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Edith Agnes Hübbe formerly Cook

Born 18 May 1859 in South Australia, Australia

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Wife of Samuel Grau Hübbe MiD — married 3 Jan 1885 in Rose Park, South Australia

Descendants

Mother of Janet Doris (Hübbe) Simpson, Max Ulrich Hübbe MC and Herman Fritz Hübbe

Died 2 Apr 1942 at age 82 in Leabrook, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Edith Agnes Cook ^[1] (1859 – 2 April 1942), was in 1876 the first female student at Adelaide University, and second principal of the Advanced School for Girls in Adelaide, South Australia. She was later, as Edith Agnes Hübbe, principal of her own school in Knightsbridge, now Leabrook. ^[2]

Edith was born in 1859 near Campbelltown, South Australia; by 1875 she was a pupil teacher at the Grote Street Model School; in 1877 she was the school's second assistant; and promoted to first assistant the following year. Around this time she was studying at Adelaide University: Latin under Professor Lamb, botany under Professor Tate, and Physiology under Professor Stirling.
In 1879 she was seconded to the about-to-be-opened Advanced School for Girls in Franklin Street as deputy to Jane Stanes. Stanes retired at the end of 1880, and Edith was appointed her successor, though a Government regulation, stipulating that a head of a school must be aged 25, had to be waived by the Minister of Education J. Langdon Parsons. While head of the school she frequently invited Catherine Helen Spence to address the students. . . . . more . . Wikipedia®

Sources

South Australia Birth Index. (Genealogy SA, https://www.genealogysa.org.au/index.php : accessed 23 Feb 2023) database entry for Edith Agnes COOK (Birth date 18 May 1859, Father William COOK, Mother Janet MACKNEE, Birth Residence Ladywood) Reference: District Highercombe, Book/Page 17/53.
South Australia Marriage Index. (Genealogy SA, https://www.genealogysa.org.au/index.php : accessed 23 Feb 2023) database entry for Samuel Grau HUBBE (age 36, marital status S, father Ulrich HUBBE) and Edith Agnes COOK (age 25, marital status S, father William Cook) 3 Jan 1885 at Res of William Cook Norwood. Reference: District Norwood, Book/Page 142/37.
South Australia Death Index. (Genealogy SA, https://www.genealogysa.org.au/index.php : accessed 23 Feb 2023) database entry for Edith Agnes HUBBE (Death date 2 Apr 1942, age 82, marital status W, place of death Leabrook, residence Leabrook, relative Samuel Grau HUBBE [DH]) Reference: District Norwood, Book/Page 648/1579.