1836-1919
Father
William Thomas Haywood
Mother
Mary Eardley
Siblings
John, Rebecca, Joseph, Richard, James, Stephen, Mary Eardley, Sarah Eardley
Married
Children
Edward, Ann Maria, Susannah Ruth, Benjamin (died in infancy), Elizabeth, Martha Jane, Benjamin Joseph, Thomas, Laveria, Jane, Catherine, Sophia, Bedelia Mary Ann
Mary’s Life
Mary was born to William and Mary Haywood in 1836 at Dorrington, Shropshire. Her father was a farmer holding 265 acres of land and employing five labourers in the 1851 census. Her mother was from Cheshire.
In 1856 she married Joseph H Jenkins, a Welshman, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. At the time of their marriage, Mary was a servant and Joseph a Railway Plate Layer and formerly a miner.
Mary and Joseph had their first child, a son, Edward in 1856, then embarked on the voyage to Australia on the ‘Bee’, arriving in Geelong in April, 1857. Joseph was to be engaged on the Railways as per the ships list as per his previous occupation n Wales. However, their second child Sussanah was born in Ararat in October 1857. Joeseph must have succumbed to gold fever with a new field in that area. They had two more children there, Mary Ann and Benjamin. Both her sons died in Ararat and, by 1861 they had moved to Kingower, Victoria where they resided for the rest of their lives. They had fifteen children.
Mary Ann Haywood Jenkins died in Kingower in 1919. More than likely from Spanish Flu Pandemic, which was bought to Australia by returning soldier from the Great War.
Mary Ann had fifteen children, 8 of whom predeceased her. She married, had her first child at 18 and travelled half around the world to a new country. She lived in the frenzy of the Victorian Goldfields; she saw young man go off to the Boer war and the First World War. She witnessed the Federation of Australia.
She was a true pioneer,
Authored by Leah Burnheim