BOOKS WRITTEN BY FAY BERRY

Runaway from Santipore

The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 1.

The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol  2

My Dad, Maynard O’Connor’s Autobiography

In No Particular Order

• The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Foreword
  My name is Fay Berry (O’Connor) and I am the Blacksmith’s daughter. I am the youngest of four children and the only daughter of Jean Mavis O’Connor (Williams) and Maynard O’Connor, ...
• Chapter 1 – Fay O’Connor born 1939
  I was born on the 28th November 1939 at the Queen’s Home, Rose Park South Australia. My Mother and Father both came from Pinnaroo, a little country town in the ...
• Chapter 2 – My dad, The Blacksmith
  Before I was old enough to go to Sunday School and Mum and Dad only had the three boys, Dad built a side car onto his bike. He used to ...
• Chapter 3 – 12 Kenilworth Road, Parkside
  My first memory of ‘living’ anywhere was at 12 Kenilworth road, Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia, the little house where my parents lived from around 1943 to 1950. I don’t remember ...
• Chapter 4 – My brothers
  My brothers were, all three of them, very intelligent inventive people. Mum told me stories of when our family lived on Halifax Street before I was born; how that Charlie ...
• Chapter 5 – Parkside Primary School
  In 1944, when I was five years old I started school at the Parkside Primary School which was just behind our house. I was able to take a short cut ...
• Chapter 6 – Run over by a tram – 1947
  I was eight years old in 1947 and in Grade three at Parkside Primary School. My brother Maynard would have been in his 2nd year at Adelaide Technical High School ...
• Chapter 7 – Unley Primary School – 1948 (9 years old)
  In 1948, when I was 9 years of age, I changed schools and began attending Unley Primary School in Cremorne St Unley and went into the Grade 4 girls’ class. ...
• Chapter 8 – Parkside Primary School again – Grade 6 – 1950
  When I returned to Parkside Primary School in 1950, I was 11 years old and in Grade 6. It was so nice to be able to walk to school again ...
• Chapter 10 – The Blacksmith Shop by Graham O’Connor
  The Blacksmith Shop — My brother Graham produced a little booklet describing My Dad and how his black smithing business commenced and grew. I am including an excerpt from this booklet ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Chapter 11 – Memories of Maynard O’Connor & Son P/L
  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 ...
• 20160128 – Thursday – All about Olive and German Charlie
  After breakfast this morning I drove to the beach and walked along the foreshore for some exercise and then sat on a bench and thought peaceful thoughts for a while. ...
• Chapter 9 – Pioneers of the Wilderness
  On 7th Feb 1877, at the Wesleyan Church, Clare, South Australia, Joseph Dangerfied 2, my great-grandfather, married Margaret Thoday, second daughter of Henry and Maria Thoday who were my great-great ...
• Chapter 9 – Pioneers of the Wilderness
  On 7th Feb 1877, at the Wesleyan Church, Clare, South Australia, Joseph Dangerfied 2, my great-grandfather, married Margaret Thoday, second daughter of Henry and Maria Thoday who were my great-great ...
• Chapter 10 – The Minstrel Boy
  My grandmother was born in Yacka, South Australia in 1879 and spent her early years traveling from place to place wherever her father Joseph Dangerfield could find work. They moved ...
• Chapter 11.1 – The Scrapings of the Pot
  In 1913 Howard married Charlotte Maud (Lottie) Offler, and they spent the next 50 years together and enjoyed a very happy marriage. On 25th May 1963, sadly, Howard’s beloved wife ...
• Chapter 8 – The Truth Seeker
  William Charles Dangerfield was the first member of the Dangerfield family to become a Christadelphian. He began to question the doctrines he had been taught in his youth as a member ...
• Chapter 11.2 – The Scrapings of the Pot
  In 1877 Joseph Dangerfield 2 married Margaret Thoday the daughter of my great-great grandparents, Henry and Maria Thoday. They had children, William Charles, Alice Maud (my grandmother), Joseph Henry (Harry), ...
• Chapter 11.3 – “The Scrapings of the Pot”
  In 1877 Joseph Dangerfield 2 married Margaret Thoday the daughter of my great-great grandparents, Henry and Maria Thoday. They had children, William Charles, Alice Maud (my grandmother), Joseph Henry (Harry), ...
• Chapter 11.4 – “The Scrapings of the Pot”
  Howard Dangerfield had a varied employment history throughout his life as did most people of the time. Work was hard to get and so people would take any job that ...
• Chapter 12.3 – Background to “Runaway” – the Laube’s from Silesia
  In 1854 Johann Friedrich Laube and Dorothea Elisabeth Laube (Teichert) were among 48 Prussian immigrants who arrived in South Australia amongst the 171 colonists who arrived aboard the Steinwaerder. They ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 20160229 – Monday – Leap Year, Airport and trailer ready
  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 ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 © by Fay Berry – Chapter 1 – 1939
  November 17, 2013 at 11:59am My name is Fay Berry (O’Connor). I was born on the 28th November 1939 at the Queen’s Home, Rose Park South Australia. My Mother and Father ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 2 – 1943 – 1947
  November 17, 2013 at 1:36pm   Before I was old enough to go to Sunday School and Mum and Dad only had the three boys, Dad built a side car onto ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 © by Fay Berry – Chapter 4
  November 19, 2013 at 9:17am   My brothers were, all three of them, very intelligent inventive people. Mum told me stories of when our family lived on Halifax Street before I ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 © by Fay Berry – Chapter 5
