Charlotte Warren (1877 - 1910) - Warren and Ford Genealogy

Name:                                                 Charlotte Warren

Birth Date:                                         23 Sep 1877

Birth Place:                                       Brighton

Registration Place:                      Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Father:                                                Oliver Warren

Mother:                                             Elizabeth Hales

Page Number:                               437

Volume Number:                        189

Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

.....a woman named Charlotte Warren was charged with being idle and disorderly.   Charlotte Warren was sentenced to two months gaol at 19 years of age.

Charlotte Warren, prostitute, S.A., height 5 ft. 1 inch, dark hair, dark eyes

Transcript of Police Report, “The South Australian Police Gazette”, April 29, 1896

    

August 11, 1887, Charlotte Warren was fined 40 shillings for using indecent language as reported from the “Police Courts, Adelaide.”

Name:                                                 Arthur William Appleton

Birth Date:                                         Abt 1872

Birth Place:                                        Daylesford, Victoria

Registration Year:                           1872

Registration Place:                          Victoria, Australia

Father:                                                John Appleton

Mother:                                              Mary Ann Garland

Registration Number:                   8383

Source Information : Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

He was also known as “Artie”.  He was a keen cricketer and excelled at bowling.  He and his brothers, Harry and Richard, played for the local Stratford cricket team.  Many of their scores are recorded in the local newspapers of the time.

1901 – Marriage – Charlotte Warren

Perhaps a marriage was arranged to keep Charlotte from further trouble with the law – in any event, she married into the Appleton family in 1901 when she was 24 years old.  (Her aunts, Elizabeth and Charlotte Warren (sisters of her father, Oliver) had married Richard and Francis Appleton.)  

Charlotte married Arthur William Appleton, a brother to Richard and Francis Appleton.

 

Name:                                                   Arthur William Appleton

Father's name:                                 John Appleton

Spouse Name:                                  Charlottie Warren

Spouse's Father's Name:            Oliver Warren

Marriage Date:                               17 Apr 1901

Marriage Place:                             O''Halloran Hill

Registration Place:                       Adelaide, South Australia

Page Number:                                 493

Volume Number:                          207

Source Information:  Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Arthur and Charlotte moved from South Australia to Victoria to take up settlement farming in Gippsland in Narang where Charlotte and Arthur’s two children, Leonard and Doris Elizabeth, were born in the following two years.

Arthur’s father, John Appleton had already leased 342 acres of land back in 1883 in Narang and his sons, Arthur William and Richard John leased land adjoining their father’s block around the turn of the century.  Arthur leased 320 acres.

The deal was with leased land under a settlement scheme that certain improvements needed to be made to the land each year over the period of the lease.  Documents viewed at Victoria’s Public Record’s Office revealed Arthur’s land was heavily timbered with red gum, box, stringy bank and scrub and that Arthur cleared his total acreage of trees by either ring barking or ‘scrubbing’.  

He also built a good-sized dam and fenced the entire block with fence posts and 3 strands of wire.  He did not build a house on this block of land because he lived about 2 ½ miles from the block on an adjoining block.  Occupiers of blocks next door were C.W. Hempel (to whom he eventually sold in 1920), his brothers Richard James Appleton (1865-1943) and Francis Herbert Appleton (1869-1959).  In 1897 the Valuer had appraised the valued of the land at 2d. per acre.

1902 – Birth – Son, Leonard Appleton

Charlotte and Arthur’s first child was born in 1902 and her second baby a year later when Charlotte and her husband were living in Narang in Gippsland on a settlement farming property.  

Name:                                                    Leonard Appleton

Birth Date:                                          Abt 1902

Birth Place:                                        Balranald, Victoria

Registration Year:                         1902

Registration Place:                       Victoria, Australia

Father:                                                 Arth Wm Appleton

Mother:                                               Charl Warren

Registration Number:                 299

Source Information    Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

1903 – Birth – Daughter, Doris Elizabeth Appleton

By 1903, they were settled at Narang in Gippsland where a daughter was born.  

Name:                                                 Doris Elizth Appleton

Birth Date:                                         Abt 1903

Birth Place:                                       Stratford, Victoria

Registration Year:                        1903

Registration Place:                      Victoria, Australia

Father:                                                Arthur Wm Appleton

Mother:                                              Charlotte Warren

Registration Number:                21587

Source Information   Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

1903 - Electoral Roll

Charlotte was living with her uncle, Richard James Appleton, grazier, Ada Appleton, home duties, and her husband, Arthur William Appleton at Narang in Gippsland in 1903 according to the electoral roll.

