline Emma