Jill Kathryn Ker Biography

Jill Kathryn Ker was born on October 9, 1934, in Hillston, New South Wales, in the outback of Australia. Her father was a sheep rancher and her mother a nurse. Together they brought up Jill and her two older brothers on their sheep ranch called Coorain, an aboriginal word for "windy place". Jill grew up in near-total isolation with no other playmates than her brothers and was seven before she ever saw another girl but she enjoyed an idyllic childhood on the prosperous and beautiful estate.When she was eight a five year drought broke out taking away many of the profits of past years, many of the family’s sheep and Jill’s father. She was 10 when her father drowned in a diving accident while trying to extend the farm's water piping, the accident