Dad once told me an amusing story about his days in Broome concerning the local doctor, Doc Haynes

Dad once told me an amusing story about his days in Broome concerning the local doctor, Doc Haynes. Strangely, years later, I was to go into partnership with his son Jim Haynes. Both my parents and Dr Haynes had servants from the Aboriginal mission. Peter was very loyal and faithful to my parents, did the housework and looked after the children. He courted Katie, the Aboriginal servant of Doc Haynes. One night Doc Haynes took exception to this, filled a shot-gun with bird-shot and let fly. Poor old Peter got a buttock full of pellets and returned home to my parents lamenting and very miserable. Dad immediately took Peter back to Doc Haynes and insisted that he pick out all the pellets.

In Perth Claude became active in his children's school. At one time in the late 1930s he was president of the Parents' and Citizens' Association at Swanbourne State school. Later, he became State President.

During the Second World War he first joined the Voluntary Defence Corp. Then he became a drill instructor with the Air-Cadet training scheme.

He died in May 1950.

¹ Candle

ucy, the daughter of Alfred Day and Maggie Leaman, was born in Richmond, County of Bourke, Victoria, Australia on 16 February 1896. At the time of her marriage to Claude Young in 1917, she was a taper¹ maker. She and Claude had four children. She died on 25 April 1980.

With her husband she moved to Western Australia, spent three years from 1926 to 1928 in Broome, and then returned to live in Swanbourne, a coastal suburb of Perth. She was a large, well-built, jolly person. Like her husband, she was very active in the local Parents and Citizens' Association. Her son, John, remembers helping her put up card tables for the Associations' weekly bridge nights.

After Claude died in 1950, she continued actively with the Women's Auxiliary of the Returned Servicemen's League. She regularly visited the Mt.Lawley Veteran's Home, the mental hospital at Graylands and Hollywood Repatriation Hospital.

Finally her health declined, she suffered several strokes, lived in a nursing home and lost the ability to communicate with others. She died on Anzac day, 25 April 1980 at the age of 84 years.

¹ 15010F

² 16007M

lsie, the daughter of George Glover and Louisa Shayer, was born in Western Australia on 1 November, 1892. She was the second of four children, and died on 10 August 1971. Elsie never married. She became engaged to Harry Rodgers but he was killed by a sniper in World War I on 5 October 1917.

Elsie trained as an accountant and worked for the Trade Protection Association in Perth for forty-five years. She lived with her mother in West Perth, and looked after her.

There was always some antagonism between Elsie and her sister Vera¹. Vera's son, Peter², said in 1991:

I'm sure my Mother, Vera, was a little jealous of Elsie. I'm sure she was. . . you see, they lived in such different worlds. Mum had a very caring husband, and everything was done for her in the home. Elsie's man was killed, she remained a spinster, and she worked in a Perth office. As an accountant, she mixed with people that she met through business. Mum probably felt out of it because she was just a housewife. She had to stay home and look after the kids, while Elsie could be out, having a good time. So it was natural that there was a little jealousy between them.

Equally, Elsie was probably jealous of mum's situation. Elsie had to work while Mum had a family and a very attentive husband. But Elsie was very fond of us, as children.

¹ 16005F

avis, the daughter of George Glover and Louisa Shayer, was born in Western Australia on 21 March 1897. She was the last of four daughters. She lived most of her life in Sydney and became a member of the police force. In 1991, Jean Warren¹ spoke of her aunt:

Mavis is another skeleton in the closet. Only recently I discovered that she went to the Eastern States with a man who might have been married already. She did not marry him, but had a son, of whom I know nothing. About fifteen or twenty years ago this son came to Western Australia looking for relatives. He contacted my parents, Vera and Horace, also my Aunt Elsie, but they would not meet him. Vera said that she did not think he was a very nice person - but she knew nothing of him.

Mavis developed tuberculosis of the bowel, and her mother, Louisa, went to Sydney to nurse her. Mavis died at a young age, either in 1925 or 1926.

Born in 1905.

At 13 he ran away to sea

on a cargo ship.

illiam, the son of Philip Graham and Emma Louise Long, was born on 28 April, 1905. William never knew his father, as Philip had died when William was a baby. He had two sisters, Gladys and Muriel, who were seven or eight years older than he. At the age of thirteen William joined a cargo ship and ran away to sea.

He married Iris Wilson in 1927.

First child: Joyce

Then Bernice, then Bob.

Overjoyed at having a boy.

He met Iris Wilson, married her in 1927, and gave up the sea, settling in Western Australia. His first child, Joyce, was born in March, 1928. He and Iris had three other children, and he was particularly pleased when his third child was a boy. His daughter Joyce said,

In those days it was important to have a son. When Bob was born in 1934, Dad thought that God had showered the world on him.

