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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


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Mrs "Annie" Hannah Catherine Mary MAYNE / GIRALT

Born C.1877 [15]
Daughter of James MAYNE and Catherine LYONS [15]
Married Thomas Salvado Ramon GIRALT, who was a restaurant-keeper in Boulder, in Perth in 1900 [15] [420: 8-Apr-1900]
     Their first son Thomas passed away in Kalgoorlie in 1900 at the age of three months [15]
     They had a daughter Mary born in Boulder in 1901 and then a son John in about 1903 [15]
She received a separation order from her husband in 1903 on the grounds of persistent cruelty [39: 14-May-1903]
     Her husband was ordered to pay maintenance of 30 shillings per week and she was granted custody of their infant son [39]
     No order was made as to the custody of their elder child of three years, who was living with her husband's mother [39]
In 1903 and 1906 she was living at 11 Money Street in Perth [50]
Later resided in Three Springs [4: 16-Aug-1930] [585]
     Attended the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Ball in Carnamah on 29 March 1928 in black georgette embossed with silver [4: 7-Apr-1928]
     In 1929 she had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son [53]
Three Springs farmer Gerard A. NEWMAN, who died in 1929, bequeathed her all of his real and personal property in his will [585]
     Included among his assets was Carrawhala Farm in Three Springs and Dalveen Farm in Carnamah [19]
Through a local agent she held a clearing sale on her farm seven miles east of Three Springs on Friday 4 April 1930 [4: 29-Mar-1930]
     Livestock sold at the sale consisted of 1,004 sheep (mostly Merino ewes), 17 farm horses, four cows and one calf [4]
     Machinery sold at the sale included a 15/30 Case tractor, 3½-horsepower New Way engine, 5-horsepower Lister engine, [4]
     2-stand Moffat Virtue shearing plant, wool table, wool press, 6-ton wagon, 4-ton wagon, Sunshine 16-run drill cultivator, [4]
     spring cart, light spring cart, Linke Noacke buggy, 14-disc Sundercut, 5-furrow Sunshine mouldboard plough, hay rake, [4]
     McKay 4-disc plough, 12-foot spring tooth cultivator, Purser T bar roller, two 8-foot Sunshine headers, 20-disc Sunshine drill, [4]
     10-foot Sunshine harvester, Hannaford pickler and grader, portable chaffcutter, stationary chaffcutter, new Chevrolet Six truck, [4]
In August 1930 advertised that she wanted to sell, lease or have share farmed her 3,000 acre Dalveen Farm in Carnamah [4: 16-Aug-1930]
Issued with a Stay Order for the writing down of her debts under the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act on 19 February 1931 [39: 20-Feb-1931]
She left Three Springs "some months" before June 1931 leaving her farm and business affairs in the care of a local agent [86: 13-Jun-1931]
     The agent wrote to the address he thought she was at but all letters were returned through the Dead Letter Office [86: 13-June-1931]
     Around June of 1931 the agent contact the police and it was suspected that she may have disappeared [86: 13-June-1931]
     She was described as being aged about 60, of medium height, stocky build, brown eyes and of an "excitable disposition" [86]
In 1932, when granted probate for the estate of Gerard A. NEWMAN, she was living at York House, 180A Murray Street in Perth [585]
She was living at 30 Olive Street in the Perth suburb of Subiaco in 1949 [50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Claremont [2]
Died 16 September 1955; buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Roman Catholic, ZD, 150) [2]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Hannah Catherine Mary Mayne / Giralt' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 14 March 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/annie-giralt [reference list]




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