Penniedarling

Denise YVONNE Long, my first cousin once removed.

Denise YVONNE, Sue Watson, Rosie, Pam and Patricia. 

Labels: 2/2022PAD, Long Family, Phelan Family, Rodd

Clements Ripley Rodd - Born 30.4.1888 - Drummoyne, NSW. Australia - Died 25.7.1961 aged 73.

Married - Edith Rose Pritchatt - born 16.7.1891 - Petersham, Sydney  -  Died - 1983- Wahroonga, NSW.

Served during WW1 in France and in the Home Guard during WW2, he was on duty the night the Japanese submarines entered Sydney Harbour.

My Maternal Grandfather, such a beautiful man he was, I have very found memories of his timber work for us kids! 
 

Labels: Ancestry, Rodd

 Friendship with this Gang below is also 75 years old!  Well the three of us on the right, Sue, Pennie & Rosie were all born in the same year, the three on the left, Felicity, Christine and Jenny are siblings and were born a few years later.

Labels: 7/2020, Dash, Murray, Quiddington, Rodd

 I am related to two English Families who came to Australia very early on... on my maternal side was John Cobcroft my 4x Great Grandfather who came from Southwark, London and who was involved in Highway Robbery, he arrived on the Second Fleet, June 1790.  After only 4 years of his 7 year sentence he was granted land at Wilberforce (so he must have really been a good boy don't you think?)
Above is the Barn he built on his land which is still standing!

My Paternal English Family came from Evesham, Worcestershire, UK.  John Tremayne Rodd, my 3x Great Grandfather wouldn't go into the church as his father expected him to do so he was banished from the family and after his wife died he and his three little boys sailed to Australia arriving in April 1822.  Here is the home my 2xGreat Grandfather built on Rodd Point, which is no longer standing.

Labels: 1/2020, Cobcroft, Rodd

 I WILL TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT...

Maybe learn to paint portraits.

 Learn the Piano and play just like my father Ripley did.

Learn to paint country towns just like Rick Elliot.

Labels: 2020, Painting, Rodd

'Xmas' back in 1948!
Back - Rip, Pam, Poppa aka Harrie and Rosie.   Front - Mr & Mrs Kelly, Pennie, Tim, Mama aka Eileen and Kisser Kelly.

Labels: 9/19, Cobcroft, Kelly, Rodd

 Our mothers started School together way back in the late 1920's.  The Photographer managed to get her own daughter's head in this photo but not the other two.
 Sue, Rosie and Pennie... below Sue, Pennie  and Rosie... we've known each other more than 72 years!

Labels: 2/18, Dash, Murray, Rodd

 Looking for Clouds in my old photos, because today it bright and sunny with a brilliant blue sky,  and came across this one taken down the south coast near Eden, I've just searched my Ancestry.com for Ida but only come up with Ada Ida Rodd 1888-1964 and she didn't live down Eden way.

How does one find out who this Ida Rodd was and why a lovely long Drive, just off the Princes Highway has been named after her?

Labels: 5/17, Rodd

 A letter written my Grandfather Clements to his wife my Grandmother Edie.  This was written on board the ship that took Clem to France at the beginning of WW1.

Labels: 6/16, Rodd

Smurray, Rosie and Proddy.  Three little girls all born in 1945, their mothers were school friends till the days they died and their daughters have been friends since day one! 

Happy 70th Birthday Smurray  :-)

(Pity the mother who took this photo chopped off the top of our heads!)

Labels: Dash, Murray, Rodd

#1.   Thanks to Ancestry.com I found a second cousin for David.  David only knew of one cousin who lives in the USA but I found a Great Aunt Robina on his fathers side and wrote to someone who was also on Ancestry.com and had her own family tree which included Robina as her Great Grandmother.  Yesterday this person, his second cousin Jane, replied to a message I had sent her a month ago and it looks like there may be more cousins for David.  I on the other hand have and know 9 cousins, more than 15 first cousins once removed and several second cousins.

David and I are very happy to have found him a cousin.

This one is a first...

#2.  Yesterday I was speaking to my brother Nick who lives in Hong Kong, he was telling he met a new chap through work and when Nick asked where he lived in Sydney the chap replied that Nick would probably never have heard of it, he lived at Rodd Point!  Well Nick nearly fell over, 'That's my Ancestry' said Nick, 'In which street do you live, some of those street names are named after my family...'  'Undine Street', was the reply...

Yes this street is named after our Great Aunt Undine Una Rodd, who died in 1888 in childbirth aged only 25.


Great Aunt's Lenore, Janet and Undine.  Great Uncles Brent and Burnell, Grandfather Clements which is also our Dad's middle name.

Labels: Griffiths, Rodd

Rip'n'Rosie and their four children...

Labels: 4/15, Rodd

Two beautiful letters from my Grandfather Clements to my Grandmother Edie.  Both written in September 1916 on board the "A34 Persie" headed to WW1 and France.

Labels: 3/15, Rodd

The Latin says... 'God being my guide all things will be rightly done.'   MMmmmm... I don't think so :-)

Labels: 3/15, Rodd

 Rosie  (yes named after my mother),  Pennie and Smurray. 

We first met in 1945.  We were all born in 1945... which must mean that we all turn 70 this year!  Yikes!

Rosie's mother Aunty Phyl and my mother met when they were 5 years old, they held hands as they walked into their classroom on that first day of school... Smurray's mother was Aunty Phyl's older sister.

Smurray (real name Sue, Sue Murray), Rosie and Pennie (I was sometimes known as Prodd, or Proddy), this photo was taken in 1949, we are 4 years old and aren't we cute and adorable and check out Rosie's beautiful Sandals... I just noticed! I was always the shortest wasn't I?   

