Grace Arthur (1829-1868)
Personal details
Gender:
Female
Notes:
Married names —
- Grace Lenderyou/Landeryou
- Grace Blewett
Relationships
Husband:
Children:
Marriage date:
3 April 1862
Notes:
Grace was still married to William Lenderyou when she married Gabriel Blewett in Melbourne in 1862. The marriage to Gabriel was bigamous (this was known in the Blewett Morgan family and was, for Gabriel's sister Elizabeth at least, a bone of contention). William Lenderyou was living with his parents in Helston, Cornwall, when the 1861 census was taken. Grace had already emigrated to Victoria in October 1858 with her youngest brother William Arthur, without her husband in tow. William Arthur married in Fitzroy on 9 April 1862 (VIC BDM 1878/1862), six days later, and Grace was one of the witnesses. Their marriages appear one after the other in the marriage register.
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Husband:
Children:
Marriage date:
20 February 1865
Marriage place:
Notes:
William Lenderyou died in 1864 in Helston, Cornwall. Grace was free to re-marry Gabriel Blewett in 1865. Why did they bother? I can't fathom it.
Husband:
Marriage date:
4 January 1853
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Birth
Date:
1829
Notes:
Census, marriage and death records indicate Grace was born in Penzance in 1829.
Baptism
Date:
13 June 1832
References:
England & Wales Census 1851
Date:
30 March 1851
Emigration
Date:
23 October 1858
Notes:
Grace Lenderyou and her brother William Arthur, resident in Cornwall, probably joined the Chile in Plymouth. Departure date: 'Emigration from Plymouth', Western Times (Devon), 30 October 1858, p.6, c.1. Description of the voyage: 'Shipping - Miscellaneous', The Age, 14 January 1859, p.4.
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Immigration
Date:
11 January 1859
Notes:
Arrival date: 'Shipping Intelligence', The Age, 12 January 1859, p.4.
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Death
Date:
17 June 1868
Notes:
Cause of death - cancer
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Burial
Date:
18 June 1868
Notes:
Grace was buried in the same plot, WES*A****185*, as her children Emma Catherine (1864) and John (1867), in the Melbourne General Cemetery. Her husband Gabriel lay dying in the Melbourne Hospital when Grace died.