Outback Graves Markers

Teresa Victoria Bawden PALMER

Burial Location:Menzies Cemetery  (details...)
Place of Death: Kensington, Menzies
Date of Death: 28 October 1897
Date of Burial:29 October 1897
Age:4 months
Cause of Death:Tuberculosis, Diarrhoea
OGM Ref#: 2876
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
This is a photograph of Nora BAWDEN, adoptive mother of Teresa Palmer

Nora BAWDEN, adoptive mother of Teresa Palmer

This is a photograph of plaque number 2876 for TERESE V B PALMER at MENZIES

REF 2876 TERESE V B PALMER MENZIES

Biography

The Informant of the death of this little girl was John Thomas BAWDEN, her adopted father, of Menzies.

Nora Hartigan and John Thomas Bawden were married in Coolgardie in 1896 (Marriage Registration 72/1896).  They witnessed the burial of this little girl.  The Bawdens had five children of their own between 1896 and 1905.  

 

Parents:Biological Mother: Florence PALMER. Adoptive parents: Nora (nee HARTIGAN) and John Thomas BAWDEN
Birth Details:Born in Kensington, Menzies 1897; Birth Registration 632/1897
Death Certificate:730/1897
Comments:There are numerous newspaper notices of unclaimed letters and unclaimed moneys for a Florence Palmer but no further information was found pertaining to the mother of this little girl.