Herry's Archives

Radha and Neil married in Sydney on 5th June 2004. The service was at St Mary's Church, and the reception at the Australian Golf Club. Click here for photos of the wedding and here for events around it. Fung, Marijke, Edward and Connie Edward and Marijke married in Melbourne in October 2005. Click here for photos

The family at Quay West Christmas 2003 The family came together at Christmas in December 2003 and for New Year. We stayed at Quay West and watched the fireworks from the balcony. The Australian cricket team were having a party on the next balcony. Click the heading for some more photos

Granny Nina with her second husband Sir Alfred Herbert at Dunley c 1953 [Photo by Gavin Vapenik, his grandson]. Click the heading for more photos My grandmother, Marian Fraser Arundel (known as Nina), was born in 1874 in India, the eldest daughter of Sir Arundel Tagg Arundel KCIS and Catherine Sim. Here siblings were Violet Harriet (known as Vi, who married Evelyn Norrie), Arthur Duncan Stuart, Edith Mary and Margaret Helen. Nina and her sisters. She is second from the left. She married Archie Pugh - later Col AJ Pugh CBE, VD on 18th December 1904 in Calcutta Cathedral . He was a solicitor in Calcutta and a member (and from 1912 Colonel ) of the Calcutta Light Horse for 32 years. They had six children - Archie ((1908), Jimmie (1910), my mother Annette born in 1914, Ivor (1916), Michael (1918) and David (1922). The children were brought up mainly in Wales, at the family home at Cwmcodwig, Llanfarian. Their cousin Ruth Howard (born 1910) who rem...

One Christmas during the declaration* of war was spent in Uncle Archie and Aunt Nina's house Cwm Coedwig* & was very jolly. Nearly twenty children all first cousins must have gathered in this hospitable house. Saunders & nanny Howard were in change in the nursery * they were great friends. Nanny Howard [was] tall & thin with a very quite * & nanny Saunders round* rosy* & very forceful as she had had to be. Ruth & cousin Annette who were to remain friends all their lives would argue with each other as to whose nanny was the best. Annette had a pony called Creamy & was made to share it with Ruth. Uncle Archie would take his * small sons out to the local hunt. Griffith went too & either Annette or Ruth depending on whose turn it was. As the winter dusk fell the long hack home had to be done with pain & grief saddle sores & aching limbs to* the* blowing of horns* * * & good but the horses & ponies had to be put away rubbed down {20}...

Annette , my mother, with David and Ruth in Wales c.1920 Ros y Gilwen / Morgenau – First World War {1} It was a cold bright spring day when the children arrived with nanny –Alice Saunders – at Ros y Gilwen. Rooks were cawing & wood pigeons cooing. Sheep were in the big field under the ha-ha & a few early lambs bleated plaintively. Griffith had ridden all the way from Shrewsbury sitting up * beside the chauffeur in front. He was very thin with round blue eyes & fiery red hair. As soon as the car drew up by the shallow wide slate steps he was out running about on spindly legs – he was a child who was into everything. His little sister Ruth, Baby as she was called, the youngest of the family was a sad sight. She was “delicate” so was bundled up into sheepskin coat, fleece outwards, on which she had been sick several times. Her red hair was hanging in bedraggled rats tails & her little face was pinched with misery. William & Margaret the butler & house parlour maid ...

Lawford Hall at Lawford in Essex There are two Lawford Halls. One is at Long Lawford, near Rugby and the other at Lawford near Manningtree, Essex. This is a photo from Geograph of the Hall at Little Lawford near Long Lawford, about which there is a fanciful story about ghosts to be found on an American website about Rugby. The relevant passage reads: "Not far from England's Rugby lie the ruined remains of Lawford Hall, where a family ancestor who had lost an arm during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was known as One-Handed Boughton. After he died, his ghost was said to have appeared from time to time, riding across the neighboring grounds in a coach-and-six (a coach drawn by six horses), scaring the villagers out of their wits. A room in Lawford Hall which had been preserved as his bed-chamber was reputedly haunted. No-one could sleep in it, and none of the locals would work in it. The family finally decided to lay the ghost. The website describes the ceremony, wh...

Radha January 1983 Ascham 1988 left Ascham 1989 Frensham 1991 left Frensham School number '91' Produced 'Bucket' for local community radio with Bronnie Howard and two boys from a local school James and Keith Interviewed Tony Daniels and Andrew Denton Friends Bronwyn Howard Pandora Chippendale Kate Farnsworth Belinda Nesbitt Trish Nolan Edward 1983 Scotts 1885 Cranbrook Junior School 1988 Cranbrook 1993 left Cranbrook 1994 Macquarie University (Computer Science) 1995 Left Macquarie Boodle January 1983 Wee Care Kindergarden 1884 Double Bay Public 1985 Mosman Infants 1986 Cranbrook Junior School 1989 Cranbrook 1995 Left Cranbrook Each of the children worked part time at the Macdonalds in Cremorne during their school holidays. Return to Archive Index Return to Family in Sydney

Edward was one of the four sons of Major General Edward Lawford (1809-71) and was first cousin to my grandfather [ Capt Vincent Lawford 1871 - 1959 ]. However, while General Edward married young, in 1828, and his children were born in the next ten years or so, my great grandfather, John Lawford , did not marry until 1852, and my grandfather, Vincent Adrian , the second youngest of thirteen children, was not born until 1871. It is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that the descendants of John have inherited very little information about the offspring of his brother General Edward. In fact, our family records include no dates for the birth, marriage or death of the younger Edward. My uncle Valentine’s chart of the General’s descendants has no information about his son’s marriage – just the names of two daughters, Clara and Ellen, of whom the former married “Kitton of …….., Australia” and the latter married “Devine”. Again, there are no dates. I started my search for Edward Henry A...