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Lilian Foxcroft, née Norbury (1885-1969) community activist
Birth: 1885 at Preston, Lancashire, daughter of William Ernest Norbury (1861-1915), master house painter, and Sarah Ann Thornley (b. 1862), cotton winder. Marriage: 4 March 1912 in the Register Office at Blackburn, Lancashire, to Gilbert Foxcroft (1891-1962), iron fitter (corn mill) later teacher. They had one daughter and one son. Death: 13 February 1969 at Berriedale, Tasmania. Religion: Quaker.
Sources
Robin Rosemary Joyce, Women's Labour: women's power? women in Western Australian labour movement from the early 1900s to the Depression, MA thesis, ANU, 1999.
'Foxcroft, Lilian (1885–1969)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/foxcroft-lilian-33857/text42406, accessed 17 March 2025.
1885
Preston,
Lancashire,
England
13 February,
1969
(aged ~ 84)
Berriedale,
Tasmania,
Australia
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