Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameEllen OSMOND 
, 442
, 442Birth1 September 1839, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England594
Baptism30 September 1839, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England512 Age: <1
Death17 October 1917, Wanganui, New Zealand512 Age: 78
FatherWilliam OSMOND , 321 (1790-1875)
MotherCharity MARSH , 322 (1799-1851)
Spouses
1Alfred Augustus BROWNE , 443
, 443Birth14 January 1830512
DeathAugust 1912, Wanganui, New Zealand512 Age: 82
FatherWilliam Edmund BROWNE , 584
MotherCaroline Eunice Maltida WOODWARD , 585
Family ID851
Marriage14 May 1867, St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, New Zealand
ChildrenHarold William , 589 (1868-1936)
Mabel Ellinor , 5831 (1869-~1945)
Madeline Louisa , 5832 (1873-1946)
Gertrude Evelyn , 4334 (1876-1942)
Notes for Ellen OSMOND
1841 Census Ellen aged 1 was living at Brown Street, Salisbury. In 1851 Census aged 11 Ellen was a scholar and still living at Brown Stretet.
Ellen had left the family home by the time of the 1861 census. It is thought that she was an expert at embroidery and french and was a governess at Warwick Castle, though there is no evidence to support this. Ellen returned from New Zealand for two years, leaving in 1892 to visit family in England. Alfred, stayed behind, selling the family home and eventually joined Ellen in England, a few months before they returned to New Zealand and settling at Westbourne, Wicksteed Street in Wanganui.
1861 Census records her at Packington Hall. She was in New Zealand by 1867.
She and her two youngest children made a visit to England in May, 1892 where they stayed for 2.5 years, basing themselves at Ellen’s youngest brother Walter Marcsh Osmond’s England home at Salisbury. During their time away from New Zealand, her youngest daughter Evelyn kept a personal diary for four months in 1892 & the whole of 1894. From this we discover that she and her daughters visited Browne relations in Guilford & Osmond relations in London & Broadstairs. (Steve Osmond)
In October, 1893 Ellen sustained a bad accident which left her incapacitated well into 1894. Her husband arrived in England in the April to take his family home. They eventually left in October reaching home in Wanganui in late November to a new house Alfred had bought during her absence. (Steve Osmond)
Ellen had left the family home by the time of the 1861 census. It is thought that she was an expert at embroidery and french and was a governess at Warwick Castle, though there is no evidence to support this. Ellen returned from New Zealand for two years, leaving in 1892 to visit family in England. Alfred, stayed behind, selling the family home and eventually joined Ellen in England, a few months before they returned to New Zealand and settling at Westbourne, Wicksteed Street in Wanganui.
1861 Census records her at Packington Hall. She was in New Zealand by 1867.
She and her two youngest children made a visit to England in May, 1892 where they stayed for 2.5 years, basing themselves at Ellen’s youngest brother Walter Marcsh Osmond’s England home at Salisbury. During their time away from New Zealand, her youngest daughter Evelyn kept a personal diary for four months in 1892 & the whole of 1894. From this we discover that she and her daughters visited Browne relations in Guilford & Osmond relations in London & Broadstairs. (Steve Osmond)
In October, 1893 Ellen sustained a bad accident which left her incapacitated well into 1894. Her husband arrived in England in the April to take his family home. They eventually left in October reaching home in Wanganui in late November to a new house Alfred had bought during her absence. (Steve Osmond)
Notes for Alfred Augustus (Spouse 1)
Extract from his obituary:
‘..he had a varied & interesting career. He received his education partly in his native city & partly at Orleans College, France, after which, deciding on a mercantile career, he entered a London merchant's office. In 1855, Australasia called him, & landing in Melbourne he was appointed to the secretarial staff of Sir Charles Hotham, the then Governor of Victoria. On the death of the Governor, he then returned to the mercantile career, spending four years in Sydney and Melbourne and then via South Africa, but had to return to England due to ill health.’
It is not sure how Ellen Osmond and Alfred met, but they both moved to Auckland and then moved onto Wanganui, where Alfred became the Secretary to the Wanganui Education Board.
‘..he had a varied & interesting career. He received his education partly in his native city & partly at Orleans College, France, after which, deciding on a mercantile career, he entered a London merchant's office. In 1855, Australasia called him, & landing in Melbourne he was appointed to the secretarial staff of Sir Charles Hotham, the then Governor of Victoria. On the death of the Governor, he then returned to the mercantile career, spending four years in Sydney and Melbourne and then via South Africa, but had to return to England due to ill health.’
It is not sure how Ellen Osmond and Alfred met, but they both moved to Auckland and then moved onto Wanganui, where Alfred became the Secretary to the Wanganui Education Board.