suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Crouch
Given names: 
Julia E.
Given address: 
Ferguson St.
Sheet No: 335
Town/Suburb: 
Newtown
City/Region: 
Wellington
Notes: 

Biographical information provided for by Stefanie Lash for the He Tohu exhibition:

Julia Elizabeth Brooke was born in about 1842, in Marlborough, Wiltshire. In 1880 she married William Foster Crouch, a commercial traveller, at St Luke’s Church in Hammersmith. They were both 38. She was his second wife.

Julia and William had one son, Foster Brooke Crouch, born in 1882, who was killed in action in the First World War.

By 1893 the family had moved to New Zealand, and settled in Newtown. They lived first in Ferguson Street, and then in Waterloo Avenue, which is now Wilson Street.

A eulogy delivered for Foster Crouch noted 'The father was ill-equipped to maintain a family in the colonies. None but a few observant neighbours could guess how hard was the struggle for existence in that family. The mother struggled to keep body and soul together till her only child could fend for himself, but when the lad at about 14 or 15 went out to face the world she seemed to have reached a limit of her endurance and lapsed into a state of melancholia.'

Julia died shortly after war broke out in 1914.

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

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