Eli Abraham LOVELOCK / Emma Jane FRY

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[243] THIS IS A COPY OF A LETTER WRITTEN TO ELI ABRAHAM LOVELOCK IN NEW ZEALAND
FROM HIS FATHER GEORGE LOVELOCK IN AUSTRALIA.

Lockview
Fryanpan
March 15 1931

Well my dear son Eli just a fue lines to let you no that I ham farely
well and I hope this finds you and Jiny and my darling gran children al
well and to let you no that I recived your ever welcom letter before Xms
that your were all well that time. Well my dear son I got the paper you
sent me Xms time al so the paper you sent me since that horble earth
quake in napier. It was very tring to read about my dear Eli it his a bad
country to be in I wish you were out of that as people says that it wil
go under sooner or later so I think you aut to shift al your darlings out
of that shivery country and come home again to you can git a living
hear as wel as the rest of the people. Every one els seems to git a
living here so I think you can. I will be pleas I hear of you coming
back again I hope it will be soon so as I might see you and dear Jinny
and my dearest grand children give my love to them. Everyone of them and
Jinney also. I would like Jinny to drop me a line som times tel dear
philles and Norman I got ther letters thy wrot to me a good wile ago I
was pleased to hear from them I cant think of al there names how is that
little dears leg that was so sore I hope its better I used paint killer
and cast oil on mine wen it was so bad you no my son I had a bad leg fore
30 years now it is al write I nealy lost my leg 8 years ago now it better
than ever it was that is al I usedon it Wel my darling son I was in
Adaminaby last weak I sore Clara an Charlot they were all well Cora and
and maks is 3 nice little children I had a letter from dear Hilda a
fue days before I whent in and she said she had a letter from you just
before she closed it down she sed yous were all well over their I wrote
to her last Thursday all so one to dear Elsie Bel the same day wel my son
I haven't any news to tell you so I think I will bring this short note to
a close for this time trusting to hear from you soon again so tatar my
son whit heaps of love from your loving farther with x x x x x x x x x x
x x x for all
Bob and Jack wishes to be remembered to you they are well Wel my son this
is a little I forgot to tell you Hilda and sharlot is not much like your
dear mother I think Hilda was 21 on the fifteen of Janury last She sent a
bit of her birthday cak it was very nice Wel my son I have forgot wen
yor birthday his also yor age I ham 67 last Xms I feel more then that I
lost al my dear sisters ther is only uncle Abe and Jack Tedy and James
and my slef left now Cant say any more now I hope you wil be able to read
this I cant spell very well tatar
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COPY OF LETTER NO 2 FROM GEORGE LOVELOCK
Lockview
Thursday November 28 1934

Wel my darling son Eli I thought I would drop you a line again as this
will bee three times I have wrote to you but got no answer from you I
hope I wil git a answer to this one Wel my son I hope this finds you and
Jiney and al my darlings real wel as it leaves me farly wel I got a paper
from you on satday and thank you very much fore it I git one evry month
from you that tells me al the new from over there but that is not al I
want to hear from yous al some times as it is to meny miles away to come
to see yous al I would like to see yous very much I would like to see
dear Norman and al his darling sisters I think I must them a letter
so I mist write one to them some time I no they would like to hear from
me some times wel Eli I had a good trip to Bathurst wit Syrill and Elsie
we went over the Blue mountins to Sydney and seen Hilda She was real wel
she said she was coming home about Easter I think she is going to be
married then to vinson haywood at Adaminaby I think its time she made a
start in life now she soon wil be twenty 5 on the 15 of January wel my
dear son I had a good trip wit Elsie and Syrill and there dear little
baby Marlean She is a nice little dear the trip did her good we had a
good time in Bathurst wit Syrills people as they are so nice and treated
us so good wile we weare there we was away 16 days there was great flowds
over there and great damidge was don to crops wel Eli dear it was hot
hear yesday but today is very cold I think it wil snow today Big rain
last nite and fryanpan crick is in flood we have had a lot of rain this
year and everyweare looks well grass from 2 to 3 feet hie I nevere sore
the like for fifty years Wel my son I came back last Sunday wit Syrill an
Elsie We went to Adaminaby sore Clarer and al was wel Ever was wel when I
left Cooma I sore her wel my son I think I wil ring of fore this time
Wishing you and Jinnie and al you darlings a happy Christmas and brite
new year when it comes so I wil close wit fond Love from yor Loving
father x x x x x x x x
Kiss Jinnie and al my dears fore me x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
I think I will go to Cooma fore Christmas if can
I hope you can read this as I cant spel very wel
pleas write soon to me tat tar to Hal
this is a spot of my blood just there
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COPY OF LETTER NO 3
Fryanpan
Cooma road
Sunday April 19

