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Family of John Septimus Roe and Matilda Bennett

Husband: John Septimus Roe

  • Name:

  • John Septimus Roe

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • James Roe (1758-1838)

  • Mother:

  • Sophia Brookes (c. 1760-1833)

  • Note:

  • Explorer and surveyor. Roe served in various expeditions to survey the coasts of Australia, and in 1829 he was one of the first to land in the colony of Western Australia. He was appointed Surveyor-General of Western Australia in 1828, a post which he held for 42 years. It was on Roe's advice that the site for the capital, Perth, and its port, Fremantle, were selected. Roe founded the public museum in Perth, and was a member of the executive and legislative council of the colony. He was an associate of the Royal Geographical Society and a fellow of the Linnean Society.

    Source: Dictionary of National Biography

     

    Many of Roe's descendants are still living in Western Australia and a statue to commemorate Roe's contribution to Western Australia is situated on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Adelaide Terrace in Perth.

  • Birth:

  • 8 May 1797

  • Newbury, Berkshire

  • Baptism:

  • 19 Jun 1797 (age 0)

  • All Hallows by the Tower, Byward St, London

  • Death:

  • 28 May 1878 (age 81)

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Wife: Matilda Bennett

  • Name:

  • Matilda Bennett

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Henry Ley Bennett (1775-1823)

  • Mother:

  • Martha Ratcliffe (1772-1835)

  • Note:

  • Mrs. Roe, wife of John Septimus Roe, R.N., first Surveyor-General of Western Australia, was Miss Matilda Bennett, daughter of George Bennett (sic), Cheshire, England, and married her husband on January 8, 1829. After coming to this country she brought into the world 13 children. Her life was naturally very circumscribed, but she was a brave, uncomplaining, charitable woman. She used to tell her grandchildren how the natives came to the huts of Lady Stirling and herself, and would take up their babies, examine their feet and clothes, about which they were very curious, gently putting them back on receipt of beads, jewellery and sugar. Mrs. Roe has left a goodly number of descendants, her children and grandchildren intermarrying with the Stone, Phillips, Burges, Hassell, Cooke, Ferguson, and other families.

    Source: "Pioneer Women" by Edith D Cowan, Western Mail, Perth WA, 4 Jul 1929

    http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/38887676

  • Birth:

  • 27 Sep 1804

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Baptism:

  • 30 Nov 1804 (age 0)

  • Liverpool, Lancashire

  • Death:

  • 22 Jul 1870 (age 65)

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Child 1: Sophia Roe

  • Name:

  • Sophia Roe

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Samuel Pole Phllips (1819-1901)

  • Birth:

  • 25 Dec 1829

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 6 Oct 1902 (age 72)

  • Culham, Toodyay, Western Australia

Child 2: Matilda Elizabeth Roe

  • Name:

  • Matilda Elizabeth Roe

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Philip John Butler (1818-1899)

  • Birth:

  • 26 May 1831

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 1 Jul 1862 (age 31)

  • St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex

Child 3: James Broun Roe

  • Name:

  • James Broun Roe

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Alice Stone (1848-1929)

  • Birth:

  • 11 May 1833

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 9 Feb 1907 (age 73)

  • 'Glynlee', 259 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, Western Australia

Child 4: Eliza Naylor Roe

  • Name:

  • Eliza Naylor Roe

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • George Clifton (1823-1913)

  • Children:

  • Elinor Matilda Clifton (1854-1884)

  •  

  • Laura Eliza Josephine Clifton (1856-1925)

  •  

  • Agnes Flora Isabel Clifton (1858-1943)

  •  

  • Mary Louisa Alberta Clifton (1860-1935)

  •  

  • George Arthur Algernon Clifton (1861-1945)

  •  

  • Edmund Yeamans Clifton (1862-1922)

  •  

  • Charles Edward Ernest Clifton (1863-1912)

  •  

  • Rachel Caroline Victoria Clifton (1868-1889)

  •  

  • Ada Florence Rosalie Clifton (1870-1939)

  •  

  • Marshall Waller Francis Clifton (1871-1871)

  •  

  • Robert Henry Clifton (1873-1953)

  •  

  • William Alvared Roe Clifton (1878-1962)

  • Note:

  • CLIFTON Eliza Naylor of 16 Upperton Road Eastbourne widow died 3 May 1925. Probate Lewes 10 July to the Westminster Bank Limited. Effects £2726 16s. 10d.

