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Harriett Margaretta Rendell
b.15 Apr 1849 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
d.29 Oct 1919 Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
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m. 22 Aug 1843
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m. 26 Dec 1871
Facts and Events
Harriett was born in April 1849 at Bristol, England. She first came to Australia with her family aged 2 years in 1851. Her father, Henry, died in March 1852 in Richmond, Victoria so the young family returned to England. In 1869 she returned to Australia with her mother and sister on the Lincolnshire. The voyage took 80 days (see Harriett's Journal). The family lived in Richmond for a while (where they had previously lived), before moving to Ballarat. Harriett married Albert Amoore in Ballarat in December 1871. She was 22 and was living and teaching at Chatsworth, Victoria at the time. She gave up her teaching job in favour of her husband and produced the first of 11 children in October 1872, however only 8 survived childhood. Albert was dismissed from teaching in August 1887 for misconduct and around 1895 he left for New Zealand to take up a teaching job. He lived and taught in N.Z. for about the next 22 years. Harriet was left in Melbourne with three adult children and the five younger ones Frank 14, John 12, Joe 9, Mary 6 and Violet 2. Albert appears to have come back to Melbourne around 1914/15 but seems to have returned to New Zealand to help his daughter Nellie when her husband and eldest son died in an accident. Albert died in N.Z. in July 1917 at the home of his daughter. Harriet's son John lived next door to her during the last few years of her life at 100 St Leonards Rd, Ascot Vale. Her sister Fanny came to live with her the year she died after she broke her femur. As the last of her children, Violet, was married in 1918 she would have been alone. Harriett died of heart failure in her home in Ascot Vale aged 70 in October 1919 and was buried at Fawkner Cemetery. Lived at Chatsworth at time of marriage Sister Frances & Brother Harry witnesses at marriage Cause of Death - Heart Failure (fractured femur) [edit] Harriett's JournalJournal of Harriett M Rendell September 1869 References
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