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. Tenth child of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer, she grew up at Tantanoola, South Australia.

Source: From the Borders to the Bush (1989), p.281 (chart: "Effie Olive Telfer (1886-1969)") and p.327 (prose: "EFFIE OLIVE TELFER tenth child of Adam and Margaret Telfer — Effie Olive Telfer, who was born in 1886, spent her early years in South Australia. She grew up in Tantanoola, the tenth child of Adam and Margaret Telfer."). Read 3 Oct 2026 — both witnesses agree: the publisher's embedded text layer and the WeVisDoc-2B OCR independently print 1886 on both the chart and in the prose.

Provisional: accepted under the 2026-10-03 soft-yes rule. The vault and the book agree on 1886; the earlier 1887 question is closed in favour of 1886 on the evidence of two independent readers of the printed page (chart and prose). Flagged for re-check when a South Australian birth registration is released or the $780 printed copy arrives.

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.)

Receipt (why this page may be admitted)

Receipt: From the Borders to the Bush (1989) p.281 (chart) + p.327 (prose) — 'Effie Olive Telfer (1886-1969)' and 'EFFIE OLIVE TELFER tenth child of Adam and Margaret Telfer'. Both witnesses print 1886; the earlier 1887 question is closed in favour of 1886.

Standard applied: soft yes / provisional (How We Work, settled 3 Oct 2026) — certainly correct on today's evidence, receipt attached, no certificate required.

Provisional flag: re-checked on the yearly pass and hardened if a certificate or released register arrives.

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