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 . 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 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 on left) as its Honorary secretary. To see click [[http://library.ryde.nsw.gov.au/lsphotos/350245.jpg|rugby]].\\
+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].\\
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 Sterling and Brenda M-P celebrating their 50th? wedding anniversary.((Provenance: J. Godden.)). {{:sterling_and_brenda_668_.jpg?250|}}
-. **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]].\\
+. **Phyllis** Dorothea (1913 ---) was born at home, at Cooroora in Hunters Hill.(( //The Sydney Morning Herald//, 16 December 1913, p.8.)) She 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. They had two sons and three daughters including [[wp>Susan_of_Albania|Susan]] who married (secondly) [[wp>Leka_I,_Crown_Prince_of_Albania|King Leka of the Albanians]].\\
-. Evan **David** (1916((Birth registration no. 35738/1916))- March 1981). He married Hilary Lorraine Piper (31 July 1916- 23 June 2014) and bought a farm in the Hunter Valley of NSW {?]; the farm was sold after they divorced. They had two daughters. One daughter Beverley Joan (known as Joan) was [occupation?] and later in life struggled with  deafness; she married --- Black and lived in Tasmania. 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. 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'.\\
+. Evan **David** (1916((Birth registration no. 35738/1916))- March 1981). With his parents' help, he bought a farm at Wyong ((Late ESM-P. pers. comm; //SMH//, 15 October 1938, p.10)) and married Hilary Lorraine Piper (31 July 1916- 23 June 2014); the farm was sold after they divorced. They had two daughters. One daughter Beverley Joan (known as Joan) was [occupation?] and later in life struggled with  deafness; she married --- Black and lived in Tasmania. 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. 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'.\\
-Three photos of David((Provenance: E.S.M-P to J. Godden)): The latter two were taken at Brecondale, his (Herring) grandparents' home at Gladesville in Sydney. {{:david_m-p.jpg?200|}} {{:david_mp_two.jpg?300|}}
+Three photos of David((Provenance: J. Godden)): The latter two were taken at Brecondale, his (Herring) grandparents' home at Gladesville in Sydney. {{:david_m-p.jpg?200|}} {{:david_mp_two.jpg?300|}}
 . Sylvia Mary (**Molly**) (1919-2007((Ryde Weekly Times, death notice, 12 December 2007))) joined the WRANs (Women's Royal Air Force) in 1942, during World War II. The following photo((Provenance: Australian War Memorial)) was taken c.1939 when she was a member of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp, which trained signallers and telephonists.{{https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/P01262.020/screen/3976562.JPG}} Molly's service record reveals that she was 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)) On 23 September 1950, she married John Alexander Wilson who co-owned (with his sister) a property at Norway, via Oberon. They had 1 daughter and 2 sons.\\