Henrietta Puttnam with her daughter, Alice

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TitleHenrietta Puttnam with her daughter, AlicePhoto Number004028DescriptionHenrietta Lewis graduated as a nurse and worked in Fiji as a Nanny. She met and married English sailing ship Captain Edward Puttnam. Edward died when their daughter, Alice, was three weeks old. Henrietta returned to Australia to continue nursing. In 1906 she married Walter Bush, a shopkeeper in Sydney. They owned hotels in Sydney and Kiama and had one son, Harry. After Walter died, Henrietta purchased land in Shellharbour and built the Ocean Beach Hotel. Alice married Charles Clinton Cullen, a farmer from Rose Valley, in 1917. Charles was the Mayor of Kiama in the 1920s.DonorCullen, Eileen

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CollectionPhotosFamilyBush Last edited by: Erin Tierney

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LocalityShellharbour Village Last edited by: Erin Tierney

PersonBush, Henrietta (nee Lewis) Last edited by: Erin Tierney

Related ItemOcean Beach Hotel Last edited by: Erin Tierney

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Henrietta Puttnam with her daughter, Alice