Worked on the railways as a labourer.

Being without a trade, William found life difficult. First, he worked as a labourer on the railways. He worked very hard, often being away in the country for two or three weeks at a time.

Then worked as a casual labourer on Fremantle Wharf.

Lumper's and Seamen's

Strikes.

He and Iris lived first at Spearwood, but later moved to Hamilton Hill. He then worked as a casual labourer on Fremantle wharf. It was a hard life, and often there was industrial trouble - culminating in the "Wharfies" being called out on strike. The 1920s and early 1930s saw much waterfront unrest. In January 1925 a seaman's strike paralysed Australia. In December 1927, industrial action by 20,000 Australian Wharfies tied up one hundred ships around the country. In September 1928 violence erupted all through the Australian waterfront over the use of volunteers to break a strike by waterside workers. There was a further seaman's strike in late 1931.

Money problems due to strikes.

¹ tick = credit

His daughter Joyce said:

I was told that Dad had to go to meetings in the Fremantle Town Hall as regularly as clockwork. He had to put up his hand and vote "Strike!" They were often on strike and, as that meant no money, Mum couldn't pay the rent. She couldn't buy food. Everything had to be on `tick'¹.

Pay packet given to Iris, but secretly retained some so he could play two-up.

What little money there was, was desperately needed for the basic necessities of life, so William handed his entire pay packet to his wife each week. But, as he needed a little independence and freedom of his own, he was in the habit of sometimes secretly taking out the odd pound note and hiding it in his hat-band. This enabled him to be one of the boys when all the lumpers got together to play two-up.

Joining the Navy in World War II

With the advent of the Second World war, William joined the Navy, and for the first time was able to give Iris regular pay.

He died in 1988

In spite of all the difficulties and hardships, William was a very unassuming, gentle person. He had a young face, and never looked his age. Towards the end of his life he contracted Alzheimer's disease. At the early stages this was not obvious to his family as his wife hid it from others. However, it progressed to an advanced form and he was hospitalised. Eventually he did not recognise his family, and died on 7 May 1988.

eginald was born in Sydney, NSW, on the 6 January 1895. He married Dulcie Lamond, probably in December 1921, and they had three children: Beryl (b.1922), Joan (b.1924) and Valma (b.1926). His daughter, Beryl, married Ross Rumble.

In 1930 he and Dulcie were separated. His daughter Beryl was only eight years of age at the time and retained only vague memories of her father. He served in the first world war and his discharge certificate from the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force, dated 2 December 1919, gave the following details:

Certificate No 2919, rank: Private of the 5th Pioneer Battalion.

Born at Hornsby, NSW, attested at Westonia W.A. on 3 April 1916, age 22

Discharged in consequence of the termination of his period of enlistment, having completed 3 years and 244 days of service, service abroad 2 years 354 days.

Age at discharge 25 years 11 months. Height 5 feet 7 inches. Dark complexion, hazel eyes, hair dark. Mole on right arm. Trade on enlistment: labourer; Intended place of residence: Greenbushes, W.A.

Although this certificate showed him as a labourer, he worked for the Post Master General's department as a linesman - repairing and installing telephone lines.

Nothing else is known of him.

¹ See the entry for her

daughter Beryl 16010F

ulcie, the second child of James Lamond and Vera Oaklands, was born on 26 January 1901 at Kanowna, Western Australia. She married Reginald Osborn but they were separated in 1930. Dulcie had three daughters and brought them up as a single parent. Her first child, Beryl, married Ross Rumble.

Beryl recalled that, as a young girl, she and her sisters lived with their mother in Boreham Street, North Cottesloe. They were very happy but had little or no money. Initially Dulcie worked from home as a dressmaker¹. Later she worked for a taxi company as a telephone operator. Sometimes she worked night-shifts, for which she was well paid.

fter her husband left her, Pearl formed another relationship and had a son, Robert (b.1937). Robert's father was not named on the birth certificate but he was possibly Jack O'Brien. Robert was given the family name of Furphy.

Left without support, Pearl could not cope with her four surviving children. She kept her oldest boy Douglas with her but, in 1939, was forced to put Denise, Doris and Bob into homes. For a period she managed a block of flats. She did not meet her son Robert again until he was eighteen years of age. In 1993, her daughter-in-law, Robin, stated:

No one knows very much about Pearl. She mostly seems to have been a boarding-house proprietor, or a housekeeper - at least in later years. She had a sister, Hazel.

