Juliet Rowlatt

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Juliet Helen Rowlatt was born at Russell St, Dunedin on 12 May 1872. She was the daughter of George Frederick Rowlatt, a solicitor, and Helen Wilson Kennedy.

In 1908 Juliet married Buckland Kent Bennett, a farmer. They had no children and lived at Awahuri near Feilding in the North Island.

Juliet did charitable work to raise funds for the Red Cross & in 1916 was awarded first prize for a pair of knitted socks at a fund raising event.

Juliet died in 1945 and Buckland in 1954, they are buried in the Kelvin Grove Cemetery, in Palmerston North.

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