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Ethel Florence Cunningham (1875–1971)

Ethel Florence Cunningham

Ethel Florence Cunningham

Born, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. Daughter of William Rand, Esq., and a niece of Robert Rand, of Mohonga; both well-known early Colonists.

Married the late G. R. Jackson, of Urangeline Station, Albury; one daughter, Beverley Rand Jackson, now Mrs. James O. Watt, of Melbourne (educated at St. Catherine’s, Toorak, Melbourne; also Norta Foreland Lodge, Broadstairs, England, finishing in Paris). Later married Major Charles Stuart Cunningham, retired Journalist, born in Hobart, Tasmania; a son of Benjamin Marriott Cunningham, of Hobart, Tasmania. The second daughter, Anthea Glencairn Cunningham, also received her education at St. Catherine’s, Toorak, Melbourne.

CHARITIES. Member of Committees of Children’s Hospital; Vice-president, St. Martin’s Boys’ Home; on Committee of the Berry Street Foundling Hospital.

HOBBIES. The Garden and the Home.

CLUBS. Lyceum (London) and Ladies’ Carlton Club (London).

ADDRESS. "Egelabra,” Kooyong Road, Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Ethel Florence Cunningham

Ethel Florence Cunningham

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Alternative Names
  • Rand, Ethel Florence
  • Jackson, Ethel Florence
Birth

23 October, 1875
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Death

12 October, 1971 (aged 95)
Victoria, Australia

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