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Annie LOCK
Also known as: Ann Lock
Born: 1 August 1876
Died: 10 February 1943
Special Achievements:Pioneer missionary with United Aboriginal Missions.
Additional Information:1901 - Entered Angas College, Adelaide, a “Missionary Training Home for Ladies.”
1903 - Joined the interdenominational Australian Aborigines' Mission (United Aborigines' Mission from 1929).
She was to devote thirty-four years to nursing, feeding and clothing Aborigines, providing them with spiritual instruction, and educating and caring for their children
1905-09 - Based at Forster, New South Wales.
1909-12 - In Western Australia, she successively served as assistant and matron of the A.A.M.'s Dulhi-Gunyah Orphanage for Aboriginal children in Perth. She founded a mission at Katanning, then worked at the Carrolup Native Settlement, 20 miles (32 km) away, until personality clashes led her to leave in 1917.
1917-1923 - Sunday Island Mission, near Derby, Western Australia.
1924-1925 - Oodnadatta, South Australia.
1927 - Harding Soak, 100 miles (161 km) north of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
1928 - Katherine, Northern Territory.
1929-1930 - Ryan's Well station, 78 miles (125 km) north of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
1930-1932 - Boxer Creek, Murchison Ranges, Northern Territory.
1933-1936 - Ooldea, South Australia she pioneered a mission.
Resources
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Link - "A woman missionary living amongst naked blacks": Annie Lock, 1876-1943
Provided by and used with permission of Catherine Bishop
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Link - 'She Has The Native Interests Too Much at Heart': Annie Lock, Missionary to Aborigines, 1903-1937
Catherine Bishop
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Document - copy of letter from Anna Lock to Miss Scholz, 29 January 1925
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, April 1994
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Image - Miss Lock's brothers and sisters with their father when her mother died
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - James and Ann Johansen in 1937
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Photo taken by Hans Gaden of Ann caring for Aboriginal people near Koonibba
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Ann (Mrs Johansen) and James at Colebrok Home Quorn in 1940
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Miss Ann Lock
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Miss Lock conducting a marriage service at Boxer Creek
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Dolly and Betsy with Miss Lock at Katherine in October-December 1928
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Ann Lock and Milly Marshall leaving the home of her brother John at Balaklava 1933
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
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Image - Waiting for breakfast at Boxer Creek with Miss Ann Lock
from NPWHF Annie LOCK file
provided by Daphne Clark, August 1995
