Emily Frances Scales

Emily Frances Scales was the second daughter of Rev. Alfred Scales and Sarah Angus Dickinson. She was born at Alston in Cumbria in 1846. Her parents emigrated to Victoria in 1853 with five children. After her baby brother and her elder sister died, her mother left the ship in Cape Town with the remaining children. They arrived in Melbourne the following year, another brother having died in South Africa. Settling in Geelong, she became older sister, by 12 years, to four more girls.
Emily married John Mark Davies in 1865 and moved to Melbourne where they lived through the boom years of Marvellous Melbourne, into the crash of the 90s. She had fifteen children, the first four dying soon after birth, then a daughter drowned and a son lost, and another killed in France in WW1.
She became Lady Davies when her husband was knighted in 1918. He died in 1919.  Emily died at her home Valentines in Wattletree Road in 1932, aged 86 years.