Jesse Minnie Millsom

• Name	Jesse Minnie Millsom
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I914	SmithTree
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2001

  
  

  Father	Robert Millsom
  Mother	Harriet Swain
  Family ID	F301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles Farquharson Baxter,   b. 27 May 1874, Mt Rouse, Victoria, Australia d. 2 Mar 1950, St John of Gods Hospital, Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	31 Dec 1896	Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  Children	1. Dorothy Maude Baxter,   b. 26 Sep 1901, Korumburra, Victoria, Australia d. 30 Aug 1989, Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 87 years)   2. Charles Farguhson Russell Baxter,   b. 20 Nov 1903, Boulder Reginal Hospital, Western Australia, Australia d. 26 Jul 1974, Wagin, Western Australia, Australia (Age 70 years)   3. Robert Barnes Baxter,   b. 2 Aug 1907, Perth, Western Australia, Australia d. 10 Oct 1982, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 75 years)   4. N.E. Baxter   5. George Whitehaven Baxter,   b. 26 Aug 1910, Perth, Western Australia, Australia d. 30 Dec 1984, Mt Lawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F300	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2015

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 31 Dec 1896 - Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Jessie Minnie Baxter (nee Millsom) Jessie was the fourth child of Harriet Swaine and Robert Millsom was born on 15 September 1875 in Carlton, VIC. Robert was a carpenter, and during his career he worked on the construction of the first theatre in Melbourne. Her mother was a midwife. Sometime after the birth of their last child, Robert purchased a small mixed farm, dairying and an orchard outside Korumburra in the Gippsland district of Victoria. Around 1894 Jessie left Korumburra and moved back to Melbourne and worked on piecework as a tailoress for a men's clothing manufacturer. On weekends she and one of her girl friends regularly go for a walk in a park close to the boarding house where they lived. It was on these walks she began to notice a debonair young man who used to ride by on a bicycle and she started to take an interest in him. Not surprisingly, he was also interested in her. As it was not the done thing for a young woman to speak to a man without being formally introduced Charles thought of a way of meeting her. One windy Sunday, she was walking in a nearby park with her girlfriend. At the time she was wearing, a hat similar to a 'Straw Boater', which had long ribbons flowing from its band. Charles who had been waiting for the opportunity to get to speak to her walked quietly up behind her and pulled the hat off her head by one of the ribbons just as the wind gusted and let the wind blow it away. Charles being the gentleman chased after the hat and brought it back to her. He then introduced himself as Charles Baxter. He also had a friend with him who was keen on Jessie's girlfriend. So followed their courtship and eventual marriage on 24 December 1896 at Kew. Their marriage lasted until after the birth of their youngest son George White haven (weight about 12 lbs). Around the early 1930s Charles moved out of the family home for good. During the ensuing years he had several girlfriends and here is a strong suggestion that one of them bore him a son but it was hushed up. Jessie and Charles never divorced and she continued to live in the family home at 23 Vale Rd, Mt Lawley, until she sold it in 1952 and moved to Beverley WA. At this stage Dorothy and Norman where were partners in the leasehold of the Freemasons' Hotel along with Jessie who was a silent partner. Although they lived separate lives Jessie Charles still appeared as husband and wife at public functions connected with his parliamentary duties. She was a long time member and officer beared in the Country Womens' Association. She was also a keen Croquet player in her later years. After the hotel lease expired, Dorothy and Norman moved back to Perth, Jessie purchased a house in Attadale, a southern suburb of Perth and resided there until her death in 1957.