Born 1921 at Brighton, Victoria. Daughter of James Houston Boyd, and his second wife, Alice Mary Cook.

Birth notice reads: BOYD – On the 15th May 1921 at “Lochiel” private hospital, Middle Brighton to Mr and Mrs J Boyd, railway station, Glenloth – a daughter Nancy Allison.

 1924 – 1926 ER Nancy and her family are living at Longwood where James her father is the stationmaster.

1932 ER Nancy and her family are living at Bright where James her father is the stationmaster.

1936-1937 ER Nancy and her family are living at Merbein where James her father is the stationmaster.

1943 ER has James as the stationmaster at Leongatha. Station was located in Long Street.

 Border Morning Mail, Albury, 23 December 1942.

ABOUT PEOPLE

… At the nurse’s board examination, two nurses from the Ovens District hospital, who completed their fourth year training at the Wangaratta Base hospital, passed their final examination. They were Nurses Boyd, of Leongatha. and Alma O'Neill of Stanley.

 Date of qualification, March 1943.

 From the above, it sounds as if Nancy commenced her nursing not long after her seventeenth birthday.

 1944 Nurse’s registration has Nancy living at 6 Long Street, Leongatha.

 Nursing registration removed June 1945.

 Married Bill Alfred Collins, at Leongatha 19 April 1944. Bill was an orchardist at Hurdle Flat near Stanley. Nancy and Bill appeared to have lived at Hurdle Flat all their married life and were the parents of three boys.

 Died Wangaratta Hospital, 5 February, 1992.