Adelaide Elsie Pearl Telfer

Role: Daughter of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Born: 1889
Died: 1976

Father: Adam Francis Telfer (1842–1925)
Mother: Margaret Dougal Telfer (1849–1936)

Family

Life Summary

Adelaide Elsie Pearl Telfer was born in 1889 and died in 1976. Daughter of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Source: Telfer family records

Family Stories

🖊️ Anecdote — as told in From the Borders to the Bush (book pp. 329–330): Elsie was the family's nurse, and not just in name. She trained properly and worked in a string of hospitals — out at Broken Hill among them, where the nurses were made of iron. Later she and Violet ran the little private hospital in Rochester together, sisters in charge of a ward. And Elsie carried the family in her head like a ledger — every niece and nephew's name and birthday, every last one, she could tell you without missing. When Violet had her fall Elsie finished up in a Norwood nursing home, and later at the Home for Incurables in Fullarton, but she never lost that memory that made her everyone's favourite aunt. She came back to lie with her parents at Mitcham when her turn came in 1976.

(Anecdote only — family colour, told as the elders tell it. Does not establish any relationship, date or place.)