¹ Public School = Private, fee-paying school

ewis, the son of Henry Davey and Sarah Butterly, was born in York, Western Australia on 1 May 1889. He attended Guildford Grammar School and in the early 1900s was cox of his school's "Head of the River" rowing team, in which public¹ schools competed. He married Margaret Thackray, and they had four children, Joan, Reginald, Richard and John. Lewis managed a farm owned by Butterly, sixteen miles out of Toodyay, Western Australia. In the early 1930s he was hit by the great depression. He and his family walked off the farm and came to Perth. Through an old school associate, Gordon Humphries, he obtained a job with Tropical Traders. He stayed with them until he died of a heart attack on the 9 December 1962.

Born in Kent, 1875

Became a coach maker

Married in 1901

Migrated to Australia 1911

worked on Railways

Became building contractor:

Missen & Mills

¹ 1991

Died 1949.

rederick William, the son of James Heatley Mills and Rebecca Gostling, was born on 22 September, 1875 at Ashford, Kent, England. On 25 September, 1901 he married Annie Elizabeth Mills at the Parish Church at West Ham. They had one child, Frederick Lewis, who was known as Lew.

Frederick and his wife migrated to Western Australia in 1911. Like his father, he became a coach-maker and, after migration, worked for the Railways in Western Australia, and also worked for a short time in South Australia.

Later he became a building contractor and, with a partner, formed the building firm of Missen & Mills in Swanbourne, Western Australia. Although he and his partner constructed many buildings, few remain today¹. He worked until he became very ill, about twelve months before his death from cancer on 18 October, 1949.

Born 1875

Married 1901

Only child born in UK

in 1914

Died 1969

nnie Elizabeth, the daughter of Walter Mills and Alice Groves, was born on 8 November, 1875. She married Frederick William Mills in 1901. She and her husband migrated to Australia. After some years, thinking it unlikely that they could have a child, she made a trip to England to visit her relatives.

On the ship she discovered that she was pregnant, and her son, Frederick Lewis (known as Lew), was born on 26 April, 1914 at Leytonstone, England. The return trip to Australia, made when Lew was only a few months' old, was very slow and unpleasant, being made under the black-out conditions imposed during World War I. Annie survived her husband, and died on 27 April 1969.

Jack Married Eleanor Love They had three children, the youngest of whom, John, married Alison Baseden.

As a butcher Jack moved around to Northam, York, Kalgoorlie, Youanmi, Geraldton. He went to Bundaberg but returned to Maylands.

He retired to Mandurah and died in 1972

ack was born in Western Australia. He became a butcher and married Eleanor Jane Love. He and Eleanor had three children: Olga (b.1924) and Stanley (b.1926) who were born in Northam, and John Thomas (b.1934) who was born in York, Western Australia. John married Alison Rumble.

As a butcher, Jack moved around, working for a time in Kalgoorlie and in Youanmi, now a tiny locality and homestead about 110 km. south-east of Mt.Magnet. He and his family then spent some years in Geraldton before he teamed up with his brother, and the family moved to a butchering business in Bundaberg in Queensland. This was just after the end of the second world war. He then returned to Western Australia, where he worked in Maylands, a suburb of Perth. He and his wife retired to Mandurah, south of Perth City. Jack died in October 1972.

dward was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 19 August 1894. On 5 May 1915 he married Olive Smith at St. John's Church, Fremantle, Western Australia. They had three children: Evelyn, Stanley and James.

Edward was of Irish descent. Before his marriage, he was a clerk with the Vacuum Oil Company, which later became Mobil Oil. Later he became their accountant. During the depression of 1929, the company's staff was greatly reduced, but Edward remained with the company and was transferred to York, Western Australia, as Depot manager. The family spent six years in York, returning to Perth in 1935. Edward retired in 1965 after giving fifty years service to his Company. He died in Perth, WA, on 28 June 1974.

His descendancy chart is:

15110AM‑‑ Edward James CARROLL (b.1894)

15110AF sp‑Olive Christina SMITH (b.1892)

│

├──16112AF‑‑ Evelyn CARROLL

├──16113AF‑‑ Stanley CARROLL

│

└──16015AM‑‑ James M CARROLL (b.1926)

16015AF sp‑Lesley June RUMBLE (b.1923)

│

└──For descendants see the chart for

Humfrey Rumble, page 44

ames was born on 5 August 1886 at Smeaton, Victoria. He married Doris Dureau in Victoria either in 1911 or 1912. He died in Victoria in July 1950. He and Doris had two children, Laurence James, born in 1913 and Gregory Francis, born in 1930. His descendancy chart is:

15111AM‑‑ James Francis SHEEHAN (b.1886)

15111AF sp‑Doris DUREAU (b.1889)

│

├──16118AM‑‑ Laurence James SHEEHAN (b.1913)

│

└──16016AM‑‑ Gregory F SHEEHAN (b.1930)

