Above: The birth certificate of Roseannie Sheridan (here officially recorded as 'Roseanna').
Above: The Volunteer Arms Hotel, on the corner of Albert and Gisborne Streets, East Melbourne, was home to Rose Annie Sheridan and her husband James Marshall for several years after their marriage in 1901. "J.Marshall, Licensee" can be seen above the main door in the photograph. Their first child, James Dunbar Marshall, was born in the hotel in July 1902, and most likely their next two daughters, Agnes in 1904 and Annie Veronica in 1905, who were also born in east Melbourne. The men in the photograph are not named, but the most likely suspect for James Marshall would have to be the man framed by the doorway. James was in his early 40s when this photo was taken. Check out the two famous characters from history on the left and right of the main group....Jack the Ripper lurking on the right, and Charlie Chaplin on the left!
Above: The Marshall family home in Scott's Road, Baxter, where James and Rose Annie raised their children.
Above: Rose Annie Sheridan...the only photo I have ever seen of my great-great Aunt. It was kindly sent to my father, Basil Sheridan, by his recently-located second cousins, Helen Howard and Judy Clifton, who are grand-daughters of Rose Annie.
Rose Annie Sheridan was born on June 10, 1872, at Kildare, a tiny settlement near Carisbrook, the fourth child and first daughter of Nicholas Sheridan and Bridget McGrath. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Rose Blake Sheridan, back in Ballymachugh in Ireland. Although her name was recorded as 'Roseanna' on her birth certificate, she was always known officially as 'Roseannie' and to family and friends as 'Annie'.
It was initially thought that Rose Annie's schooling was conducted in Carisbrook and then the Yarrawonga Convent School when her family moved there in the mid-1880s. Records from the Carisbrook State School reveal that Roseannie was first enrolled at the school in 1878:
"Anne Sheridan/ 5 years old / date of admission: April 1878, parent Labourer.
Date of Passing the Standard of Education : Anne, father Nicholas Sheridan, Railway Labourer, passed August 1885."
This was just prior to Bridget and her children joining Nicholas at their new home in Yarrawonga. Roseannie was thirteen years old at the time she completed her "Standard of Education"...this was a piece of paper certifying that a student had "been educated up to the standard of education required by the 'Public Instruction Act of 1880' " This Act enforced compulsory education for children from the ages of 6 to 14 years. Roseannie had started school at the age of 5, which is perhaps why she attained the Standard passing at the age of 13.
Whether Roseannie continued her schooling when the family moved to Yarrawonga would have depended on whether she was needed to contribute to the economic well-being of her family. Her younger siblings would have attended the local Catholic school, but Roseannie may very well have been made to secure a job in the work force, or indeed stayed at home to help look after her brothers and sisters since her mother was gatekeeper for the railway at Yarrawonga.
Whether Roseannie continued her schooling when the family moved to Yarrawonga would have depended on whether she was needed to contribute to the economic well-being of her family. Her younger siblings would have attended the local Catholic school, but Roseannie may very well have been made to secure a job in the work force, or indeed stayed at home to help look after her brothers and sisters since her mother was gatekeeper for the railway at Yarrawonga.
Twenty nine year old Rose married widower Scotsman James Marshall in Yarrawonga on September 9, 1901, and had been a dressmaker prior to her marriage. Her husband James Marshall had married Mary Elizabeth Rees in 1888, and after twelve years of marriage she died in January 1901 of asthenia and heart failure. James and Mary had only one child during their marriage- a son named Hugh William, but known always as "Hughie", had been born in Kyneton in 1890.
After their marriage, Rose and James moved to Melbourne where James was the licensee of the Volunteer Arms Hotel, on the corner of Albert and Gisborne Streets in East Melbourne. Their first three children were born here...James Dunbar Marshall on July 11, 1902; Agnes Mary Marshall in 1904 and Annie Veronica Marshall in 1905.
