AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
NameUNNAMED 
, Step GG Grandfather
, Step GG GrandfatherSpouses
1Catherine Jane BRAY 
, GG Grandmother
, GG GrandmotherBirth DateMar 18421398
Birth PlaceLiverpool, Lancashire, England
MemoRegistered as Jane.
Chr PlaceLiverpool, Lancashire, England
MemoParents names fit well. If correct she was baptised as Catherine Jane. Her fathers was a Mariner and they lived in Queen Street.
Reside Date10 Feb 1862 Age: 19
Reside PlaceFitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memoin Gertrude Street, prior to marriage.
Reside Date19091401 Age: 66
Reside PlaceRichmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MemoProbably Catherine living at 250 Swan Street.
Reside Date19141402 Age: 71
Reside PlaceRichmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MemoProbably Catherine living at 250 Swan Street.
Reside Date19191403 Age: 76
Reside PlaceSouth Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memoat 35 Tivoli Road, with daughter Ada.
Reside Date19311404 Age: 88
Reside PlaceToorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memoat 98 Orrong Road.
Death Date26 Jan 19331405 Age: 90
Death PlaceToorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memoat Home of The Little Sisters of the Poor, Northcote, 703 Malvern Road, age 89 of senility & heart failure, both years. Father William Bray, Ship’s master & mother Catherine Bray formerly Day. Born in Liverpool, England and had been about 63 years in Victoria. She was married in East Melbourne at age 19 to Edward Hart, deceased. Her children were Ada, aged 70, Gustavus Edward, aged 60 & Emily, deceased.
Burial Date27 Jan 19331406
Burial PlaceFawkner, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MemoFawkner Cemetery 1187 Sydney Rd
Alias/AKACatharine Jane (likely baptism)
FatherWilliam BRAY (<1812-1869)
MotherCatherine DAY (ca1817-1861)
ChildrenThomas (1872-)
Notes for Catherine Jane (Spouse 1)
Where or when husband Edward James Hart died has not been positvely confirmed. Most likely found 30 May 1879 in Timaru. From Catherine’s death record of 1933 he was dead at that time. Catherine’s death record also states she has lived in Victoria approximately 63 years. If continuously prior to her death this would mean from around 1870. This is very unlikely as son Gustavus was attending school in Invercargill in 1876. As her daughter’s Ada & Emily did not leave New Zealand, at the same time, it is highly probably that Catherine remained in New Zealand until around 1880. If this is the case she must have resided in Victoria some 7 or 8 years prior to her marriage in 1862 as she and her husband were settled in New Zealand for the birth of daughter Emily.
The accuracy of information on Catherine’s death record is very good which suggested there was someone living in Melbourne who accurately knew this. Further research revealed daughter, Ada, and some of her children arrived in Melbourne around 1914. Further her brother William, a miner, had resided in Victoria since 1854 and her sister Mary Ann as well as her parents William and Catherine arrived around the same time.
No death of husband Edward James was found in Victoria which might suggest she returned to Victoria after Edward’s death which supports the 1879 death previously mentioned.
Possible return to Victoria from New Zealand
Name: Mrs Hart
Estimated birth year:abt 1842 Age: 38
Arrival Date: 1 Nov 1880
Arrival Port: Melbourne, Australia
Departure Port: Bluff, New Zealand
Ship: Rotoma Nationality: British
The accuracy of information on Catherine’s death record is very good which suggested there was someone living in Melbourne who accurately knew this. Further research revealed daughter, Ada, and some of her children arrived in Melbourne around 1914. Further her brother William, a miner, had resided in Victoria since 1854 and her sister Mary Ann as well as her parents William and Catherine arrived around the same time.
No death of husband Edward James was found in Victoria which might suggest she returned to Victoria after Edward’s death which supports the 1879 death previously mentioned.
Possible return to Victoria from New Zealand
Name: Mrs Hart
Estimated birth year:abt 1842 Age: 38
Arrival Date: 1 Nov 1880
Arrival Port: Melbourne, Australia
Departure Port: Bluff, New Zealand
Ship: Rotoma Nationality: British