by Cemetery Admin | May 10, 2021 | Stories
Celebrating the women who helped to shape a city’s society. Our mother is one of those ordinary women who helped to shape the society of Ballarat Alice Lorraine Barrett arrived in Ballarat in 1947 with her husband, Cliff, and toddler son, Neil. Having begun their...
by Cemetery Admin | May 6, 2021 | Stories
Alison attended Ballarat High School and went on to Ballarat Teachers College where she qualified as a primary school teacher, and later a secondary school teacher. Alison would go on to complete a Bachelor of the Arts, a post-graduate Bachelor of Education and a...
by Cemetery Admin | May 6, 2021 | Stories
Lija Valija Svalbe was born on the 4th of February 1920, in Riga Latvia, where she studied and attended school. Lija arrived in Ballarat in 1950. As a professional ballerina, Lija taught classical and modern ballet and national dances to countless young people in...
by Cemetery Admin | May 5, 2021 | Stories
Helen McKay was born in Ballarat on 2 March, 1858. Her parents, William and Christiana Reddie, arrived in Ballarat in April 1857 from Kirkcaldy in Fifeshire, Scotland. Helen was their seventh child and the first born in Australia. Her father worked at the Trial Saw...
by Cemetery Admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Stories
Born 23rd March 1930 In Horsham. Valda was educated by the Sisters of Mercy at Casterton and at Sacred Heart College in Ballarat East. In 1949, she graduated from Ballarat Teachers’ College. In 1954, Valda received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of...
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