FatherFrancis McDonald1
MotherHelen Watson1
Pedigree

Birth, Death, Marriage

Francis McDonald was born circa 1864 in Glasgow, Scotland.1 
He married Sarah Jane Edwards, daughter of Robert Edwards and Elizabeth Brown, on 15 September 1903 in South Melbourne, Victoria.2,1 

Family

Sarah Jane Edwards b. 1858, d. 8 Mar 1912

Story

Marriage 
Sarah Williams and Francis McDonald were married at 180 Napier St in South Melbourne on 15 September 1903. Sarah was aged 40 and Francis was 39. Francis is shown as a widower with no children, and Sarah as a widow with four children living and four dead.1
 
Sarah McDonald died of 'phthisis pulmonalis' (tuberculosis) at home at 9 Macquarie St in Prahran on 8 March 1912, aged 49. She was buried at Kew cemetery on 9 March.

Sarah had tuberculosis for six months and was seen by a doctor on the day she died.3
 
McDONALD. On the 8th March, at 9 Macquarie-street, Prahran, Sarah, the loved wife of Frank McDonald, and loved mother of Alice, Charlie, and Lily Williams; also Olive Hall, late of Stawell-street, Burnley.4
 

Citations

  1. [S612] Francis McDonald and Sarah Williams, marriage registration no. 4612, 15 September 1903.
  2. [S270] Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, registry and index, Francis McDonald and Sarah Williams entry, marriage registration no. 4612, 1903.
  3. [S611] Sarah McDonald, death registration no. 3236, 8 March 1912.
  4. [S613] 'Deaths: McDonald', Prahran Telegraph, 1889-, newspaper, Crabb and Yelland, 23 March 1912, p. 1, viewed 22 August 2020, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165112138