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GRACE ELIZABETH JENNINGS CARMICHAEL
NURSE- HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN & AUSTRALIAN POETESS
1867-1904
Grace Elizabeth Jennings - Carmichael was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 24th February 1867, to Archibald Carmichael, a Miner from Perthshire, Scotland & Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall, England.
In the 1860s, two of Grace Carmichael's siblings died & in 1870, her father Archibald Carmichael died aged 51. Margaret Grace's Mother, remarried a man named Charles Naylor Henderson, in 1875, when Grace was 8 years old.
The family moved from Ballarat to Gippsland, closer to where Charles Henderson managed a station near Orbost. Surrounded by the Gippsland bush, Grace was inspired to begin writing poetry. She began to express in verse her understanding of the sights, scents and sounds of the bush, often writing in some
remote clearing, her manuscripts stored for privacy in a hollow trunk. Henderson and his wife disapproved of her 'scribbling', but a kindly tutor persuaded them that her verse had merit & she was allowed to continue. Her first story was published in the Bairnsdale Advertiser and the Weekly Times an early poem; then in November 1885, her poem 'The Old Maid' appeared in the Australasian under her pen name Jennings Carmichael.
At 20 years of age, she left home to earn her own living, first working as a lady's companion, then in 1888, at age 21, she began training as a nurse at the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children (later The Royal Children's Hospital) and almost died of typhoid after contracting it from the patients. Grace kept a diary of her experiences at the hospital which was later compiled as the book, 'Hospital Children' & published in 1891. This book gives an amazing insight into the experiences of the children during their stay in the hospital & also, the conditions under which the hospital staff had to work, in the late 1800's.
After qualifying as a Nurse in 1890, Grace went to work in Geelong, as a private nurse for a little boy with wooden legs. During this time she continued with her love of writing poetry.A book of verse entitled 'Poems' was published in Australia and England in 1895. In April of 1895 at the United Methodist Free Church, Fitzroy, 28 year old Grace, married Henry Francis Mullis, a 35 year old architect from Northampton, England, who took his new wife to Adelaide, where their first child Geoffrey was born, August of 1886. They lived in South Australia until the following year, when they moved to England. Three more children were born to her in England- Thomas Clive in 1898 (died 1906), Archibald Keith in 1899, Rupert Wyatt in 1902 & a little daughter, Audrey Grace in 1903 (died 1904). It was during this time while living in England, that Grace, who had once recommended that all nurses should be 'full of cheerfulness & hope', that she fell into, direst poverty & despair.
Living in the East End of London, the couple, along with their children, lived in poverty. Grace, succumbimg to pneumonia & died at the age of 37 years, on the 9th of February, 1904, her little baby Audrey, dying that same year.
Her Husband, Henry Mullis, was last recorded in the workhouse in Woolrich, but then disappeared leaving the three children- Geoffrey 7 yrs, (Thomas) Clive 5 yrs & 4 year old (Archibald) Keith and one year old (Rupert) Wyatt, destitute & were sent to the Northampton workhouse, (Thomas ) Clive dying in 1906.
In 1910, a group of Carmichael's admirers, discovered the whereabouts of her children, where a public fund was established to bring the children to Australia, the Victorian Government giving them free passage, arriving in Victoria in October of 1910. The children were placed in private homes and took on their mother's single name of Carmichael.
Twenty three years after Grace's death, a headstone was placed on her pauper's grave in Wood Grange Park Cemetery, London, in 1927. The headstone was in the form of an open book & on one page were inscribed te words- 'A Wattle day Tribute, to the memory of Jennings Carmichael, an Australian poetess'. On the opposite page etched into the white marble, was a spray of her beloved bush wattle & words from her own verse-
"Ah, little flower, I loved of old,
Dear little downy heads of gold"
As 'Nurse Grace' wrote with much compassion- "It is a terrible thing to realise, this waste of human life and unnecessary suffering, suffering too, of the most poignant nature, for the child's sob in the silence, is after all, the most pitiful of any"
Grace Jennings Carmichael's tragedy, is that her own sob in the silence, remained unheard, far away from the land that she loved.
In the late 1930s, plaques were unveiled in Orbost & Ballarat in honor of Grace Jennings Carmichael.
