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22. Helen Matilda
BROMFIELD was born about 1840 in Burley, Hampshire. She lived
in Raglan Hotel, Raglan, Victoria, Australia between 1888 and 1897.
The hotel burnt down in 1906 but Helen may have left by then. She held a mining
lease on 28 Mar 1896 in Raglan, Victoria, Australia. She died on
4 Jun 1928 in 15 Margaret Street, Canterbury, Melbourne, Australia.
She was buried on 5 Jun 1928 in Box Hill Cemetery, Melbourne, Australia.
Helen
Matilda BROMFIELD and George PRINCE were married on 8 Jan 1858 in Ballarat, Victoria,
Australia. Their children were Helen (1858-1858), William Albert
(1859-1860), Edward James (1860-1862), Harry Cull (1862-1863), Helen Matilda
(Nellie) (1863), Emily (1865), Arabella Maria (1867), Jessie (1869), Elizabeth
(Lizzie 1871), Harriet (1873-1873), Frederick George (Fred 1874), Flora Ann (1876-1877),
Austin Thomas (1878), Alice (1880) and Charles Alfred (1883).
When her husband George died in 1888 Helen was forty eight years old and had
seven of their fifteen children left. Six of their children - three boys and
three girls (including the first four) had died before their first birthdays.
Another daughter, Jessie, died in 1886 (aged 17) and Nellie died in 1888 (aged
24), Her surviving children in 1888 were Emily (23 married), Arabella (21 married),
Elizabeth (17), Frederick (14), Austin (10), Alice (8) and Charles (5). She had
five children at home and a hotel to run. However she was used to hard work and
George, her husband, had first gone into Ararat Asylum when she was 8 months
pregnant with Austin. He was in and out of the Asylum when she had her last two
children. She aslo had her mother Flora White (nee Tanner) living with her until
her death in 1897. They lived in Raglan Hotel, Raglan, Victoria, Australia between
1865 and 1888. George was a publican. He went into the Ararat Asylum
in the 1870s and left his wife to run the Raglan Hotel. During this time the
hotel's name was changed to the Prince of Wales Hotel - like her father's hotel
in Snake Valley. When George returned to the hotel in the 1880s the hotel reverted
to its former name of Raglan! George PRINCE was born
about 1832 in Lymington, Hampshire. His father was Henry Prince (1801-27
Nov 1875, butcher). His mother was Ann Cull. He was christened on 28 Apr 1833
in Boldre, Hampshire. He immigrated about 1848 to Australia.
He was admitted to the Ararat Asylum about 1878 in Raglan, Victoria, Australia.
He stayed from 28 November 1878 to 6 March 1879. He was readmitted on 6 April
1879 to 8 July 1880 and was discharged as recovered. He was there again from
17 May 1882 to 2 August 1882. There was a lunacy case regarding George Prince
of Raglan dated 30 November 1886 (probably due to alcoholism). He died of Heart
disease and anasarca on 7 Oct 1888 in Raglan, Victoria, Australia.
He was buried on 10 Oct 1888 in Beaufort Cemetery, Beaufort, Victoria, Australia.
