Sarah Constance Lodge (née Leake)
Siblings Blanche Kelsall, Jane Adam, Jessie Skinner, Lady Parker, Mary Parry, Rose Clifton. Children Helen Rose Hall, 1 son, 1 other daughter
Sarah Constance Lodge (née Leake) was born on 1 February 1860 to Rose Ellen Leake (née Gliddon) and George Walpole Leake. She married Thomas Soutter Lodge on 15 September 1886 (her granddaughter Helen Margaret Wilson married her first husband Peter James Donegan exactly fifty years later, to the day1).
Sarah Constance Lodge advertising for a general servant just prior to the birth of Helen Rose Lodge. Lived in Grass Valley, near Northam.2
Advertised for a general servant three weeks before the birth of their daughter Constance in 1888.2
Two other children: Joan and Jack.3
Known as Constance (and 'Gag' by her grandchildren).
She died in 1939 at home. The notice of her death, published in the West Australian, was as follows:3
LODGE.---On May 15, 1939, at her residence, 130 Broome-street, Cottesloe, Sarah Constance, beloved wife of the late Thomas Soutter Lodge, late of Strelly, Busselton, and loving mother of Helen (Mrs. Aubrey Hall, Carnarvon), Joan (Mrs. Norman Martin, Cottesloe), and Jack (Capel); forth daughter of the late George Walpole Leake, Q.C.; aged 79 years.
% Sarah Constance Lodge advertising for a general servant just prior to the birth of Helen Rose Lodge:
H. M. Wilson, date unknown. Children of George Walpole Leake and Rose Ellen. https://archive.org/details/ChildrenOfGeorgeWalpoleLeakeAndRoseEllen ↩
Classified Advertising. The West Australian 15 March 1888, p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2014 from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3117302 ↩ ↩
Family Notices. The West Australian 16 May 1939, p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46390957 ↩ ↩
