I have been up since 5.am this morning because I had to drive my friends C & P to the airport and then back home again after that. When I arrange to drive friends to the airport I am always afraid that I will not wake up in time. I then seem to wake up […]
Category: Runaway from Santipore
Chapter 17.1 – The Background to the Cooper’s from England
Chapter 17.1 – The Background to the Cooper’s from England The early 19th century was an era of political and social unrest in Britain. The pull of a new life in a new land was what brought so many immigrants to Australia and among them were the Coopers who were to become part of my […]
Chapter 16.1 – The Background to the Thodays from England
From England came the Thoday’s, Henry and Maria, my great-great grandparents. Henry Thoday (b. 1831) was from Cambridge and Maria Thoday (Cooke b. 1839) was a Cockney, being born within the sound of the Bow Bells. They left Plymouth on the ship ‘Reliance’ on 16th June 1851 and arrived at Port Adelaide on 14th Sept […]
Chapter 15 – The Forgotten Child
My Aunty Connie, was the second daughter of Richard Pryor Williams and Alice Maud Williams (Dangerfield), my grandparents, and she was born on the 9th Oct 1919 and named Bessie Constance Margaret Williams. Aunty Connie was a rebellious and troubled child. She was born in the little country town of Pinnaroo in the ‘Mallee’ region […]
Chapter 14 – Little Sister
Bessie Dangerfield and Alice Maud (Maud) Dangerfield. Maud was my grandmother. She died 9 years before I was born. Joseph 2 and Margaret Dangerfield’s eldest daughter, Alice Maud, was my grandmother and she married Richard Pryor Williams and had three daughters, Jean, Connie and Ronda. Jean was my mother and Connie and Ronda my dear […]
Chapter 13 – Deutsche Kuchen
When Joseph Henry (Harry) Dangerfield married Emma Emelia Laube he married a real treasure. Emma was a kindly woman, good-natured and even-tempered. She was imbued with the strong Lutheran values of her Silesian ancestors, and is remembered by her family as a brilliant cook using recipes lovingly passed down to her from her German grandmother, […]
Chapter 6.2 – The Soap and Candle Factory
In 1863 Charles O’Connor 1, my great-grandfather (b. 1827), at the age of 36 years joined the exodus from Ireland. He left Dublin and sailed to Australia on the ship ‘Pestonjee Bomanjee’ to Melbourne and from thence to Kadina where with his wife Mary (Mone) O’Connor (Piggot), he began his Australian adventure, continuing. “What was […]
Chapter 6.1 – The Soap and Candle Factory
In 1863 Charles O’Connor 1, my great-grandfather (b. 1827), at the age of 36 years joined the exodus from Ireland. He left Dublin and sailed to Australia on the ship ‘Pestonjee Bomanjee’ to Melbourne and from thence to Kadina where with his wife Mary (Mone) O’Connor (Piggot), he began his Australian adventure. His occupation was […]
Chapter 12.2 – From Prussia with Love
To learn about the Laube’s story first hand, I have gone back in time to the year 1922 to visit Emma Emielia Dangerfield (Laube) at her home at 5 Blanche Street, Gawler where she and her husband Harry Dangerfield are currently living. I have gone back as “day care” to assist Emma care for their […]
Chapter 12.1 – From Prussia with Love
On 5th Oct 1910, Joseph Henry (Harry) Dangerfield, son of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother Joseph and Margaret Dangerfield (Thoday), married Emma Emielia Laube, daughter of Joahann Friedrich Laube and Pauline Wilhelmina Laube (Zucht) and granddaughter of Johann Friedrich and Dorothea Laube. In 1854 Johann Friedrich Laube and Dorothea Elisabeth Laube (Teichert) were among 48 Prussian […]