Name	ROACH, Hilda
Date of Birth	11 October 1885
Place of Birth	Burra, South Australia
Date of Death	1 January 1969
Place of Death	Colonel Light Gardens, South Australia
Place of Burial	North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia
Lived in Prospect (dates)	c1890 onwards?
Addresses in Prospect	Family home 12 Collins Street, Collinswood Address given as Clovelly, Gilberton during time of kindergarten teaching.
Names of houses (if any)	Widcombe, Collinswood, SA
Parents	John ROACH (his second marriage) and Jane SILVER
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Occupation(s)	Taught kindergarten with Miss Eileen Mason c1910 in the Prospect District Hall Then ran a successful horse riding School from 1920s
Interests	Poetry, she and her sister Eva were both published poets Horse riding
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Notes (points of interest etc.)	Hilda was the first person to donate property, 45 hectares of natural bush, to the National Trust in 1955 when it began. There is/was a room dedicated to her at the Highercombe Museum now called Tea Tree Gully Museum.
Sources of information	PLHC, Trove Newspapers, Highercombe Museum, Prospect Schools
Principal Researcher(s)	Lesley Attema