Hannah Maclurcan

She was the author of the very popular cookbook "Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book : a collection of practical recipes specially suitable for Australia".

When she was only 15 years of age, she was manager for her father of the Club Hotel in Sandgate although her obituaries state incorrectly it was Toowoomba.

[2] On 25 March 1880 Hannah Phillips married English born Robert Watson Wigham at her father's home in Brisbane.

In April 1884, Hannah Wigham applied for her first publican's licence which was for the Club Hotel on the corner of Margaret and Ruthven Street, Toowoomba.

She was actively associated with the management of the Wentworth Hotel until 1932, when she handed over responsibility to her son Charles Dansie Maclurcan (born 1889).

Although Charles was an electrical engineer who used the flat roof of the hotel for his pioneering experiments in wireless transmission, he had been a director of the company since 1916.

[1][2] On 17 August 1931 Maclurcan married Robert Lee at St Nicholas's Church of England, Mordialloc, Melbourne.

[1] Maclurcan Lee died at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney on Sunday 27 September 1936 at 75 years of age.

She was survived by her husband, Robert Lee, her three daughters: Mrs. Ralph Moore, whose home was in England, Mrs. Spencer Watts, and Mrs. F. C. Postle and her son, Charles Dansie Maclurcan, of Strathfield, one of the pioneers of wireless in Australia.