Hi
Ivy had a twin.
BIRTHS
KERR Ivy J BOULDER
Reg #86
KERR Hollie M BOULDER
Reg #87
Birth notice
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1950) Monday 7 January 1907 p 4 Family Notices ...
KERR. — On 4th January, at Lake-street, Trafalgar, the wife of H. E. Kerr, twin daughters
Hollie died as an infant and the inquest names the parents.
INQUEST REPORT
AN INFANTS' DEATH. CORONIAL ENQUIRY. ACCIDENTAL SUFFOCATION.
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1950) Saturday 9 March 1907 p 2 Article ... the infant child, Hollie Marjory Kerr, which was formally opened on Wednesday afternoon last, ... one of twins, of Horace Edward and Margaret Christina Kerr, of Lake street, Trafalgar. The evidence indicated that the child, who was two months old, died through being accidentally suffocated while asleep beside her mother on the morning of March 6.
The paper reports the parents suffered tragic circumstances a few years later when the mother was institutionalised in Perth, and the father died in 1914.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-state=Western+Aus...MARGARET CHRISTINA KERR died 17 Oct 1919 aged 38y
bur Karrakatta, Perth.
Rhonda