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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


Surname

Rose LOAKES / MOORE / WILSON

Born 1863 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England [20] [21]
When the 1871 census was taken she was with her grandparents Edward and Mary Loakes in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England [20]
She was working as a Domestic Servant for a merchant Thomas WRAGG and his family at 28 Winter Street in Sheffield in 1881 [20]
Departed from London, England on the ship Arabic and arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 16 December 1886 [433]
     She travelled on the same ticket as 26 year-old grocer John Henry MOORE, who she married shortly thereafter [54] [433]
Married (1) John Henry MOORE in about 1887 in Victoria, Australia [54]
     Her first husband, who she was only married to very briefly, was from Manchester in England [461: 3-Feb-1887]
     After a short illness he passed away aged just 27 at the Homeopathic Hospital in Melbourne on 29 January 1887 [461: 3-Feb-1887]
Married (2) John Guthrie WILSON in 1893 in Victoria Australia [54]
     Following the birth of their first two children they appear to have left Victoria and shifted to Western Australia [15] [54]
     Their third child, a daughter named Ilma Rose, was born in Fremantle in 1896 and passed away at the age of seven months in 1897 [15]
     By 1898 they had shifted back to Victoria [54]
Resided on farmland in Three Springs, Western Australia 1907-1912 [6] [9: 1-Nov-1907] [19]
     She owned the quarter acre Lot 43 of Victoria Location 2022 in the Three Springs townsite from 1910 to 1918 [44]
     Helped with the supper at Charlie and Winifred THOMAS' social at the schoolroom in Three Springs on 30 July 1910 [9: 12-Aug-1910]
     By mid 1912 she had left Three Springs and was living in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [44]
Later resided on Seventh Avenue in the Perth suburb of Inglewood [39: 2-Apr-1949]
She was taken to Royal Perth Hospital after falling and fracturing her thigh at home on Friday morning 1 April 1949 [39: 2-Apr-1949]
Mother of Jack, Zoe, Ilma, Merle, Cora, Arnold and Norman [15] [39: 18-May-1949]
Died 17 May 1949; buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Anglican, WE, 555) [2]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Rose Loakes / Moore / Wilson' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 8 October 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/rose-loakes [reference list]




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