Dawe (née Gregory), Jane

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Type of person	Individual
Date of birth	1816
Place of birth	Tamerton Foliot in Devon, England.
Date of arrival	1840
Principal occupation	Wife and mother
Date of death	1882
Place of decease	Willunga, South Australia

Jane Gregory was born on 3 Nov 1816 at Tamerton Foliot in Devon, England. She was the daughter of John Gregory (1785-) and Philippa Abel (1786-1846) and the sister of Sarah Elizabeth Gregory.

Jane Gregory, aged 23, (1816-1882) married Sampson Dawe, aged 26, (1813–1879) at Eaststone House in Devon in September 1839.

Only a few months months after getting married, Sampson Dawe (26) with his wife Jane (23) and their infant daughter Elizabeth, and his cousin William (25) with his wife Mary Anne (21) and their infant son William Henry, left Gravesend on 5 March 1840 and arrived on 17 June 1840 on board the 453-ton barque Charles Kerr, Captain Arnold, from London, Gravesend, and Deal to Port Adelaide.

They had at least five children (two sons and three daughters):

Elizabeth (1840–1867) m. Georg H.W. Schunke on 05/01/1865 at Willunga,

John Henry (1844–1907), Tabitha (1846–1859) unmarried,

Jane (1849-1902) m. Georg H.W. Schunke in 1868

William (1853–1854) unmarried.

Her husband, Sampson, died in 1879. Jane Dawe (née Gregory) died on 22 March 1882 and she is buried in St. Stephen’s Anglican cemetery near Willunga.

Sources

• Passengers in History Database – South Australian Maritime Museum
• SA Census 1841
• South Australian Births – Index of Registrations 1842-1906
• South Australian Marriages – Index of Registrations 1842-1937
• South Australian Deaths – Index of Registrations 1842-1972
• Adelaide Observer 23 May 1846:4

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