Photograph - Image, Gael Vincent, Grave of Matilda Ann Aston in St Kilda cemetery, 2016

Historical information

Tilly Aston moved to 42 Raleigh Street in 1913, after her mother had died and her brother married. She died there of cancer on 1 November 1947 and was buried in St Kilda cemetery; her estate was valued for probate at £1149. Her headstone is inscribed: headstone ‘Tilly Aston, Blind Poetess and Philanthropist, Died 1st Nov 1947, Aged 74, Resurgam.’

Physical description

2 x col. photographs of grave and headstone

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