teacher, was born at The Grange, Paterson’s Plains, Van Diemen’s Land, on 6 December 1837, second daughter of William Tremlett, a school-teacher who died suddenly six weeks before her birth (and after whom she was named), and Margaret, née Aitkins, also a teacher, who conducted schools in Launceston (from 1843) and at Campbell Town (in the early 1850s). Described by her niece Margaret Annie Hull (a daughter of Hugh Munro Hull ) as 'a clever, witty woman, trim and erect in figure with lovely naturally red-brown hair piled up on top of her head’ who although charming was 'flighty and imperious an inclined to scare her suitors away’, Miss Tremlett took up 'teaching and single blessedness’. In 1869 she had a school at 122 Macquarie Street, Hobart Town, where she taught English, music and drawing. By the 1890s, however, she was a governess, living with the Kermode family and teaching their children, apparently until she died, reputedly after being spurned by an elderly retired army cousin of the family when he discovered her income was less than a sixth of his own.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
