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| ====== Robert and Estella (Stella) M-P's children ====== | ====== Robert and Estella (Stella) M-P's children ====== |
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| Like his sister Eileen Hickson, Robert M-P had five children. They ate shown here (with a friend) in the garden of their childhood home at 1 Yerton Avenue, Hunters Hill: (back from left): David; (friend Phyllis Rolfe); Nora with Molly on her lap; front: Sterling, Phyllis: {{:dad_friend_and_siblings_enhance.jpg?400|}}\\ | Like his sister Eileen Hickson, Robert M-P had five children. They ate shown here (with a friend) in the garden of their childhood home at 1 Yerton Avenue, Hunters Hill: (back from left): David; (friend Phyllis Rolfe); Nora with Molly on her lap; front: Sterling, Phyllis: {{:dad_friend_and_siblings_enhance.jpg?400|}}\\ |
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| 1. **Nora** Estella (1909((NSW birth registration 14986)) - 1984((SMH death notice, 5 May 1984))) Like her sisters, she went to school at {{https://www.sceggs.nsw.edu.au|SCEGGS}}. She was active in youth groups including the Crusaders and the Brownies, the latter as a member and, when adult, leader. She trained in midwifery at Royal North Shore Hospital, graduating in 1937.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 17 December 1937, p.19.)) She worked at the War Memorial Hospital in Cas%%i%%no from September 1938 to March 1940. She later nursed in the south-west town of Young as she is remembered as the midwife for a birth there in 1940.((Don Seton Wilkinson email to J. Godden, 24 June 2019.)) By 1944, she was employed as a nursing Sister by the __ BROKEN-LINK:[[https://www.royalfarwest.org.au/|Royal Far West Society]]LINK-BROKEN__, with her headquarters at Inverell.((Royal Far West Childrens Scheme, //Annual Report//, 1944)) The work involved much travelling around the local area. For more, click on [[**nursing with Royal Far West**]].\\ | 1. **Nora** Estella (1909((NSW birth registration 14986)) - 1984((SMH death notice, 5 May 1984))) Like her sisters, she went to school at {{https://www.sceggs.nsw.edu.au|SCEGGS}}. She was active in youth groups including the Crusaders and the Brownies, the latter as a member and, when adult, leader. She trained in midwifery at Royal North Shore Hospital, graduating in 1937.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 17 December 1937, p.19.)) She worked at the War Memorial Hospital in Cas%%i%%no from September 1938 to March 1940. She later nursed in the south-west town of Young as she is remembered as the midwife for a birth there in 1940.((Don Seton Wilkinson email to J. Godden, 24 June 2019.)) By 1944, she was employed as a nursing Sister by the __ BROKEN-LINK:[[https://www.royalfarwest.org.au/|Royal Far West Society]]LINK-BROKEN__, with her headquarters at Inverell.((Royal Far West Children's Scheme, //Annual Report//, 1944)) The work involved much travelling around the local area. For more, click on [[**nursing with Royal Far West**]].\\ |
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| Nora kept up her connection to Young, as she left the Royal Far West Children's Scheme early in 1949 to marry((Royal Far West Childrens Scheme, //Annual Report//, 1949)) widower Lawrence Ashley Frederick Boyd (known as Ashley). He had a sheep/wheat property, Eldorado, near [[wp>Young,_New_South_Wales|Young, NSW]]. Ashley had two daughters (one adopted) by his first marriage, but had no children with Nora. My (Judith Godden) recollection of her is someone who could be very kind but also very tactless, while her extensive travelling in later life did not change her narrow view of the world.\\ | Nora kept up her connection to Young, as she left the Royal Far West Children's Scheme early in 1949 to marry((Royal Far West Childrens Scheme, //Annual Report//, 1949)) widower Lawrence Ashley Frederick Boyd (known as Ashley). He had a sheep/wheat property, Eldorado, near [[wp>Young,_New_South_Wales|Young, NSW]]. Ashley had two daughters (one adopted) by his first marriage, but had no children with Nora. My (Judith Godden) recollection of her is someone who could be very kind but also very tactless, while her extensive travelling in later life did not change her narrow view of the world.\\ |
| Sterling and Brenda M-P celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) {{:sterling_and_brenda_668_.jpg?200|}}\\ | Sterling and Brenda M-P celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) {{:sterling_and_brenda_668_.jpg?200|}}\\ |
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| For more photos of Brenda & Sterling click [[S&B]].\\ For Sterling's eulogy, click [[eulogy]] | For more photos of Brenda & Sterling click [[S&B]].\\ For Sterling's eulogy, click [[eulogy]]\\ |
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| 3. **Phyllis** (Phyl) Dorothea (14 December 1913-10 March 2003) was born at home, at //Cooroora// in Hunters Hill.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 16 December 1913, p.8.)) | 3. **Phyllis** (Phyl) Dorothea (14 December 1913-10 March 2003) was born at home, at //Cooroora// in Hunters Hill.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 16 December 1913, p.8.)) |
