Women on the Land
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Mary ADLER
Born 17 February 1862, Died 8 June 1897
Also known as: née Millar
Mary Adler came from Murtoa in the Wimmera. In 1893, she and her husband selected land at Lalbert, near Swan Hill, which they settled with their five sons. She died at 36 years of…
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Minna Marie Margaretha ALBRECHT
Born 11/12/1899, Died 18/11/1983
Also known as: née Gevers
Minna Gevers sailed to Canada from Germany to marry Friedrich Albrecht, who was there learning English for his new job as Superintendent at Hermannsburg Mission. Minna and Friedrich…
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Bridget ALLAN
A pioneer of the Heytesbury Closer settlement in Victoria, from around 1959 – 1960.
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Elizabeth ALLCHURCH
Born 1881, Died 10 June 1969
Also known as: Bessie, née Williams
Bessie, sister to Annie MEYERS, was married to Atlanta BRADSHAW’s brother Ernest ALLCHURCH.
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Amboora
Amboora worked for the Bradshaw family at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station as a housemaid.
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Clara Victoria Elizabeth ANDERSON
Born 21 February 1872, Died 6 April 1975
Also known as: née Campbell, Vic Campbell
Pioneer of Theodore, Queensland. As a child, Clara lived with her family at several different stations before settling at their property, “Claravale”, in Queensland. In her…
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Bertha Martha ANDREW
Born 16/3/1882, Died 8/11/1963
Also known as: nee Cook
Worked the land with husband. Bertha and her husband, with their four children, departed Port Lincoln, South Australia, in 1933 and travelled overland to Alice Springs. The journey…
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Carol ARMSTRONG
First ‘Bush Woman’ on the Northern Territory’s Women’s Advisory Council (1993), representing the interests of Australia’s isolated women on the land.
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Louisa Ann BAILES
Born 10/09/1859, Died 23/01/1922
Also known as: née Wellington, Louise
“Prior to coming to town, Hazel [GOLDER] had worked for Mrs Bailes at Bloods Creek, serving meals to travellers up the track.”
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Antjie Henrietta BAKER-McDONALD
Born 8/5/1869, Died 6/6/1924
Also known as: Ettie, née Lau
Pioneer of Western Queensland. While living at Fullarton, South Australia, for a few years, she had no female company.
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Mary BARRY
Born 09/1886, Died 11/1966
Also known as: Mary Nolan
Mt Mulligan midwife, miner’s wife and goat herder
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Emily Mary BARTON
Born 3 December 1817, Died 24 August 1909
Also known as: née Darvall
Emily wrote poems for most of her life and was still being published at the age of 90. She was the grandmother to A B (Banjo) Paterson who she was a great inspiration to.
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Jean BEATSON
Born 1904, Died 1983
Also known as: Jean Robertson
1928 — Broke the Perth to Melbourne record with Kathleen GARDINER née Howell.
1932 — Motor racing — Monte Carlo Rally — placed 17th out of 150.
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Frances Emma BENNETT
Born 1871, Died 1965
Also known as: née Lord
One of first landholders in Western New South Wales.
Pioneer of Western New South Wales.1930s — Moved from New South Wales to Adelaide, South Australia. Bought Cobham, an 88… -
Lucelle Stuart BENSTEAD
Born 5/02/1891, Died 1983
Also known as: née Benstead, Lulu, Lucille
Tryphena had three children including Lucelle (Lulu) who is claimed to be the first white child born within Central MacDonnell Ranges in the town of Alice Springs (in 1891) and who…
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Tryphena Lucelle Willesee BENSTEAD
Born 3/08/1860
Also known as: née Rains, Trephina, Triphena, Tryphina, Tryphinia
Tryphena Lucelle Rains married William (Bill) Benstead in 1881. After managing Undoolya Station for five years, Bill became manager of Barrow Creek Pastoral Company, setting up home…
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Florence Kathleen BERKERY
Born 24 August 1889, Died 1974
Also known as: née Fitzgerald, Catherine Florence Berkery
Pioneer of Box Hill, Victoria.
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Myrtle Lillias Hope BINET
Born 31 May 1906, Died 11 November 1985
Also known as: née Bell
Written on the back of the drawing: Family woman and happy worker — husband in government service.
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Roma BLAIR
Born 1923, Died 5 November 2013
Also known as: née Blair, Swami Nirmalananda
First Australian Bride to be married by Proxy.
Author of six (6) books on yoga.Established Roma Blair Yoga Clubs in Sydney, New South Wales.1959 — Established television… -
Mary BLIGH
Born 1 April 1783, Died 1864
Also known as: née Bligh, Mary Putland, Lady O'Connell
Daughter of Governor William Bligh. Wife of John Putland. Became Lady O’Connell after husband’s knighthood.
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Lillian Myrtle BLOOMFIELD
Born 1916, Died 2005
Also known as: née Kunoth, Lil, Lillian
Daughter of Central Australia pioneers Harry and Caroline Kunoth of Oodnadatta.
Pioneer of Central Australia.
Pastoralist Loves Creek Station.
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Mary Paulena BLOOMFIELD
Born 20 July 1917, Died 9 May 1994
Also known as: née Hayes
Daughter of Ann Jane “Jane” Hayes.
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Esther BOHNING
Born 14 July 1879, Died 2 January 1952
Also known as: née Jenkins
First lady on Tennant Creek goldfields.
