Continuing her stories of the branches of her family, this week Jill talks about her maternal side, the Gebhardts.
Margaret recalls her friends and the games they played. Her brothers loved hammering nails into planks amongst other things!
Helen tells us about the great variety of family pets that her family had when she was a child - ranging from chooks, cats and rabbits. She talks about how she learned to care for her rabbits, Peter and Cottontail and their ultimate demise.
Early schooling was different in the 1920's compared with today. Bill tells how different it was - one room, mone teacher who had one arm (a war injury).
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Graham was born in October 1939 and here he recalls his early childhood and schooling in Adelaide, South Australia.
Helen shares her memories of her pre school years in Whyalla before the days of kindegarten..
Margaret recalls her early childhood and the fun gained from life's simple pleasures.
Pat continues her story about her childhood in the Nazareth House orphanage in Plymouth, Devon.
Alice's looks back upon certain aspects of her life - her unhappy preschool days, the bullying at school, teachers who lacked grace and how all of this influenced her later life.
Jill tells the stories of her Aunts and Uncles on the Tilbrook side of her family
Joyce talks about the years before going to school, the pre school years when there were no kindegartens or play groups....
Helen had no formal pre-schooling and remembers well her first days at St Francis Xavier School in Whyalla in the Prep Calss. She didn't like school and would run away. After a couple of attempts the Nuns thwarted her plans. But she later learned that her father also had run away...
Alice remembers how difficult it was to plan a family in the 1950's in rural South Australia.
In this story Bill talks about his brothers and sisters, their education and their closeness as a family and community.
Judith talks about her extended family beginning with her childhood and expanding outwards....until the family rings the world.
Helen talks about her siblings including the tragic death of her sister in a riding accident.
Graham tells the Life Story Circle about his extended family - on both sides...
Ruth recalls growing up in Adelaide in the 1950's, in particular her preschool years.
Joyce talks about visiting family in Adelaide while they were living in Peterborough when she wasyoung - before the fmily moved to Adelaide in 1948.
