Do you know which local lady was first to win the Australian Ladies Singles Tennis Open? [closed]

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Could use some details added by anyone into Australian sporting history, and perhaps be added to an Australian Sporting Notable.

On 27 Feb 2020 Ben Molesworth wrote on Mutch-292:

First winner of the Australia Ladies Singles Tennis Open. Perhaps worthy of being added to Australian Sporting Notables, and being looked at by anyone interested in Australian Tennis history.

I've got the basics cleaned up on the profile, but the profile would welcome any details in the Biography more specific to her tennis career. I will add some details from Trove articles still.

I'm not sure who considers profiles worthy to be considered for Notables or not. Perhaps the Australia or Queensland project would like to decide that.

It would be good if there was a picture of the trophy to go on her profile.

WikiTree profile: Margaret Molesworth
closed with the note: An amazing job was done on this profile, and it is ready to be a profile of the week.
in Genealogy Help by Ben Molesworth G2G6 Pilot (161k points)
closed by Ben Molesworth
Nice work Ben, Thanks a lot!
That's alright. I still consider myself to be on the Australia project. But the constant Google emails was overwhelming.
Good work Ben. I look at the first at; best at; and support Margaret as being very notable. Thanks for sharing this profile.
Kenneth Evans did a great job adding a great deal of the tennis details.

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Mall deserves to be discussed with the sports greats, Ben. Great sportswoman and competitor.  Have tidied up her profile a little.
by Kenneth Evans G2G6 Pilot (245k points)
selected by Ben Molesworth
Thank you for the star, Ben.
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FMP 

First name(s) Maud Margaret

Last name Mutch

Registration year 1894

Registration number 1894/B055303

Birth date 18 Oct 1894

Father's first name(s) Alexander

Mother's first name(s) Margaret Agnes

Mother's last name Thornton

State Queensland

Country Australia

Record set Queensland Births 1829-1919

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Civil Births

Collections from Australasia

© Findmypast 2015

by Living Poole G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)

First name(s) Maud Margaret

Last name Mutch

Registration year 1918

Registration number 1918/001422

Marriage date 19 Jun 1918

Spouse's first name(s) Bevil Hugh

Spouse's last name Molesworth

State Queensland

Country Australia

Record set Queensland Marriages 1829-1939

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Civil Marriage & Divorce

Collections from Australasia

© Findmypast 2015

Thank you Marion. For some reason it didn't seem to be coming up on the Queensland Births Death and Marriages.
You’re welcome
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One of the eligibility criteria for being a Notable is having a Wikipedia page.  She does, so I have added the link plus the Notables sticker to her profile.
by Ros Haywood G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
Thank you.
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I have a quasi Australian woman's tennis pro.  This is second cousin Margaret Lillian Hunt who almost upset Margaret Smith in her prime. 

She played from 1960-1964 and sports illustrated featured her and her South African partner in their rejoicing that tennis now had talented and beautiful tennis stars (yes a dated observation).  Her second marriage was to Johann

She is a recent discovery to the family - her grandfather born in Castlecomer, Leslie Maunsel Hunt died in WW1 and records given to us from South Africa contained six errors including the gender of her child their child. 

However, his wife was Aileen Vivienne Court of Australia who fortunately for our records filled out the military death record of her brother and brought the whole family picture into play.

Margaret's father then was not Erie as the SA records said but in fact Eric Pfeilitzer Hunt and second husband was the father of South African tennis, Johann Barnard who had tickets to Wimbledon centre court for a couple of decades.  

So the key to my brick wall was the Australian Court family.  I am not sure whether they were related to Margaret.  I am not sure if Margaret knows about this but when she hit the courts, she represented in her dna - the entire European nobility, the Irish Dublin and Cork tradition, the Dutch and the Australian Courts

 

 



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by Lloyd de Vere Hunt G2G6 Mach 4 (43.8k points)
Interesting. There is very little on Margaret Hunt. Margaret Court's profile on Wikipedia has a good section on who her parents and family and husbands parent were. Makes it easy for us to start a profile on Wikitree. Of course, we need to be careful that living people aren't presented.

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