Annie Carnegie Brown

15 Lyndewode Road, Waituna

History of 15 Lyndewode Road

1891

James Nutter, 51, flour miller,  b Grantchester

Annie, 47, b Essex

Katie, 18, b Grantchester

Harriet, 16, b Grantchester

James, 15, b Grantchester

Edward, 10, b Grantchester

Ellen Stubbings, 22, servant, b Suffolk

In 1904 the Nutter family returned to Vine Cottage and renamed it Lyndewode..

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1913

James Neal

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1935

Mrs Carnegie Brown

Annie Carnegie Brown was the city’s first policewoman. She came to the city in 1923 when her salary was £3 a week. During WWII she was involved in the interrogation of German spies because of her fluency in the language. She retired in 1947 as a sergeant. Once when arresting a woman in Ely she was stabbed with a carving knife but returned to work the next day. She was a keen coarse and fly fisher.

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1939

Jessie Carnegie Brown, b 1864

Annie Carnegie Brown, b 1891, police constable

Cecilia O’Connell, b 1914, servant

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1962

Miss Carnegie Brown

Annie Carnegie brown died in 1981 and is buried in Mill Road Cemetery.