by 61 Design | Mar 24, 2020 | Stories
Miss Ellen Jane Gourley J.P.O.B.E. Ellen Jane Gourley was born in Shepherds Flat in 1878 to Gilbert & Ann Jane Coute. She was one of seven children, Ellen being the second youngest. It was reported that she was the first women in the Ballarat & district to...
by 61 Design | Mar 24, 2020 | Stories
Miss Matilda Gent. (1866 – 1937) Born at Eganstown to Robert & Matilda Neill in 1866. Matilda was one of ten children with her being the second eldest. Her dedication to her nursing role was acknowledged in 1938 bearing the inscription “Loving Tribute Matron Gent,...
by 61 Design | Mar 10, 2020 | Stories
Mary Barrell was a women who, upon being abandoned by her husband, practiced folk magic, fortune telling and traditional healing methods in the Ballarat Cemetery for the poor women of Ballarat. In doing so she attracted the ire of James Oddie, for receiving funds from...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Stories
BCO-JAB-1-105-53 Sarah Bell was born at Scarsdale, Victoria, and trained as a nurse at the Ballarat District hospital for three years. During World War One she enlisted at the age of 33 into the 1st Australian General Hospital. Her next of kin was her mother Mary Bell...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Stories
Mary Morrison was living in Ballarat at the time she signed the Women’s Petition. She was born in 1863 in a small gold-mining settlement not far from Ballarat and close by father worked at the diggings at Dolly’s Creek. Due to ill health as a miner, he was...
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