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Name	Thistle Yolette Stead
Alternative Names	Thistle Yolette Harris
Born	29 July, 1902 Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	5 July, 1990 (aged 87) Summer Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Stead, David George (husband) Galbraith, Jean (colleague) Morris, Albert (influence)
Occupation or Descriptor *	conservationist (1918-1990) New South Wales, Australia schoolteacher (1925-1938) New South Wales, Australia biologist (1938-1961) New South Wales, Australia nature writer (1938-1980) New South Wales, Australia teacher training college teacher (1938-1961) New South Wales, Australia

* Dates are approximate