Reference
Excerpts from 'Hospital Children', quoting Elizabeth Murdoch A.C., D.B.E., also, Newspaper articles from TROVE
In the 1860s, two of Grace Carmichael's siblings died & in 1870, her father Archibald Carmichael died aged 51. Margaret Grace's Mother, remarried a man named Charles Naylor Henderson, in 1875, when Grace was 8 years old.
The family moved from Ballarat to Gippsland, closer to where Charles Henderson managed a station near Orbost. Surrounded by the Gippsland bush, Grace was inspired to begin writing poetry. She began to express in verse her understanding of the sights, scents and sounds of the bush, often writing in some
remote clearing, her manuscripts stored for privacy in a hollow trunk. Henderson and his wife disapproved of her 'scribbling', but a kindly tutor persuaded them that her verse had merit & she was allowed to continue. Her first story was published in the Bairnsdale Advertiser and the Weekly Times an early poem; then in November 1885, her poem 'The Old Maid' appeared in the Australasian under her pen name Jennings Carmichael.
At 20 years of age, she left home to earn her own living, first working as a lady's companion, then in 1888, at age 21, she began training as a nurse at the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children (later The Royal Children's Hospital) and almost died of typhoid after contracting it from the patients. Grace kept a diary of her experiences at the hospital which was later compiled as the book, 'Hospital Children' & published in 1891. This book gives an amazing insight into the experiences of the children during their stay in the hospital & also, the conditions under which the hospital staff had to work, in the late 1800's.
After qualifying as a Nurse in 1890, Grace went to work in Geelong, as a private nurse for a little boy with wooden legs. During this time she continued with her love of writing poetry.A book of verse entitled 'Poems' was published in Australia and England in 1895. In April of 1895 at the United Methodist Free Church, Fitzroy, 28 year old Grace, married Henry Francis Mullis, a 35 year old architect from Northampton, England, who took his new wife to Adelaide, where their first child Geoffrey was born, August of 1886. They lived in South Australia until the following year, when they moved to England. Three more children were born to her in England- Thomas Clive in 1898 (died 1906), Archibald Keith in 1899, Rupert Wyatt in 1902 & a little daughter, Audrey Grace in 1903 (died 1904). It was during this time while living in England, that Grace, who had once recommended that all nurses should be 'full of cheerfulness & hope', that she fell into, direst poverty & despair.
Living in the East End of London, the couple, along with their children, lived in poverty. Grace, succumbimg to pneumonia & died at the age of 37 years, on the 9th of February, 1904, her little baby Audrey, dying that same year.
Her Husband, Henry Mullis, was last recorded in the workhouse in Woolrich, but then disappeared leaving the three children- Geoffrey 7 yrs, (Thomas) Clive 5 yrs & 4 year old (Archibald) Keith and one year old (Rupert) Wyatt, destitute & were sent to the Northampton workhouse, (Thomas ) Clive dying in 1906.
In 1910, a group of Carmichael's admirers, discovered the whereabouts of her children, where a public fund was established to bring the children to Australia, the Victorian Government giving them free passage, arriving in Victoria in October of 1910. The children were placed in private homes and took on their mother's single name of Carmichael.
Twenty three years after Grace's death, a headstone was placed on her pauper's grave in Wood Grange Park Cemetery, London, in 1927. The headstone was in the form of an open book & on one page were inscribed te words- 'A Wattle day Tribute, to the memory of Jennings Carmichael, an Australian poetess'. On the opposite page etched into the white marble, was a spray of her beloved bush wattle & words from her own verse-
"Ah, little flower, I loved of old,
Dear little downy heads of gold"
As 'Nurse Grace' wrote with much compassion- "It is a terrible thing to realise, this waste of human life and unnecessary suffering, suffering too, of the most poignant nature, for the child's sob in the silence, is after all, the most pitiful of any"
Grace Jennings Carmichael's tragedy, is that her own sob in the silence, remained unheard, far away from the land that she loved.
In the late 1930s, plaques were unveiled in Orbost & Ballarat in honor of Grace Jennings Carmichael.