Around 1906 James and Rose Annie moved with their young family back to Yarrawonga, where they managed the Royal Mail Hotel, and later the Terminus. As well as raising her stepson, Hughie Marshall ( who died in WW1), Rose Annie had nine children with James Marshall :
James Dunbar born Volunteer Arms Hotel, East Melbourne, July 11, 1902
Agnes Mary born East Melbourne 1904
Annie Veronica born East Melbourne 1905
Alice Josephine born Yarrawonga 1907
Teresa Frances born Yarrawonga 1909
William Thomas born Yarrawonga
John Frances ("Jock") born Kerriesdale
Peter Wallace born Baxter
Genevieve Bridget born Baxter
The first three children were born in Melbourne; the next three in Yarrawonga, then seventh child Jock arrived when they relocated to Kerrisdale. The final two children arrived after the family had made the permanent move to Baxter in 1915.
Only two of Rose Annie's children did not survive to reach adulthood...little Annie Veronica died in Yarrawonga on April 15, 1906, aged only six months. She was a victim of the terrible disease cholera. Her brother, James Dunbar Marshall, died at the age of six under very sad circumstances. He fell ill at his home in Yarrawonga and was taken to Melbourne to St. Vincents Hospital for emergency treatment for suppurative appendicitis. Peritonitis set in, and nothing more could be done for the little boy. He died on March 17, 1909, and was taken home to Yarrawonga for burial in the Yarrawonga Cemetery.
The Victorian Electoral Rolls help to follow the Marshall family from 1914 onwards into the 1950s:
1909: James Marshall, Yarrawonga, hotel keeper
Annie Marshall, Yarrawonga, home duties
1914: James Marshall, Kerrisdale, farmer
Rose Annie Marshall, Kerrisdale, home duties.
1924: James Marshall, Baxter, orchardist.
Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
1931: Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
Alice Josephine, Scotts Road, Baxter, home duties.
1936: Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
William Thomas Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, railway employee
1937: Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
John Francis Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, motor mechanic
Peter Wallace Marshall, Baxter, student.
1942: John Francis Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, motor mechanic
Peter Wallace Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, student
William Thomas Marshall, Donnybrook, railway employee.
1949: Peter Wallace Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, medical practitioner
Edna Fay Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, home duties
William Thomas Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, storekeeper
1954: William Thomas Marshall, Scotts Rd, Baxter, storekeeper
Kathleen Mary Marshall, Scotts Rd, Baxter, home duties
John Francis Marshall, High Street, Hastings, mechanic
Mary Agnes Marshall, High Street, Hastings, home duties.
Peter Wallace Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, medical practitioner
Edna Fay Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, home duties.
James Marshall, husband of Rose Annie Sheridan, died on July 18, 1926, at Baxter, at the age of 64 years. His health had not been good for the five years prior to his death, which was caused by a combination of arteriosclerosis, hemorrhage, heart failure and exhaustion. James was buried in the Frankston Cemetery on July 20, 1926.
At the time of her husband's death, Rose was left to raise seven children aged between 22 and 9 years of age, and that she did so successfully was a testimony to her personal strength and resilience. She was also the mother figure to her own siblings, especially her bachelor brothers Peter and Nicholas.
Rose Annie Sheridan Marshall died July 26, 1940.
I wrote to Rose Annie's son, Bill Marshall, for some time in the 1980s, and he was the most wonderful of men.It was Bill who provided me with information on his Marshall family, and I thoroughly enjoyed my correspondence with him. He wrote the following on the death of his mother:
"Mum died very suddenly in St. Vincent's Hospital on July 26, 1940. A week after having a hernia operation, she developed a pulmonary embolism (clot on the lungs) and went from healthy to dead in a quarter of an hour.
She had something special in her makeup and seemed to have been the "Mecca" for all her brothers and sisters during her life. Lady Lindsay, the wife of Sir Daryl Lindsay, the artist, rode down on the day of Mum's burial to offer her condolences, and I can still clearly hear her saying to me "Bill! Baxter will never be the same again!", which I thought was a wonderful tribute."
From The Argus newspaper, Saturday July 27, 1940:
" DEATHS. MARSHALL: On July 26, Rose Annie, the beloved wife of the late James Marshall, loving mother of Aggie (Mrs Nash), Veronica (dec), Alice (Mrs Unthank), Theresa (Mrs Gomm), William, John, Wallace and Jean; and the loving stepmother of James(deceased). Dearest and best of mothers. Requiescat in pace."
