James CRUSE b. ca 1821, Colony of NSW, son of Thomas CRUSE and ____? (father was named Thomas on James's death in 1893, no mother listed. NOTE : the genealogical police have said it is NOT Agnes Teresa O'BRIEN!) was married in 1847 in Melbourne to Jane Eleanor EVANS, b. ca 1832, Hobart Town, VDL, daughter of Edward EVANS and Mary ROBERTS.

James CRUSE had lived at Branxholme, Victoria for almost 40 years before he died there in 1893 and Jane died there in 1898.

James CRUSE & Jane Eleanor EVANS had the following known family...

  1. Edward CRUSE b. 1848, Melbourne, Port Phillip, d. 1927, Heywood, Vic., m. Margaret DONOVAN ~1846-1919;
  2. James CRUSE b. ~1849, ____, d. aft 1873, ____?
  3. Henry CRUSE b. 1851, Westernport, Vic, d, 1862, Branxholme, Vic.;
  4. Mary Jane CRUSE b. 1853, d. 1864, Victoria;
  5. Peter John CRUSE b. 1855, Branxholme, Vic, (chr, Digby, Vic), d. 1937, Horsham, Vic., m1 Sarah Ann BUFFHAM 1860-1897, m2 Deborah Agnes MILLS 1846-1941;
  6. Elizabeth Eleanor CRUSE b. 1858, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1917, Portland, Vic., m John LAURIE ~1850-1927;
  7. George CRUSE b. 1960, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1943, Kyabram, Vic., m. Mary Jane WESTON 1866-1954;
  8. Alfred Henry CRUSE b. 1862, d. 1864, Branxholme, Vic.;
  9. Ernest CRUSE b. 1865, Branxholme, Vic, d. bef 1933 ___?, m. Ellen ~1873-1933.;
  10. Alice CRUSE b. 1868, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1942, Hamilton, Vic.;
  11. Robert CRUSE b. 1870, d. 1874, Branxholme.;
  12. Agnes CRUSE b. 1873, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1949, Kilmore, Vic., m. George MILLER 1875-1931.