"Maisie" Mary Mcintyre Mitchell KERR / MARTIN
Born 14 June 1921 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland [28]
Daughter of tractor driver Robert KERR and Christina Logan MAIR [28]
She was born at 4am at her parents home, which was 24 Cassillis Road, Maybole [28]
Her father, who was later an Army Pensioner, passed away at the age of 37 on 10 March 1922 at their home in Maybole, Ayrshire [28]
Departed London, England with her mother and brothers on the Borda for Fremantle, Western Australia on 10 February 1925 [203]
Later in 1925 her mother married for the second time to Waddy Forest farmer "Billy" William Scott MITCHELL [66]
Resided with her mother, stepfather and siblings on farmland in Waddy Forest[19]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Geraldton on Saturday 2 February 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
Student at the Geraldton High School, Geraldton in 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
Returned to school after spending the May 1936 school holidays with her parents in Waddy Forest [5: 29-May-1936]
Won 2nd for Wildflowers and for Darned Woollen Socks by girl under 16 at the 1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Spent the Easter holidays in March 1937 and school holidays in May 1937 with her parents in Waddy Forest [5: 25-Mar-1937, 7 & 21-May-1937]
Married D. MARTIN [5: 9-Feb-1945]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]
Died 9 September 1988; ashes interred at Fremantle Cemeter in the Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium R, Burial Plaque, 2, 6) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Mary Mcintyre Mitchell Kerr / Martin' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mary-mcintyre-mitchell-kerr [reference list] |
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