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 toHawthorn 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]
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]
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]
↑ [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.
↑ 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.
↑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]
↑ Australia Electoral Rolls 1903, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914
↑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.
↑ Handwritten inscription in a copy of Kipling R. 1914. 'The just so stories': 'Ian C. H. Croll 'Gwylata' 54 Elphin Grove, Glenferrie'
↑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
↑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
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