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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

CONGREVE, Emily

Date of Birth

~1830

Place of Birth

England

Date of Death

28 September 1896

Place of Death

Probably the Adelaide Hospital.

Died of ‘internal cancer’

Place of Burial

 

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Chatham, 1852

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

1857-1861

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

The family rented a house in Finniss St, North Adelaide for a while

Yunkunga, Mt Barker

Hackney at time of death

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Henry Congreve and Elizabeth Ann Jacob

Henry died soon after arriving in Australia and Elizabeth Ann died on the voyage

Spouse(s)

N/A

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Schoolteacher

Interests/Activities

Poet - published Australian Pen Scratchings and other poetry

Novelist - Floy; A Tale (published in the Kapunda Herald 1866-1867)

Sometimes used the pen name Little Jacob (Her mother’s maiden name)

Animal protection

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

She was licensed as a schoolteacher in 1857 for a school in Prospect Village.

This ran until 1861.

Emily probably assisted her sister Matilda to run schools as well.

Also had a school at Athelstone 1862-64

Sources of information

Prospect Local History Group - Schools in Prospect (Forthcoming); Newspapers.

Austlit - http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A23621

Barbara Wall, Our Own Matilda, Wakefield Press, 1994 ( A Biography of Emily’s sister Matilda)

 

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