Biography

Catherine Ellen Le Lagadec was born in Gulgong, New South Wales in 1874 (Birth Registration 14663/1874, Gulgong, and her husband, William Richard Counsel, was born in 1880 in Victoria. The couple married in 1899 in Parkes, New South Wales. Their other children were Clarice Edna born 1903 in Kookynie (Birth Registration 1860/1903, Kookynie); Adeline Mary born 1910 (Birth Registration 92/1910, North Coolgardie); Sheila Norma born 1913 (Birth Registration 231/1913, East Coolgardie). Both Catherine and her husband died in 1940, she in Belmont, he in Kalgoorlie.