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Joyce Florence ‘Joy’ Batterham, (1916-2006) clerk, housewife, communist
Birth: 16 May 1916 in Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales. Daughter of English-born parents Rev. Absalom Deans, Congregational minister, and Annie Beatrice, née Williams. Marriage: 26 April 1941 in Gordon, Sydney, to James Robert ‘Bob’ Batterham (1909-1984), textile machinist and Communist. They had four children. Death: 16 November 2006 in Royal North Shore Hospital, North Sydney, New South Wales. Religion: Congregationalist.
Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: work among women in the Communist Party of Australia 1920-1945 (Fitzroy, Vic., c.1987).
'Batterham, Joyce Florence (1916–2006)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/batterham-joyce-florence-32088/text39660, accessed 9 February 2023.
16 May,
1916
Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 November,
2006
(aged 90)
North Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia