| Description | Letters from Elizabeth C Dew and her mother, Catherine Victoria Ross Lerpiniere (later Dew).
Letters from Elizabeth Dew, including 11 December 1985 enclosing her mothers family tree and autobiography. Contain personal information relating to named individuals.
Family tree of Lerpiniere family contains four generations, 1805-1912. Other surnames include: Laybank, Anstaey/Johnson, Johnson, Woolstan, Jordon, Hine, Simmonds, Stevens, Walker, Borg, Pannel.
Material from Catherine Dew have no restrictions. Contains five essays, some with photocopies attached, about life on the Island in the early 1900s. Some originally catalogued separately, including missing pages of the essays, under AUB/011/3.
Catherine Victoria Ross Lerpiniere's reminiscence includes: childhood illness; games in park; falls in tar barrell; emigrant to Australia; death in air raid; scarlet fever, isolation hospital, diptheria, hospital, long illness, return home; housewifery at school; getting glasses; brothers were marine engineers; father a journeyman carpenter; rheumatic fever; handicapped brother, special school, learning a trade. Dr Barnardos; night school to Blackheath; moving around Island; bridgers; the blacksmith; cows kept in shed; bought horse bus to live in at Lainden. Relief of Mafeking; hair in curling rags; houses in Island Gardens; Cahir Street; College View; police station; the circus; behind the Nelson; the wharves along Wharf Road; church holidays by the sea; church choir; war-time; weddings; World War One [First World War], raids.
Essays also cover: Allan Ross Lerpiniere; Enid Lerpiniere; good works; soldier with Indian wife; Russian Jews first job baby minding; Elizabeth Alltons; Mary Richards; womens war work; union; Catherine Victoria Ross Lerpiniere; born 26 October 1897 at Wharf Road; Christchurch choir; Dudley Clark; related to popcorn makers; Sunday School; prayers; Island Gardens; sweet shop; bowls; play and discipline; Yarrow moved to Scotland; 'handicapped' boy; scholarship; moonlight at Blackheath.
Autobiography. Original handwritten |