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Hi there.
Mary Jane Cadogan is also my Great Great Grandmother on my Fathers side. I have been researching the Cadogan family history and this is what I know of Mary Jane Cadogan (nee Taylor) and Alice May Cadogan:
Mary Jane Taylor was born in 1852 in Awre, Gloucestershire. In 1872 she met and married Daniel Cadogan a painter. They had eight children: Samuel 1873 (my greatgrandfather), Clement 1874, Clifford 1876, Ernest 1877, George b. 1878 d. 1879, Alexander 1879, Beatrice b. 1880 d 1886, Emily Gladys 1882 and Alice May 1883. In 1874 the family was living at 30 Castle Road, Awre. They had a very nice home in Crockherbtown and Mary had servants to help around the house. In 1891 the family set out for Tasmania and later Dunedin, New Zealand.
Alice May Cadogan never married. She trained as a concert pianist and much of her time was spent practicing the piano. After travelling back to England in 1895 with her mother she settled in Dunedin and took as many music exams available. In 1905 she traveled back to England to further her studies. She decided to go to the Leipzig in Germany as they had a very good reputation and she had won a scholarship to go there. From 1905 to 1910 Alice was in Germany. She returned to Cardiff, near Awre in 1910. Then she and her mother planed a tour to America and Canada. In 1911 Mary Jane and Alice traveled to America, spending some time in Massachusetts and New York, then they toured the country before going onto Canada, Honolulu, Fiji and then onto Brisbane. They had just arrived in Sydney when Mary Jane was rushed to hospital with gall stones. She was very ill and nearly died. When she was discharged from hospital she was very weak and the doctors recommended a long sea trip. Although she had private income, it had been expensive paying for the operation so Alice was unable to accompany her. It seems that Mary Jane went back to England, but we do not know if she stopped in Dunedin (where her husband was) or not. By now its around 1913 and she was 61 years old. It then seems that contact was lost with her family in NZ as Samuel never knew what happened to her. He always thought that she was lost in Germany during the first world war. However, she was in Australia when the war broke out in 1914 and she somehow managed to get on a ship to England as she wanted to be with her mother. She was 31 years old. Back in England she was turned down when she applied to work in ammunitions and the police force but the air force took her on and she spent the war years in the RAF or the RAAF. After the war she returned to Australia in 1919 and she then found work teaching piano to private students in a school. Mary Jane decided to join her as soon as civilians were permitted to travel and she went back to Australia around 1920 at 68 years old. However, she found the heat in Brisbane to much and decided not to stay with Alice there, preferring Sydney. Mary Jane stayed with a couple from Dunedin who ran a small boarding house in Leura, New South Wales. She died there aged 71 in 1923. She died in Perth in 1981 aged 98. She was in a war veteran's home because she served in the World War I.
Mary Janes husband Daniel had the house in Caversham, Dunedin and he also had a property in Alexandra. In later years it is said that he drunk alot. However, it must have been a lonely life for him when all his brothers were on the other side of the world and his wife never stopped traveling the world. He gave up a lot to come to the southern hemisphere and only he could say whether it was really worth it in the end. He died in 1925 at the age of 83 in Clyde, Central Otago, NZ.
I hope this helps any interests you had. Please get hold of me if you would like more or have anything new to add.
Thanks
Rebecca Cadogan :)
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