Margaret Elvire Forrest

Margaret Hamersley was born 1844 in Havre, France and died in Western Australia in 1929. She was the daughter of Edward Hamersley and his wife Anne Louise Hamersley (nee Corneles). The family had a holiday home called the Castle at North Beach.

Margaret Hamersley married John Forrest in 1876 at St George’s Cathedral in Perth. Lord John Forrest was a surveyor, Deputy Surveyor General of Western Australia in 1876 became Western Australia’s first Premier.