Notes:

Dorothy was a Nurse, a profession which she followed until she retired aged 62, in 1966 she was awarded the MBE for her services.
She wrote of her life experiences "My Life and Times" a very interesting document.

Died:
Dorothy first came to the Northern Territory in 1937 on the SS Marella, to nurse at the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) Wimmera Home hostel/hospital at Victoria River Downs (VRD). The nursing staff worked as a team sharing professional and domestic tasks on 'a week and week about' basis Dorothy and staff were also responsible for conducting informal 'church services' and entertaining single white men in a Christian environment. Dorothy met Noel Townshend Hall at Wimmera Home and they married on the 1st May 1939 in Katherine. Noel had a contract to shoot buffaloes, they moved to small block on the Edith River in early 1940 later that year they returned to the Katherine area. In 1942 when Darwin was bombed and the women and children were evacuated she was at the Katherine railway station when Dorothy was told she was now responsible for the health and welfare of over 200 people, despite having no medicine and a delivering baby on the way she managed to get the group safely to Alice Springs. After the war Dorothy and Noel were reunited and they lived at Bonrook Station, near Pine Creek from 1945 to 1950, their daughter Diane was born at Katherine Hospital in 1946. Midway through 1950 she was asked to go and nurse at Yuendumu, an Aboriginal settlement about 280 km north-west of Alice Springs where an outbreak of gastroenteritis epidemic. She returned to Bonrook Station in 1951 where Noel involved in a number business ventures. Dorothy continued volunteering her time nursing for the community. In 1960 due to Noel's ill health they were forced to sell Bonrook Station. The family moved to Pine Creek and Dorothy worked alone as a voluntary community nurse for twelve years delivering health services through out the district eventually in 1963 she was paid a small allowance. In 1981 Dorothy moved to Darwin and become an active member of the St Peter's Church and Senior Citizen's Association until her death in 1989. https://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/jspui/handle/10070/227670

Dorothy married HALL, Noel Townshend on 1 May 1939 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Noel (son of HALL, Arthur A and TOWNSHEND, Elizabeth Baker) was born on 31 Oct 1893 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia; died on 26 Jun 1982 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; was buried on 1 Jul 1982 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married HALL, Noel Townshend on 1 May 1939 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Noel (son of HALL, Arthur A and TOWNSHEND, Elizabeth Baker) was born on 31 Oct 1893 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia; died on 26 Jun 1982 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; was buried on 1 Jul 1982 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Charles married RICHARDS, Ethel on 6 Jun 1900 in Fryerstown, Victoria, Australia. Ethel (daughter of RICHARDS, William and GLADWIN, Sarah) was born in 1879 in Fryerston, Victoria, Australia; died in 1956 in Malvern, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married STALEY, Jane on 5 Jul 1870 in Victoria, Australia. Jane (daughter of STALEY, Thomas and HAMILTON, Elisabeth) was born on 25 Jul 1849 in Greenburn, Parish Of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland; was christened on 9 Aug 1849 in Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland; died in 1897 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married GLADWIN, Sarah in 1866 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas and his wife Elizabeth sailed from Glasgow on 8 March 1853, aboard the vessel "Reaper" of 424 tons with five of their children and Agnes Wilson aged 13 years, who was listed in the 1851 census as a step-daughter, after a voyage of nearly 5 months they arrived in Port Phillip on 2 August 1853. They were soon in the Goldfields in the Castlemaine area where they remained until their deaths.

Buried:
Castlemaine General Cemetery
Cemetery Rd. Campbell's Creek
Victoria, 3451

He is in the grave next to his wife and their first born son Jonathan.

Thomas married HAMILTON, Elisabeth on 6 May 1842 in Greenburn, Parish Of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Elisabeth was born on 4 Aug 1816 in Scotland; was christened on 15 Sep 1816 in West Calder, Linlithgowshire, Scotland; died on 14 May 1878 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 16 May 1878 in Castlemaine General Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Castlemaine General Cemetery
Cemetery Rd. Campbell's Creek
Victoria, 3451

She is in the same grave as her first born son Jonathan and next to the grave of her husband.