Sue and Rosie are in dresses... I never liked dresses, never have and I guess I never will now, stubborn little thing aren't I!!

Happy 70th Birthday Rosie, I hope you are having a lovely day.

Labels: Dash, Murray, Rodd

 Nancy Yardley... my Great Grandmother.

Nancy Yardley was my Grandmother Edith Rose's mother.

Labels: Rodd

This is 'Barnstable Manor', it once stood on Rodd Point in the Drummoyne area, it was built by my Great Great Grandfather Brent Clements Rodd.
Brent arrived in Sydney in 1822,  he was just 13 years old and he came with his father and two older brothers from Barnstable in Devon.  When Brent grew up he became a Solicitor and bought land in the Drummoyne area.
This photo was taken in 1943 during WW2, that's Army Tents in the middle of the photo, Rodd Point and Rodd Island in the background.   If you look carefully, just where those tall trees are dividing the tents you can see the ruins of 'Barnstable Manor'.  Most of the land you can see once belonged to Brent but of course following ancestors were lazy didn't work the land and eventually everyone went broke.

The Manor was left to fall apart, see first photo.

Now the reason I'm so excited... My father remembers playing here as a kid and he remembers two old Aunts who lived in the falling down Manor... they were called Aunt Tiss and Aunt Puss!!!  He never knew why they were called that and he never knew their real names.

This is what Dad wrote many years ago...

"The house eventually became impossible to maintain so my Great Uncle Pop, Grandfathers brother, and his two sisters, Great Aunt Tiss and Great Aunt Puss bought the property 9 Napier Street, (which is now Flats) near 'Warrembah' (another Rodd family home on water at Drummoyne.)
Vandals eventually burnt the grand old Manor House down and the farm was broken up and sold as building allotments.
Great Uncle Pop (Burnell), I don't think he ever married, and his sisters were the last people to live in 'Barnstable Manor'.  I remember Great Uncle Pop as a bearded gent who never left his chair.  He had been the manager of the Bank of NSW Head Office.
My Great Aunts Tiss and Puss lived with him and a strange Irish Maid call Molly looked after them.  Tiss I think was married but Puss was single.  They always made me feel very welcome."

Dad often told us about Tiss and Puss and he also told us that he never knew their real names.

...  But I can...  Hurray for me!!  And other ancestor members Ancestry.

Tiss - Janet Editha Rodd, married with 5 children but her husband died in 1907 so she must have moved back home, her children were aged 27 to 20 so were grown up, Tiss died in 1943 aged 94.  So Puss must have been - Lenore Clovelly Rodd, she was the only unmarried Rodd of that time and died in 1952 aged 92.

Now if you look very closely at the first photo of  'Barnstable Manor' you will see there is a woman in white in the top window on the left and a woman in black in the middle upstairs window.  I'm thinking that it's Aunt Puss in the White, she never married so it must be Aunt Tiss in the Black because she is in mourning. 

Labels: Rodd

So many photos up on FB of WW1 and WW2 Soldiers, it's really lovely seeing them all, even if it is through the odd tear or two and of course my family was represented in both Wars as well. Here are four that I knew well and loved well, they were the most gentle, fun loving, hard working and generous men... as a young child I never knew of the horrors they had seen and I certainly never guessed until days such as these days.  Anzac Day, a day of Remembering.
#1 Major Brent Burnell Rodd, my Great Uncle, served in France WW1.
#2 Driver Clements Ripley Rodd, my paternal Grandfather, young brother to Brent, served in France.
#3 Gunner Harrie Cleveland Cobcroft, my maternal Grandfather served in France WW1 awarded Military Medal and a Bar.
#4 Lt Ripley Clements Rodd, my Dad, served at El Alemein during WW2.  

I've been remembering them and thinking of them a lot today and many other family members who represented their country from the Boer War as well as WW1 and WW2.

Lest We Forget.

Labels: Cobcroft, Rodd

You had to stand very very still if you wanted your photo taken way back, in the early 1900's  This is a photograph of my dear Grandpa Rodd, Clements Ripley Rodd, he is wearing his Rechabite Regalia but where are his hands?

I remember my Dad, Ripley Clements... telling me that Grandma Rodd wouldn't marry Clem unless he joined the Rechabites!  Dad said there was never much talk about it, it was a hush hush subject... Grandma Rodd's father and other members of her family were alcoholics. Dad also told me that although Clem is dressed up in this gear he doesn't remember him ever going to a meeting, but he also can't remember him ever taking a drink, he went to the Pub but liquor never touched those lovely lips!

Clem is in his early 20's here, just before he headed off to WW1... he has the Rodd Family problem of looking 10 years younger than we are  :-)  a pain when we are teenagers but not so bad now!

Click here is you would like to read about the Recabites... they are still going, but I'm sorry you've just missed the last meeting, it was on Saturday.

Labels: 10/13, Rodd

 Knowing my family roots... this barn was built by my ancestor John Cobcroft in the late 1790's, John was a Convict on the Second Fleet arriving on the 'Scarborough' 30th June 1790 (223 years ago yesterday!) When he was pardoned he was given a grant of land here at Wilberforce.

John Rodd arrived in Sydney with his three very young sons in 1820, they were free settlers.  This home, called Barnstable Manor after their home in England, was on Rodd Point, it was the home of his youngest son Brent who was my Great something Grandfather.  Unlike my Convict John's barn, it is no longer standing.

Labels: 7/13, Cobcroft, Rodd