Born about in Berwick, Victoria, Australia
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Robert James Burnett
— married
1937 (to 1946) in Victoria, Australia
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Catherine was born in 1916, the daughter of Henry George Sherlock and Ivy Maude (Norton)[1]
In 1937 she married Robert James Burnett in Victoria[2]
Her husband enlisted in the Australian Army and was sent overseas where he was captured and spent time as a German prisoner of war, returning to Australia in 1945.
Catherine and Robert were divorced in 1946 on grounds of desertion. Robert was living in England
Divorce (The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Tue 29 Oct 1946 / Page 4 / Law Courts) Catherine Hilda Burnett, 29, of Barrow-street, Brunswick, against Robert James Burnett, 30, of Westbourne Park-road, Paddington, England; desertion.[3]
She remarried in 1959, to John Michael Dwyer in Victoria[4]
Sources
- ↑ Birth Index (Victoria Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages : accessed 19 Oct 2023). Index entry for Cath Hilda SHERLOCK, Year: 1916; Parents: Hy Geo and Ivy Maude NORTON; Place: BWICK Reg. Number: 18124/1916
- ↑ Marriage Index (Victoria Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages : accessed 19 Oct 2023). Index entry for SHERLOCK, Cath Hilda and BENNETT, Robt Jas; Year: 1937, Reg. number: 8778/1937
- ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204947934
- ↑ Marriage Index (Victoria Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages : accessed 19 Oct 2023). Index entry for BURNETT, Catherine Hilda and DWYER, John Michael; Year: 1959, Reg. number: 13543/1959
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