Anna Maria Loram
1846-1944
Born: Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Died: Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia
1846-1944
Born: Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Died: Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia
<p>Two old friends - if 95 and 94 can be called old - met at the home of Mrs S. D. Daniel, Palmerston grove, Oakleigh, on Monday afternoon.</p><p>Mrs Daniel, who celebrated her 95th birthday on Tuesday, was receiving the first few of many friends calling to congratulate her. Among her visitors was Mrs A. M. Wilkinson, Clyde street, Oakleigh.</p><p>Mrs Wilkinson, who is 94, was a friend of Mrs Daniel when they lived in England ... and that's a year or two ago.</p><p> Mrs Wilkinson came to Australia 63 years ago, and Mrs Daniel 50 years ago. They have both lived in the Oakleigh district since their arrival from England</p><p><strong>Remembers Many Blacks</strong></p><p>Although keenly alive to affairs of the moment, both Mrs Daniel and Mrs Wilkinson were easily persuaded to talk of days long ago.</p><p>They recalled the days when Oakleigh was just an out-lying settlement from Melbourne, and black-fellows were frequent visitors to the lonely farm-houses.</p><p>Mrs Wilkinson said that she remembers a lubra (aboriginal woman) who used to camp, with her child and four dogs, on the present site of the Oakleigh Court House in Dandenong road.</p>
<p><font size="4"> Nonogenian Has Seen</font><font size="4"> Oakleigh Grow</font></p><p> Mrs A.M. Wilkinson, Clyde street, Oakleigh who recently celebrated her 90th birthday,</p><p>has seen Oakleigh grow from an outlying settlement with scattered houses and bad roads</p><p>to the modern Oakleigh of today.</p><p> Married at Windsor on August 13, 1867, Mrs Wilkinson and her late husband lived in</p><p>Oakleigh for nine months before moving to property on Ferntree Gully Road, near where</p><p>Notting Hill is now situated.</p><p> While living at that property eight of their children were born. In 1883 they moved to </p><p>Albert Street, Oakleigh, where their youngest daughter was born.</p><p> Mr G. Wilkinson died in 1896 and Mrs Wilkinson and her family moved to Clyde street,</p><p>where she has lived ever since.</p><p>When Mrs Wilkinson came to live in Oakleigh district there were no constructed roads.</p><p>Toll gates existed at the junction of Ferntree Gully and Dandenong roads. Transport was</p><p>carried by Cobb and Co. coaches.</p><p>Mrs Wilkinson was born in Exeter, Devonshire, England in 1846, and arrived in Melbourne </p><p>in 1863 in the sailing ship"The Gresham." The voyage took nearly four months.</p><p>From unknown newspaper about 1936 </p> <!-- SN:TREESUI11 -->