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Name

CROXFORD, Lois Maude  (Sister)

Date of Birth

1892

Place of Birth

Violet Town, Victoria

Date of Death

8 August 1947

Place of Death

Prospect SA

Place of Burial

Dudley Park Cemetery

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

 

Lived in Prospect (dates)

c1930s - 1947

Addresses in Prospect

From 1925 lived at 45 Prospect Road

Then as “Annondale Hospital”  Sister Croxford ran a private hospital at 45 Prospect Road from 1928 to the mid 1940s (probably til her death in 1947).

 

Names of houses (if any)

First known as Annandale then Annondale

Parents

John Edward CROXFORD and Adria(h) Mary PERRY

Spouse(s)

Vernon Valentine VAUGHAN 

Apparently this marriage did not last and she retained her name both professionally and privately.

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

1919

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Victoria

Children

 

Occupation(s)

Nursing sister and producer of medicinal ointments

Interests

 

Religion/Churches

St. Cuthbert’s Church, Prospect SA

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Sister Croxford was a well known identity in Prospect and her ointments for dermatitis, baby eczema and scalp problems were advertised widely.  From the time of her death until at least in the 1950s “Sister Croxford Medicine Supply” ointments were sold exclusively by Freeman’s Chemist, 201 Prospect Road.

Sister Croxford’s father is reported to have “disappeared” while swimming in 1914 but apparently returned and is reported dying in a car accident in April 1927 at Baulkham Hills NSW. He is described as living apart from his wife and with another woman. He is acknowledged on the grave in Dudley Park Cemetery with Sister Croxford and her mother as having died March 1926 in Sydney..

Sources of information

Historic Homes, Vic BMDs, Trove, SA BMDs

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema (Prospect Local History Group)

 

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