Jane Moir WILSON / REDHALL

Born 12 April 1888 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland ^[28]
Daughter of Richard WILSON and Margaret MOIR ^[28]
She was born at 13 Ellen Street in Dundee and at the time of her birth her father was working as a Grocer's Warehouseman ^[28]
The fourth child of eight children, she had siblings Margaret, Robert, John, Richard, Stevenson, Alice, and James ^[20]
In 1891 she was living with his parents and siblings at 28 Kinloch Street uin Dundee, Angus, Scotland ^[20]
At the age of 12 in 1901 she was working Jute Spinning and living with her parents and siblings at 7 Thistle Street in Dundee ^[20]
Her father, who later worked as a Grocer's Assistant, passed away from pneumonia in 1907 at the age of 47 years ^[28]
Married "Joe" William Joseph REDHALL on 5 December 1914 at Saint Augustine's Church in Renmark, South Australia ^[55]
Their five children were born between 1915 and 1924 in Renmark, South Australia ^[55]
After a visit to England she and her husband arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on the steamship Largs Bay on 11 December 1924 ^[70]
Her husband purchased 1,031 acres of virgin land at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district of Western Australia in 1925 ^[27]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Waddy Forest 1926-1933 ^{[5] [19] [34]}
She was one of 98 people from the Coorow district who signed a petition in 1929 for a local hotel license to be granted ^{[39: 6-Feb-1929]}
She and her husband were honoured at a Valedictory Social at the Coorow Hall on Friday 20 October 1933 ^{[5: 3-Nov-1933]}
At the Valedictory Social, at which residents of Coorow and Waddy bid them farewell, they were presented with a case of cutlery ^[5]
Along with her children left Coorow on Monday 6 October 1933, and after finalising business so did her husband ^{[5: 10-Nov-1933]}
Mother of Jean, Elsie, Ruby, Vera and Joseph ^[55]

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