16016AF sp‑Ailsa May RUMBLE (b.1926)

│

├──17052AM‑‑ Craig Dureau SHEEHAN (b.1959)

│ 17052AF sp‑Janice Mary DEAKIN (b.1963)

│

└──17053AM‑‑ Mark Andrew SHEEHAN (b.1961)

17053AM sp‑Sally A LOUDON (b.1965)

│

└──18152AF‑‑ Penny A SHEEHAN (b.1994)

¹ 16009M

² 16010M

ary Elizabeth, or May as she was known, the daughter of John and Ellen Anderson, was born in 1874. She married Roland Young and they had three children, Lorenzo, Brian and Bertha Isabel (Betty). When Roland died in the early 1920s, May took up school teaching. She and her maiden sister Nellie conducted a small school at 417 Rokeby Road. Jim Rumble¹, who went to this school with his brother, Ross² until he was nine or ten, said that it was like a junior primary school. Betty, May's youngest child, was also involved in this school. May, Nellie and Lucy were very close together. In 1926 the school moved to St.Andrew's Hall in Barker Road, Subiaco.

¹ 16010F

yra, known as Lucy, was the third daughter of John and Ellen Anderson. She remained single, lived at 417 Rokeby Road, Subiaco, Western Australia, and became a school teacher. At one time she taught at Subiaco State school and later at Princess May High School in Fremantle, eventually becoming First Assistant at the school.

Lucy was to be married to a Mr Dickenson who, unfortunately, died of tuberculosis during World War I. In 1991, Beryl Rumble¹ said:

Lucy pined for her lost love and it was rather sad because she was a brilliant young, very musical and lovely little lady. It just got the better of her because she was never interested in anybody else.

¹ 13039M

osa was the daughter of Sydney James and Lucy Henrietta Lowdell. When her father died in 1894 she was mentioned in his Will. When her mother died in 1918, she was not mentioned in the abstract of her mother's will. In his Will (dated 1920), Sydney Poole Lowdell¹ left her a one fifth part of his residuary estate but names her as "Alice Chaplin Geraldine Lowdell." He includes her, along with her sister Ethel in a list of nephews and nieces, but follows this with the statement "And I hereby declare that should any of the above named nephews or nieces or grand-nieces die in my lifetime..." It seems that Ethel and Alice were intended to indicate his grand-nieces. The confusion between the name "Rosa" and "Alice Chaplin" has not been resolved. Nothing else is known.

¹ 16006M

orn in 1899, little is known of Walter, the father of Marjorie Stott.

Bob Rumble¹ said that initially Walter was a field representative in Western Australia for tractors and other agricultural machinery. He left that work and started a business called The Brake Service Company at 1004 Hay Street, Perth. At the time it was the only company of its type in Perth. During World War I he served in the Middle East in the Tenth Light Horse. In 1960, when he was sixty-one years of age, he dropped dead while attending to business at a company called Mortlocks in Adelaide Terrace.

¹ 16018M

² 14004F

is, the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Chown of Norbury, England, married Thomas Baggott and had two daughters: Joyce, born around 1929-1930, and Janet, who was a few years younger. Joseph Chown¹ visited the family in the mid 1950s, and in 1993 commented:

I cannot recall how Tom was employed at the time. Both girls lived at home and were employed. Tom may have been an invalid pensioner because he was injured by a bomb during the London blitz. I believe that one, if not both, of the girls eventually migrated to Australia.

Cis is also mentioned in the diary of Kate Rumble² for 25 January 1928 which states:

Phyl went to G.P.O. to fetch a wedding gift from Ted's sister, an oak and silver biscuit barrel, inscribed on `From Cis & Tom.'

¹ 16005F

Kate Rumble (14004F) in her diary for 7 June 1916 wrote: Wire to Gladys Glover for her Wedding Day

Also: 20 June 1916: Maudie had letter from Gladys Watson (neé Glover)

ladys, the first child of Arthur Glover and Louisa Mary Shayer, was born on 10 August 1891. She died on 4 August 1971. She lived most of her life in the Eastern States of Australia, without contact with her relatives in Western Australia. When Glady was seventy she paid a visit to Western Australia. Jean Warren¹ in 1991, recalling memories of her Aunt, said:

Gladys was a beautiful woman but evidently made the wrong marriage. She went off to Melbourne with somebody else, but did not marry him. She had three children, Jean, Edward and John, but I do not know which were by the first or second relationship, although I think they were all by the second relationship. Gladys became very "Churchy".

At one time Jean Warren visited her Aunt in Melbourne. Because there had been no contact between the families, it came as a surprise to discover that both Vera and Gladys had named their daughter Jean, and that they were born within a few days of each other.