Jamesina Victoria Grifith

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 4 Aug 1911, Korumburra, Victoria, Australia

Jamesina married Robert John Brew in 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elvie Lalla Brew
2. Robert John Griffiths Brew

James married Margaret Thompson on 10 Jan 1860 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Margaret was born about 1824 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died on 5 Apr 1908 in Strzelecki, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 7 Apr 1908 in Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 30 Jun 1853, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

19 July 1909, statement by Jamesina and Adelaide:
The said deceased was our mother and she informed us that she had been married but had separated from her husband many years ago. That we the deponents resided with the said deceased continuously all our lives until the deponent Adelaide Maud Buckley married in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, and the deponent Jamesina Victoria Brew continued to reside with the said deceased until her death. We never saw or heard from the husband of the said deceased and to the best of our knowledge, information and belief the said deceased never during the last fifty years of her life either saw or heard from or of her said husband, and to the best of our knowledge, information and belief the said husband of the deceased died in her lifetime, and that she was a widow at the time of her death.
Ever since we can remember the said deceased was generally known and passed by the name of Margaret Griffiths, and she used that name in her business transactions.
In the Will of James Grifith the said deceased is called “Margaret Thompson” and in her own Will of which we are seeking to obtain Probate, she is named and described as “Margaret Thompson, commonly known as Margaret Griffiths.”
8 October 1909, Jamesina made further statements:
The said deceased told me that Margaret Thompson was her maiden surname, and I verily believe it was.
I do not know the name of the husband of the said deceased referred to in this affidavit. I think “Taylor” was the name the said deceased was the name of her said husband.
the said deceased never during the last thirty-five years nor as I verily believe for many years nor before that used or was known by this surname of “Taylor” nor by any other surname except the surnames “Thompson” and “Griffiths” and to the best of my knowledge and belief the only occasions during this period aforesaid on which the surname “Thompson” was applied to her or on which she used the said surnames were in her own Will aforesaid and in the Will of James Grifith.
The said deceased lived with the said James Grifith for about thirty years and up to the date of his death and during that period she was reported to be his wife and always used his surname and in his Will is called Margaret Thompson otherwise known as Margaret Grifith, which last-mentioned name was usually pronounced as if it was spelt “Griffiths”.