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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

Spouse(s)

 

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Children

 

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

Religion/Churches

 

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

 

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