George DAWES [3375]

  General Notes:

George worked in the family cabinet making business but started his own business after 1882. He moved to Richmond, Victoria between 1890 and 1892 but then returned to Prospect SA to start his own business, He worked as a carpenter and a builder.

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922) Tue 28 Aug 1877 Page 2 LAW COURTS. SUPREME COURT IN BANCO.
Matrimonial Causes JURISDICTiON.
GEORGE DAWES v. ELLEN DAWES, FREDERICK WISE correspondent."
This was a petition by the respondent for alimony pendente lite.

Mr. W. V. Smith for the petitioner in alimony, and Mr. Scott for the respondent in alimony.
Mr. Smith said the only point was as to the amount. The petitioner should have set out in his answer not only the amount he was getting at the time, but what he had been getting for the three-years preceding the suit Browning,
p. 229. V ,

George Dawes, the petitioner, on examination said he was a cabinetmaker, working for his mother. Had no interest in her establishment. Had never earned £6 a week. Had never had money in the Bank. Paid his mother £1 a week for the board and lodging of himself, and child. His average earnings for the past two years had been 30s. a week.

Mr. Smith consented to take 5s. a week pendente lite from the service of the citation, and an order was made accordingly.

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922) Sat 12 Oct 1878 Page 3 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11.
Friday, October 11.
[Before His Honor the Chief Justice and
Special Juries.]
Matrimonial Cause.
GEORGE DAWES V. ELLEN DAWES-FREDERICK Weise (Co-respondent).
Mr. Scott for the petitioner; Mr. Smith for the respondent. The co-respondent was not represented.

This was a suit brought by George Dawes for a dissolution of his marriage with Ellen Dawes on account of her adultery with Frederick Weise.'The facts of the case are briefly, these:-

In 1875 the respondent gave way to drink and was seen at various times in the company of men. In November, 1876, she was living at the White Horse Hotel, Currie street, in company with the co-respondent as his wife. It was alleged for the defence that the petitioner drove the respondent to vicious courses by his neglect, cruelty, and desertion, and that he bolted to Melbourne with the respondent's sister; by whom he had a child. Evidence was called on the petitioner's, behalf to show that he had left 12s. per week with his brother for his wife's maintenance, but she alleged that she had only received the money for three weeks. The adultery on both sides was admitted, but the petitioner alleged that respondent had condoned his offence by living with him after, she was made aware of his illicit intercourse with her sister.

This the respondent denied, and stated that she left him as soon as she got money to pay her passage back to this colony from Melbourne, where she had gone at his request. His Honor summed up the evidence, and put the following questions to the Jury:- Did the respondent commit adultery with the co-respondent? Was the adultery conduced to by the petitioner ? Did the petitioner commit adultery with the respondent's sister, Emily ? Did the respondent condone her husband's adultery with her sister ? Did the petitioner desert the respondent without reasonable cause? The Jury returned affirmative replies to the first, third, and fourth questions, and negative replies to the second and fifth.

The Court then adjourned till Monday morning, at 11 o'clock.

South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881) Sat 13 Sep 1879 Page 9 Law Courts.
SUPREME COURT- IN BANCO.
Thursday, September 4.
[Before their Honors the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Gwynne and Mr. Justice Boucaut.]

DAWES T. DAWES AND WISE.
Mr. Scott moved that the decree nisi obtained on November 25, 1878, on behalf of George Dawes for the dissolution of his marriage with his wife, Ellen Dawes, on account of her adultery with the correspondent,' might be made absolute.' The decree was made accordingly.

George married Ellen WARE [3376] [MRIN: 1027], daughter of William WARE [9908] and Jane HOLLOWS [9909], on 30 Dec 1867 in Woodville, SA, Australia.³³⁷¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Ellen WARE [3376] was born about 1852 and died on 3 Sep 1883 in Norwood, South Australia, Australia ³³⁷⁵.)

George next married Caroline JARVIS [3377] [MRIN: 1028] on 6 Sep 1879 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. (Caroline JARVIS [3377] was born on 28 Aug 1854 ³³⁷⁶ and died on 29 Jul 1925 in , SA, Australia ³³⁷⁶.)