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Name: BIRD, Madeline Hope Stafford , Miss
Nee: dau of Robert Chisholm Stafford Bird, sister of Hilary Stafford Bird
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1918 Tasmania
Death Date: 15 June 2003 Wynberg, S. Africa
First Date: 1935
Profession: Primary School Mistress in 1939, appointed 1939. Originally Learner Teacher 1935.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 30 Sep 1939 Francis Chidley O'Molony b. 1910 Touws River, S. Africa, d. 19 Dec 1993
Children: Richard Francis (13 Nov 1940); Hugh Timothy Patrick (22 Apr 1943); Diedre Claire (Engel) (7 Jan 1946)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Pat Goldsmith
General Information:
Pat Goldsmith writes - class teacher Miss Bird - had iron grey hair in "cowpats" and bright brown eyes which missed nothing. At the end of term, when everybody was restless, she read us 'Hiawatha' by the poet Longfellow. We were spellbound.
Blue Book 1939 1st appt 17.9.1935