| Phyllis flanked by her siblings Molly and David on steps of their home 1 yerton Avenue, Hunters Hill.((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)){{:fr_left_molly_phyllis_david_on_step_of_1_yerton_ave_going_to_sunday_school.jpg?300}} Young Phyllis ((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)). {{:phyllis_scan_20241019.jpg?300|}} \\ | Phyllis flanked by her siblings Molly and David on steps of their home 1 yerton Avenue, Hunters Hill.((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)){{:fr_left_molly_phyllis_david_on_step_of_1_yerton_ave_going_to_sunday_school.jpg?300|}}\\ Young Phyllis ((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)) {{:phyllis_scan_20241019.jpg?200|}} |
| Phyl was artistic and employed as a commercial artist. She was vivacious and outgoing. She married grazier Alan Robert Cullen-Ward (1910-85) on 23 February 1935((BDM Registration: 3529/1935)). Phyl on her wedding day with an unidentified bridesmaid (left) and her sister Molly (right).((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)). {{:think_aunt_phyl_wedding_aunt_molly_on_right_enhanced_scan_20250115.jpg?300|}}\\ | Phyl was artistic and employed as a commercial artist. As the next photo reveals, she was vivacious and outgoing. She married grazier Alan Robert Cullen-Ward (1910-85) on 23 February 1935((BDM Registration: 3529/1935)). Phyl on her wedding day with an unidentified bridesmaid (left) and her sister Molly (right).((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)){{:think_aunt_phyl_wedding_aunt_molly_on_right_enhanced_scan_20250115.jpg?300|}}\\ |
| In this photo, Phyl is the bridesmaid second from right.((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)) {{:scan_20250115_3_.jpg?300|}} | In this photo, Phyl appears to be the bridesmaid second from right.((courtesy Fiona Cullen-Ward)){{:scan_20250115_3_.jpg?300|}} \\ |
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| Alan and Phyl lived on his property 'Mani' at Cumnock, NSW as well as a house at 70 Wrights Road, Drummoyne in Sydney. The house and land was later sold and a block of flats built on the site . They lived in one of the flats, 7/70 Wrights Road [[wp>Drummoyne,_New_South_Wales|Drummoyne]]. Her final years were spent in a retirement home in Buderim, Queensland. She was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, Ryde, Sydney. For their five children, see the private version of this website.\\ | Alan and Phyl lived on his property 'Mani' at Cumnock, NSW as well as a house at 70 Wrights Road, Drummoyne in Sydney. The house and land was later sold and a block of flats built on the site . They lived in one of the flats, 7/70 Wrights Road [[wp>Drummoyne,_New_South_Wales|Drummoyne]]. Her final years were spent in a retirement home in Buderim, Queensland. She was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, Ryde, Sydney. \\ |
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| {{:1951_phyl_medium.jpg?200|}} Phyl in 1951.\\ | {{:1951_phyl_medium.jpg?200|}} Phyl in 1951.\\ |
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| 4. Evan **David** (1916((Birth registration no. 35738/1916))- March 1981). His brother understood that David went to school at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_House_School|Tudor House]] as a boarder, then to Sydney Grammar. He also thought David attended Wagga Agricultural College, though that institution did not start until 1949. With his parents' help, David bought a farm at Wyong which was later sold.((Late ESM-P. pers. comm.)) In 1938, David married Hilary Lorraine Piper (31 July 1916- 23 June 2014)((//SMH//, 15 October 1938, p.10)); they divorced in 1965. They had two daughters. In later life, David shared a house with his mother at Hunters Hill until she died. In his final years he was reclusive; in contrast Hilary remained a 'people person'.\\ | Phyl and Alan had five children: a daughter b. 22 January 1936; Malcolm David (27 October 1937-March 2020;he married Sandra (Sandy) and had two daughters); Susan Barbara b. 28 January 1941 (see next generation for details); a son b.30 December 1942; and a daughter b.7 August 1944. |
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| | 4. Evan **David** (1916((Birth registration no. 35738/1916))- March 1981). His brother understood that David went to school at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_House_School|Tudor House]] as a boarder, then to Sydney Grammar. He also thought David attended Wagga Agricultural College, though that institution did not start until 1949. With his parents' help, David bought a farm at Wyong which was later sold.((Late ESM-P. pers. comm.)) In 1938, David married Hilary Lorraine Piper (31 July 1916- 23 June 2014)((//SMH//, 15 October 1938, p.10)); they divorced in 1965. In his old age, David shared a house with his mother at Hunters Hill until she died. In his final years he was reclusive; in contrast Hilary remained a 'people person'.\\ |
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| | David and Hilary M-P had two daughters. Beverley Joan (known as Joan) was [occupation?] and later in life struggled with deafness; she married --- Black and lived in Hobart. David and Hilary's other daughter became a highly respected midwife at King George V Hospital and, in retirement, an Anglican chaplain at St George Hospital. \\ |