Name:                                                   Charlotte Appleton

Gender:                                              Female

Electoral Year:                                1903

Subdistrict:                                      Lindenow

State:                                                   Victoria

District:                                             Gippsland

Country:                                           Australia

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980

1904 – Admission to Asylum - Charlotte Warren

Unfortunately, Charlotte’s mental instability soon became obvious by 1904 and she was institutionalised.  I believe it was at this time that Charlotte’s sister, Bertha, came to live in Narang with the Appleton’s and Bertha and Arthur visited Charlotte where she was housed.

Charlotte Appleton

Admission Date November 1, 1904

Entry from Victoria, Australia, Lunatic Estates and Register, 1867-1906

On admission to Mt. Ida House on November 1, 1904 - It was situated on the corner of Tooronga and St. Helen's Road, East Hawthorn - Charlotte was diagnosed as suffering from ‘Mania’ which is described as a mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.  She was discharged from this institution a short time later and committed to Royal Park Mental Asylum, another Licensed House for the insane where she died in 1910.

1910 – Death – Charlotte Warren

Charlotte, still lingering in mental institutions where she had been admitted suffering from dementia, died in August 1910.

Name:                                                 Charlotte Appleton

Maiden Name:                                 Warren

Birth Date:                                         23 Sep 1877

Death Date:                                       11 Aug 1910

Death Place:                                      Stratford, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia

Cemetery:                                         Stratford Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place:           Stratford, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia

Spouse:                                               Arthur William Appleton

Children:                                             Leonard Appleton

Source:                                                https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

1910 - Charlotte Appleton, nee Warren, Grave in Stratford Cemetery

1910 – Inquest into Death of Charlotte Warren

The Inquest document enquiring into the causes of her death reveal that Charlotte died on August 9, 1910 at 11.40 pm from ‘orbital cellulitis and meningitis”.  Depositions were given by the Medical Officer for the Hospital, the GP who attended her, and two nurses who were looking after her.

Their statements indicated that Charlotte was in the habit of scratching her face with her finger-nails and that one of the scratches above her eye had become infected. Without delving further to her records, it seems that she received insufficient attention for this infection until it was too late to save her.  The result was summed up in the doctor’s statement –

Charlotte Appleton was admitted here suffering from Secondary Dementia. The deceased was in good health.  During the month of July of this year, patient got into the habit of picking her face.  On 4/8/10 she was brought under my notice with a temperature of 102º. I found that a small abrasion of the patient had become infected and that the infection had spread to the orbital cavity.  She was removed to the Hospital where several incisions were made in the area.  The {infection} had spread to the base of the brain and to the opposite orbital cavity. The patient died at 11.20 pm 9/8/10. She was visited by her family and by the clergyman prior to death.  It was a secondary infection following on an ordinary inflammation.  It was not erysipelatous.  I saw the original small scratch.

NB “erysipelatous” means an acute, febrile infectious disease, caused by a specific streptococcus, characterized by diffusely spreading deep-red inflammation of the skin or mucous membranes. Also called swine erysipelas.

The nurse in the hospital stated that –

She had a swelling of the right eye and a small sore above the same eye.  She was kept in bed and was seen frequently by Dr. Catanach.  She became swollen.  She was operated on 5^th August.  Next day the other eye became swollen and her face also.  She was operated on again on 9^th August 1910.  She died the same day.  No nurse was present.  Her husband and sister saw her on 9^th August the official visitors but did not see her in hospital again.

So, Oliver Warren and Elizabeth nee Hales’ fourth born child died.  At least her husband, Arthur William Appleton, and her sister, probably, Bertha, visited her just before her death.

LARCENY CHARGE

Constable Nolan charged Alexander Norris with stealing a watch and several articles of jewellery, etc., the property of Arthur Appleton and valued at £5.  Superintendent Fowler conducted the prosecution and accused was undefended.

Arthur Appleton, grazier, residing at Narrang, deposed : “I know the accused, whom I employed on 23^rd September last.  He worked for me for about four weeks and slept on the premises.  Only he and I were living on the premises on the 20^th October.  On that date I saw accused about 8 o’clock in the morning.  I told him I was going into Stratford and would be back that night.  When I left there was no-one in charge of the house.  I returned home about 5.30 pm.  I went into the house to look at the time and found my watch had gone.  Accused had also disappeared, and with him a silver watch and chain, a gunmetal watch and chain, a rolled gold watch, a breech-loading gun and a water-bag.  I value the whole of this property at about £7.  The articles produced are my property. The gun and the water-bag, also a silver chain are not among the articles recovered by the police.  I did not authorise the accused to take the articles.  The accused had £3 due to him for wage out of which he had had goods to the value of 23 shillings.”

