Charles Henderson Croll (1865 - 1938)

Born 1865 in Pleasant Creek, Colony of Victoria

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Died 3 Dec 1938 at about age 73 in Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

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

Birth

Charles Croll was born to Charles Croll and Janet (Henderson) Croll in 1865 at Pleasant Creek (Stawell), Colony of Victoria, now the State of Victoria, Australia.^[1][2]. He was the fourth of their five children, and was known throughout his life as 'Chas'.^[3]

Education and employment

Charles attended the Stawell school (number 502)^[2] and then went into employment with various companies in country Victoria and Melbourne, working as a clerk and book-keeper^[4] in positions that would later be described as accountancy.^[5]
Mr. Charles Croll of Hawthorn
Mr. C. Croll is essontialy an A.N.A. man: the Association is meat and drink to him. He has an unbroken record of forty-one years of benefit membership, and his interest in the organisation today is not in what may bo called its public work only, but in Its benefit aspect, so that at the conference he will be watching such matters as sick fund surplus and interest, increased benefits, and aged members' subscriptions. Mr. Croll was born at Stawell and lived there through his boyhood; then he lived at Murtoa for two or three years, and since has lived at Hawthorn. He is an accountant by profession, and lives by, if not on, the land, for he is in the employ of a concern that is a household word in the bush—the "New Zealand Loan." At Murtoa in his early manhood, he saw the demand setting in for Mallee land for wheat-growing, and he saw the line to "Warrack" begun and completed so that he has always had a special interest in the farming communities of the North West. Mr. Croll joined the Stawell branch A.N.A. in October, 1880, and occupied several offices there before his transfer to Murtoa, whose branch he reorganised. Moving to Melbourne, he joined Carlton, and became treasurer and for some years was the branch's representative on the Metropolitan committee. Later he transferred to Hawthorn branch, and was president in 1896; he has represented Hawthorn at many annual conferences—latterly at Colac. Horsham, Sale and Port raliy. Mr. Croll has been branch trustee for twenty-five years, and now has nearly £10,000 of branch funds to look after. He has been on the Metropolitan committee for over twenty years, and one of the auditors for that body during that period. For length of service, therefore, and for fulness of activity, Mr. Croll may be regarded as the visible expression of the good A.N.A. man.^[6]

Marriage

In 1896 Charles married Maria Ashton at his home at 20 Percy St Glenferrie, Colony of Victoria, and they had two sons and a daughter.

Death

Charles Henderson Croll died at his home 'Gladsmuir', Percy Street Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia^{[7][8][9][10]}of a Cerebro-Vascular Accident^[11] and was interred at Kew Cemetery^[12][13]

Obituary

Mr. Charles Croll, who was for many years in the service of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., died at his home in Derby street, Camberwell, on Saturday morning. He was the elder son of Charles and Janet Croll, who landed in Australia from Scotland in January, 1856. and settled in Stawell In 1863.
Mr. Croll was vice-president of the Bird Observers' Club, a trustee of the Hawthorn branch of the Australian Natives' Association, and a member of the Field Naturalists' Club, the Australian Literature Society, and the MclIxmrne Walking Club, He is survived by a widow, two sons, and daughter. The funeral will leave his residence at 2 p.m. to-day for the Boroondara Cemetery, Kew.^[14]

Biographical Timeline

1864: Born to Charles Croll and Janet (Henderson) Croll at Pleasant Creek (Stawell), Colony of Victoria, now the State of Victoria, Australia^[2][15][16]

Attended Stawell school (number 502)^[2]

1886: Employment: Messrs. Bennett and Bristow, Accountants, Legal Managers and Agents for Fire & Life Insurance Co, Stawell, Victoria, Australia^[4]

3 Jun 1896: Marriage: to Maria Ashton at his home at 20 Percy St Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia. Officiated by William Clark of the Baptist Church, North Carlton, Colony of Victoria and witnessed by his brother Robert Henderson Croll and sister Mary Henderson Croll^[17][18][19]

10 Jun 1886: Employment: WIlliam Gust: General Storekeepe,r as a bookkeeper. Murtoa, Victoria, Australia^[4]

10 Jul 1887: Birth of son Eric Ashton Croll at 'Gwylata', Elphin grove, Glenferrie^{[20][21][22][23]}

Employment: Price Hogarth & Co, Wholesale Grocers of Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia^[4]

1898: Employment: Mr David Telford, wholesale produce merchant and grocer, Stawell, Victoria, Australia^[4]

1899: Employment: George Wilkins Accountant and Legal Manager, of Baring Chambers, Market St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia^[4]

1 June 1891: Employment: ER HIckling, Stock and Sharebroker, as clerk, 349 Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia^[4]

1901: Birth of daughter Eleanor Doris Croll at 'Gwylata', 54 Elphin grove, Glenferrie^[24]

1903 - 1914: Residence: 54 Elphin Grv. Hawthorn, (Glenferrie), Kooyong Ward, Victoria, Australia^[25]

9 Jul 1908: Birth of son Ian Charles Henderson Croll at 'Gwylata', 54 Elphin grove, Glenferrie^[26][27]

1915 - 1937: Residence: 4 Derby St Camberwell^[28][29][30]

Vice President Australian Bird-Observers Club^[31]

Trustee of the Hawthorn branch of the Australian Natives Association^[32][33]

Honerary Secretary, Bird Observers' Club ^[34]

Member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria^[35]

Member of the Australian Literature Society^[36]

Member of the Melbourne Walking Club^[37]

