Martha HAYWOOD / DOWDING
Born 1886 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England [20] [21]
Daughter of Martin HAYWOOD and Matilda RIMMINGTON [15] [21]
Her father worked as a Coal Labourer, Beekeeper, Railway Platelayer and later Foreman Platelayer for the Great Northern Railway [20]
She was one of eight children with siblings Mary, John, William, Lucy, Ruth, James and Joseph [20]
In 1891 was living with her mother and siblings at 51 Lewis Place in Wortley, Yorkshire, England [20]
Cloth Weaver in 1901, and was living with her parents and siblings at Lower Street Farm in West Ardsley, Yorkshire, England [20]
Departed Southampton, England on the steamship Barbarossa on 15 September 1905 for Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [203]
She never made it to Sydney as she left the steamship Barbarossa in Fremantle, Western Australia on 17 October 1905 [70]
Married "Norman" Henry Norman DOWDING in Perth in 1918 [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Winchester 1922-1942 [3] [6] [19]
Won 1st prize for the Best Knitted Article in Wool at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 15 September 1932 [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Sold one steer for £6/12/6, one steer for £3 and one bull calf for 17/6 at the Midland Market on 27 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Signatory of a petition to the Carnamah District Road Board in September 1936 requesting the extension of a road [5: 25-Sep-1936]
They wanted the road between Lots M1090 and M1091 extended between M1084 and M1085, and M1086 and M1087 [3] [5]
If extended the road would then have intersected with the Carnamah East Road (now known as the Carnamah-Bunjil Road) [5]
The Road Board requested a deputation on the matter, but appear to have in the end decided against extending the road [5] [62]
By mid 1943 herself and her husband had left Winchester and was living in Hardy Street in the Perth suburb of Belmont [3]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Died 17 July 1964; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, Niche Wall, WS, 112) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Martha Haywood / Dowding' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/martha-haywood [reference list] |
 |
Use the below form or email history@carnamah.com.au |