Individual Details

Birth

Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1921
Name Williamina Robertson
Birth Place Victoria, Australia
Birth Registration Date 1875
Birth Registration Place Victoria, Australia
Father William Murray Robertson
Mother Robertson
Reference Number 6525

Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
Name Williamina Robertson
Birth Date Abt 1875
Birth Place Amherst, Victoria
Registration Year 1875
Registration Place Victoria, Australia
Father William Murray Robertson
Mother Anne Pinnock
Registration Number 6525

Marriage

SAD SUICIDE — A DESPONDENT WOMAN — Southern Cross, August 30At midday Mrs. Bowker went to Roberts' cordial factory and asked her husband, who manages the factory, for a bottle of lemonade. This she drank behind her husband's back, and then she walked towards Mr. Chadwick's house with her baby in her arms. She was met by a butcher, who asked for Saturday's order. She replied that she was in great trouble, as she had taken strychnine, and did not know what the outcome would be. She returned to the factory, and told her husband what she had done, and he sent for Dr. Humphry, and rushed for an emetic. The unfortunate woman expired a few moments after the doctor arrived. She had been worrying about her husband's bad health, he being subject to fits. A note found in her bedroom, and evidently written by her, said that she was tired of life, and left everything she possessed to her darling child.— West Australian, 31 August 1907, page 12.DEATHBOWKER (Robertson).—On the [30th] August, at Southern Cross, W.A., Mina, dearly beloved wife of Robert Bowker and youngest daughter of Mrs. A. and the late W. M. Robertson, jeweller, of Melbourne, aged 33 years.— Argus (Melbourne), 7 September 1907, page 13.

Divorce

Victoria, Australia, Divorce Records, 1860-1940
Name Williamina Canaway
Gender Female
Role Petitioner
Divorce Age 26
Birth Date 1875
Birth Place Victoria
Marriage Date 18 May 1898
Marriage Place Fitzroy, Victoria
Court Date 1901
Divorce Date 1901
Divorce Place Victoria, Australia
Spouse James George Sydney Canaway
Case Number 58


Grounds: Desertion
Decree Nisi: 4 September 1901
Decree Absolute: 27 February 1902

Death

SAD SUICIDE — A DESPONDENT WOMAN — Southern Cross, August 30
At midday Mrs. Bowker went to Roberts' cordial factory and asked her husband, who manages the factory, for a bottle of lemonade. This she drank behind her husband's back, and then she walked towards Mr. Chadwick's house with her baby in her arms. She was met by a butcher, who asked for Saturday's order. She replied that she was in great trouble, as she had taken strychnine, and did not know what the outcome would be. She returned to the factory, and told her husband what she had done, and he sent for Dr. Humphry, and rushed for an emetic. The unfortunate woman expired a few moments after the doctor arrived. She had been worrying about her husband's bad health, he being subject to fits. A note found in her bedroom, and evidently written by her, said that she was tired of life, and left everything she possessed to her darling child.
— West Australian, 31 August 1907, page 12.

DEATH
BOWKER (Robertson).—On the [30th] August, at Southern Cross, W.A., Mina, dearly beloved wife of Robert Bowker and youngest daughter of Mrs. A. and the late W. M. Robertson, jeweller, of Melbourne, aged 33 years.
— Argus (Melbourne), 7 September 1907, page 13.

Burial

SAD SUICIDE — A DESPONDENT WOMAN — Southern Cross, August 30At midday Mrs. Bowker went to Roberts' cordial factory and asked her husband, who manages the factory, for a bottle of lemonade. This she drank behind her husband's back, and then she walked towards Mr. Chadwick's house with her baby in her arms. She was met by a butcher, who asked for Saturday's order. She replied that she was in great trouble, as she had taken strychnine, and did not know what the outcome would be. She returned to the factory, and told her husband what she had done, and he sent for Dr. Humphry, and rushed for an emetic. The unfortunate woman expired a few moments after the doctor arrived. She had been worrying about her husband's bad health, he being subject to fits. A note found in her bedroom, and evidently written by her, said that she was tired of life, and left everything she possessed to her darling child.— West Australian, 31 August 1907, page 12.DEATHBOWKER (Robertson).—On the [30th] August, at Southern Cross, W.A., Mina, dearly beloved wife of Robert Bowker and youngest daughter of Mrs. A. and the late W. M. Robertson, jeweller, of Melbourne, aged 33 years.— Argus (Melbourne), 7 September 1907, page 13.

Alt name

Married name

Alt name

Probably married name and may have beeen hyphenated CANAWAY-ROBERTSON.

Alt name

On marriage registration. Probably an 'attempted' abbreviation.