(NOTE: Rose Annie's stepson was Hugh William Marshall, not James as stated above. James was her natural born son who died in 1909)
James Dunbar born Volunteer Arms Hotel, East Melbourne, July 11, 1902
Agnes Mary born East Melbourne 1904
Annie Veronica born East Melbourne 1905
Alice Josephine born Yarrawonga 1907
Teresa Frances born Yarrawonga 1909
William Thomas born Yarrawonga
John Frances ("Jock") born Kerriesdale
Peter Wallace born Baxter
Genevieve Bridget born Baxter
The first three children were born in Melbourne; the next three in Yarrawonga, then seventh child Jock arrived when they relocated to Kerrisdale. The final two children arrived after the family had made the permanent move to Baxter in 1915.
Only two of Rose Annie's children did not survive to reach adulthood...little Annie Veronica died in Yarrawonga on April 15, 1906, aged only six months. She was a victim of the terrible disease cholera. Her brother, James Dunbar Marshall, died at the age of six under very sad circumstances. He fell ill at his home in Yarrawonga and was taken to Melbourne to St. Vincents Hospital for emergency treatment for suppurative appendicitis. Peritonitis set in, and nothing more could be done for the little boy. He died on March 17, 1909, and was taken home to Yarrawonga for burial in the Yarrawonga Cemetery.
The Victorian Electoral Rolls help to follow the Marshall family from 1914 onwards into the 1950s:
1909: James Marshall, Yarrawonga, hotel keeper
Annie Marshall, Yarrawonga, home duties
1914: James Marshall, Kerrisdale, farmer
Rose Annie Marshall, Kerrisdale, home duties.
1924: James Marshall, Baxter, orchardist.
Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
1931: Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
Alice Josephine, Scotts Road, Baxter, home duties.
1936: Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
William Thomas Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, railway employee
1937: Rose Annie Marshall, Baxter, home duties.
John Francis Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, motor mechanic
Peter Wallace Marshall, Baxter, student.
1942: John Francis Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, motor mechanic
Peter Wallace Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, student
William Thomas Marshall, Donnybrook, railway employee.
1949: Peter Wallace Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, medical practitioner
Edna Fay Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, home duties
William Thomas Marshall, Scotts Road, Baxter, storekeeper
1954: William Thomas Marshall, Scotts Rd, Baxter, storekeeper
Kathleen Mary Marshall, Scotts Rd, Baxter, home duties
John Francis Marshall, High Street, Hastings, mechanic
Mary Agnes Marshall, High Street, Hastings, home duties.
Peter Wallace Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, medical practitioner
Edna Fay Marshall, 548 Main Street, Mentone, home duties.
James Marshall, husband of Rose Annie Sheridan, died on July 18, 1926, at Baxter, at the age of 64 years. His health had not been good for the five years prior to his death, which was caused by a combination of arteriosclerosis, hemorrhage, heart failure and exhaustion. James was buried in the Frankston Cemetery on July 20, 1926.
At the time of her husband's death, Rose was left to raise seven children aged between 22 and 9 years of age, and that she did so successfully was a testimony to her personal strength and resilience. She was also the mother figure to her own siblings, especially her bachelor brothers Peter and Nicholas.
Rose Annie Sheridan Marshall died July 26, 1940.
I wrote to Rose Annie's son, Bill Marshall, for some time in the 1980s, and he was the most wonderful of men.It was Bill who provided me with information on his Marshall family, and I thoroughly enjoyed my correspondence with him. He wrote the following on the death of his mother:
"Mum died very suddenly in St. Vincent's Hospital on July 26, 1940. A week after having a hernia operation, she developed a pulmonary embolism (clot on the lungs) and went from healthy to dead in a quarter of an hour.
She had something special in her makeup and seemed to have been the "Mecca" for all her brothers and sisters during her life. Lady Lindsay, the wife of Sir Daryl Lindsay, the artist, rode down on the day of Mum's burial to offer her condolences, and I can still clearly hear her saying to me "Bill! Baxter will never be the same again!", which I thought was a wonderful tribute."
From The Argus newspaper, Saturday July 27, 1940:
" DEATHS. MARSHALL: On July 26, Rose Annie, the beloved wife of the late James Marshall, loving mother of Aggie (Mrs Nash), Veronica (dec), Alice (Mrs Unthank), Theresa (Mrs Gomm), William, John, Wallace and Jean; and the loving stepmother of James(deceased). Dearest and best of mothers. Requiescat in pace."
(NOTE: Rose Annie's stepson was Hugh William Marshall, not James as stated above. James was her natural born son who died in 1909)
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