Harriett Eliza (Shepherd) Aitken Drysdale 1858 - 1937

Harriett Eliza (Shepherd) Drysdale was born on June 16, 1858 at Merri Creek - Pentridge, in Pentridge - Coburg, VIC Australia to Timothy Shepherd and Elizabeth (Perry) Shepherd, and had siblings John Shepherd, Hannah Shepherd, Lena Catherine (Shepherd) Gilbert, and Ernest William Shepherd. She married Christopher Bruce Drysdale. She would also marry William George Aitken, and they had children Edith Florence (Aitken) Mills, Cecil Norman Aitken, Irene Lillian (Aitken) Munday, Amy Rene Stephens ( Aitken, William George Aitken., Herbert Aitken, Lydia (Aitken) Copley, Wilfred Aitken, Arnold Aitken, Ada Donald ( Aitken, Lyall Aitken, and John"Jack"Aitken. Harriett Drysdale died at age 79 years old on December 26, 1937 at Myrnong Private Hospital, in East St. Kilda, and was buried on December 28, 1937 in Fawkner.