  November 19, 2013 at 6:23pm In 1944, when I was five years old I started school at the Parkside Primary School which was just behind our house. I was able to ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 7
  November 20, 2013 at 12:44pm   In 1949, when I was 10 years of age, I changed schools and began attending Unley Primary School in Cremorne St Unley and went into the ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 8
  November 20, 2013 at 2:30pm   When I returned to Parkside Primary School in 1950, I was 11 years old and in Grade 6. It was so nice to be able ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 9
  November 21, 2013 at 3:07pm   Two years before Mum and Dad married they were baptized into the Christadelphian faith and began meeting with the Adelaide Ecclesia in its hall located on ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 10
  November 24, 2013 at 9:45pm The Blacksmith Shop —  My brother Graham produced a little booklet describing My Dad and how his blacksmiths business commenced and grew. I am including an ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 11
  November 26, 2013 at 3:20pm 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 ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 12
  November 26, 2013 at 8:56pm Here is another story written by my brother Graham about his life in the 1950s. I loved horses, by Graham O’Connor. From a poor family, I could never ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 13 – 1950
  December 1, 2013 at 6:31pm Dad had a little blacksmith shop on Glen Osmond Road, Frewville and his forge and the ringing of his hammer on the anvil was a well ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 14
  December 11, 2013 at 12:42pm In June 1952, half way through my first year at Unley High School, and during my school holidays, my father and mother took me to Pinnaroo ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 15
  December 12, 2013 at 9:20pm Unley High School had established a brother/sister relationship with Melbourne’s University High School and each year the two High Schools would exchange sports teams to compete ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 18 – 19550622
    March 15, 2014 at 10:08pm The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 18 – 19550622 By the middle of the 1955 year and into the second term, the pace ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 19 – 19550731
  The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 19 – 19550731 March 17, 2014 at 9:27am Towards the end of my second term at UHS, Dad’s business was going through ...
• Chapter 20 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – 19550823
  March 17, 2014 at 5:01pm Chapter 20 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – 19550823 My inability to understand any subject that required a knowledge of Maths was so ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 21 – 19550910
  March 18, 2014 at 7:16pm   The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 21 – 19550910 My brother Charles had gone to Sydney to live and while he was there ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 22 – 1955
  December 14, 2013 at 9:16am   The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 22 – 1955 There were two great things about Unley High School. The first was its emphasis ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 25 – 19560320
  The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 25 – 19560320 January 1, 2014 at 12:27pm On our way home from Sydney with Beth and Nancy on board, on 20th ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 26 – 1956 -1957
  January 23, 2014 at 7:51pm The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 26 – 1956 -1957  This is how Jeff Berry came into my world and into my life. James ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 27 – 19570902
  February 1, 2014 at 6:51pm On the 2nd day of September, 1957 I commenced a new diary. I had found that the red one with the gold lock was too small ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 28 – 19570216 – My brother Maynard’s Wedding
  February 3, 2014 at 9:33am My brother Maynard’s wedding was quite an event in our family’s life. He was the first to marry, although my brother Charles would marry pretty soon ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 29 – 19570128
  February 8, 2014 at 8:53am My first job was as the Personal Assistant to the Assistant Advertising Manager of News Limited –   1957 In 1956, Pride’s Business College were approached by ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 30 – 19570410
  February 10, 2014 at 9:40pm The 1957 Youth Conference was the high light of my year.  It was a wonderful experience for me and it came right at the time I ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 16 – 19550426
  March 12, 2014 at 5:42pm . The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 16 – 19550426 March 12, 2014 at 5:42pm The exchange of students between Unley High School and University ...
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 3- 1960-1980 ter 3 – 1963+
  The Blacksmith’s  Daughter – Chapter 3
• The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 © by Fay Berry – Chapter 3
  THE BLACKSMITH’S DAUGHTER – VOL 1 – CHAPTER 3
• 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 ...
• Fay Berry’s Story – Chapter 14 – Aunty Connie Candy – my mother’s dear sister
  November 1, 2011 at 4:01pm My Dearest Aunty, yesterday I sat at your bedside with my Aunty Ronda Critchley your sister and her daughter Kathy Billings and I looked at your ...
• Fay Berry’s Story – Chapter 12 – My dear Dad, Maynard O’Connor Snr’s story – , Part 2
  August 26, 2011 at 11:45am Maynard’s Dad could turn his hand to any work.  He established an ice making plant with the Pinnaroo Hotel, the candle and soap factory and at ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Chapter 14 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter Vol 2 = 1975
  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 ...