Mary Ann DODS / KROSCHEL / DODS
Born 9 November 1868 in Woodstock, Victoria, Australia [P1]
Daughter of John Rowe DODS and Mary Waygood HORSINGTON [P1]
She is believed to have been named after her father's sister, Mary Ann Elizabeth Brown DODS [P1]
Her father had been born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia to Scottish parents while her mother was English [P1]
Her mother had sailed to Victoria, Australia in 1852 on the ill-fated Ticonderoga on which 100 people died, including her father [P1]
Briefly resided on her parents' farm in Woodstock, Victoria, Australia before relocating with them to Fiji in the Pacific Islands [P1]
After living in Fiji for about twenty years they shifted to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [P1]
She is believed to have lived with her parents at 33 and then at 28 Armadale Street in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale [P1]
Later resided with her parents on a farm at Darnum in the Gippsland of Victoria, Australia [P1]
Married "Otto" Johann Wilhelm Otto KROSCHEL on 30 November 1899 at the Holy Trinity Church in Strahan, Tasmania, Australia [P1]
Her husband was born in Prussia just before its unification with other German speaking states to form the German Empire [P1]
He'd arrived in Tasmania with his parents in 1872 and shifted with them from Tasmania to Victoria, Australia in about 1873 [P1]
Six yeas after they were married her youngest sister Maggie DODS married her husband's youngest brother Charlie KROSCHEL [P1]
She and her husband resided in Warragul, Victoria for a few years and then in Hay, New South Wales for two years [30: item 36082]
By 1906 they had moved to Western Australia and were living on Vancouver Street in Albany [50]
They later resided at Kirup near Donnybrook and then at 119 Eighth Avenue in the Perth suburb of Maylands [50]
Her husband, who had worked as a millwright and carpenter, passed away at the age of 46 years on 7 January 1917 [2] [50]
Due to negative feelings towards Germans from the First World War, she changed her and her children's surname to DODS [P22]
She resided at 92 Matlock Street in the Perth suburb of Mount Hawthorn from as early as 1922 until at least 1937 [50]
By 1939 she'd moved to 50A Reserve Street in the Perth suburb of Wembley Park [50]
In 1942 she was living in Carnamah [39: 19-Jun-1942]
It's possible she was among those who moved out of Perth after the bombing of Darwin during the Second World War [--]
Also living in Carnamah at that time was her niece Mrs Peg WELLS and Peg's husband Ned WELLS [50]
By 1943 she had shifted back to Perth and was again living at 50A Reserve Street in the suburb of Wembley Park [50]
Mother of Charles, Max, Eric and Emily [P22]
Died 28 September 1944; buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Wesleyan, BC, 302) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Mary Ann Dods / Kroschel / Dods' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 April 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mary-ann-dods [reference list] |
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