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| Elizabeth Aitken
(Cal 1836-1866) |
Elizabeth Aitken
General Notes: From ancestry.com Owen Family Tree
Elizabeth married John Owen, son of Humphrey Owen and Sarah Higginbotham, in 1858 in Victoria.1 (John Owen was born Cal 1829 in Liverpool, died on 8 Feb 1882 in High Street, Prahran 3 and was buried on 9 Feb 1882 in St Kilda Cemetery, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia.) |
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Ancestry.com Online Census and BMD, www.ancestry.com, Marriage. Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about John Owen 2
Ancestry.com Online Census and BMD, www.ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Elizabeth Owen 3
NLA Newspapers online (TROVE), The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) Thursday 9 February 1882. Mr. John Owen, a very old colonist, whose
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name has for many years been well and
favourably known in Melbourne commercial
circles, died yesterday, at his residence,
Mount Krica, at 5 o'clock in the morn-
ing. He may bo regarded as one of the
pioneers of the tobacco manufacturing in-
dustry, his first attempt having been made in
1850, in the face of strong prejudice and
determined opposition. In November, 1875,
Mr. Owen founded the Virginian Tobacco
Manufactory, which business is now carried
on under tho title of AIcBBrs. Cameron
Brothers and Co, For a time he waa inti-
mately associated with the Victoria Confec-
tionery Company. AB a commissioner of the
Melbourne International Exhibition he
worked hard to secure an effective display of
Victorian manufacturing industry.