Maria (Ashton) Croll (1864 - 1951)

Born 1864 in Ballarat, Colony of Victoria

Descendants

Died 30 Jul 1951 at about age 87 in 19 Elmie Street Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Birth

May (Ashton) Croll was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)

Maria Browne, known to all as May, was born to Edward Ashton a butcher, and Maria (Browne) Ashton^{[1] [2] [3]} in Ballarat, Colony of Victoria in 1864.

Early life

Little is known of May's early life, but she was a devout Baptist with a strict and unyielding sense of behavioural standards and a penchant for speaking her mind without reservation.

As a young woman Maria traveled in Tasmania, after which she stayed in a house situated at 10 Harrington St Hobart, where she was able to rest before returning to Victoria. She was taken with the house name, 'Gwylata', and asked the owners what it meant. They explained that it was an Australian Aboriginal word meaning 'rest after wandering'. She thought this was such a wonderful coincidence that after she married and established her own home she had a beaten copper plate house name made with the same name and attached to the three subsequent homes in which she lived. This was either the home of Solicitor Mr John Mitchell, who lived at 'Gwylata' at 10 Harrington St Hobart ^[4] or G P Fitzgerald, who lived there in 1890, closer to the date she might have stayed there ^[5] unless this was a boarding house or block of flats where a number of people lived.

Marriage

Returning to Victoria she married Charles Henderson Croll 3 June 1896 at his home at 20 Percy St Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia. The marriage was officiated by William Clark of the Baptist Church, North Carlton, Victoria, Australia and witnessed by Charles' brother Robert Henderson Croll and sister Mary Henderson Croll ^[6][7]

Residence

The family lived in the Hawthorn area during the time their two sons and their daughter were born, and in fact the couple and two of their children only ever lived at Hawthorn or in the neighboring suburb of Camberwell.

1903 - 1914: 52 Elphin Grv. Hawthorn, (Glenferrie), Kooyong Ward, Victoria, Australia ^[8]

1915 - 1937: 4 Derby St Camberwell ^[9]

1941-1949: After the death of her husband Charles in 1938, Maria bought a house at 53 The Boulevard, Hawthorn in the then new Urquhart Estate, where she lived until 1948 when she and her daughter moved into the home of her son-in-law Gordon Grieve at 19 Elmie St Hawthorn. Maria died at this home in 1951 after a short illness.^[10] in the Urquhart Estate[Note: at this date she was actually living with her daughter and son-in-law at 19 Elmie St Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia ^[11]].
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Children

Charles and Maria had threee children:

1. Eric Ashton Croll, born 5 Jul 1897 in the COlony of Victoria. ^{[12][13] [14] [15]}
2. Eleanor Doris (Nell) Croll , born 1901 in the Colony of Victoria.^[16]
3. Ian Charles Henderson Croll, born 9 Jul 1908 at 'Gwylata', 54 Elphin Grv Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia ^{[17] [18]}

Death

Maria Croll died 30 Jul 1951 at 19 Elmie St Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia at the age of 86^{[19][20] [21]} The cause of her death was a stroke.^[22]

Maria's funeral left her home at 19 Elmie St Hawthorn for Kew Cemetery 31 Jul 1951^[23], where she was interred^[24]

1951: Application for Grant of Probate by her executrix, daughter Eleanor Doris Grieve ^[25]

18 Sep 1951: Probate granted^[26]

Sources

1. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index: record of the birth of Maria Ashton to Edward Ashton and Maria Brown in Ball[arat] in 1864; registration number 19722/1864; accessed 1 Jun 2022
2. ↑ Australian Birth Index
3. ↑ Maria Browne's probate papers, available via Public Records Office Victoria Accessed 3 Jan 2021.
4. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) 25 Aug 1909 p1. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
5. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) 18 Jul 1890 p4
6. ↑ Certificate of Marriage, registration number 112. District: Melbourne - Glenferrie. Marriage between Charles Croll, 20 Percy St Glenferrie, aged 31, 'Legal manager of mining companies', Batchelor, born in Stawell, Victoria to Charles Croll, Tailor, deceased and Janet Croll Henderson to Maria Ashton, 20 Percy St Glenferrie, aged 31, 'Lady', Spinster, place of birth: Ballarat, Victoria; father: Edward Ashton, Gentleman (deceased); mother: Maria Ashton Browne. The marriage was solemnised at 20 Percy St Glenferrie by William Clark, minister of the Baprtist church, North Carlton.
7. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online collection: record of marriage between Maria Ashton and Chas Croll, registration number 3158 / 1896. Acessed 3 Jan 2021.
8. ↑ Australia Electoral Rolls 1903, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914)
9. ↑ Australian Electoral Rolls 1915, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939
10. ↑ Australia Electoral Roll 1941, 1949
11. ↑ Neil Croll: personal recollection
12. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Sat 10 Jul 1897 p1: Notice of birth of son. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
13. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) 10 Jul 1897 p5: Notice of birth of son. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
14. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) 17 Jul 1897 p51: Notice of birth. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
15. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online collection: Record of birth of Eric Ashton Croll in 1987 to Maria Ashton and Chas Croll at in 1897, reference number 19796. Accessed 3 Jan 2021.
16. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online collection. Eleanor Doris Croll born to Maria Ashton and Chas Croll at Hawthorn, Australia. Reference number 11646 / 1901. Accessed 3 Jan 2021.
17. ↑ Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria online collection: record of birth of Ian Charles Henderson Croll to Maria Ashton and Chas Croll at Hawthorn, Victoria. Registration number 19848 / 1908. Accessed 3 Jan 2021.
18. ↑ Victoria, Australia Birth Index
19. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online collection: death in Hawthorn at the age of 86 of Maria Croll, born to Maria Browne and Edward Ashton in Ballarat. Reference number 8477 / 1951. Accessed 3 Jan 2021
20. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) 31 July 1951 p2: Notice of death. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
21. ↑ Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 31 July 1951 p12: Notice of death. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
22. ↑ Neil Croll: Personal recollection
23. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) 31 July 1951 p8: funeral notice. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
24. ↑ Kew (Boroondara) General Cemetery: Cemetery records Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
25. ↑ National Library of Australlia - Trove: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) 10 Aug 1951 p15: advertisement of application for grant of probate. Accessed 4 Jan 2021.
26. ↑ Family Search: "Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, 1841-1989," database with images, Maria Croll, 18 Sep 1951; citing Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, series 440, record 377, Public Record Office, Victoria; FamilySearch digital folder 004105484; accessed 2 Mar 2021

• Mollie Croll: Personal oral communication to Neil Croll
• Public Records Office, Victoria: Probate papers - Charles Croll