Constable Nolan, stationed at Sale said ; “On 26^th October I went to Rosedale in accordance with instructions received.  I met Constable Brown of Rosedale and we went to the yard of the Exchange Hotel, Rosedale where we saw accused.  I asked his name and he said “Norris.”  He accompanied us to the police station.  He told us he had been working for a man named Appleton at Narrang before he came to Rosedale.  Constable Brown asked him if he had any jewellery on him and he handed over the articles produced.  I then arrested him on a charge of larceny.  Accused made a statement admitting having taken the articles produced.  He said he took the articles because Appleton would not give him any wages.  I locked him up and he has been under arrest ever since.  Accused, who is 23 years of age, admitted having stolen a macintosh at Morwell and 6^th June last.  On that occasion he was sentenced but the sentence was suspended.”

The P.M.: “What am I to do with you Norris?  I gave you a chance at Morwell and you have not taken advantage of it.  I don’t like sending you to gaol.  You are far more use to the community outside”.  (To Mr. Appleton) “Would you take him back into your employment?

Appleton:  “No, sir I could not trust him.”

The P.M. “Well, Norris, I cannot overlook this offence, which is your second one.  You will be sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment in the Sale gaol.”

Costs amounting to 25/- were allowed against the accused.

Transcript of Newspaper Report, "Stratford Sentinel & Briagolong Express", November 7, 1913

Name:                                                 Leonard Appleton

Birth Year:                                          abt 1902

Age:                                                      11

Death Place:                                      Stratford, Victoria

Father's name:                                 Appleton Arthur Wm

Mother's name:                               Charlotte Warren

Registration Year:                           1913

Registration Place:                          Victoria

Registration Number:                   7333

Source Information:Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

Death Registration, Leonard Appleton, Stratford, Victoria

We regret to record the death of Mr. Arthur Appleton’s only son, Leonard, which occurred on Friday last, at his father’s residence, Dargo Road. Deceased, who was 11 years of age, was just recovering from an attack of diphtheria, when he contracted congestion of the lungs which proved fatal. Great sympathy is expressed for Mr. Appleton in his sad bereavement. The remains were interred in the Nuntin cemetery on Saturday last, the burial service being conducted by Mr. A. Smith (Church of England).

Transcript of Newspaper Notice, "Stratford Sentinel & Briagolong Express", 1913

Name:                                                 Arth Wm Appleton

Spouse Name:                                  Louisa Amy Wood

Marriage Place:                                Victoria

Registration Place:                          Victoria

Registration Year:                           1916

Registration Number:                   7791

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name:                                                              Wm Jno Appleton

Birth Registration Date:                             1917

Birth Registration Place:                            Victoria, Australia

Father:                                                             Arth Wm Appleton

Mother Maiden Name:                             Wood

Reference Number:                                    11748

Source:  The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Victoria, Australia, Birth Records

1917 – Enlistment

Shortly after his marriage Arthur enlisted in the A.I.F. to join the forces in WW1.  At 40 years of age, Arthur embarked from Melbourne on the HMAT A9 “Shropshire” on September 25, 1916.  Also, on board was his brother-in-law, Edward Campbell, who was married to Arthur’s sister, Dora.  Both men returned to Australia after their service, Arthur returning on December 14, 1918

1920 – Mental Asylum – Daughter, Doris Elizabeth Appleton

The insanity that had plagued Arthur’s first wife, Charlotte, showed itself again when his daughter by Charlotte, Doris Elizabeth Appleton was admitted to a mental asylum.

1920 - Doris Elizabeth Appleton, Register of Voluntary Boarders, Mt Ida Licensed House, Victoria

                   Date of Reception                          7 . 7. 20

                   Name in Full                                  Doris Elizabeth Appleton

                   Sex                                               Female

                    Age                                              17

                    Condition as to Marriage            Single

                    Occupation                                 Home Duties

                    Address                                     Glenfern, Stockdale via Stratford

                    Form of Mental Disease            Mania

                    Causation                                 Hereditary

                   Physical Condition                    Good

                   Period of Residency Agreed     1 month

                   Remarks                                   Certified & Transferred to Royal Park 12. 8. 20

Transcript of Register of Voluntary Boarders (1906-1928) Admissions to Mt. Ida Licensed House

On the 3^rd January, 1924 at Kyneton hospital Arthur William Appleton, of Lockard Park, East Kyneton (late of the 22^nd Battalion) beloved husband of Amy and loving father of Doris, Billy, Lennie and Frank

Transcript of Newspaper Notice, "The Argus”, January 5, 1924

1924 – Probate – Arthur William Appleton

Arthur Appleton left his estate of real estate £1,000 and personal property of £5,613 to his widow and children.