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Amelia Alice ‘Minnie’ Felstead, née Sullivan, later Berfield (1876-1951) trade union leader, Labor Party activist, feminist
Birth: 18 May 1876 at Wandiligong, Victoria, daughter of Eugene Sullivan (1850-1935), a miner born in County Cork, Ireland, later a soldier and customs officer, and native-born Ellen, née Kelly (1856-1930). Marriages: (1) 9 February 1905 at Carlton, Melbourne, with Methodist forms, to Edward Felstead (1863-1937), a divorced commercial traveller with six children. The marriage ended in divorce in January 1922. (2) 22 April 1922 in Carlton Registry Office, Melbourne to William Henry Berfield, an iron worker, later caretaker, born in Holland. Death: 21 July 1951 in Royal Melbourne Hospital. Religion: buried with Catholic rites.
Sources
Merrifield papers, State Library of Victoria; Labor Call (Melbourne), 22 April 1909, p 19; Worker (Wagga), 22 April 1909, pp 113 & 18; Raeleen Francis, ‘No More Amazons’: Gender and work process in Victorian clothing trades, 1890-1939’, in Labour History, No. 50 May 1986; Frank Bongiorno, The people’s party: Victorian Labor and the radical tradition, 1875-1914 (Melbourne, 1996); Recorder, October 1998, no.211
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18 May,
1876
Wandiligong,
Victoria,
Australia
21 July,
1951
(aged 75)
Parkville, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
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