Elijah Nigel QUARTERMAINE and Mary Ann WARTUM Family

m. NEVER MARRIED

• Male Elijah Nigel QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	15 Sep 1842	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	7 Sep 1916	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial
  Marriage	NEVER MARRIED
  Father	Elijah QUARTERMAINE | F5490 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth DICKENSON | F5490 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Mary Ann WARTUM

  
  

  Birth	Between 1846 and 1852	York, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	10 Apr 1914	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial	12 Apr 1914	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Other Spouse	UNKNOWN | F13972
  Marriage
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Female Winnie QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1876
  Death	DECEASED	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial	UNKNOWN	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Male Phillip QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1885
  Death	1942	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial

  
  

  Female + Fanny QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1887	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	8 Nov 1916	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial
  Spouse	Henry Baron RODNEY | F27207
  Marriage	1907	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Female Meena QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1888
  Death	DECEASED	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial	UNKNOWN	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Male Clarence QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1890	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	29 Apr 1953	Northam, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial	1953	Cemetery, Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Female Lily QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	Jun 1891	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	1950	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial

  
  

  Male Edward Edwin QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1892	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	18 Oct 1962	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial	1962	Cemetery, Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Female + Louise QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1893	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	7 Dec 1942	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial
  Spouse	Oliver Frederick WARD | F23495
  Marriage	30 Dec 1915	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Female Lavinia QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1895
  Death	DECEASED	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial	UNKNOWN	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia

  
  

  Female + Helen Louise QUARTERMAINE

  
  

  Birth	1896	Woodanilling, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	1980	Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
  Burial
  Spouse	Henry Baron RODNEY | F21329
  Marriage	UNKNOWN

  
  

• Notes

  Passage from Quartermaine book - Elijah Nigel Quartermaine son of Elijah Quartermaine, built a two room cottage on the family property, intending to marry a school teacher from England whose passage to the colony he had arranged. His plans did not work out, because the woman jilted him and returned to England, allegedly taking with her 200 pounds belonging to Elijah. When he was over his disappointment Elijah fell in love with Mary 'Wartum', or 'Wantum', a woman of Aboriginal and European descent living in the Aboriginal encampment. A story is told of how Mary was to have been married to a tribal husband, but she fled from her camp to avoid this. Elijah offered her protection and an alternative to tribal life, and later marriage. Another story tells of how Mary came to work for Elijah as a housekeeper, bringing with her two children by a former marriage. The couple's common unhappy experiences in love provided a bond between them, their feelings for each other grew, and they were married or lived together. It is likely that both of these stories contain elements of what actually happened. In any event, Elijah and Mary remained together for the rest if their lives and had a large family of twelve children, many of whom were named after their uncles and aunts on their father's side. On the death of Elijah Quartermaine senior, Elijah inherited part of the estate. This passed to Mary on his death, and then finally two grandchildren, Eva and Emily Rodney.