Women's History Month 2019. My Grandmother and Great-Grandmother.

For Women’s' History Month, 2019 I pondered who I could celebrate?  My maternal grandmother and great-grandmother are my choice.

Isabella Mary Ann Vaughan was born 18 September 1847[1], to Henry Vaughan and Charlotte Chasmar  and baptised on 3 October 1847, at St Philip's, Sydney. On 11 October 1866[2] Isabella married William Martin, at St Andrews Church, Sydney and the marriage is announced in three Sydney papers.  William and Isabella have eight children between 1867 and 1879. Isabella is widowed, sometime after 1879.

On 6 May 1883[3], at the Congregational Church, Glebe, Isabella re-married, to August Frederick Conrad Jasper. August and Isabella have four children, three of whom die.

Eveline Maud Jasper was born on 3 April 1885[4] at Sydney Street, Macdonaldtown, to August and Isabella.  On 30 December 1908[5], at St Stephen’s, Newtown, she marries Arthur Alfred Victor Galbraith.  They have 10 children, five of whom are still living.

Between them Isabella and Eveline had 22 children.  17 of these children reached adulthood. 16 married and had children, giving Isabella and Eveline a strong family line, through to the present.

Isabella died on 29 October 1915[6], from uterine cancer.  She is my great-grandmother.

Eveline died on 4 October 1932[7], from pulmonary tuberculosis. She is my grandmother.

Strong women, I’m proud to call mine.

Eveline Maud Galbraith, nee Jasper, Katoomba, 27 November 1931.

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[1] NSW Baptism Certificate 1847, 195 V32A.

[2] NSW Marriage Certificate 1866/00829.

[3] NSW Marriage Certificate 1883/152.

[4] NSW Birth Certificate 1885/3478114

[5] NSW Marriage Certificate 1908/206010

[6] NSW Death Certificate 1915/14779.

[7] NSW Death Certificate 1932/16610.