"Agnes" Margaret Agnes Abbott LAMPARD / DUNNE
Born 19 August 1914 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [P107]
Daughter of John LAMPARD and Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH [P147]
Arrived in the Coorow district of Western Australia with her parents in 1921 [P147]
Resided with her aunt Mrs Margaret BAKER in Winchester for a month of the year 1931 [4: 30-May-1931]
She spent a holiday in the Perth metropolitan area in February 1932 [4: 6-Feb-1932]
Won 1st prize for a pair of hand knitted socks at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
The next week won 2nd prize for a pair of hand knitted socks at the 1932 Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Attended the Show Ball following the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 15 September 1932 in a gown of apricot lace [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Exhibited in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 7 September 1933 [5]
Awarded 1st prize for Embroidered Doyleys and 2nd prizes for both Knitted Socks and a Knitted Woollen Article [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Monster Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 2 September 1933 [5: 8-Sep-1933]
She was reported to have attended the Monster Ball in "an ankle length dress of orange lace, finished off with large bow at wait" [5]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 and 1934-35 [5: 20-Oct-1933, 28-Sep-1934]
Paid a 5/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in May 1934 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300: page 42]
In July 1934 spent a holiday with her uncle Howard and aunt Bess CHAPPEL on their Marathon Farm in Winchester [5: 20-Jul-1934]
Exhibited in the Fancy Work and Confectionary sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prize for a Coloured Toilet Set and 2nd prizes for Embroidered Doyleys, Knitted Socks and Collection of Preserves [5]
After an extended holiday in Cottesloe she and her mother returned to Waddy Forest in early March 1935 [5: 8-Mar-1935]
One of the suppliers of music at the Coorow Cricket Club's Dance held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 13 April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
After the Patron hit the first ball the ladies present took off after the ball and she was the lucky one to retrieve it [5]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Along with 70 guests celebrated her 21st birthday at her parents' home in Waddy on Monday evening 19 August 1935 [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Won 1st prize for Crochet Woollen Article and 2nd for Supper Cloth at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the Show Ball after the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 12 September 1935 in a gown of salmon pink marocain [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Attended the Ball at the East Marchagee Hall after the Marchagee-Gunyidi Picnic & Sports Day on 14 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 25-Oct-1935, 8-Nov-1935, 20-Nov-1936]
Completed her schooling as a boarder at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara[P107]
Attended the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 7 December 1935 as a "Senorita" [5: 13-Dec-1935]
She was part of the Best Dressed Set as "Spaniards" with nine others from Coorow dressed as Senoritas, Toreadors and Bulls [5]
She and Evelyn A. BINGHAM received notice to begin their training at the Perth Hospital in early December 1935 [5: 6-Dec-1935]
Trained for three years as a nurse at the Perth Hospital in Perth from December 1935 until qualifying in January 1939 [P107]
Won 2nd prizes for Hand-Knitted Socks and Novelty Article in Wool at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
During late October and November 1936 she spent a holiday with her parents in Waddy Forest [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Following the conclusion of her holidays she re-commenced her duties at the Perth Hospital in late November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Won 1st and 2nd prizes for Hand-Knitted Socks at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
After completing midwifery training in Melbourne, Victoria she worked as a midwife at the hospital in Warracknabeal, Victoria [P107]
Married Leo DUNNE on 4 October 1941 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [P107]
Resided of late in the southern Perth suburb of Shoalwater Bay [2]
Mother of Derek [P147]
Died 10 August 2001; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Fremantle WA (Crematorium N, 3, 2) [2]
Niece of Mrs Bess CHAPPEL of Winchester and of Mrs Margaret BAKER of Winchester and later Carnamah [P147]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Margaret Agnes Abbott Lampard / Dunne' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/margaret-agnes-abbott-lampard [reference list] |
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