My darling son wel Eli I received your nise lett you wrote to me on the
10 of December and was so pleased to hear thar you and Jinnie and al my
darlings were real wel and I hops this finds your al real wel as it
leaves me wel I received the present you sent to me and it was very nice
I liked it real wel and thank you very much fore it my dear son I would
have wrot to you before only Elsie had a letter from Jinnie and she read
you were al wel and she read it to me and she showed me the nice little
snap of al my darlings over there I also sore the ones Jinnie sent to
Clarer a ful day back I saw dear Clarer yesday She was OK and al the rest
I sore Ever and Jim thy came up to the show on Friday thy were OK I
dident see Chrlot she was in Cooma fore a fine day wit Elsie thy are al
wel there Clarer told me you had a blood poison finger my dear son I
do hope its al rite by this time I went to the show on Friday it wasent
to bad but it was aful cold but yasday and to day is real nice again only
there was a frost this morning fore the first one this year we have had a
lot of rain since nnews day and flood every were and the grass is great
and stil green I went to Victoria wit Elsie and syrill we had a long trip
about 7 hundred miles I dident enjoy it on count of poor Elsie been sick
al the way but we were lucky we get home before the flood we got back on
new years day so we saw the flood in Cooma it don good lot of damage in
Cooma to crops in fencing and it cleaned al the bridges away from the
creeks it got in one store and one Bakes shop so you see it was a swift
flood Eli wasent it wel you ask me if george Mackey was ded he as been
ded 5 years I think hes wife died about a month ago old sam was 91 when
he died wel my son its very lonely hear on my hone I haven't heard how
poor John is giting on have you seen anything of over in that part
I don't know were went to I think he must went over there well my son
Clarer had a letter from Hilder a ful days ago she was OK she is stil in
Sydney I wrote to her Fue days ago well my dear son I think I have told
al the new I can think of for this time so I wilclos for this time witt a
train load of Love to you and Jinnie and my darlings Everyone kiss them
al fore me I would like to see them al so I wil say a fond good by to
yous al x x x x x x x x x x x x x I hope you can read this as I cant
spel very well
I got to papers from you send new year I was pleased of them to please
write again soon
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[244] School Admission Records:-
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School Ardmore
Register No 93
Admission Date August 6, 1923
Last School Nil
Last Day September 28, 1923
Destination Clevedon

School Clevedon
Register No 1037
Admission Date October 1, 1923
Last School Ardmore
Last Day
Destination

Missing

School Wairoa South
Register No 0264
Admission Date July 11, 1927
Last School Clevedon
Last Day
Destination Clevedon

School Clevedon
Register No
Admission Date
Last School
Last Day December 3, 1930
Destination Home

[264] 1-8-1970
Hocking Wing
Ward 18
Room 3

Dear Mary,
Just a line hoping you are well and had a good trip home on
Sunday , and to say I am feeling mutsh better now and getting around a
little. I feel well and eating well so I and hoping to be home soon again
and to see you all. How is Phyls cold. I hope she is better. I am
dropping her a line too so look after yourself dear and don't work too
hard. I send my fondest love to my dear daughter and all hope to see you
all soon
love from Dad x x x x
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Hocking Wing Ward 18
Waikato Hospital
7/9/1970

Dear Mary,
How are you dear. I hope well. I am keeping fairly good at
present and the last few days and nights I have felt very well. The Dr
has just been around and gave me a good report and if I keep progressing
as I am I can go home on Friday so I have just written to Doreen and
Norman to make arrangements to get me home, so hope to see you all soon
and I know that you and Phyl will look after me for a while.
Love to all from Dad x x x
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COPY OF NOTES WRITTEN BY MARY WALTON.

