Early Life and Education
Joan Marcia Hartigan was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the daughter of Thomas Joseph Hartigan CMG (1877–1963) and Imelda Josephine née Boylson, a schoolteacher, who had married on 26 March 1908 at St Thomas's Catholic Church, Lewisham, New South Wales. Tom Hartigan was a clerk in the New South Wales Government Railways and eventually became Railways Commissioner. She was educated at the all-girls' Loreto Kirribilli, in the lower north shore of Sydney.
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