Sarah Jane GARDINER / RODWELL

Born C.1875 ^[2]
Married Harry RODWELL in England in 1903 ^[21]
They departed London, England on the steamship Armadale on 12 November 1910 bound for Fremantle, Western Australia ^[203]
Resided with her husband and their children at the railway station in Coorow 1911-1914 ^{[19] [215]}
She wished to send her eldest daughter to the Coorow State School in 1912 but wasn't able to as it was out of town on a farm ^[215]
Presumably following her husband's transfer they left Coorow and shifted to Carnamah around August of 1914 ^[215]
They resided in a small shack at the northern end of the railway station yard in Carnamah 1914-1918 ^{[6] [7: page 151] [19]}
During her time in Carnamah she was good friends with Swedish immigrant "Lou" Louis JOHANSEN ^{[30: item 7362892]}
     When Lou enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1917 he gave her as his next of kin ^{[30: item 7362892]}
     In a letter to the Australian Imperial Force about Lou she remarked "I have been a mother to him he is like my own" ^[30]
By April 1918 she had shifted to 32 Parry Street in East Perth ^{[30: item 7362892]}
Resided with her husband in Moora 1919-1922 ^[50]
Their son George died in 1920 after being crushed by two rail trucks coming together in the Moora railway yards ^{[39: 19-Apr-1920]}
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of East Perth ^[2]
Mother of Florence Ada, Edith Margherita and George William ^{[39: 23-April-1928] [215]}
Died 16 June 1926; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LA, 36) ^[2]

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