Ethel Louisa Maud MUTTER / WINTER
Born 17 August 1906 in Balaklava, South Australia [55]
Daughter of William MUTTER and Amy Louisa SAMPSON [55]
Shifted with her parents and sister Dulcie from South Australia to Dudawa, East Arrino in Western Australia in March 1927 [P331]
Resided with her parents on Noalimba Farm in Dudawa, East Arrino in 1927 and 1928 [P331]
Her 21st birthday was celebrated "with all the young people of the district" at their home on Thursday 18 August 1927 [4: 3-Sep-1927]
The birthday included music, games, supper, speeches and concluded with singing of Auld Lang Syne and She's a Jolly Good Fellow [4]
She was among the 400 people who attended the Matrons and Benedicts Ball held in Three Springs on 31 August 1928 [4: 8-Sep-1928]
Married "Adolph" Carl Alfred Adolph WINTER on 5 September 1928 at the Agricultural Hall in Three Springs [4: 25-Aug-1928, 15-Sep-1928]
An open invitation, in The Irwin Index newspaper, was extended to all friends to attend their wedding ceremony [4: 25-Aug-1928]
Her husband had left South Australia with her family and had worked as a farmhand on their farm in Dudawa [P118]
Beautiful music for her wedding was supplied by Three Springs residents Fred HARDWICK and Annie BYRNE [4: 15-Sep-1928]
Resided with her husband on Woodlands Farm in Morawa 1928-1948 [4: 20-Jul-1929] [19] [144]
Her sister Dulcie occasionally rode the twenty or so miles from Dudawa to stay with her in Morawa [144]
They sold the farm in Morawa as she found the climate too trying, and shifted to Perth [P332]
Stayed with her brother Ken and sister Dulcie on her parents' farm in Dudawa, East Arrino in July 1929 [4: 20-Jul-1929]
During her stay her father was seriously ill at a hospital in Perth and her mother was absent to be by his side [4: 20-Jul-1929]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for Snapdragons in the Cut Flowers section of the Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Her husband was Best Man at the wedding of her brother Ken to Sissy STOKES in Three Springs on 6 September 1938 [4: 10-Sep-1938]
Resided on her parents' former seven-acre property on Belgravia Street in the Perth suburb of Belmont / Cloverdale [P332]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Joondanna [2]
Mother of Ross, Kenneth, Eric and Allan [P331]
Died 7 November 1992; buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Lawn, D, 315) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Ethel Louisa Maud Mutter / Winter' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/ethel-louisa-maud-mutter [reference list] |
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