Effie A. Rowlands

Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was born on 1858/1859 in New South Wales, Australia. She was the second daughter of the English Alexander Henderson (1828–1886) and Maria Nelson. Her sister Caroline Sidney Henderson was born on 9 January 1855. Their parents married on 26 December 1853 in in Hobart, Tasmania, but their marriage wasn't legal, because her father was already married and had not divorced. For that reason, Effie and her sister were illegitimates. Her father formed other families over the …