Maria Caroline SOLWAY

1862 - 1930  (67 years)

• Name	Maria Caroline SOLWAY
  Born	05 Dec 1862	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	18 Apr 1930	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia   [3, 4]
  	General Hospital, Ipswich
  		ALFORD Maria Caroline (nee SOLWAY) Death certificate
  Funeral Notice	19 Apr 1930	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   [5]
  	The Brisbane Courier, Saturday 19 April 1930, page 14 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21513760 Alford-The Friends of Mr George Alford sen., and Family are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of his deceased Wife and their Mother, Maria Caroline Alford, to leave her late residence, Raceview, Ipswich This (Saturday) Afternoon, at 2 o'clock, for the Ipswich Cemetery. J & H REED, Undertakers
  Religion	Methodist then Christadelphian
  Buried	19 Apr 1930	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia   [6]
  	Ipswich Cemetery Christadelphian B section, grave 14
  		ALFORD George and Maria Caroline (nee SOLWAY)
  Notes	Maria (pronounced Mar-iah) spent the first seven years of her childhood at Basin Pocket (or the Pocket), Ipswich, where she was born in 1862. Soon after her birth her family moved to Birkwood, later called Mutdapilly, west of Ipswich. Maria's father Samuel purchased farming land here in 1869. She attended Normanby (later renamed Mutdapilly) Primary School. At age 18 she married George Alford at the Birkwood Wesleyan Methodist Church where her parents worshipped and where her mother Elizabeth was superintendant of the Sunday school for over 40 years. As well as being a mother to six children, Maria worked as a postal mistress at the Teviotville Railway Station Receiving Office from its opening in 1888 till the mid 1890s. Maria died at age 66 from breast cancer, complicated by secondaries at the brain and spine. She died at Ipswich General Hospital. Maria also suffered badly from rheumatoid arthritis (especially during the last few years of her life). Her granddaughter, Dawn Deuter (nee Rossow) remembers pushing her wheelchair around her verandah at Raceview.
  Person ID	I265	Rossow-Beitzel
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel SOLWAY,   b. 1840,   d. 19 Jan 1920, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth HOUSTON,   b. 21 Sep 1826, Crail, Fifeshire, Scotland ,   d. 14 Feb 1917, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia  (Age 90 years)
  Married	04 Dec 1859	Queensland, Australia
  Family ID	F963	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George ALFORD,   b. 01 Sep 1856, Catcott, Somersetshire, England ,   d. 09 Mar 1950, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia  (Age 93 years)
  Married	03 Aug 1881	Queensland, Australia   [7, 8]
  	Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (Qld. : 1861 - 1908), Thursday 11 August 1881, page 2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122871554 MARRIAGES. On the 3rd August, at Birkwood Wesleyan Church, by the Rev. W. H. Williams, George, eldest son of Charles Alford, to Maria Caroline, second daughter of Samuel Solway, farmer, Sunnyside.
  		ALFORD George and Maria (nee SOLWAY) Marriage certificate
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Hill ALFORD,   b. 18 May 1882, Basin Pocket, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 03 Dec 1959, Queensland, Australia  (Age 77 years) + 2. Emily Ada ALFORD,   b. 23 Aug 1883, Bundamba, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 13 Oct 1943, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia  (Age 60 years) + 3. Joseph ALFORD,   b. 20 Oct 1885, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 07 Apr 1959, Queensland, Australia  (Age 73 years)   4. George ALFORD,   b. 05 Jul 1887, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 11 Jul 1974, Queensland, Australia  (Age 87 years)   5. William John ALFORD,   b. 20 Jan 1889, Teviotville, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 02 Sep 1958, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia  (Age 69 years) + 6. Mabel Caroline ALFORD,   b. 05 Oct 1891, Teviotville, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 03 Feb 1971, Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia  (Age 79 years)   7. Harry John ALFORD,   b. 24 Oct 1908, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 17 Feb 1984, Queensland, Australia  (Age 75 years)
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F197	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 05 Dec 1862 - Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Married - 03 Aug 1881 - Queensland, Australia Died - 18 Apr 1930 - Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Funeral Notice - 19 Apr 1930 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Buried - 19 Apr 1930 - Ipswich, Queensland, Australia  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos » Slide Show		ALFORD Maria Caroline (nee SOLWAY)
  		ALFORD Maria Caroline (nee SOLWAY)
  		SOLWAY Samuel and Elizabeth (nee HOUSTON) Family photo Front: Elizabeth SOLWAY (nee HOUSTON), Edna Amy GRAY, Samuel SOLWAY Back: Maria Caroline ALFORD (nee SOLWAY) and Mabel Caroline ALFORD
  		SOLWAY Maria Caroline As a young woman
  		ALFORD Maria Caroline (nee SOLWAY) and ALFORD Mabel Caroline Photo taken 1916

  
  

• Sources

  [S29] Research material from Carolyn Noon. [S2] Queensland: Registry Birth Deaths Marriages, 1863/000419. [S2] Queensland: Registry Birth Deaths Marriages, 1930/C1601. [S32] Headstone transcription, from headstone photo taken by Anne McLean and Ashleigh Stratton. [S128] Newspapers - Australia NLA, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21513760. [S63] Ipswich Genealogical Society Inc. Index - Ipswich General Cemetery Headstones. [S2] Queensland: Registry Birth Deaths Marriages, 1881/000433. [S128] Newspapers - Australia NLA, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122871554.