Tapestry series no. 52 Contributed by Penny Dowling My mother was brought up by very elderly parents and in many ways was very conservative but in other ways was a pioneer in women’s interests in Queensland’s South West during the 50s and 60s. Sheila...
Tapestry series no. 43 Contributed by Isobel Tait Jean Ingall Cooke (née Collard) was born in the Morpeth District of NSW in 1895. She was the third daughter and child in a family of nine siblings. Before WW1 the family moved by boat to Rous Mill outside Lismore in...
Tapestry series no. 42 Contributed by Ann Rushton Madge Edis Pickburn (née Morris) was born 14th January 1912 at Inverell, NSW. My mother was upper class. If my Gran, Mary Ann Morris (née White) was the daughter of Mrs JJ Whyte (née Carolyn Peacock) from Nunawadding,...
Tapestry series no. 40 Contributed by Len Beckett My mother was a member of a courageous generation of women who welcomed their husbands back from WW1, established their homes, bore their children, endured the Depression and then saw their sons off to WW2. In her...
Tapestry series no. 39 Contributed by Susan Simpson Marjorie Grace Simpson (née Reid) attended Croydon Primary School, Burwood Domestic Science School and gained Intermediate Certificate in 1939 aged 15 years. She then attended Remington Business College and trained...
1890-1965 Tapestry series no. 36 Contributed by Betty Jarvis Though Janie Pearce was an Australian by adoption, and though she worked most of her working life out of Australia as a teaching missionary in the Papuan Islands, she called herself an Australian. She came...