3 Dec 1938: Died at 'Gladsmuir', Percy Street Glenferrie, Victoria, Australia at the age of 74.^{[38][39][40][41]} Cause of death: Cerebro-Vascular Accident^[42]

5 Dec 1938: Interred at Kew Cemetery^[43][44] at location PREB B 0520.

20 Feb 1939: Probate granted: registration number 302 / 534^[45][46]

Sources

1. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index: record of the birth of Charles Croll in 1865 to Charles Croll and Janet Henderson in Plea; registration number 17357/1865; accessed 9 Mar 2024
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Croll R H. 1939. I recall; collections and recollections. Robertson and Mullins: Melbourne
3. ↑ Inscriptions in the flyleaves of the many books in his library
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Space:Memo written by for prospective employer, 1891
5. ↑ Probate Records Office of Victoria Victoria, Australia Wills and Probate Record, accessed 13 Sep 2020
6. ↑ NationalLIbrary of Australia - Trove Sunraysia Daily (Mildura, Vic.: 1920 - 1942) 21 Mar 1922 p6; accessed 17 Apr 2023
7. ↑ Victoria, Australia, Death Index
8. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of death in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, of Robert Henderson Croll; father: Charles Croll; mother: Janet Henderson; record number 11072 / 1938. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
9. ↑ National Library of Australia - TroveThe Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) p 2, 6 December 1938, accessed 13 Sep 2020
10. ↑ Victoria, Australia Wills and Probate Record
11. ↑ Ian Croll: Personal Communication
12. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 6 December 1938, accessed 13 Sep 2020
13. ↑ Boroondara Cemetery records accessed 24 Oct 2022
14. ↑ National Library of Australia: Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 5 Dec 1938 p2; acessed 26 Aug 2022
15. ↑ [Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of the birth of Charles Henderson Croll; place: Pleasant Creek, Australia; date: 1864; father: Charles Croll; mother: Janet Henderson; record number 17357 / 1864. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
16. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of death in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, of Robert Henderson Croll; father: Charles Croll; mother: Janet Henderson; record number 11072 / 1938. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
17. ↑ 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.
18. ↑ Australia Marriage Index
19. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index: record of marriage of Chas Croll to Maria Ashton; date: 1896; record number 3156 / 1896. Accessed 14 Feb 2021. [Note: this record number is not the registration number shown on the actual certificate]
20. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of the birth of Eric Ashton Croll; date: 1897; place: Hawthorn, Australia; father: Chas Croll; mother: Maria Ashton; reference number 19796/1897. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
21. ↑ National Library of Australia - TroveThe Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) 17 July 1897, accessed 13 Sep 2020
22. ↑ National Library of Australia - TroveThe Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 10 July 1897, accessed 13 Sep 2020
23. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) 10 July 1897, accessed 13 Sep 2020
24. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of the birth of Eleanor Doris Croll; date: 1901; place: Hawthorn, Australia; father: Chas Croll; mother: Maria Ashton; reference number: 11656/1901. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
25. ↑ Australia Electoral Rolls 1903, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914
26. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of the birth of Ian Charles Henderson Croll; date: 1908; place: Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia; father: Chas Croll; mother: Maria Ashton; reference number 19848/1908. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
27. ↑ Handwritten inscription in a copy of Kipling R. 1914. 'The just so stories': 'Ian C. H. Croll 'Gwylata' 54 Elphin Grove, Glenferrie'
28. ↑ Ancestry: Australian Electoral Rolls 1915, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937
29. ↑ Sands & McDougal. 1923. ‘’Sands & McDougall’s Directory of Victoria 1923’’. Melbourne: Sands and McDougall; p1800.
30. ↑ Sands & McDougal. 1932. ‘’Sands & McDougall’s Directory of Victoria 1932’’. Melbourne: Sands and McDougall; p1217.
31. ↑ National Library of Australia - TroveThe Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 5 December 1938 p 2, accessed 13 Sep 2020
32. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 5 December 1938 p 2, accessed 13 Sep 2020
33. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: Sunraysia Daily (Mildura, Vic. : 1920 - 1926) Tue 21 Mar 1922 p6, accessed 9 Dec 2020
34. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Sat 26 Mar 1938 p12, accessed 9 Dec 2020
35. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 5 December 1938 p 2, accessed 13 Sep 2020
36. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 5 December 1938 p 2, accessed 13 Sep 2020
37. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 5 December 1938 p 2, accessed 13 Sep 2020
38. ↑ Victoria, Australia, Death Index
39. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of death in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, of Robert Henderson Croll; father: Charles Croll; mother: Janet Henderson; record number 11072 / 1938. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
40. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 6 December 1938, accessed 13 Sep 2020
41. ↑ Victoria, Australia Wills and Probate Record
42. ↑ Ian Croll: Personal oral communication with Neil Croll
43. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 6 December 1938, accessed 13 Sep 2020
44. ↑ Boroondara Cemetery records accessed 13 Sep 2020
45. ↑ Probate Records Office of Victoria Victoria, Australia Wills and Probate Record, Date of grant: 20 Feb 1939; Date of death: 03 Dec 1938; Occupation: Ex Accountant; Residence: Camberwell VPRS 28/ P3 unit 3191, item 302/543 Accessed 13 Sep 2020
46. ↑ Family Search Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, 1841-1989, database with images: Charles Croll, 20 Feb 1939; citing Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, series 302, record 543, Public Record Office, Victoria; FamilySearch digital folder 004104679; 2 March 2021.

Other sources

• Mollie Croll: Personal oral communication with Neil Croll