Hilda Cameron

England & Wales Birth registration index record for Hilda Farnham, Mother's Maiden Surname: Slingsby, January - March quarter 1895, Pancras registration district, vol. 1B p. 74.

School admission record for No. 724, Hilda Farnham, of 160 Copenhagen Street, father John Farnham, born 21 December 1894, admitted to the Buckingham Street School, 30 May 1898.

1901 England census : Hilda Farnham, 6 ( born about 1895), born St Pancras, Middlesex. Also at the same address : father John T. Farnham, 49 (born about 1852), born Meldreth, Cambridgeshire, living on own means; mother Georgina R.. Farnham, 47 (born about 1854), born Maidstone, Kent, rriarried; brother Ralph L. Farnham, 21 ( born about 1880), born St Pancras, Middlesex, Commercial Clerk; brother Bernard Farnham, 19 (born about 1882, born St Pancras, Middlesex, Miller; brother Alfred S. Farnham, 16 (born about 1885), born St Pancras, Middlesex, Van Boy; brother John S Farnham, 13 (born about 1888), born St Pancras, Middlesex; sister Lillian M Farnham, 8 (born about 1893), born St Pancras, Middlesex; sister Elsie C Farnham, 4 (born about 1897), born Islington, Middlesex; and servant Fanny Watson, single, 25.

Address - 27 Richmond Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, London.

15 May 1904, Hilda, Elsie and Lillian were baptised at St Marks, Noel Park, Haringey, Middlesex, London. Their address at this time was 127 High Street, Wood Green, London. (the site in 2011 is a McDonalds store).

1911 England census - Hilda Farnham, 16 (born about 1885), born London, unemployed, visitor to the house of her uncle and aunt, William and Eugene Judd (Eugene was her mother's sister), and their children (her cousins) William Charles Judd, 18 (born about 1893), born Southend, Essex, clerk; Harold L. Judd, 14 (born about 1897), born Southend, Essex, unemployed; and Arnold S Judd [Agnes L S Judd], 12 (born about 1899), born Southend. Note sister Maud was with the Judd's for the 1901 census.

Address : 2 Chelmsford Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex.

Departed London on 18 November 1911 on the Armadale with Francis Watson (the servant), Edith, Lillian and Maud. Description: single, female, domestic. The Armadale arrived at Fremantle on 1 January 1912 and all 5 are recorded in the WA arrivals passenger list for the Armadale.

The Armadale was built in 1909 for the Australind Steam Navigation Co. It was originally built as a cargo ship, but it was chartered by the Orient Co. on behalf of the Acting Agent General for WA to bring migrants to Western Australia, and temporary accommodation was built in the holds for the outward passage from Britain to Fremantle. During World War I the ship was requisitioned for military duties but was sunk in 1917 by a German submarine.

The Sunday Times, Sunday 1 January 1922, p 23.

[The engagement is announced of] Ernest Charles, second eldest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. Power, of Railway-crescent, Bayswater, to Hilda, second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Farnham, of Eighth -avenue, Maylands. They did not marry.]

1925 Electoral roll - Farnham, Hilda, 101 8th avenue Maylands, shop assistant. Also listed: Georgina Rose Farnham, home duties.

The Sunday Times, Sunday 26 February 1928, p 35.

Miss Hilda Farnham, treasurer of the Maylands Ladies' Auxiliary, is holidaying in Busselton, and is staying at the Hotel Esplanade.

1931 Electoral roll - Farnham, Hilda, 101 8th avenue Maylands, shop assistant. Also listed: Georgina Rose Farnham, home duties.

Western Australian Marriage registration index record for Hilda Farnham marrying Robert Andrew Cameron, at Perth, Perth registration district, No. 100215 of 1934.

1936 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, Strathisla, Bencubbin, home duties. Also listed: Robert Andrew Cameron, farmer.

1937 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, Strathisla, Bencubbin, home duties. Also listed: Robert Andrew Cameron, farmer.

1943 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 31 York street, North Perth, home duties.

1949 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 31 York street, North Perth, home duties. Also listed: Robert Andrew Cameron, soldier.

1954 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 31 York street, North Perth, home duties. Also listed: Robert Andrew Cameron, soldier.

1958 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 31 York street, North Perth, home duties. Also listed: Robert Andrew Cameron, soldier.

1963 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 31 York street, North Perth, home duties. Also listed: Robert Andrew Cameron, soldier.

Husband Robert died in 1968.

1968 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 31 York street, North Perth, home duties.

1972 Electoral roll - Cameron, Hilda, 10 Latrobe Street, Yokine, home duties.

Western Australian Death registration index record for Hilda Cameron, father Jonathan Farnham, mother Georgina Rose Slingsby, died aged 79 at Hollywood, Perth registration district, No. 101881 of 1974.

Metropolitan Cemeteries Board record for Hilda Cameron, died 25 May 1974 aged 79 at Yokine. Cremated Karrakatta Cemetery, ashes in the Crematorium Rose gardens, site 7C, position 67, with her husband Robert.