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| 2. Edgar **Sterling** (16 May 1911 - --- 2010((SMH death notice, 25 February 2010.))) \\ | 2. Edgar **Sterling** (16 May 1911 - --- 2010((SMH death notice, 25 February 2010.))) \\ |
| He never forgave his parents for their choice of his given names, but chose to be known Sterling as the lesser of two evils. He attended [[http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au|Sydney Grammar]] until he was around 15, when his father found him work at the Perpetual Trustee Company. He was later to deprecate his schooling as being so hidebound with its stress on unthinking obedience (such as the poems [[wp>Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade|The Charge of the Light Brigade]] and [[wp>Casabianca_(poem)]]). He was, however, good at mathematics with a prize to show for it in 1924 when he was 13 years old. That talent would stand him in good stead not only in his work, but as honorary treasurer of the Bellingen RSL Club in his later life.((the mathematics prize was a book, //The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World// by Edward Creasy - inevitably, as with other book prizes, it appears largely unread.)) He was a keen member of the Mona Vale Surf Life saving Club and a good amateur boxer.\\ | He never forgave his parents for their choice of his given names, but chose to be known Sterling as the lesser of two evils. He attended [[http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au|Sydney Grammar]] until he was around 15, when his father found him work at the Perpetual Trustee Company. He was later to deprecate his schooling as being so hidebound with its stress on unthinking obedience (such as the poems [[wp>Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade|The Charge of the Light Brigade]] and [[wp>Casabianca_(poem)]]). He was, however, good at mathematics with a prize to show for it in 1924 when he was 13 years old. That talent would stand him in good stead not only in his work, but as honorary treasurer of the Bellingen RSL Club in his later life.((the mathematics prize was a book, //The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World// by Edward Creasy - inevitably, as with other book prizes, it appears largely unread.)) He was a keen sportsman, a member of the Mona Vale Surf Life saving Club and a good amateur boxer. A photo in the Ryde Library of the 1932 Hunters Hill Rugby team describes him (middle row, second from left) as its Honorary secretary. To see click [[http://library.ryde.nsw.gov.au/lsphotos/350245.jpg|rugby]].\\ |
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| He married Brenda Isabel Pottie (15 July 1914-18 July 2008((SMH death notice, 23 July 2008.)) at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church on 29 November 1938. Brenda (known also as Isabel and Isa) had grown up at Waverley, attending the once-progressive school Shirley then, for her final year/s, SCEGGS. Before her marriage, she lived with her mother at 6 Viret Street, Hunters Hill. Brenda's father Herbert (Bert), a vet, had died when she was a toddler. He left his widow Ethel (known by her second name, Brenda) with five young children (Brenda and her four older brothers). Bert's father John Pottie had established the veterinary practice and published two books on the care of horses, then the mainstay of veterinary practices.((http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pottie-john-4409)) Bert's mother Eliza Pottie was a Quaker, temperance advocate and highly active philanthropist who took a leading role in the fight for women's suffrage.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pottie-eliza-13155}})) Brenda's mother found it difficult to adjust to the financial implications of her husband's death, and continued with much the same style of living. After the younger Brenda left school, she became a highly skilled typist in the NSW Tax Office [check].\\ | He married Brenda Isabel Pottie (15 July 1914-18 July 2008((SMH death notice, 23 July 2008.)) at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church on 29 November 1938. Brenda (known also as Isabel and Isa) had grown up at Waverley, attending the once-progressive school Shirley then, for her final year/s, SCEGGS. Before her marriage, she lived with her mother at 6 Viret Street, Hunters Hill. Brenda's father Herbert (Bert), a vet, had died when she was a toddler. He left his widow Ethel (known by her second name, Brenda) with five young children (Brenda and her four older brothers). Bert's father John Pottie had established the veterinary practice and published two books on the care of horses, then the mainstay of veterinary practices.((http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pottie-john-4409)) Bert's mother Eliza Pottie was a Quaker, temperance advocate and highly active philanthropist who took a leading role in the fight for women's suffrage.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pottie-eliza-13155}})) Brenda's mother found it difficult to adjust to the financial implications of her husband's death, and continued with much the same style of living. After the younger Brenda left school, she became a highly skilled typist in the NSW Tax Office [check].\\ |
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| Brenda and Sterling benefited from family legacies as well as the local area being transformed by 'tree-changers' and the Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM, now Amcor). After they sold the farm, the local creek made into a dam, with the land apparently used as a hobby farm, the area looks idyllic and, to those who grew up there, unrecognisable. Brenda and Sterling enjoyed a comfortable retirement at 5 Hawea Close,[[wp>Wamberal,_New_South_Wales|Wamberal]] on the NSW Central Coast. Molly and John Wilson later moved to Wamberal in their retirement as well.\\ | Brenda and Sterling benefited from family legacies as well as the local area being transformed by 'tree-changers' and the Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM, now Amcor). After they sold the farm, the local creek made into a dam, with the land apparently used as a hobby farm, the area looks idyllic and, to those who grew up there, unrecognisable. Brenda and Sterling enjoyed a comfortable retirement at 5 Hawea Close,[[wp>Wamberal,_New_South_Wales|Wamberal]] on the NSW Central Coast. Molly and John Wilson later moved to Wamberal in their retirement as well.\\ |
| Sterling and Brenda M-P celebrating their 50th? wedding anniversary.((Provenance: J. Godden.)). {{:sterling_and_brenda_668_.jpg?300|}} | Sterling and Brenda M-P celebrating their 50th? wedding anniversary.((Provenance: J. Godden.)). {{:sterling_and_brenda_668_.jpg?250|}} |
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| 3. **Phyllis** Dorothea (1914---) was artistic, vivacious and, like so many of her era and her elder sister, retained the socially conservative views of her youth. She married grazier Alan Robert Cullen-Ward on 23 February 1935. He had a property 'Mani' at Cumnock, NSW as well as a house at [[wp>Drummoyne,_New_South_Wales|Drummoyne]] in Sydney. She had 2 sons and 3 daughters including [[wp>Susan_of_Albania|Susan]] who married (secondly) [[wp>Leka_I,_Crown_Prince_of_Albania|King Leka of the Albanians]].\\ | 3. **Phyllis** Dorothea (1914---) was artistic, vivacious and, like so many of her era and her elder sister, retained the socially conservative views of her youth. She married grazier Alan Robert Cullen-Ward on 23 February 1935. He had a property 'Mani' at Cumnock, NSW as well as a house at [[wp>Drummoyne,_New_South_Wales|Drummoyne]] in Sydney. She had 2 sons and 3 daughters including [[wp>Susan_of_Albania|Susan]] who married (secondly) [[wp>Leka_I,_Crown_Prince_of_Albania|King Leka of the Albanians]].\\ |