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Surname: Windeyer
First Name: Lady
Ship: -
Date: 10 March 1917
Place: near Webland Park
Source: The Maitland Weekly Mercury
Details: A Trip to Tarro by William Freame in 1917.....On the site of the old church I found an ornate wooden church during 1904; Lady Windeyer, a daughter of the Rev. R.T. Bolton, laid the foundation stone, the building being opened by Archdeacon John Dixon a former minister of the district
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Surname: Windeyer (nee Bolton) (obit)
First Name: Lady Mary Elizabeth Windeyer
Ship: -
Date: 5 December 1912
Place: Tomago
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Details: THE LATE LADY WINDEYER. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. With the death of Lady Windeyer, which occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday evening, a useful and beautiful life has passed away from a community who for more years than it is possible to calculate will enjoy the blessings of her practical philanthropy. Hers is a remarkable record of unselfish toil in the interest of the unfortunate and the help- less, which began long before she became the wife of the late Sir William Windeyer; for as Miss Bolton, a daughter of Rev. R. T. Bolton, vicar of Padbury, Bucks., England, later of Hexham, New South Wales, she felt the sufferings of those around her, and labored for their alleviation. Many men and women there are in Sydney who know of Lady Windeyer s work, and who have been for years accustomed to associate her name with any movement of charity; but it is only those whose privilege it was to know her very intimately who are aware of the scope of her administrations. To her this State owes the organisation of what was in the year 1874 the Foundling Home, in Macquarie- street, and which she was to see grow into the now successful Ashfield Home for Babies. Through its early troubles she, in common with other wise and practical women, was to be one of its guiding hands and upholders. Who can say how many little lives owe their preservation to the effort? She cheered and urged on the work of the Women s Christian Temperance Union until today it stands a great and potent factor for high morality. She was the first president of the Women s Hospital in Crown-street, a charity that she especially loved and nurtured, and one which she was again to see grow into a splendid monument of comfort and mercy. To her able advocacy, together with others of her way of thinking, she was to greatly influence Sir George Reid in the methods of dealing with the children whose care devolves upon the State, and that, in place of the dreary, barrack system, we now enjoy a wider, more sympathetic, and understanding department, we have again to turn in gratitude to her far-sighted wisdom and indomitable courage. Her sympathy ever went out to the needy woman left to fight life s battle single-handed, and for the temporary alleviation of the needy working woman the Temporary Aid League was established through her instigation. Later, it was her splendid administration which piloted the Women s Industrial Exhibition in 1888 to a successful issue, and provided the funds which made possible the Queen Victoria Jubilee Fund, a fund which is an inestimable blessing to many hard-set women today. Lady Windeyer s name rightly appears as the first president of the Women s Suffrage League of this State, and until the franchise was granted her enthusiasm and determined advocacy never ceased. She ably represented Australia upon the executive council of the Chicago Exhibition, and it was not a little owing to her efforts that this country was there worthily represented. As late as 1908 we find her as president of the Newcastle Free Kindergarten, and one of the first and firmest advocates of the wonderful Frobel system of teaching the child, and even when declining health demanded that active tasks should to a great extent be laid by, her interest, her advice, her counsel, was still given freely, and her interest never tired. In the hour of their grief, the grateful sympathy should go out from the whole community to her children, who include Mrs. A. I. Trail, wife of Mr. Trail, of Llangollen Station, Cassilis; Mrs. A. G. Ralston, wife of Ald. Ralston, of Strathfield; Miss Margaret Windeyer, of the Mitchell Library; Miss Lucy Windeyer, Mr. Richard Windeyer (barrister, of this city), Mr. A. Windeyer (solicitor), and Mr. E. Windeyer, of Raymond Terrace. The late Mrs. Thynan was a sister, and Messrs. C. Bolton, of Wagga, and A. Bolton, of Randwick, and Mr. Albert Bolton, of Glen Innes, are brothers of the deceased lady.
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Surname: Windeyer (obit)
First Name: Lady Mary Elizabeth
Ship: -
Date: 5 December 1912
Place: Tomago
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Details: Formerly the wife of Sir William Windeyer and daughter of Rev. Robert Thorley Bolton, vicar of Padbury, Bucks, England, later of Hexham NSW. Died at her residence, Tomago, Hunter River