Joan Hartigan - Early Life and Education

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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