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Bertha Ida Louise Kennett [B 70905] • Photograph

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Summary

Studio portrait of Bertha Ida Louise Kennett, aged 21.

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 10.4 cm x 8.1 cm

Dates / Publication details

1914

Photographer

Swiss Studios

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Kennett, Bertha Ida Louise, 1893-1973

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Historical information

Bertha Ida Louise Kennett was born 9 March 1893, the fourth of five children of William Richard Kennett (born Middleton, SA, 1858, married 23 June 1881) and Wilhelmina (Minna) Bertha Maria Heinemann (born 29 December 1854 at Payneham, SA). The family lived at Henley Beach and Bertha attended the precursor of the Adelaide Girls' High School. She lived at home to look after her mother until the age of 34 (her mother died 26 July 1926). She subsequently married Oliver Althelstone Prisk Tonkin (1879-1936) on 5 March 1927 at College Park. Their son, David Oliver Tonkin, was born on 20 July 1929. [David attended Glen Osmond Primary School, winning a scholarship to St. Peters Collegiate, and went on to do medicine at the University of Adelaide. On 23 August 1973 as a Member of Parliament he introduced a Private Members Bill to establish equal pay for women. David was Premier of South Australia between 1979 and 1982.] Bertha was widowed in 1936 and she supported herself and her son by teaching piano. She also played the organ at church and was a keen amateur singer (soprano). Bertha subsequently remarried, to Hugh Stanley Grimwade on 15 August 1960. She died 28 August 1973 in the Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park.

Digitisation information

Date

05/08/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,360 x 3,207 pixels (7.6 MP)

Size

22.73 MB

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