Stanley Krone, Siblings & Cousins

Stanley’s siblings were: Henry b 1860, Florence b 1861, Percy b 1864, Norman b 1866, Ethel b 1868, Beatrice (Helen, Nellie) b 1872, Blanch b 1875 and Francis (Frank) Orric b 1879.

Many of the nine were colourful characters. Not least Percy, see below. Florrie Ford was a popular music hall singer and was a close associate of Percy. He managed her career at some stage. Percy won £10,000 on Carbine in the Melbourne Cup, quit law at Melbourne University, found and lost a gold mine in South Africa, was shipwrecked but survived, travelled the world many times, wrote the song “The Old Bull and Bush” and was great friends with Rider Haggard- a well regarded adventure writer. Rider was also a close friend of Thomas Benedict Fulton. A generation later and on another continent and nothing to do with their forebears, Percy’s nephew and Thomas Benedict’s granddaughter were married. Donald Krone and Mary Fulton.

Frank’s granddaughter Betty Istead has done much work on the Krone family history. Betty lives in London, near where her grandfather had a dentist surgery. Frank was also a rather colourful character, not least for the national scandal he was at the centre of when he disembarked in Australia with a new fiance, Miss Danborough who had boarded the ship as the intended of another man, sailing to her much anticipated society wedding.

Sheet music bought by Mary Krone (later Jackson) when she went to London to further her singing studies. There is an inscription to Donald at the top.

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Last photo; “a Krone girl” on the back, not sure sure who.

Caption “One of the Krone girls”.

Notes from Betty Istead: Helen Beatrice was abt 26 in 1907 at the time of her death and Ethel was 36, both in Croydon at the time. Will recheck the census, can’t remember how long Blanch was here after Major Henry died. The girls were in London in 1901 and stayed until their deaths except for Blanch who travelled back with Helen her mum. Helen died in 1913 in Aus and Blanch returned to the UK where she married.

Wedding of Ailleen Krone. S C’s brother Frank Osric Krone, father of the bride, standing second fom the right. More about the wedding provided by Betty Istead, below..

A widely reported scandal. Miss Darnborough was sailing to meet her fiancé in Australia for a rather grand wedding.

Provided by Betty Istead – Arthur Krone’s obituary found on Trove website. He looks a bit like the unknown photograph Mary posted, but older and Church of England. Romance on board ship, Frank and Fidelia. The passenger list shows that Frank’s sons Charles JT and Frank K were with him, sadly no photo of them though.

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Photos of Jessie Krone, daughter of Frank Krone. From Betty Istead, Jessie’s daughter & granddaughter of Frank Krone; “My mum soon after she was born (1910), we had a giant size picture of this in a frame on the wall when I was a child. photo 3 is mum at age 16 in 1926 having left school in 1924. Mum and dad’s wedding in 1936 in the Congregational church now demolished. Back left mum’s brother Gordon and in front of him is my dad’a mother Eleanor Rolfe. The bridesmaid in the front is my cousin Joyce my dad’s niece. Can’t name all the others, still researching. Not sure if Gordon was Best Man or whether he gave my mum away as I know Frank wasn’t there.”

Basil, b 1889, son of Henry, b 1860, who was a brother of Stanley.

Maurice Foster Krone who married Edith Olive Pearson in 1909. This Maurice’s dad was Maurice James, brother to our Henry Snr. I think. Maurice Foster died in 1950.

Album says Henry Krone.
Ralph: Maybe Stanley’s eldest brother Henry Junior who worked as a masseur. Would have been in his 40s in the 1900s decade. Mostly lived at Williamstown but did build a house at 32 Park St Brighton in early 1890s, still existing and worth 3m or so now!

Ralph: I think Lionel, son of Arthur, himself born in Swan Hill to AL Krone. Lionel served in WW1 as a driver and worked with his father in the 1920s as a rural journalist. They drove a car in the late 20s from Perth through outback Queensland writing about country properties.