Reference
Excerpts from 'Hospital Children', quoting Elizabeth Murdoch A.C., D.B.E., also, Newspaper articles from TROVE
1. Perthshire
2. Grace
3. Ballarat, Gippsland
4. Royal Children's Hospital
5. Hospital Children
6. Typhoid Fever
7. Other Hospitals
8. Nursing
9. Workhouses
10 Architects
11 Rupertswood
12 Follow the Story
13 Grace's Jumble of Names
2. Grace
3. Ballarat, Gippsland
4. Royal Children's Hospital
5. Hospital Children
6. Typhoid Fever
7. Other Hospitals
8. Nursing
9. Workhouses
10 Architects
11 Rupertswood
12 Follow the Story
13 Grace's Jumble of Names
Perthshire
Perthshire Genealogy
http://www.genealogy-of-uk.com/Scot Genuki- Perthshire http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/PER/ Perthshire History Diary http://www.perthshirediary.com/ |
Grace
All that is left of the Orbost Station Homestead, these handmade nails, which came from the homestead that was built in Forest Road around 1882. It had large rooms, French windows & a verandah all the way around. As a young girl Grace J. Carmichael, lived their with her family.
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From the Collection of the Orbost & District Historical Society
https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/52bf75042162ef148c7d33c |
Written For Her First Child, Geoffrey
Two little stars for baby's eyes.
And two little shells for ears A dewy bud for his darling mouth, And plenty of pearls for tears! A crumpled lily for baby' throat. And one for his forehead fair ; Unfolding roses for hands and feet. And the down on ferns for his hair! Baby mine! thou art one with the stars. And one with the shells and pearls ! A tiny bud in the world of flowers That the morning sun uncurls God keep thee true as the constant starsa, And sweet as lily and rose; And pure the rare and radiant pearls Which the sea-swept shells enclose. Ah lose not, darling, as years go by, The angel soul of to-day Keep ever a hint of the star-like look. And the flower sweet face, I pray! Lie little head on thy mother's heart, Tenderly throbbing for thee For tar and blossom and pearl art thou, The poems of life to me! JENNINGS CARMICHAEL The Australasian, Melbourne, Vic. 28 Nov 1896 Advertiser. Adelaide, SA 25 November 1895
Poems by Jennings Carmichael http://www.poetrycat.com/jennings-carmichael |
Written For Her Little Brother Rupert
JENNINGS CARMICHAEL
The Daily Northern Argus Rockhampton, Qld. 18 Apr 1891 |
In 1927 at Woodgrange Park cemetery, London, a white marble book was placed on Grace's grave, inscribed with a few brief lines of hers on wattle blossom (13 years after her death)
Australian Dictionary of Biography In the Woodgrange Park cemetery, Leyton, in Essex on Sunday 23 January, a memorial service was held at the grave of Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael (17 years after her death) The Argus Melbourne, Vic. Saturday 7 March 1931 |
Ballarat, Gippsland
Gold Museum- Showcasing Ballarat
http://www.goldmuseum.com.au/1000-records-added-online/ Visualising Ballarat, Historic overlays http://www.visualisingballarat.org.au/ The Ballarat Historical Society http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com/ Heritage Research- Ballarat http://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/sh/heritage/heritage Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/ Victorian Mining Accident List
http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/miners/a.htm#A THE NATIONAL DATABASE OF MINING DEATHS and INJURIES http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmhrc/ INSCRIPTION- Grace Jennings Carmichael, Aust. poetess, 1868-1904, spent her childhood in this district, erected by Mrs G A Hunter & a few admirers.
Doveton Street N., City Library, Ballarat Monument Australia http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/arts/ |
Old Gippstown - Gippsland's Heritage Park 3:15
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LINKS TO GIPPSLAND HERITAGE SITES
http://www.maffra.net.au/heritage/links.htm West Gippsland Genealogical Society http://www.westgippslandgenealogy.com/ The East Gippsland Family History Group http://www.egfhg.org.au/ South Gippsland Genealogical Society http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sggs/ Mid Gippsland Family History Society http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs/ Orbost & District Historical Society https://victoriancollections.net.au/organisations/orb |
The historic town of 'Old Gippstown' is a collection of authentic buildings dating back from the 1840s through to the 1930s. Visit the twenty-seven original relocated buildings and their collections. Old Gippstown’s aim is to present the history of Gippsland, for the benefit of the present and future generations by preserving, researching, recording and presenting the unique collections in its care
http://www.gippslandheritagepark.com.au/about.html
http://www.gippslandheritagepark.com.au/about.html
It wasn't surprising that for many children, the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children, was a happier place than their impoverished homes where, as Grace painfully records- neglect, Drunken parents & child abuse were common.
