| From: rona (Original Message) | Sent: 22/03/2003 3:02 p.m. |
| I'll start this ball rolling, but I hope others will join in too. I was only six or seven when  Mum died, so my memories of her are few, but very precious. I can only remember little snatches of her and the things she used to do. Mum was a Sunday school teacher at the Maori Mission, and we used to get a little stamp with a verse on it that we had to learn for the next week. She used to make our clothes (for use girls, don't know about the boys). Same style of dress just different colours. Little things like having a bath in the old tin bath, her washing my hair - it was long then. Standing at the front door holding Joey on her hip. Driving a big black car we used to have. Don't know what it was, but at the time it was HUGE to me. My most vivid memory is of her when she was sick. Shuffling to and from the bedroom, and I think when she was in hospital, we weren't allowed to go in and see her. Standing at the window and waving to her. There maybe more and they may surface with a little prompting. That's a start though! AND the story from Lorraine on how Mum got her name Tuppence. She was the youngest in the family, and all her big brothers used to give her pocket money. She'd go around and ask them for "tuppence, tuppence". So that was how and where she got that name. I didn't tell it as well as Lorraine did. Did I? That's a start. Even I would be interested to know more!! Mari has told us her memories. Are there cousins out there with stories they could tell us. Lotsalove Rona. |
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From: Margret Sent: 22/03/2003 3:25 p.m.
What a start off, Rona, much appreciated. I can only add that when the occasion of your Mum being in hospital, I remember that she dearly wanted to have the juice of kotutu - watercress soup, taken in to her. In our Blake Street home, the time of her hospitalisation was fraught. Whilst we lived in Samoa, perhaps during a period of 1958, you all used to live at 27 Blake Street. The house phone number was 220-M. Even Nana Fenton was with you all. Why, I don't know, and even how you all fitted in there, I don't know. Let's see if Marlene came get some thoughts up from Teri.
Margret
From: Margret Sent: 23/03/2003 2:57 p.m.
Phone memories from Brenda of her Aunt Tuppence: Aunty had fair curly hair and she had freckles and her eyes were light coloured. Brenda remembers making one of their family's regular visits to the Rona Road farm and seeing her mother chatting to Aunty Tuppence in the dining room where the piano was housed. Nana was not well. Dennis wanting to join in the conversations of his mum and aunty.
From: Margret Sent: 31/03/2003 10:03 p.m.
Brenda phoned Rosalie: Aunty Tuppence had gold coloured hair that was curly; her eyes were light brown and a lot like their father's, that is, Uncle Tui. Aunty Tuppence had a few freckles across the bridge of her nose and had a fair complexion. Rosie said that Aunty Tuppence was always a hard worker. Rosie had holiday time at the farm and saw how hard that both Aunty Tuppence and Nana worked. In fact, they worked very hard for the fundraising and other aspects of the Hungaririki. Always the kettle was on the boil and visitors and family made welcome with the tea pot at the ready and well as kai. An added bonus of chooks and cats running through the house even when Nana was there. Brenda remembered the good times up at the farm and being able to play with Laura and Rona. She recalled the event of the house extensions including a bathtub inside. Their sister, Gloria, gained valuable driving experience when they made the journeys to the farm.
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