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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

BATES, Daisy May (nee Margaret Dwyer)

Date of Birth

16th October 1863

Place of Birth

Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland

Date of Death

18th April 1951

Place of Death

Prospect - The Sanatorium Private Hospital, 64-66 Barker Rd (now a reserve)

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery - Plot 255B, Path 17 South

Arrived in Australia (date/ship etc.)

13 January 1883 on RMS Almora in Townsville (as Daisy May O’Dwyer, aged 20)

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

Lived the last eighteen months of her life in Prospect

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Moved between States, especially in WA and in SA at Ooldea, Wynbring and Pyap

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

James Edward O’Dwyer and Marguarette Hunt

Spouse(s)

(1) Edwin Henry Murrant (possibly Harry Harbord Morant (“Breaker’ Morant”) d. 1902

(2) Jack Bates d. 1935 at Mullewa District Hospital, WA

(3) Ernest Clark Baglehole d. Ca. 1897 in England

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

(1) 13th March 1884

(2) 17th February 1885

(3) 10 June 1885

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

(1) Charters Towers, Queensland

(2) Bathurst NSW

(3) Newtown NSW

Children

Arnold Hamilton (Archibald?) Bates.  B. 26 August 1886, d. 19 February 1963 in NZ

Education

Free national School, Roscrea

Occupation(s)

Governess. Secretary. Journalist. Anthropologist. Ethnologist.  Welfare Worker

Interests/Activities

Aboriginal culture and welfare

Religion/Churches

Roman Catholic

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Anthropologist - worked extensively in Western Australia and later at Ooldea in South Australia

1920 - appointed a JP

1934 - CBE

The marriages to Bates and Baglehole were bigamous

She met royalty on four occasions in Australia

1901 - Perth - Duke and Duchess of York

1920 - Cook - Duke of Windsor

1934 - Ooldea - Duke of Gloucester

1945 - Adelaide - Duke and Duchess of Gloucester

Sources of information

Buried Treasures (Re-printed from Australian Dictionary of Biography with permission)

Additional information provided by Mr Chris Ward (former Prospect Councillor)

 

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