GARDNER, Emily

5 November 1859 – 23 April 1940

Origin Haresfield, Gloucestershire
First settled in Perth
Original Occupation Student
Occupation in Australia Domestic, Dressmaker, boarding house keeper, farmer.

ROBERT MORRISON

Arrival Year 1877

Fremantle

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Twice widowed (Bagley, Piloni) by age forty Emily, left in straitened circumstances, raised alone, 8 children. Most of the several hundred decendants of this Matriarch have remained in WA, contributing to the State's development in the professions, public service, trades, agriculture, viticulture, fishing, mining, commerce and tourism.

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