Arthur Krone, nephew of Henry Snr. Note the ref to the well known Victorian family – the Krones.
Ralph: He was also twice bankrupted, first time for 6000 pounds in 1890s, a rather large sum for those days.

From Ralph:  Henry A is son of Alfred Lionel (Abraham) and likewise is a well respected postmaster, serving at several locations including Kyneton, Swan Hill and Bairnsdale. I think the church is named ‘Christ’ – Church of England, Kyneton, Victoria. Mabel married Charles Conway Mason who fought in Boer War, Gallipoli and Western Front and later rose to Lt Colonel. Charles was son of a colonial Victorian Premier and his sister is maternal grandmother of Tim Fischer – who himself is descended from Major Henry Krone. Mabel is aunt to Ralph’s wife Barbara. Mabel died in 1945 and Charles in 1949 while on assignment as a judges associate in Sydney aged 71 I think. He took himself out to The Gap. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2798273
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Posted on FB by Ralph,Grandfather’s cousin Arthur was on the scene in NZ in the 1890s

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Stanley and Frank performing at Dodsworth Boarding Huse, Isle of Man

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Coronation Dinner Celebration Thatched House Club

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Dance Card, possibly Isabel McKinnon’s

📷From Ralp, FB posts.

Melbourne’s Punch put a satirical twist on stories. 

Here is a report of mum’s cousin (Florence) Ruby Commans’ wedding (Ruby is: daughter of Florence; neice of Stanley; grandma of Tim Fischer). Two quotes: “The bride had an unusual quality – extreme youth.” And “The bride has the advantage of a youngish, handsome mamma”. Read too about the ‘swarm’ of bridesmaids…

26th July 1906.

ARTFUL THIEVES

… was called his brother offered to pay again rather than that there should be any bother. After bearing the evidence of Percy Krone, defendant’s brother. the Bench decided that it was a trivial case, and Justice would be met by defendant paying the costs …Published: Saturday 16 December 1905
Newspaper: Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1581 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Ralph FB Post: Basil Krone born 1889 was the only sibling of Trevor (a middle son Rex died in infancy), another cousin of our parents. His wife was Lily (d. Jan 1956). KRONE-RAMAGE (1913).- On the 15th July, at Gembrook, Basil P. Krone, eldest son of the late Henry Krone, sworn valuator, patent attorney, grandson of Major Krone, late registrar-general, to Lily, youngest daughter of Jas. Ramage, Esq., J.P., shire engineer, &c., of Berwick. Their only child I can see was Lilian Janet (our 2nd cousin, d. 2005) who married in 1942 a Wesley Thomas Stephenson (d.2008), children I can’t see. Basil was accomplished as Victoria’s Go To Man for tomato growing.

Basil, a cousin of Stanley Krone.

Ralph FB Post; ABC News today salutes my 2nd cousin in law – an aviator almost lost from Australia’s history books. The “society wedding in Toorak to a young actress” – unnamed in the article, is my 2nd cousin Beatrice Fischer (the late Tim F’s aunt). This year marks a century since a Tasmanian raced to beat a Victorian rival across Bass Strait.About This WebsiteABC.NET.AURemembering the first pilot to fly over Bass StraitThis year marks a century since a Tasmanian raced to beat a Victorian rival across Bass Strait.

Ralp FB Post: Sad news. Tim Fischer passed away this morning. Back in March I spent 45 entertaining minutes with our 2nd cousin’s son in Melbourne’s Peter Mac Centre bantering the idea of a ‘National Hall of Shambles’ that would feature and preserve the blunders of Australia (especially the railway gauges)! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-22/tim-fischer-dies-from-leukaemia/10448110A widely respected and quirky political figure, the former deputy prime minister went from 20-year-old conscript fighting in the jungles in Vietnam to serving as Australia’s top diplomat at the Vatican.ABC.NET.AUFormer Nationals leader and deputy PM Tim Fischer dies at age 73A widely respected and quirky political figure, the former deputy prime minister went from 20-year-old conscript fighting in the jungles in Vietnam to serving as Australia’s top diplomat at the Vatican.