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Boyce, Harriot Rose Margaret, 1906-1984
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1906-1984
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Harriot Rose Margaret Boyce, née Hall, was born on 3 December 1906 at Winstead, Stanthorpe. Her father, Edgar Hall, was a mining engineer at Silverspur. Following her engagement to Leslie Boyce in 1929, she purchased 15 acres of land at Range Street in Toowoomba and the couple had a house built on the property. They married on 29 April 1930. Margaret Boyce was Secretary of the Toowoomba Girl Guides throughout the 1930s and worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) for the first year of World War II. In 1940 two of her nieces, the daughters of her brother Robert Hall, arrived as evacuees from England. She was active in various community groups in Toowoomba and together with her husband established a large garden at their property. Margaret Boyce died on 24 August 1984. The Boyces bequeathed their property in Toowoomba to the University of Queensland in 1969. It is now known as the Boyce Gardens & Rainforest and was heritage-listed in 2001.
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Revised, AM, 05-May-2020.
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Queensland Registrar of Deaths, 1984/55864
University of Queensland, 'About The Boyce Family and Gardens', accessed online 21-Nov-2018.