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Walter GOWANS
(1861–1953)
Mary HENDRIE
(1864 –1914)
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Elizabeth GOWANS
(1885 –1972)

 

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1. Robert Boyd HAINING

Elizabeth GOWANS 1 3 4
  • Born: 15 June 1885, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  • Marriage (1): Robert Boyd HAINING on 15 June 1910 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: 2 December 1972, Dandenong, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at age 87 5
  • Buried: 1972, Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia

bullet   Cause of her death was heart failure (87 years old).

bullet   Other names for Elizabeth were Lizzie GOWANS and Elizabeth HAINING.6

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bullet  General Notes

ELIZABETH GOWANS was born 15 June 1885 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the daughter of coal miner Walter Gowans and his wife Mary Hendrie.  She worked as a dressmaker.  On 15 June 1910, at Astarta Cottage in Hamilton, Elizabeth married her husband, Robert Boyd Haining. He worked as a grocer.  They soon emigrated to West Victoria, Australia, where Robert worked as a grocer in Dean's Marsh.  Later he worked as a clerk for the State Coal Mine which was owned by the Victorian Railways. 

Elizabeth had three still-born children in addition to her two surviving daughters.  Her husband Robert died in 1948 at the age of 61 years old.  Then, just a few months later, her eldest daughter Mamie died.  Elizabeth lived with her one remaining daughter until her death of heart failure at the age of 87 years old.  She was buried in Wonthaggi Cemetery next to her husband and elder daughter.
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bullet  Birth Notes

22 Warwick Street

bullet  Burial Notes

Wonthaggi Cemetery (Methodist section)

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life

  • She worked as a dressmaker.
  • She resided at Drysdale street in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia in 1948. 6
  • She resided at 42 Drysdale street in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia on 6 August 1949. 7
  • She has conflicting death information of 1 December 1972 and Dandenong, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 8
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Elizabeth married Robert Boyd HAINING, son of Robert Boyd HAINING and Elizabeth Allan BALMER, on 15 June 1910 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.1 2 (Robert Boyd HAINING was born on 15 January 1887 in Fairlie, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland,4 6 9 10 11 12 died on 25 November 1948 in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia 5 6 and was buried on 27 November 1948 in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia 6.). The cause of his death was angina heart.

bullet  Recorded Events about their Marriage


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bullet  Marriage Notes

Astarta Cottage, Anderson Street

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. General Register Office of Scotland, GROS Data Number, 647/00 0140 (marriage record in 1910 as listed in the SR index).
  2. Marriage Certificate (digital or paper copy of official marriage record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining), 1910 Robert Haining and Elizabeth Gowans marriage in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  3. Kirsty M. Haining.
  4. John B. Craven, “The Hainings and the Cravens: A Twentieth Century Family History” (mss. privately published in 1995, but it was a work in progress. John continued to update, add content, and re-write his manuscript up until his death in 2014.).
  5. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787 –1985 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010). Original data: Complied from publically available sources.
  6. Victoria, Australia. Melbourne, The Argus, "DEATHS" and "FUNERAL NOTICES," 26 Nov 1948, p. 10, col. 1 and 2; digital images, Australian Newspapers (http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ : accessed 28 June 2010), Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954.
  7. Victoria, Australia. Melbourne, The Argus, "ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED TODAY," 06 Aug 1949, p. 10, col. 3; digital images, Australian Newspapers (http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ : accessed 28 June 2010), Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954.
  8. Cemetery Gravestone.
  9. General Register Office of Scotland, GROS Data Number, 590/01 0004 (birth record in 1887 as listed in the SR index).
  10. Birth Certificate (digital or paper copy of official birth record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).
  11. Ancestry.com, 1891 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007). Original data: Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. Reels 1– 409. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Haining household, Main Street, Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  12. Ancestry.com, 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007). Original data: Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1– 446. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Haining household, Douglas Cottage, Crosshouse, Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland.


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