Angelina Elvina Melvin (c.1858-1928)
Personal details
Gender:
Female
Notes:
Married names —
- Angelina Morgan
- Angelina Haram
Relationships
Husband:
Children:
Marriage date:
11 April 1874
Marriage place:
References:
Husband:
Children:
Marriage date:
3 May 1883
Marriage place:
Notes:
Angelina claimed on her second marriage certificate to have been widowed in 1880 and had two children listed by her former marriage.
References:
Birth
Date:
about 1858
Notes:
Based on stated age at death being 70. In her marriage record with Thomas Morgan on 11 April 1874 she is stated to be 15 (married with the consent of her father) suggesting a birth date of c.1859. In her marriage record with Alfred Haram on 3 May 1883 she is stated to be 24 suggesting a birth date of c.1859. Lauren Melvin on Ancestry specifically gives Angelina the birth date of 11 September 1856 (no source). Unable to locate birth record in VIC BDM or elsewhere.
Partner
Date:
about 1879
Notes:
Thomas Morgan left his wife Angelina (and the colony of Victoria) some time around 1877. Angelina's second husband had not yet migrated from England when she conceived her second child.
Selina Sutherland's funeral
Date:
10 October 1909
Notes:
Angelina broke her knee attending the graveside at Melbourne General Cemetery after the funeral of well known child 'rescuer' Selina Sutherland. The connection is an interesting one in light of Angelina's time as a single mother in the late 1870s and her later interference in the lives of her grandchildren.
Death
Date:
30 July 1928
Place:
Probate
Date:
17 September 1928
Notes:
Angelina owned 150 Sackville street, Collingwood ('a very old 5 roomed weatherboard cottage', presumably inherited from her father John Melvin). Her eldest living son, George Melvin, Sydney, was the executor. She left everything to her husband Alfred Haram, after his death to go in equal shares to her children Elizabeth, Mildred, Alfred, George and Valentina (Valentina only to get half the amount of the others).