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Ruth Bartlett

Ruth Bartlett was born in 1812 at St Andrew, Holborn, in London, the youngest daughter of Mark and Elizabeth Bartlett. She married Ebenezer Davies at St Clement Danes, Westminster, in 1831. They had 11 children, the youngest daughter dying at 5 weeks of age in 1849 shortly before they migrated to Victoria in a group of selected Presbyterians. The Travancore arrived in Geelong in November of that year. She had two more sons born in Geelong but she and her youngest died following the final birth. She was 41 years old. She was buried at Eastern cemetery in Geelong.


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