Elvira HARDIE

1893 - 1972  (79 years)

• Name	Elvira HARDIE
  Birth	1893	Albany, West Australia
  Gender	Female
  Education	Violet
  _UID	1AE88D7B3E8E4A4BA8000DF46EFB5D8862F3
  Death	13 Jun 1972	Busselton, West Australia
  Burial	16 Jun 1972	Busselton, West Australia
  Person ID	I95	Boxers
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2013

  
  

  Father	John HARDIE,   b. 1865, Boston, Massachusetts, USA d. 1938, Albany, West Australia (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1892	Albany, West Australia
  Family ID	F667	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Elvira was working as a governess at the settlement on the Eyre telegraph line when she met Ben Roberts who was working as a linesman there. After Ben's death, Vi had a difficult time, with two small children to rear. Ben's father had just died, leaving Isabella with problems of her own. Vi lived in Hare street, Albany, for a while, and the community held various functions to pay off her house. For some time she lived in Mount Lawley, then back in Albany. She seems to have worked as a post mistress from the time Ben first enlisted. At the time of her second marriage, she was post mistress at Boyup Brook.