Charlotte Elizabeth Austin Explained

Charlotte Elizabeth Austin
Birth Name:Charlotte Fullerton
Other Names:Lottie
Birth Date:4 June 1878
Birth Place:Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
Death Place:St Lawrence Private Hospital, Chatswood, New South Wales
Resting Place:Congregational section of the Field of Mars cemetery
Occupation:Community leader
Education:
  • Rivière College, Woollahra
  • University of Sydney (B.A., 1902; M.A., 1905)

Charlotte Elizabeth Austin (; 4 June 1878 - 21 November 1933) was an Australian community worker. Born on 4 June 1878 to George Fullerton and Georgina Sarah, in Dubbo, New South Wales, her early schooling was at Rivière College in Woollahra. She later attended the University of Sydney and graduated with first-class honours in History and English under the supervision of noted historian George Arnold Wood. She married the Reverend Alfred Herbert Austin on 21 March 1903 in Randwick Presbyterian Church. After marriage the couple moved to South Australia where Alfred began as a Congregational minister, and in 1905 moved back to Sydney, where her husband became the pastor of Mosman Congregational Church.

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