Blanche Elizabeth WADESON or MAITLAND - S.A. lookup please

[rosball]

Blanche Elizabeth WADESON was born in 17 April 1874 in Melbourne with mother Elizabeth Wadeson and no father.  The birth was registered by her grandmother Emma Frances WADESON.  The mother Elizabeth died in 1879 and Blanche was raised by the grandmother and appeared as her child on her death certificate.  The grandmother left Victoria in about 1876 to live in NSW and died in Sofala, NSW in 1901.

I have been unable to find a marriage or death for Blanche in Vic or NSW.
However there is a tree on ancestry which has some very interesting details but no sources.  I have tried to contact the owner twice without any response.   

The tree has Blanche Elizabeth Wadeson MAITLAND born 17 April 1874 in Melbourne with mother Elizabeth WADESON and father Owen MAITLAND.  She married :
 (1)   James Miller GRANT (1869-1953) and had child Millicent Elizabeth Grace Grant (1899-1976) and another living? child
 (2)   Adolph MODRA (1859-1923) married 1903 in South Australia and had 4 children (still living ?)
She died in Prospect South Australia  on 5th July 1932.


I am hoping to find some confirmation of any of these details.  On SAGHS there is a cemetery index for a death of an Elizabeth Modra who died in South Australia in 1932 and I am very tempted to order a transcript of a death certificate.  But then I realise what a stretch it is from Blanche Wadeson in NSW to Elizabeth Modra in South Australia without any confirmation along the way.

Any help greatly appreciated
Regards,
   Ros

[deeiluka]

Hello Ros,

Adolph MODRA aged 42 and single married Elizabeth Grant MAITLAND, aged 28 and widow, on 29th July 1903 at St Stephen Luth Church, Adelaide.
Fathers = Mathias MODRA & Owen MAITLAND
Ref = Ade S 216/363

I can't see her first marriage under MAITLAND, so shall investigate further.

Added:  No marriage to a James Miller GRANT in S A.


Dee   

[rosball]

Thanks Dee.     I guess the middle name of Grant could be her previous married name   

Ros

[deeiluka]

Mother's name on the birth of the four MODRA children is just given as Elizabeth Maitland. The children would all be deceased by now. 


Dee   

[sparrett]

Funny question perhaps Ros, but do any of the given names of the Grant daughter Millicent Elizabeth Grace, match the name of the grandmother who raised Blanche .

Sue

[deeiluka]

No Elizabeth MAITLAND born to an Owen MAITLAND in South Australia, nor is there a marriage for her under WADESON.  


Dee  

[rosball]

No Sue the grandmother was Emma Frances (or occasionally Frances Emma) Wadeson and her daughters were Elizabeth (the mother), Emma, Charlotte Annie and Mary Hannah (known as Minna)

regards,
   Ros

[sparrett]

 A birth in Victoria

  GRANT  James Miller
 Father  William
 Mother Isabella FRASER
 Birth Place   SANDHURST
 Year  1869
Reg Number  4911
 
Sue

[SASHAR]

Notice from TROVE regarding Elizabeth MODRA's death in 1932 names the children as Mill, (is that Millicent), Clarice, Gwenneth and Les.  Elizabeth was 57 when she died.

Regards,
Sashar