Memories of Maynard O’Connor & Sons Pty Ltd – Written by my brother, 24 June 1996. Continued. My brother continues his story about his experience with our Dad and brother, Maynard and the blacksmith shop as it grew and moved its location over the years. A feature of the Bowden factory was the addition of […]
Category: Runaway from Santipore
Chapter 2 – The Wedding – Joseph and Sarah
It is just two short years since he and and his good friend Edward Cooper arrived at Port Adelaide in South Australia as crew on the ship ‘Santipore.’ Today is a very different scene from that furtive night in 1848 when the two friends “skipped ship” at Port Adelaide and disappeared into the night. Today is a happy occasion and there are no policemen waiting to arrest him for disorderly behavior, or for being a runaway seaman.
Chapter 1 – The Prisoner – My great grandfather, Joseph Dangerfield 1
Joseph Dangerfield 1, my great, great grandfather, and his friend Edward Cooper arrived at Port Adelaide as a members of the crew of the ship “Santipore.” They were contracted also for the return voyage to England but chose rather to “skip ship” at Port Adelaide and to become “runaway seamen,” hoping to make a new life for themselves in Australia.
Chapter 7.2 – German Charlie
German Charlie an identity at Pinnaroo When my father, Maynard O’Connor Snr died in 1995, among his belongings was a little book called “German Charlie, Man of the Mallee,” by Marilyn Foster-Holmes. On page 19 and 20 of that little book I found a mention of my father and his association with “German Charlie.” It […]
Chapter 3 – William and Judith Cooper and their children
William and Judith Cooper and their children In Chapter 2 – the Wedding, I left Joseph and Sarah Dangerfield, my great-great grandparent’s, on 27th June 1850, at their wedding at St Stephens Church Willunga. At that time, the relationship between the Dangerfield’s and their friends Judith and William Cooper was that of friendship only. It […]
Chapter 7.1 – All about Olive – The story of Olive Dangerfield
My great grandfather, Joseph Dangerfield 2 (1855-1939) had an older brother called, Henry (Harry) Dangerfield (1851-1919). Harry was the eldest of the Dangerfield family. He had twelve children and his youngest child was a girl named Olive Evelyn Riley (Johnson, Dangerfield). Olive was born in 1899 and lived to be 108 years old and died […]
Chapter 5 – The Bullocky – My great-grandfather Joseph Dangerfield 2
When my great-great-grandfather, Joseph Dangerfield 1 “skipped ship” at Port Adelaide he took up farming in McLaren Vale. In 1850 he married Sarah Elliott at the St Stephen’s Church at Willnga. Joseph and Sarah went on to have a large family of twelve children whose names were Henry, Joseph, Ellen, Charles, James, Edward, Sarah, Emma, […]
Chapter 4 – The King of Melville Island, Robert Joel Cooper’s amazing story
In 1878, the two Cooper brother’s Joe Cooper and Harry Cooper, with horses and packs and accompanied by their father George Alfred Cooper, travelled overland to the Northern Territory in the wake of John McDougall Stuart. In 1879, after a long and exhausting journey they arrived safely in the territory but ill health forced father George Cooper to return home by boat. The two brothers, Joe and Harry, continued on in the Territory becoming buffalo hunters on the Cobourg Peninsula. From the peninsula they made a number of forays onto the adjoining Melville Island.
About Me
About Me My name is Fay Berry (O’Connor) and I was born on 28th November 1939 in Adelaide, South Australia. I am the youngest of four children and the only daughter of Jean Mavis O’Connor (Williams) and Maynard O’Connor, both born in Pinnaroo in the Murray Mallee. Two years ago, when I began to write […]