Chapter 14 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter Vol 2 = 1975 In 1975 I worked as a salesperson for Collier Duncan and Cooke, one of the leading real estate companies of the time. It was a great place to work, and I was very sorry to leave this place when it closed down only a few […]
Category: The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2
Chapter 12 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2 – 1973-1974 New Zealand
The night before our daughter, Jesia Gail Berry was born, at midnight Jeff and I stopped long enough to try to choose a name for her. Of course not knowing whether our baby would be a boy or a girl, we needed to choose two names. There were charts being painted at our house, and […]
Chapter 11 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry – Vol 2 – Perth WA
In December 1971, Jeff and I and the children drove to Western Australia for a series of studies Jeff was putting on at Stirling. We only took the three older children in the car and sent Helen over by plane in company with David Hurn from Perth Central ecclesia. This meant we could manage driving […]
Chapter 10 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2 – 1971
Chapter 10 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2 – 1971 1971 was a very auspicious year in my “life’s calendar,” because it was the year that my future dear friends, Kate Daniels and Meg Clothier were born! I am 32 years older than Kate and Meg, and yet they are such good friends now, […]
Chapter 9 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2 – Port Broughton, 1971
Chapter 9 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2 – Port Broughton, 1971 Our Port Broughton Holiday – Friday 27nd August 1971 to September 10, 1971. Those present, Grandpa O’Connor, on weekends only, Grandma, Jeff, Fay, Deb, Judy, James, Helen, Jolene Hackett, David Hackett, Pepe the white poodle. Grandma and Grandpa, Deb and Judy left […]
Chapter 8 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter Vol 2 by Fay Berry 2015 © – 1970
Chapter 8 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter Vol 2 by Fay Berry 2015 © – 1970 In the school holidays in December 1969 and January 1970, Jeff and I drove to Perth to visit Don and Una Strempel who were living at City Beach, right on the sea front there. Don had given us a list […]
Chapter 7 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2015 © 1965 -1970
On June 7, 1965, our son James Ian Berry was born. I will never forget the great feeling of relief and satisfaction when I knew he was a boy. Every man wants a son, and now Jeff had his son and I was so glad. James Ian Berry was a very large baby and he […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 7 – 1964 – 1965
Christmas 1964 and I was pregnant with my third child. It was a very busy year. Jeff was making charts and working away on studies and preparing for Easter camp in April-May where he was to lead the studies that year. We had quite a lot to do with Andrew and Stephen Hill that Xmas […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 6, Vol 2 – 1963 – 1964
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 6 – 1963 – 1965 In 1963 we used to correspond with Mack McPherson from Victoria British Columbia, and in a letter he told us that he had just finished a series of studies on Acts the outcome of which was a book on Acts […]
Fay Berry’s Story – Chapter 8 -THE BACKGROUND TO THE DANGERFIELD CLAN
When I thought about writing about the Dangerfield’s I realised it needed so much research, but then I thought to myself that there is so much ‘out there’ about the Dangerfield’s, I might just as well write the ‘folk lore’ story instead, E&OE. Trevor Gore and his relies have written whole books on the subject […]