Royal Children's
Hospital
Hospital
July 1957
1st Location
The original "Free Hospital for Sick Children" was set up in a small house at 39 Stephen St. Melbourne (now 49 Exhibition St. ) and treated more than 1,000 children in its first year of operation, many of these children were Typhoid sufferers. |
The Royal Children's Hospital or (Melbourne) Free Hospital for Sick Children, was established in 1870 and moved to the site in Parkville on the corner of Flemington Rd & Gatehouse St in 1963. The Royal Children's Hospital was founded by Doctor John Singleton & Doctor William Smith, in response to their serious concerns about infant mortality in the city of Melbourne.
39 Stephen St. Melbourne
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In 1953 The hospital received Royal Assent to change it's name to "Royal Children's Hospital" after 7 years of lobbying by the hospitals dedicated committee. http://www.rch.org.au/rch/about_us/history/#1924 |
4th Location
The Royal Children's Hospital Parkville, on completion in 1963 http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic- In 1985, it was proposed that a large scale program of capital works should take place, so an
extension was added to the front of the building and completed by 1992, but still didn't prove to be big enough Below
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Royal Children's Hospital https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne History http://www.rch.org.au/rc |
Finally, a brand new building was erected on the Parkville site, right next door to the existing building.
The New Royal Children's Hospital in Parkville, which opened in 2011
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The Royal Children's Hospital turns 140 years (2010)
http://www.rch.org.au/ |
Great Insight
From Grace J. Carmichael
Read from her book- 'Hospital Children'
From Grace J. Carmichael
Read from her book- 'Hospital Children'
Australasian. Melbourne, Vic. Sat. 24 Aug.1889
Read more............... http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/139135157 HOSPITAL NURSES
Australasian. Melbourne, Vic. Sat. 1 Feb. 1890
Read more............... http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/139147151? The First Ambulance provided by Uncle Bobs Club to The Royal Children's Hospital Mt Eliza Orthopaedic Section.
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Australasian. Melbourne, Vic. Sat. 22 June 1889
Read more............... http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/139133117 Each year the Good Friday Appeal brings together people from all parts of the community to raise much needed funds for equipment, research and education to support the work of The Royal Children's Hospital. Together they have raised more than $308 million for the benefit of the hospital since the Good Friday Appeal began in 1931. Broadcast live across Victoria on Good Friday and supported by the Herald Sun, Channel 7 and 3AW 693. The Good Friday Appeal started in 1931 when a group of sportsmen and journalists from The Herald & Weekly Times Pty Ltd (HWT) publication "The Sporting Globe" organised a sporting carnival in aid of charity and nominated the Royal Children's Hospital as a beneficiary.In 1942, the Managing Director of HWT agreed that The Herald and radio station 3DB should promote an annual appeal on Good Friday. In 1957, Channel 7 joined The Good Friday Appeal and began the first day-long telethon.
https://www.goodfridayappeal.com.au/about-us UNCLE BOBS CLUB
The history of UNCLE BOBS CLUB dates back to December 1941, when a raffle book was passed around the bar of the Riversdale Hotel in Hawthorn. The proceeds were to benefit the Orthopaedic Section of the Children’s Hospital, at Mt. Eliza. Four gentlemen in the bar that evening were so moved, they decided to form a fund-raising organisation for the hospital. The Club’s first association with the Good Friday Appeal was in 1948. In the 1950’s the Club expanded into the country areas of Victoria, with many branches and groups forming in a number of areas. In 1963, Queen Elizabeth opened the new Royal Children’s Hospital at Carlton and still to this day the Orthopaedic Ward is named in honour of Uncle Bobs Club. The term UNCLE BOBS comes from the fact that the subscription was to be a shilling (a bob) per week Watch a Movie on The Club's Achievements- 24:33 http://www.unclebobsclub.org.au/history-of-ubc |
Christmas Day AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MELBOURNE (BY JENNINGS CARMICHAEL) 1893
Read more............