She, with her daughter Elsie, became known as “The Petticoat Drovers” and took the first mob of cattle between Alice Springs and… -
Atalanta Hope BRADSHAW
Died 1928
Also known as: née Allchurch, Atalanta, Attie
Atalanta Bradshaw’s story is well documented in her eldest daughter Doris Blackwell’s book ‘Alice on the Line’ describing the family’s daily life at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station…
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Doreen Rose BRAITLING
Born 1904, Died 05/02/1979
Also known as: née Crook
1977: First President of the National Trust (Northern Territory)
1978: First honorary life member of National Trust
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Sarah BROMLEY
1930s — Domestic, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
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Beryl Loyla BROWNE
Born 1898, Died 21 June 1981
Member of pioneering family from Bendigo, gold fields and Melbourne, Victoria.
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Katherine BROWNE
Died 31 May 1865
Also known as: née Jemott
Pioneer pastoralist in Queensland on Moonie River property ‘Tartha’.
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Beatrice Mary BRUMBY
Born 8 January 1915, Died 31 March 2012
Also known as: née Lennon
Pioneer of Central Australia and north South Australia.
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Mary BRYANT
Born 1765, Died after 1794
Also known as: née Broad/Braund
Mary Bryant, arrived on the First Fleet. In just a few months, the food the First Fleet had brought with it had run out or was rotten. Desperate and hungry, Mary, her husband William…
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Agnes BUNTINE
Born 1821, Died 29 February 1896
Also known as: née Davidson, The Mother of Gippsland
Pioneer, possibly first and only woman “bullocky”.
She, and her husband, operated a small inn at Morris Creek, outside Tarraville, Victoria. 1845 — They established… -
Helene Katharine Frieda BURNS
Also known as: née Albrecht
Daughter of Hermannsburg Mission pioneers Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht and Minna Marie Margaretha née Gevers.
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Hazel Audrey CAHILL
Born 1904, Died 1970
Also known as: née Bassett
Pioneer of Central Australia.
Hazel and Larry Cahill were newlyweds when in 1928 he was offered a job on the construction of the new railway from Marree to Alice Springs. She loved the… -
Amy CAIL
Born 29 March 1833, Died 15 July 1914
Also known as: née Williams
Pioneer of Bendigo area of Victoria.
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Margaret Cecilia CAIRNS
Born 1905
Also known as: née Egar, Margaret Sawyer
Central Australian pioneer when married to Con SAWYER (died 1947).Pioneer of Kurundi Cattle Station with second husband Bill CAIRNS.
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Ann CALDWELL
Born 1820, Died 1890
Also known as: née Mooney, Annie
In 1864, aged 44, widowed, with seven of her children, she travelled in a covered wagon for eight weeks 900 kilometres overland from Gumeracha (northeast of Adelaide), South Australia…
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Elizabeth CALLAGHAN
Born 1802, Died 31 Mar 1852
Also known as: Eliza, Eliza Thompson, Elizabeth Batman, Sarah Willoughby
Convict, who married John BATMAN (founder of Melbourne — died 1839⁄40). Mother of seven daughters and one son by John BATMAN. Later married John WILLOUGHBY. Known as Sarah WILLOUGHBY…
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Mary Ann CAMPBELL
Born 1838, Died 21/1/1916
Also known as: Mary Ann Johns
1861 — First white woman on Queensland expedition to stock property near Sorghum Downs Station with sheep.
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Nellie Veir CAREY
Born 1890, Died 15/06/1973
Also known as: née Scott, Nellie Veir Scott
Only female in Victoria to become a soldier settler, in Red Cliffs, Victoria and became a successful grape grower.
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Gladys CARRUTH
Born 20 May 1910, Died 23 May 1979
Written on the back of the drawing: Long-standing member devoted worker.
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Cora Kate CHALMERS
Born 18 February 1885, Died 13 August 1958
Also known as: née Coventry
Pioneer of Central Australia, MacDonald Downs, sheep and cattle station.
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Martha Christina CHARMAN
Born 1849, Died 1914
Also known as: née Ward
Pioneer of Timbarra settlement, Victoria.
“Martha Charman emerges in Aunt Violets [sic] writings as the matriarch of the settlement — attending to births, sickness, accidents and the… -
May Venetta CHETTLE
Born 20/05/1906, Died 26/08/1997
Also known as: née Robb, May, Maise, formerly Lawrie
Maise Robb was the first teacher at the Bungalow, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, when it moved to the Old Telegraph Station during the 1930s. She lived in town and drove to work…
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Maria Antonia CICCONE
Born 1891, Died 1979
Also known as: née Cotela, Antonia
Maria Antonia Ciccone arrived from Serrata, Southern Italy in 1933 and came straight to Alice Springs to join her husband Patsy. He had been here seven years already, trying to get…
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Mary CLARK
Died 1960
Written on the back of the drawing: Longstanding member, died 1960. Carrier and wood merchant.
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Molly CLARK
Born 28 December 1922, Died 22 September 2012
Pioneer pastoralist of Northern Territory, at Andado Station and then Old Andado Station.
Pioneer of the Central Australian tourism industry
Founder of National Pioneer… -
Sheila CLARKE
Born 20 June 1916, Died 4 May 2006
Also known as: née O'Loughlin
1944 — First woman elected to the Committee of the Federated Clerk’s Union in the Northern Territory.
1950 — Founding Committee member of the Half-Caste Progress Association in…