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PERRY

Nell

1908 — 2005

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The Perry family arrived in Tennant Creek in 1934 to search for gold.  Nell lived in Adelaide with their three children for around 10 years, having a distance relationship, before moving to join her husband.  Their first home was a dusty tin shed with ant bed floors and no Electricity.  …  Her husband, Con, did well in the mining industry and bought a butchers shop which flourished, enabling them to build a home which still stands today.  Con made Central Australian history when, in the 1960’s, he discovered the water source for Tennant Creek at Artesian Wells.  …  Nell passed away at the Alice Springs Nursing Home in 2005 aged 97 years.

NPWHF newsletter Pioneer Women, October 2016.

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References

  • Nell was lady in a tin hut.  Centralian Advocate.  July 29, 2005:13.

Link - Tennant Creek News

Trove: Centralian Advocate (Alice Springs, NT : 1947 - 1954), Friday 23 March 1951, page 1

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