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79278316?searchTerm=Christmas%20day%20at%20the%20children
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79278316?searchTerm=Christmas%20day%20at%20the%20children
Typhoid Fever
(Colonial Fever)
(Colonial Fever)
The original "Free Hospital for Sick Children" in Stephen St. Melbourne (now Exhibition St. ) accommodated over 1,000 children in its first year. The children had numerous complaints, but the majority of these patients were suffering with Typhoid fever. It wasn’t just the poor or working class who were affected by Typhoid. Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert was thought to have died in 1862 of the disease.
Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland & emigrated to the US in 1884. She worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi, she was called “Typhoid Mary”, as many were infected due to her denial of being ill. Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia, is thought to have died out because of typhoid fever. It proved fatal for more than 6000 settlers, 1607-1624 & may have been responsible for eliminating the entire colony. |
The typhus germ is transmitted by the bite of the body louse; so the disease was directly connected with filth & overcrowded unwashed
clothes and shared beds. The typhoid germ enters the body through the mouth, usually in contaminated food and water. It wasn’t just the poor or working class who were affected. Now an acclaimed historian, who has spent the last three years researching the death of Prince Albert, believes he actually succumbed to a very modern affliction – Crohn’s Disease. Crohn’s Disease and Prince Albert
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- Typhoid Fever History
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Typhoid-Fever- |
Melbourne's infant mortality rate exceeded that of London until the 1890s. 'Colonial fever' was a scourge & would not be reliably diagnosed as typhoid until the 1870s.
http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00473b.htm |
Other Hospitals
Westmead, NSW
HISTORY OF THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD
https://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/kids-and- Brisbane, Qld
Brisbane Hospital admissions (not Children's) 1872 to 1887 https://data.qld.gov.au/en/dataset/brisbane-hospital- Nursing staff at Brisbane's Royal Children's Hospital
Tea time at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, 1890-1900
http://www.bonzle.com/pictures-over-time/pictures- Toronto, Canada
Architectural Sketch of
Victoria Hospital for Sick Children Hospital For Sick Children Toronto (1891-1951)
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=DC- Edinburgh, Scotland
The Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children
The Story of the 'Sick Kids' Hospital http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/exhibits/tales/tales Sydney, NSW
The Sydney Hospital for Sick Children, founded in 1880. Originally sited on Glebe Point Rd, Glebe.
https://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseu |
Perth, W.A.
Kent, England
Babies' Castle — dinner time, early 1900s. © Peter Higginbotham
In 1883, a Mr Theodore Moillet donated a pair of villas and an acre of meadowland on Cranbrook Road, Hawkhurst, for establishng a Barnardo's home for babies. A year later, twenty-six babies were being cared for in the home which local people had named 'Babies' Castle.' Hawkhurst, Kent
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/HawkhurstDB/ Her Majesty's Hospital for Sick Children at the Stepney Home. (London, England)
Her Majesty's Hospital for Sick Children at the Stepney Home. This beautifully equipped hospital has 84 beds, and forms part of the wonderful block of buildings that constitute the Home. Photograph taken at Dr. Barnardo's
http://chestofbooks.com/food/household/Woman- Barnardo commenced study as a medical doctor and while studying in London, he worked part-time at a “Ragged School” and became aware of the poverty and homelessness of children in the city. One of his students, ten year old Jim Jarvis, had no family or home, so Barnardo asked the boy to show him where he lived. He was shown where a group of children slept on the iron roof of an old clothes market off Petticoat Lane. Barnardo became aware of the terrible living conditions endured by these young children and estimated that there were 30,000 homeless children living in the East End.
Barnardo opened a mission in the assembly rooms over Kings Arms on the corner of Mile End Road. He then established the “East End Juvenile Mission” and was given donations to buy two cottages in Hope Place, Stepney—one for boys and one for girls. Barnardo abandoned his missionary plans for China in 1870 when offered one thousand pounds to work with the homeless. Barnardo rented a house at 18 Stepney Causeway and this became his first boys’ home. He opened a small hospital in Stepney Street and the Children’s Fold in Ilford. http://www.barnardos.org.au/media/217665/monogr The Hospital for Sick Children
Great Ormond Street, London: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hospit Glasgow, Scotland
Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Yorkhill
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Nursing
Florence Nightingale
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Timeline of Nursing History
1–500 AD (approximately)– Nursing care mostly included hygiene and comfort needs of persons and families. Religious organizations were the care providers. 1633 – The founding of the Daughters of Charity of St.Vincent de Paul, Servants of the Sick Poor by St. Vincent de Paul & St.Louise de Marillac. 1850- Florence Nightingale, a pioneer of modern nursing, began her training as a nurse at the Institute of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria, Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_nursing_history Timeline of nursing history in Australia & N.Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_nursing_history |
This seems to be the first article relating to Nursing qualifications in Victoria.