  • Birth:

  • 2 Nov 1834

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 36-37)

  • Wife in household

  • Census (2):

  • 1881 (age 46-47)

  • Wife in household

  • Census (3):

  • 1911 (age 76-77)

  • Wife in household (married 37 years, 12 children, 9 living, 3 dead)

  • Death:

  • 3 May 1925 (age 90)

  • 16 Upperton Road, Eastbourne, Sussex

Child 5: John Henry Hayden Roe

Child 6: Emma Lucille Frances Roe

Child 7: Ellen Elizabeth Roe

Child 8: William Henry Lyons Roe

  • Name:

  • William Henry Lyons Roe

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Alice King (1847-1919)

  • Birth:

  • 6 May 1842

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 1895 (age 52-53)

  •  

Child 9: Frederick Mackie Roe

  • Name:

  • Frederick Mackie Roe

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Sarah Clarkson (1846-1912)

  • Birth:

  • 23 Oct 1843

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 27 May 1877 (age 33)

  • Toodyay, W.Australia

Child 10: Alice Maude Roe

  • Name:

  • Alice Maude Roe

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • George Cooke Attfield (1826-1925)

  • Children:

  • Maude Cecil Attfield (1864-1942)

  •  

  • Florence Mary Attfield (1866-1866)

  •  

  • Alice Isabel (Roe) Attfield (1868-1947)

  •  

  • Edith Blanche Attfield (1869-1955)

  •  

  • Ethel Clare Attfield (1870-1946)

  • Note:

  • ATTFIELD Alice Maud of 17 Salisbury Road Hove Sussex widow died 1 April 1925 at Thornham Wilbury Road Hove; Probate Lewes 6 October to Charles Webster Rede Gell-Woolley solicitor. Effects £688 15s.

  • Birth:

  • 6 Aug 1845

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Census (1):

  • 1891 (age 45-46)

  • Aged 46 in census

  • Census (2):

  • 1921 (age 75-76)

  • Wife in household

  • Residence:

  • 1925 (age 79-80)

  • 17 Salisbury Road, Hove (on death cert.)

  • Death fact:

  • 1925 (age 79-80)

  • 1925 Jun Qtr, Steyning, 2b/317 (aged 77)

  • Death:

  • 1 Apr 1925 (age 79)

  • Thornham, 7 Wilbury Road, Hove, Sussex

  • Will:

  • 6 Oct 1925 (age 80)

  • Probate, Lewes, to Charles Webster Rede Gell-Woolley, solicitor (£688-15s)

Child 11: George Harriott Roe

  • Name:

  • George Harriott Roe

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 11 Jun 1848

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 19 Apr 1924 (age 75)

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Child 12: Augustus Sanford Keats Roe

Child 13: Jessie Roe

  • Name:

  • Jessie Roe

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 10 Feb 1859

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

  • Death:

  • 22 Apr 1859 (age 0)

  • Swan River Colony, Western Australia

Note on Husband: John Septimus Roe

Explorer and surveyor. Roe served in various expeditions to survey the coasts of Australia, and in 1829 he was one of the first to land in the colony of Western Australia. He was appointed Surveyor-General of Western Australia in 1828, a post which he held for 42 years. It was on Roe's advice that the site for the capital, Perth, and its port, Fremantle, were selected. Roe founded the public museum in Perth, and was a member of the executive and legislative council of the colony. He was an associate of the Royal Geographical Society and a fellow of the Linnean Society.

Source: Dictionary of National Biography

 

Many of Roe's descendants are still living in Western Australia and a statue to commemorate Roe's contribution to Western Australia is situated on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Adelaide Terrace in Perth.

Note on Wife: Matilda Bennett

Mrs. Roe, wife of John Septimus Roe, R.N., first Surveyor-General of Western Australia, was Miss Matilda Bennett, daughter of George Bennett (sic), Cheshire, England, and married her husband on January 8, 1829. After coming to this country she brought into the world 13 children. Her life was naturally very circumscribed, but she was a brave, uncomplaining, charitable woman. She used to tell her grandchildren how the natives came to the huts of Lady Stirling and herself, and would take up their babies, examine their feet and clothes, about which they were very curious, gently putting them back on receipt of beads, jewellery and sugar. Mrs. Roe has left a goodly number of descendants, her children and grandchildren intermarrying with the Stone, Phillips, Burges, Hassell, Cooke, Ferguson, and other families.

Source: "Pioneer Women" by Edith D Cowan, Western Mail, Perth WA, 4 Jul 1929

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/38887676

 

Note on Child 4: Eliza Naylor Roe

CLIFTON Eliza Naylor of 16 Upperton Road Eastbourne widow died 3 May 1925. Probate Lewes 10 July to the Westminster Bank Limited. Effects £2726 16s. 10d.

Note on Child 10: Alice Maude Roe

ATTFIELD Alice Maud of 17 Salisbury Road Hove Sussex widow died 1 April 1925 at Thornham Wilbury Road Hove; Probate Lewes 6 October to Charles Webster Rede Gell-Woolley solicitor. Effects £688 15s.