Showing posts with label #missing wife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #missing wife. Show all posts

Monday, 3 June 2024

Rosalind Marie Scholz nee King Missing Wives

 Rosalind was reported missing by her estranged hubby in February 1903.
After a volatile relationship, with several police home visits and court appearances, Rosalind supposedly went missing from the spare bedroom of her estranged hubby's house a mere day or 3 before they were to appear in court over Edward paying maintenance to Rosalind.

Her family were distraught at her disappearance, with her already ailing father offering financial rewards for any information as to her whereabouts, which remained unpaid up til his death later that year.

Rosalind did not attend her beloved father's funeral or burial.

Edward was declared bankrupt in late 1903.

In 1907 Edward was granted a divorce on the grounds of desertion, and then remarried.

Rosalind does not have a death certificate nor did she remarry as far as I am able to find ***with limited resources***

I am happy to be corrected!







Sources

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251628029?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208470760?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198610441?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251628029?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Teacher's Pet podcast, Missing Wife, Missing girls

 Hmm.
Seems that a "missing wife" is more than just a missing woman.
Yeah, yeah, WE all know that but it seems the penny has just dropped for some law people in Australia; if Teacher's Pet has taught us anything it's that WE SHOULDN'T JUST RELY ON THE HUSBAND.

Just a small, slight consideration that hasn't jumped up and slapped a whole gender in the face, apparently.

I digress.
Pottering amidst the glories of archived news at Trove, I've often come across "missing wife" or "missing wife and children" headlines and sometimes I go looking to see if the wife and/or kids turned up in the births/deaths/marriages.
Most times, there's a further trace of them.
But sometimes there's not a speck.
One of the "missing wife and children" was one of those that never, ever showed a sign of life: hubby didn't report the disappearance for at least 4 weeks, and no follow-up news reports.
Likewise with searching "Missing girls" in the Sydney area during the early days of The Great Depression; I was following a hunch regarding a certain serial killer I'd been researching and, worryingly, I was unable to trace a good number of the reported "missing girls" - any number over zero is too fucking many.
But few police or news follow-ups, while casual trawling through the NSW Birth/Deaths/Marriages found gaps.

How many family trees have sudden stops on people's lives..."born 1922 disappeared 1945" ... 

And the odd thing I've noticed is - 

when a bloke goes missing in the news archives he usually turns up again, whereas women don't.


Twenty Third day of the month of October throughout the not-so-many eons of Oz history

1786 - Barron Field, who claimed to be the first poet of Australia *ahem* and was for a number of years an actual judge in New South Wales...