Ailsa is later involved in a car accident with Duncan and ends up comatose as a result. Alf's daughter, Roo takes a dislike to Ailsa and feels she is trying to replace her late mother, Martha and has her aunt Morag Bellingham, a lawyer, do a background check on Ailsa. These visions are a result of expired anti-depressants from her post-natal period. Children Shauna Bradley (1979), Duncan Stewart (1986). This makes her pregnancy around 1979/1980 yet in 1988 She said she was sent to prison aged 16 and given 3 years. She has heart of gold and has caring nature and sees the good in Bobby Simpson. [1], When Nunn fell ill, the producers temporarily cast well-known theatre performer Nancye Hayes.
However, Alf begins to form a bond with them. When Ailsa was young, she was abused a lot by her father, Harold, and she murdered him. However, Alf begins to form a bond with them.
She was sent to prison for 3 years for manslaughter. Blake left a year later to keep an eye on his wayward sister who had been paroled. Shauna Bradley (Kylie Watson) arrives in Summer Bay and learns that Ailsa is her biological mother. While moving boxes one day, Ailsa suffers a massive heart attack. Ailsa later discovers she is pregnant and gives birth to a son, Duncan (Alanna Ellis) in 1989. After a shaky start, Ailsa and Shauna soon bonded and developed a close mother-daughter relationship. Ailsa's niece Emma Jackson (Dannii Minogue) arrives in Summer Bay after attacking her stepfather for trying to sexually molest her. Home And Away Soap Opera Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. She was one of the original matriarchs of the show. Briefly, it looked like her and Alf's marriage might be on the rocks because she wasn't sure she loved him any more. Fictional Australians of Scottish ancestry. She's the stepmother of Alf's daughters, Roo Stewart and Quinn Jackson and aunt of Troy, Justin and Emma Jackson. Blake and Karen's half-sister Roxanne (Roxy) Miller lived with them for a while too. When the diner burns down due to carelessness from Colleen Smart, Ailsa is saddened as it is her last link to Bobby. Alf and Ailsa became a couple and married in May 1988. Just before Emma leaves, Ailsa takes in her former cellmate Margot Dean's two teenage children; Karen and Blake Dean much to Alf's chagrin. She was one of 3 children, a brother Tony O'Rourke and a sister Bridget O'Rourke later Jackson. Following a hold-up at the diner, Ailsa suffers a bout of depression and begins suffering hallucinations; in which she sees Bobby's ghost coming out of the fridge door. Her brother Tony, sister Bridget and niece Emma did not attend her funeral. She turned out to be the first of a few youngsters who came to live with her and Alf.
Ailsa Stewart (née O'Rourke, previously Hogan) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away. Following Alf's diagnosis, he refuses to have the tumour removed as he does not want to stop seeing visions of Ailsa. She was released in 1971/1972. Alf's daughter Roo took a dislike to Ailsa and suspected that Ailsa had something to hide about her past. They asked to come live with Alf and Ailsa in 1990. Ailsa and Alf clash over Emma staying and her constant mood swings. In late 2000 (Ep 2960), Ailsa was helping move boxes after the Diner changed premises and she suffered a massive heart attack and died. However, when Duncan is hospitalized due to an allergic reaction to an old christening gown, Ailsa finally bonds with the child.
She is an actress who later starred in Neighbours as Ruth Wilkinson. Ailsa and Alf marry in a low-key ceremony and they later foster Bobby together. Roo learns that Ailsa served time for murdering her abusive father but most of the bay side with Ailsa. [3] Of the storyline, Nunn commented "Just when I thought I'd been playing this rather nice woman, I had to take a different approach when Ailsa's dark past was revealed. Bevan Lee, H&A scriptwriter and series script editor apparently named Ailsa after his friend Ailsa Piper.
In a continuity error, in 2000, Ailsa said she was in prison 20 (or thereabouts) years ago when she was raped by a prison warder. The doctors consider switching off the machine but Duncan witnesses movements.
One night in 1968 when Harold was attacking his wife with a broken bottle, Ailsa got a carving knife and stabbed him to death. Ailsa is devastated when Bobby dies. After selling her store to Alf's sister Celia, she goes into partnership with Bobby in the Bayside Diner. Ailsa and Alf clash over Emma staying and her constant mood swings. Ailsa's dad was a heavy drinker and used to beat his wife and children up when drunk.