Maria BROADBENT [3185]

  General Notes:

1859 SA Births BROADBENT Maria Elijah BROADBENT Caroline FIELD Morphett Vale 17/385
1946 SA Deaths 706/5409 JACOBS Maria Thomas JACOBS [DH] Willunga
Cemetery: Cherry Gardens General JACOBS Maria 87y 1946

JACOBS, Maria, wife of Thomas, died 6 Oct, 1946, aged 87 years (Lorraine's Cemetery Records Pages - www.ozburials.com)

New (Adelaide) Monday 25 June 1945
Passing by Mr. Pim
OLDEST IN HILLS
A READER disagrees with my suggestion that Mr. Charles Ashburst, of Bridgewater is the oldest living native of the Adelaide Hills.
He nominates for the title Mrs. Thomas Jacobs, of Cherry Gardens, who is a few months older than Mr. Ashhurst. She celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday on Thursday, the day my paragraph appeared.
Like Mr. Ashhurst, Mrs. Jacobs has lived in one town since she was born. Thirteen of her 14 children are still alive, the other one having been killed in World War I. There are 43 grandchildren living, as well as 21 great-grandchildren.
Elijah Broadbent, her father, came out in the Buffalo with Governor Hindmarsh, and was one of the three founders of Cherry Gardens.

Maria married Thomas JACOBS [4973] [MRIN: 1653], son of Isaac JACOBS [7476] and Elizabeth DAY [7477], on 15 Mar 1877 in Wesleyan Church, Cherry Gardens, South Australia. (Thomas JACOBS [4973] was born on 28 Aug 1852 in Cherry Gardens, South Australia, died on 30 Aug 1923 in Cherry Gardens, South Australia and was buried in Cherry Gardens Cemetery, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1877 SA Marriages 110/852 JACOBS Thomas BROADBENT Maria Morphett Vale