Gillen (nee Besley), Amelia Maude

Amelia (Minnie) lived at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station from 1891-1899. At twenty two years of age she married Francis (Frank) Gillen. When fist arriving in Alice Springs in 1891 she had her piano transported by camel while the latest books were sent to her by Baldwin Spencer from Melbourne. Her first child, Brian was born in South Australia but her second son, Jack was delivered at the Telegraph Station. The Gillen's had six children. Two Arrernte women, known as Polly and Dolly (Aritcheuka), gave Minnie domestic help. Minnie in time became adept in the Arrernte language and took great interest in her husband’s anthropological research.

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Gillen Family Photographic Album

Central Australia, Northern Territory

Places Alice Springs; Hermannsburg

Language Group Arrernte

Institution Braithwaite Family Collection

Gillen Family Photographic Album

Places Alice Springs; Hermannsburg

Language Group Arrernte

Institution Braithwaite Family Collection

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Institution Pitt Rivers Museum