Violet Hope Telfer

Role: Daughter of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Born: 1883
Died: 1967

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

Family

Life Summary

Violet Hope Telfer was born in 1883 and died in 1967. 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. 318–320): Everyone's Aunt Vi. She never married — she was too busy mothering the whole tribe. When the family moved down to Rochester Street in Adelaide, Violet ran that big house, and it was the boarding house for every niece and nephew who came to the city for Teachers College — they'd land on her doorstep with their trunks and she'd feed them and send them out clean. A fine cook and gardener, the settled one, the respected one. When her mother went blind with cataracts, Violet was the one by her side. After Margaret passed, Violet and her sister Elsie took over a small private hospital in Rochester — the pair of them running the wards. And her famous saying we all quoted: 'If the missus says it's black, then well, it IS black.' That was Violet — nobody argued, and somehow nobody wanted to. She died in 1967, still our Aunt Vi.

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