"Yesterday afternoon we attended a very interesting valedictory lecture by Dr. Bowman, at his private residence in Russell street, being the concluding one of a course he has just delivered, for the purpose of qualifying women as attendants in the sick room". The Age Melbourne, Vic. 31 December 1858 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/154873897 Nurses examinations Trove Results
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=nurses |
There are many entries in the newspaper, of exam results for Nurses.
List of names of candidates successful in passing the examination held by the Nurses' Registration Board on October 29 and 30, 1946. The Sydney Morning Herald NSW 29 November 1946 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1800 BALLARAT BASE HOSPITAL TRAINED NURSES LEAGUE
https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/55 |
Nurses in the Boer War
http://bwm.org.au/site/Nurses.php |
Workhouses
The Victorian Workhouse
5:01 England's Horrible Workhouse Conditions
1:36:37 Eerie pictures reveal the inside of abandoned
and decaying Victorian workhouse http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25 |
According to Ancestry's London workhouse records, the Mullis children & their father, were in & out of Woolrich Workhouse in 1907. I Don't know what happened to the father, I've looked under all of the possible combinations of names, but their is an F. Mullis in the War dead,
maybe that's him? Grace's only girl- Audrey Grace born 1903, died 6 months after Grace in Stepney. Thomas Clive, Grace's son born 1898, died in 1906 at 8 years of age, place- Woolrich. The records don't show him in the workhouse at the time of his death. London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1659-1930 (Ancestry, only has London at the Moment) http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx? Introduction to Workhouse records and Archives http://www.workhouses.org.uk/records/ Northampton Workhouse
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Northampton/ Plans to convert former 19th Century Northampton workhouse into elderly care home http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/pl Timeline of Workhouses http://www.workhouses.org.uk/timeline/ The Workhouse Museum http://www.workhouses.org.uk/museum/ |
Architects
Detailed Building Sketches-Architectural Images
from the Victorian Era Sketches from History 1:13 |
Francis Henry Mullis (also known as Henry Francis) Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z) https://books.google.com.au/books? Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 A-K http://www.ebookso.org/technical-list/ British and Irish Architects http://www.buildinghistory.org/books/archi Researching an Architect https://www.architecture.com/Files/RIBATr Far Cotton was a hamlet in the parish and urban district of Hardingstone. Far Cotton became a separate civil parish in 1895 and an urban district in 1896. The urban district was abolished in 1900 when the County Borough of Northampton was expanded to include Far Cotton; the civil parish continued to exist until 1932. Far Cotton is in the ecclesiastical parish of St Mary (wiki)
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Rupertswood
Francis Hare
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Grace Jennings Carmichael, who nursed at the Children’s Hospital Melbourne, dedicated her published account of nursing experiences to Janet Hare. Janet Clarke was president of the Melbourne District Nursing Society from 1889, also a member of the Melbourne Women’s Hospital Committee & the Children’s Hospital Committee.
The connection to the Children's was through her father’s sister, Mrs. Francis Hare (née Snodgrass) with whom she lived prior to her marriage. Mrs. Hare was a dedicated member of the committee for nearly 20 years. When the Children’s Hospital undertook a new building project in 1898, Ivy Clarke, the youngest Clarke daughter aged 11 & 2 other girls, laid the foundation stone of the new wing. Despite regular overseas visits & other charity obligations, Lady Janet Clarke was actively involved in hospital fund raising. http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30035896/lewis-janetladyclarke |
Francis Hare, the Inspector of Police, wounded during the Ned Kelly siege, recuperated at Rupertswood and consequently gave Kelly’s armour to the Clarkes. The Hares shared the upbringing of Evelyn, the youngest son of Peter Snodgrass and Agnes Snodgrass. Janet lived with them shortly before her marriage.
