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Fitzhardinge (1881-1956), Mrs. H.C.
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Initial post 4 MAR 12 by Eric Timewell
Searching the New South Wales birth, death and marriage records as well as the Sydney phone directory adds details which may help someone researching Mrs Fitzhardinge. Olive Rose McMaster was born in 1881 in Warialda district, married in 1909 in Woollahra, died in 1956 at Chatswood. Dr Hardinge Clarence Fitzhardinge (1878–1958) was a Macquarie Street dentist. They had "Bridge End," 1.5 acres at No. 1 Warrawee Avenue, Warrawee till 1937 (going by the phone directory), then moved to Mandurama on the NSW central tablelands. (The "bridge end" concerned is the eastern end of the footbridge to the Warrawee railway station.) The present house at "Bridge End" was built about 1939 and its land shorn of the eastern half-acre.
Mrs Fitzhardinge's last roses were registered in 1939 but she probably bred them before 1937.
They had daughters Jean Mary Dean (b. 1909) and Olive Prudence Bryant (b. 1912) and sons Colin Hardinge Fitzhardinge (1914–1998, a farmer who married Joan Phipson, the children's writer, in 1944) and Brian Forbes Fitzhardinge (1917–1932).
There is confusion in the records between a maiden name of MacMaster and McMaster. In this case some NSW BD&M records are wrong. The phone directory gave her father the choice of Mac or Mc and he chose McMaster. Presbyterian Ladies College Croydon naturally had many pupils of Scottish descent, and its records clearly show his daughter as Olive Rose McMaster. This may seem pedantic, but it helps anyone trying to find out which relations she named roses after.
Not everyone (me included) understands 1930s conventions of naming. Her husband was H.C. Fitzhardinge, therefore she was socially Mrs H.C. Fitzhardinge. But as an author she used her own married name, Olive Rose Fitzhardinge or O.R. Fitzhardinge. (As a widow her social name would have become Mrs O.R. Fitzhardinge—but she never was a widow.) What about her name as author of a rose rather than an article? The same.
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