Biography

Eloise and her husband, Bron Sharp, came to Australia aboard the Strathaird in December 1949 with their two children, Mary and Charles, and their third child, Kenneth Dirk, who was born in WA, spent his early life on Dirk Hartog Island.  They had a home until 1959 in Denham, Shark Bay.  The family had a roaming life, travelling from the south-west of Western Australia to Karumba in North Queensland, Birdsville, to the opal fields.

In 1970, Eloise and Bron retired to caretake Deepdale Station.

In 1972, Eloise and Dirk went to the Northern Territory on a six month trip chasing opals and catching barramundi at Borroloola.  She and Bron moved from Deepdale Station to Carnarvon in 1975.

When Iris died at Harrismith, her ashes were scattered near the homestead on the bank above the Robe River at Deepdale Station in the Ashburton district.  A memorial was erected.