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Notes: Nancy Hanks and legitmacy
No full textHandwritten, not Tarbell's hand, possible part of letter writing about research on Nancy Hank
Nancy Eddy
No full textIn 1935 Nancy Gilmour Jamieson went from Peterborough in South Australia to Alice Springs as a shorthand-typist to the town's first legal-practice: that of Beecher Noel Webb. A little later she left for Darwin in the Royal Overland Mail truck (well before the Stuart Highway existed) to see Arthur Rex Eddy, a friend from her youth in Peterborough, and to work for A. E. Jolly and Co. Jolly's motto was ?From a needle to an anchor', such was the variety of goods that it sold.
In 1936 Nancy married Rex Eddy in the Methodist Church, then near the corner of Knuckey and Mitchell Streets. Because it was not customary in those days for married women to work outside the home, she spent most of her early married years in bringing up their two sons in a house next to Frog Hollow in Wood St, and in working from home. Her typing skills were called upon by Darwin Courthouse because it was suffering its traditional shortage of court-reporters.
In late December 1941 Nancy and her sons, were evacuated from Darwin at very short notice and with little opportunity to pack, or to save property. The ensuing journey, aboard MV Koolinda to Fremantle in Western Australia, was begun only a month or so before the first bombings of Darwin by Japanese forces on 19 February 1942.
In 1946 Rex returned safely to Australia after service as a FLTLT within the RAAF element of the RAF's Bomber Command, flying in Lancaster bombers over France and Germany. His association with Jolly's was then renewed when the family left Glenelg, South Australia to return to Darwin. Housing was scarce. Not until 1950 could they move from makeshift accommodation to a house in Mitchell Street (Block 567, well before street-numbering was common).
In due course Nancy created a tropical forest in miniature behind the house, although this was later destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. After both sons had gone away to Adelaide High School, Nancy had begun to study exotic and native plants and their Latin diagnoses, and to teach herself botany and its nomenclature. She worked at the Botanical Gardens, both in identifying plants and in engraving labels for more than a thousand of them. She gave garden-talks in the Territory and as far away as the University of Adelaide and the
Melbourne Horticultural Society, and also gave illustrated talks about plants to local schools, women's organizations and gardening-clubs.
In 1954 Nancy began, and continued for 29 years, as a judge of gardening and horticultural displays at the Darwin Show. She also officiated in the Show's mineralogy section, which was not only another of her interests but also one that she shared with Rex. She was, many times in 30 years, called on by the staff of (then) Darwin Hospital to identify poisonous plants that had been eaten by patients, most of whom were children. Nancy also contributed articles to the North Australian Monthly.
In 1961 Nancy was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia (FRSSA), and as a Life-Member of the Darwin Garden Club. She also amassed and maintained a collection of more than 10,000 photographic records of the changes, both before and after World War II, to Darwin.
In 2012 Nancy died at the age of 96. Rex had predeceased her in 1998 at the age of 84.
Compiled with the assistance of Nancy's son Denis.CollectorGardene
Nancy Gibbs
No full textNancy was a child of the "Stolen Generation", born at Tanumbirini Station. Her mother Lilian Maria from the Tanami Desert and her father Joseph Hans Croft (Hans) was German. Nancy was taken from her family at the age of 3 and sent to the Kahlin Home. There she was named Nancy, which her father was allowed to choose for her. When she was 5 her mother visited her but the manager wouldn't let her into the home and she was not allowed to speak in her native tongue only English which she was able to do, it was devastating for Nancy and her mother. Hans worked in Darwin and would often visit Nancy at the home, taking her out ignoring the authorities. She was an intelligent girl and the Kahlin home authorities wanted to send her to a boarding school until they discovered she had leprosy, her father left Darwin and returned to Germany and she was sent to the Leprosarium on Channel Island. Nancy discovered that her mother was also a patient there, sadly her mother left and that was the last time she saw her.While at the leprosarium she would help staff with patients and trained as a nurse and Jack Jones who managed the communications also taught Nancy morse code so she could send messages, order medical and food supplies in his absence. When the Japanese bombed Darwin an American officer took her morse code machine, she then sent messages by torch to Darwin. When Jack and Elsie Jones left Channel Island in 1944 Nancy took over the communications role. Nancy was given a certificate of recognition for her contribution to the war effort in 1955. While at the leprosarium she met Jack Gibbs, although they never married, they were together for 48 years. After they left the leprosarium and travelled around the Territory. Jack died in the April 1996 Jack and Nancy moved into Juninga in 2005.NurseCommunications operatorIndigenous Australia
Lady Nancy Astor Papers
No full textEntire collection consisting of 18 letters and notes, 1927-1956, from Nancy Astor, London, Taplow, and Plymouth, England, to Lilly Harrison Hill Smith Bradbury in Upperville, Virginia. Collection includes two photos of Nancy Astor, not originating with the correspondence. Lilly Harrison Hill Smith Bradbury and Nancy Astor were childhood friends
Oral History Interview with Nancy Lieberman, November 8, 2012
No full textInterview with Nancy Lieberman, a sports broadcast journalist. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up in New York, her time on the first women's Olympic basketball team, and her career as a coach, author, and journalist on ESPN
Promoting Adult Learning Through Civil Discourse in the Public Library
No full textThis chapter investigates the adult learning through civil discourse within public library settings. Crucial to the success of a working democracy, the author traces the history of libraries as locations for the development of an engaged and knowledgeable citizenry.This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Kranich, Nancy. "Promoting Adult Learning Through Civil Discourse in the Public Library." New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 127, Fall 2010: 15-24, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ace.377/pdf.Peer reviewe
Nancy Blanche Cooper collection
No full textThis collection contains an album created by Nancy Blanche Cooper
Nancy Barham
No full textNancy married George Barham a prison Superintendent and they came to the Northern Territory in 1957 to take up a position at the Fannie Bay Gaol. It was customary for the goal superintendent's wife to carry out the duties of supervising the female section of the goal. Women were not called prison officers, but matrons and they were paid a retainer for being on call twenty-four hours a day, and ten shillings a day when there were female prisoners to supervise.
In 1968 Nancy was employed full-time on a temporary basis and in 1976 appointed as the prison's first permanent female prison officer at Fannie Bay Goal. In 1978 Nancy became the Territory's first female senior prison officer a year before moving to the new location at Berrimah, Northern Territory. Then in 1986 Nancy was appointed chief prison officer of the female section. Nancy and George had three daughters and two sons.Government Adminstratio
[Nancy Wood with buffalo]
No full textBlack & white negative of photographer Nancy Wood standing in front of a herd of buffalo in Taos, New Mexico
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