Francis Hare Correspondence
The collection consists of 54 letters & documents, from 1859-87 received by or relating to Superintendent Francis Hare, one of the members of the Victoria police force involved in the pursuit and capture of the Kelly Gang. https://digitised-collections.unimelb.edu Rupertswood is a mansion and country estate located in Sunbury on the outskirts of Melbourne in
Victoria, Australia. It is well known as the birthplace of The Ashes urn which was humorously presented to English cricket captain Ivo Bligh to mark his team's victory in an 1882-83 Test match series between Australia and England. Rupertswood is one of the largest houses constructed in Victoria and although now subdivided, has significant farm land. The house was completed in 1876 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupertswood The Ashes urn in 1921 when it was still owned by Lord Darnley (Ivo Bligh)
The Ashes urn is a small urn made of terracotta & stands 15 cm high, It is believed to contain the ashes of a burnt cricket bail. It was presented to Ivo Bligh, the captain of the English cricket team, after a friendly match hosted at Rupertswood in Sunbury, during the 1882–83 tour in Australia.
Rupertswood, home of the Ashes http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/ruperts Right- An etching of the English cricket team that toured
Australia in 1882-83 as printed in the 'Australasian' newspaper 1882 |
Janet Marion Clarke was born on 4 June 1851 at Doogallook station on the Goulburn River, Victoria, the eldest daughter of Peter Snodgrass and his wife Charlotte Agnes, née Cotton. She became governess to William Clarke's children late in the 1860's and married him on 21 January 1873, becoming the Mistress of 'Rupertswood'.
"Rupertswood" was named after Sir William's
eldest son, Rupert. http://www.portphillippioneersgroup.orgau/pppg5v |
The Australian poets Henry Lawson & Henry Tate both wrote poems about Grace Jennings Carmichael
FOLLOW THE STORY
& FEEL THE AUSSIE SPIRIT
& FEEL THE AUSSIE SPIRIT
The Australasian Melbourne, Vic. 25 July 1895
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Chronicle Adelaide, SA. 30 November 1895
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1896
Francis Geoffrey MULLIS was born 1896 in Adelaide Grace gives birth to 3 more boys & one girl, only
two boys survive 1898 Mullis, Thomas Clive (died Mar. Quater 1906) 1899 Mullis, Archibald Keith 1902 Mullis, Rupert Wyatt 1903 Mullis, Audrey-Grace (died Sept quarter 1904) 1904
Jennings Carmichael's Poetry in Australian newspaper The Australasian Melbourne, Vic. 2 January 1904
1909
A Few years go by & this article appears A recent endeavour, to obtain a photograph of' her brought to light the facts, that she died .......in circumstances of extreme poverty, and that her 3 children (boys), the. eldest, born in Adelaide, are inmates of an English workhouse. The Register Adelaide, SA. 11 May 1909 Due to public interest & concerns a Fund is started, to bring the children to Australia
Sydney Morning Herald 20 October 1909
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1897
Her Poetry still appears in Australian newspapers The Australasian Melbourne, Vic. 10 December 1887 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/15077048 1898
The little family are now living in London Table Talk Melbourne, Vic. 2 September 1898
1904
Poetry still appearing in Australian newspaper The Australasian Melbourne, Vic. 19 March 1904
1910
THE JENNINGS CARMICHAEL FUND. The Register Adelaide, SA 15 1910
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1910
A SAD STORY- JENNINGS CARMICHAEL, HER CHILDREN IN A WORKHOUSE.
A SAD STORY- JENNINGS CARMICHAEL, HER CHILDREN IN A WORKHOUSE.
The Brisbane Courier, 13 May 1910
Read more...... https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19634712 1910 (December)
The surname of the children, to be legally changed Advocate Melbourne, Vic. 17 December 1910
Read more...... http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170921249? 1927
Wood Grange Park cemetery, London A white marble book was placed on Grace's grave, inscribed with a few brief lines of hers on wattle blossom http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/carmichael-grace-elizabeth-jennings-5507 1937
Memorial Plaque Mr. & Mrs. Keith Carmichael, of Bendigo, have accepted an invitation from the town of Orbost to attend the ceremony of unveiling amemorial plaque dedicated to the memory of the late Jennings Carmichael The Age Melbourne. Vic. 18 February 1937 This Story is truly inspirational, as to the real dedication and support that one Australian can give to another, even beyond the grave.
- Jennings Carmichael
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The Brisbane Courier Qld. 13 May 1910
From May Vivienne:- 'I have received 2 letters regarding the Jennings Carmichael children stating that more funds have been collected, and will be sent on to The Register.