20 Feb, 2000 Aussie till 1923

Glen Moan Station. 1921 & before.
What I can remember about Australia is that we loved what was then, the
back blocks or outback. We lived on Glen Moan Station. The main house was
a big house and the one we lived in was big too with verandas. The toilet
or dunny was a backdrop outside, it had one seat for adults and one for
children with a big pit underneath. Us children had to wear large shady
hats for the sun, high button up boots for keeping prickles out of our
feet and to keep snakes off. We were always wary of snakes, but remember
seeing a big iguana crawling along the inside passage well in the house.
We had to keep away until it decided to go outside. We also had to keep
watch on a pet ram which often decided to pounce on us children.
Those days there was no car on the station and most of our travels were
by horse and gig. When mum was expecting babies we had to go into town to
await the birth and then dad would bring her home in the horse and gig.
Those days heavy work was done by bullock teams consisting of a dozen or
two of bullocks, the number depending on the size of the workload. They
were always driven by 2 or 3 men with whips and loud voices. A 20 ton
boiler was pulled through Adaminaby, (then only 2 or 3 shops and muddy
roads) and it was pulled by 80 bullocks, 2 rows hitched together by two.
I can remember when we had a mice plague (very nasty). Young children had
to be protected day and night as the mice would chew hair, noses, ears,
anything that wasn't covered. They were everywhere, and in everything.
The men used to catch what they could by u filling a 44 gal. Drum with
water and putting a stick across it with a fatty greasy tin in the middle
and as the mice crawled up the ramp to the drum they would jump on to the
tin for the fat and as soon as they got into the tin it rolled them into
the water and they couldn't get out of the drum and drowned.
I picked up a mouse one day by the tail and I can still remember the bite
it gave me under my thumb nail.
They spent their time on our station and travelled on through the
country. This was in the year 1920-1921-1922 (can't remember which) but
it still happens to this day.
Our family shifted from the station to Willow Tree in early 1922 where
dad bought a blacksmith's business, where there was a pet snake under the
floorboards of the office. A large one it was and while there we saw
snakes and frilled neck lizards which were fascinating while running.
Watching while the horses got shod and also the making of tools,
cartwheels, steel gates etc. the forge was very hot.
We never saw any of our relations over in Australia when we were children.
What I can remember of hospitals over there was my brother and I were
hospitalised when I was about 4 and Norman was 3. We were put in the men
ward, one large room with lots of beds (like N.Z. was at that time) we
were bathed in a tub on top of the bed in front of all those men and I
felt very embarrassed, the men were very kind to us and gave us a tobacco
tin each and they all put pennies in it for us and we carried them
everywhere till Mum and Dad were saying goodbye and taking us home and
then the matron took our tins of pennies off us which we couldn't
understand and were very disappointed.
We also visited a beach, Woy Woy which we enjoyed. Not many people those
days.
We were in Willow Tree for about 18 months and our parents decided that
it was time they got us somewhere for schooling, and Chum's sister asked
Mum and Dad to come to N.Z. so we set sail to N.Z, in July 1923. Sydney
was so different to country.
1923 onwards.
Was last horse drawn trams run in Melbourne, construction began on Sydney
Harbour Bridge, regular broadcasting begins, waists on woman's dresses
ascend to hips, and so on.
The trip on the boat "Manuka" was fun for us kids climbing on berths and
things to look out the portholes till we were caught and talked too.
Coming into N.Z. waters everyone was on the deck talking about seeing the
hen and chickens. I couldn't see any hen and chickens, but it turned out
to be the islands people were excited about. We were still wearing our
boots and they were hard to button up and sometimes I was panicked I was
going to be left behind on leaving the ship. My first view of Auckland
wasn't very impressive, cobbled streets etc. Our first home in N.Z. was
at Ardmore where at Papakura there was mud footpaths and roads and not
many cars, mostly horses and gigs etc. We moved to Clevedon and us three
older children Phyll, Norman and I started school for the first time. We
had about three shifts between Clevedon and Ardmore, but all our
schooling was at Clevedon. Walking to school we saw the first electricity
poles being put up for power to Clevedon. Our days going to school, we
walked, rode a horse and biked and had about 3 miles to go at times.
In my early teens Dad bought 3 cows and we kept them in a paddock, beside
the house we were living in, at night and during the day they ran on the
long acre. And we spent many a long hard ride on our bikes to find them
and bring them home to be milked by hand, after school.
While there we got our horse and gig which was our way of going to church
and then on to the beach on Sundays and also visiting our Aunt and Uncle
and cousins at Brookby. We had a lot of fun while at Clevedon. Mum's
sister Stella (Aunty Nance?) come to our place to have her 3 children and
Dad had to drive the horse and gig to Papakura to get the Dr. each time
and take him home again.
We progressed to getting our first motor vehicle, a Model T Ford, and it
was a lot of fun. We used to go to Otahuhu once a week to do our shopping
at the self-help shop.
Dad used to have kidney and heart trouble, so when we had all left school
he asked us if we would be willing to help him and go sharemilking, which
we did. Our first move was to Glen Murray where we stayed one season and
then went sharemilking at Hoe-0-Tainui and from then on the family
started going our own way.
The Second World War started, Norman and I stayed on the farm to help Dad
and when the war ended, Dad and Mum shifted to Te Puninga and stayed
there until Mum died and 10 years later Dad came to Thames and stayed
with me till he passed away 13 years later, 22 years after Mum died.
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School Admission Records:-
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School Ardmore
Register No 94
Admission Date August 6, 1923
Last School Nil
Last Day September 28, 1923
Destination

School Clevedon
Register No 1038
Admission Date October 1, 1923
Last School Ardmore
Last Day
Destination

School Wairoa South
Register No 0265
Admission Date July 11, 1927
Last School Clevedon
Last Day
Destination Clevedon

School Clevedon
Register No
Admission Date
Last School
Last Day December 19, 1930
Destination Home

[281] Norman's Ashes were scattered at sea over High Point, Dogger Bank of the
coast of Whangamata on the 30th June 2001 by his two sons, Peter and
Brian, and Peter's wife Lila.

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School Admission Records:-
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School Clevedon
Register No 1039
Admission Date October 1, 1923
Last School Nil
Last Day
Destination

School Wairoa South
Register No 0266
Admission Date July 11, 1927
Last School Clevedon
Last Day
Destination Clevedon

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