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| One story by his brother Sterling was, that when David was a baby he was shown to his maternal grandmother (Caroline Herring nee Delange) who was grieving the death of her son Edward Edgar (Jack) Herring at Gallipoli on 9 August 1915. He reached out for her (was she wearing some of the shiny jet jewellery which was worn when mourning and passed down the family?) and she was convinced that he was her son reincarnated. She consequently lavished affection and money on him, much to the resentment of his siblings at the time.((ESM-P. pers. comm))\\ | One story by his brother Sterling was, that when David was a baby he was shown to his maternal grandmother (Caroline Herring nee Delange) who was grieving the death of her son Edward Edgar (Jack) Herring at Gallipoli on 9 August 1915. He reached out for her (was she wearing some of the shiny jet jewellery which was worn when mourning and passed down the family?) and she was convinced that he was her son reincarnated. She consequently lavished affection and money on him, much to the resentment of his siblings at the time.((ESM-P. pers. comm))\\ |
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| Photos of young David((Provenance: J. Godden)): The first images is of a photo-postcard with its light-hearted message on the back ("To Grandmother from Evan David. It is no use looking back & remembering that any of your children were sweeter than this baby, his parents couldn't believe it."){{:postcard_photot_reverse_to_grandma_from_ed.jpg?400|}}{{:spostcard_photo_of_evan_david.jpg?200|}}. | Photos of young David((Provenance: J. Godden)): The first images is of a photo-postcard with its light-hearted message on the back ("To Grandmother from Evan David. It is no use looking back & remembering that any of your children were sweeter than this baby, his parents couldn't believe it."){{:postcard_photot_reverse_to_grandma_from_ed.jpg?400|}}{{:spostcard_photo_of_evan_david.jpg?200|}}. |
| The latter ones were taken at Brecondale, his (Herring) grandparents' home at Gladesville in Sydney.{{:david_m-p.jpg?200|}} {{:david_mp_two.jpg?300|}} | The latter ones were taken at Brecondale, his (Herring) grandparents' home at Gladesville in Sydney.{{:david_m-p.jpg?200|}} {{:david_mp_two.jpg?300|}} \\ |
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| 5. Sylvia Mary (**Molly**) (1919-2007((Death notice in //Ryde Weekly Times//, 12 December 2007 & Sydney Morning Herald, 5 December 2007.)) This photo of Molly was taken c.1939, either when World War II was imminent or had just begun.((Provenance: Australian War Memorial)) She is shown in the uniform of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp, a voluntary organisation which trained women to be signallers and telephonists.((Margaret Kentley, Historical Notes, re ... Women's Emergency Signalling Corps 1939-41, MLDOC 3404)) {{:molly_cropped.jpg?300|}}Molly consequently joined the the WRANs (Women's Royal Air Force) in 1942 as a 'telegraphist'.((https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4530612&S=1&N=2&R=0#/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=4530612&T=P&S=1)) The family understands that Molly did highly secret work intercepting Japanese morse code signals.((J. Gatt, pers. Comm.)) {{:aunt_molly20241019_103704.jpg?300|}}((Provenance J. Gatt))\\ | 5. Sylvia Mary (**Molly**) (1919-2007((Death notice in //Ryde Weekly Times//, 12 December 2007 & Sydney Morning Herald, 5 December 2007.))\\ |
| | A photo of young Molly ((courtesy F. & E. Cullen-Ward)):{{:says_molly_on_the_back_scan_20241019_2_.jpg?300|}}\\ |
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| | This photo of Molly was taken c.1939, either when World War II was imminent or had just begun.((Provenance: Australian War Memorial)) She is shown in the uniform of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp, a voluntary organisation which trained women to be signallers and telephonists.((Margaret Kentley, Historical Notes, re ... Women's Emergency Signalling Corps 1939-41, MLDOC 3404)) {{:molly_cropped.jpg?300|}}Molly consequently joined the the WRANs (Women's Royal Air Force) in 1942 as a 'telegraphist'.((https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4530612&S=1&N=2&R=0#/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=4530612&T=P&S=1)) The family understands that Molly did highly secret work intercepting Japanese morse code signals.((J. Gatt, pers. Comm.))\\ |
| | \\ This photo of Molly during the war was taken by photographer Julia Leslie who had a Sydney studio between 1941-46.((https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22570020; Provenance F. & E. Cullen-Ward)) {{:molly_scan_20241019.jpg?300|}}\\ |
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| On 23 September 1950, she married John Alexander Wilson who owned,with his sister J. Marion Wilson, a property at Norway, via Oberon. They had 1 daughter and 2 sons. Molly and John retired to Wamberal; after John's death Molly moved to a retirement home in Lindfield.\\ | On 23 September 1950, Molly married John Alexander Wilson who owned, with his sister J. Marion Wilson, a property at Norway, via Oberon. They had 1 daughter and 2 sons. Molly and John retired to Wamberal; after John's death Molly moved to a retirement home in Lindfield.\\ |
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| References:((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.18; Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d., p.15.)) | References:((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, p.18; Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d., p.15.)) |