The Register Adelaide, SA 2 July 1910
JENNINGS CARMICHAEL CHILDREN.
Mrs. May Vivienne has received a letter from the Clerk of the Northampton Union, England (Mr. W. Fawkes, stating that Francis, Archibald, and Rupert Mullis (children of Jennings Carmichael), aged 14, 11, and 8 respectively, had been placed ...on a steamer bound for Australia. Observer Adelaide, SA 10 Dec 1910 The following is a copy of the letter from Mrs. Mullis: (The grandmother)--
"Ladies and Gentlemen—Please allow me to express my deepest gratitude shown by each and all concerned in the welfare of my three dear grandchildren—Jeoffrey, Keith, and Wyatt Mullis who are now, I understand, on their' way to foreign lands. I feel the loss; still they have life's drama to face and as my life is fast drawing to a close, now in my seventy-eighth year, my hope is they may never lose sight of past kindness shown them, or their duty and indebtedness to those kind friends over the seas Observer Adelaide, SA 10 December 1910 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/164712850? Grace Jennings Carmichael must have been well loved, as her admirers didn't stop thinking of her, after the relocating of her children
1913
A Wattle Day Tribute Snowy River Mail Orbost, Vic. 28 August 1913
1914
JENNINGS CARMICHAEL Some time ago a report reached Melbourne that the 'in memoriam book' of marble sent by some admirers of the late J. Carmichael to be placed on her grave in London had been badly damaged by a nail being driven through in packing. Last week however the Agent General Mr. McBride in a letter to the Premier stated that the damage was so slight as to be hardly noticeable. Further arrangements have now been made to complete the foundation for which recently made an appeal for subscriptions through The Argus. The Argus Melbourne, Vic. 6 May 1914 1938
Tributes To Poets. The Age - Mar 9, 1938
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The Ancestors do make it hard sometimes, don't they?
Grace's name jumble-
Grace Betsy Carmichael b.1867. Also known as- Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael & Grace Mullis.
Grace's Mother-
Margaret Jennings Clarke. Married Archibald Carmichael 1861. Margaret also known as- Margaret
Clarke, Margaret Jennings, Margaret Carmichael & Margaret Henderson.
Grace's Husband-
Francis Henry Mullis, born 1859, also know as- Henry Francis Mullis.
Grace's Children-
1st son- Francis Geoffrey Mullis, born 1896. Also know as Geoffrey Mullis, Jeffrey Mullis, Geoffrey Francis Mullis & Geoffrey Francis Carmichael. (d. age 81 years)
2nd son- Thomas Clive Mullis, also known as- Clive Mullis. (d.1906)
3rd son- Archibald Keith Mullis, also known as- Keith Mullis & Keith Arnold Carmichael. (d. age 58 years)
4th son- Rupert Wyatt Mullis, also known as- Wyatt Mullis, Wyatt Carmichael, Rupert Carmichael & referred to mistakenly in some articles, as Clive (d. after 1984)
Daughter- Audrey Grace Mullis, born 1903, known by same name. (d.1904)
Grace Betsy Carmichael b.1867. Also known as- Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael & Grace Mullis.
Grace's Mother-
Margaret Jennings Clarke. Married Archibald Carmichael 1861. Margaret also known as- Margaret
Clarke, Margaret Jennings, Margaret Carmichael & Margaret Henderson.
Grace's Husband-
Francis Henry Mullis, born 1859, also know as- Henry Francis Mullis.
Grace's Children-
1st son- Francis Geoffrey Mullis, born 1896. Also know as Geoffrey Mullis, Jeffrey Mullis, Geoffrey Francis Mullis & Geoffrey Francis Carmichael. (d. age 81 years)
2nd son- Thomas Clive Mullis, also known as- Clive Mullis. (d.1906)
3rd son- Archibald Keith Mullis, also known as- Keith Mullis & Keith Arnold Carmichael. (d. age 58 years)
4th son- Rupert Wyatt Mullis, also known as- Wyatt Mullis, Wyatt Carmichael, Rupert Carmichael & referred to mistakenly in some articles, as Clive (d. after 1984)
Daughter- Audrey Grace Mullis, born 1903, known by same name. (d.1904)
If you can't find your relative, then try jumbling your names up like this, you'll be surprised!