Biography

According to the family records, Louisa's father, John Hill, was born about 1837 in Sweden. His wife, Lucy, was born about 1843 in Limerick, Ireland. They married in 1832 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Louisa Jane was about the fourth child to be born into the family of at least 8.

After Louisa and John Ernest Bradstreet were married in Kalgoorlie in 1901, they spent most of their time in Kookynie, where Mr Bradstreet was a butcher, before moving up to Leonora to pursue his trade. With four healthy children, Mrs Bradstreet was carrying their fifth child when she succumbed to complications of childbirth which also resulted in the child being stillborn. She had lived in New South Wales for 19 years before arriving in Western Australia.

Louisa's third child, William George, succumbed to pneumonia following influenza at Wiluna in the influenza outbreak of 1931. His story appears in this website.