Jean Cairns (Amos) Anderson BA (1868 - 1928)

Born 1868 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Wife of Robert Murray McCheyne Anderson KCMG — married 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 19 Dec 1928 at about age 60 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Jean Cairns Amos was born in 1868. She was a daughter of Robert Amos and Jeannie unknown, of Elizabeth Bay.

She married Robert Anderson in 1892 in Sydney.^[1] They had three sons and four daughters. Robert later became Brigadier General Sir Robert Anderson.

One of the first women graduates of the University of Sydney (BA, 1890), Lady Anderson took an active interest in women's and children's welfare: she was an office-bearer in the Women's Club in Sydney and represented the National Council of Women (NSW) at conferences. She was involved in the creation and establishment of the Rachel Foster Hospital for Women and Children of which she was the first president.

She gradually became seriously ill and died in December 1928 at Woollahra, New South Wales.^[2] Obituaries at the time of her death were published in newspapers nationwide.

Sources

1. ↑ New South Wales Marriage index #1245/1892
2. ↑ New South Wales Death Index #20289/1928