Whitfield, Winning and Allison family papers, photographs, ephemera and realia

fonds

probably between 1906 and 1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings, Badges, Ephemera

9661608

0.30 metres of textual material (1 box), includes 5 photographs
1 badge
1 item of textual material

Ada Whitfield (nee Jenkins, 1881-1991) celebrated her 107th birthday in 1988, Australia’s
bicentennial year. The Australian Bicentennial Authority established the Bicentennial
Centenarians Project to honour Australians celebrating their 100th birthday during 1988.
Recipients, including Ada Whitfield, received a presentation folder and certificate signed by the Governor-General, Ninian Stephen. Ada married Herbert Whitfield in 1915. At the time of her death at 110 years of age, Ada was thought to be the oldest living person in
Australia.

Herbert Whitfield, born in 1884 in Gateshead, England, served an apprenticeship in
Gateshead-on-Tyne before working as a fitter and engineer for various shipping firms and shipyards in northern England. His Continuous Certificate of Discharge book records his first engagement on S.S. Drumcondra in 1906 on a voyage from North Shields to South America. In 1911, he was engaged as the Second Engineer on the Teeswood on a voyage from England to Sydney. The ship was renamed the S.S. Yuloo, and Whitfield served as its Second Engineer, then Chief Engineer, from 1912 to 1919.

Kathleen Winning (1920-2018) is the daughter of Ada and Herbert Whitfield.

John Robson (Jack) Allison (1900-1972) was a General Practitioner in Coraki and Campsie, Sydney, New South Wales.

References:
Compiled from the collection
Library correspondence file

By descent to donor. Donor is grandaughter of Herbert & Ada Whitfield, daughter of Kathleen Winning, and daughter-in-law of John Robson Allison.

FILE 1
Whitfield and Allison family papers, photographs and ephemera (Mitchell Library call no. MLMSS 11462/Box 1X)

FILE 2
The Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical Culture Certificate of Merit and Honor badge presented to Kath Winning of Ryde Meadowbank Presbyterian Club (Mitchell Library call no. R 2366)

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