Effie Olive Telfer

Role: Daughter of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Born: 1886
Died: 1969

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

Family

Life Summary

Effie Olive Telfer was born in 1886 and died in 1969. 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. 325–327): Effie — talk about courage. She went nursing out west with her sister Lill, and she married a tough Scotsman, Robert Wilson, who'd survived a gold-mine cave-in and made his living as a boiler-maker and a seaman — a walking tall tale himself. They had one precious daughter, Mona, born in 1921. Then, at the age of thirty-eight, Effie had a stroke that took her whole right side. It should have finished her. But Mona nursed her, her sister Lill came across to help her re-learn, and the day came when Effie wrote and spoke again — with her left hand. She went to live out the rest of her years with her brother Herb at Greenmount in Western Australia, and she lived them well, to eighty-three. That's Effie: a stroke at thirty-eight, and she beat it.

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