Name: Jane Emmeline DUANCE
Also known as: Jane
Born: 1819 At: Bowden, Parish of Lewannick, CON, ENG Sex: F
Christened: 9 Apr 1819 At: Lewannick, CON, ENG
Died: 3 Mar 1905 At: Wallaroo Mines, SA, AUS Cause:
Burial /cremation: At:
Parents: Father: William DUANCE Mother: Mary BUCKINGHAM
Spouse/partner: Robert COLLINS Born: ABT 1811 Died: 20 Feb 1869
Married: 21 Dec 1844 At: Registry office Launceston, CON, ENG
Children: William Duance COLLINS,  Mary Jane COLLINS,  Emmaline COLLINS,  Eliza COLLINS,  Elizabeth Ann COLLINS,  Helen COLLINS

Biographical notes:


Domestic servant before marriage. Migrated from DEV, ENG in the 'Isabella Watson' arriving at Port Adelaide, SA, AUS on 14 May 1846. She was accompanied by her husband, Robert, & her first child, William, was born during the voyage. The ship was built in 1840 & registered in Glasgow in 1842. It left London on 3 Jan 1846 & called at Plymouth on 18 Jan 1846 (which is presumably where they joined the vessel). It carried a total of 230 emigrants. Lived in Burra, Watervale & Kadina. Land Tax Return of 1885 shows her as a widow living in Kadina at Allotment 192, Dingo St. Kadina Council Rates Assessment books show ownership of property in Elder Ward, Acre 192, in Sophia Terrace & in Dingo St. between 1873 & 1903. Sophia Terrace later became the western third of Doswell Terrace.
Note: In her death registration, her husband Robert Collins is recorded as being her father.
Surname also spelled 'Dewins'.
Reference documents:
1844  marriage certificate transcript.
1844 marriage registration index record.
1846 passenger list, Isabella Watson ex London.
1905 death registration index record.
Book: 'From Lewannick to South Australia' by Raymond V. Duance.