Known as Fred.
Fred grew up on his father's farm that was bounded by Black Road, Oakridge Road and Main Road at O'Halloran Hill at the time it was known as Happy Valley. The old homestead is at Crossing Road Happy Valley (VOL3878 FOLIO35) it has in 2012 been extensively renovated.

His father was a market gardener. Fred told a story of carrying wattle bark for sale to Adelaide in a horse drawn dray via the Victoria Hotel at O'Halloran Hill. They also supplied firewood to the Adelaide Market.

It was said that Fred's mother Hannah could conduct a great séance in the cellar of their home and the family told how she could make a table levitate. Quote Claire “I have been in the cellar of the house at Black's Road and it was really a bit eerie. I felt something and was told later about the séances, so I had no preconceived ideas.”

It was said that Fred was a good singer and a good dancer. In his younger days he was quite a gymnast, capable of walking on his hands and doing hand flips. He also enjoyed the rings. Quote Claire “Dad did have a good tenor singing voice and I saw him walking on his hands many a time also doing hand flips. He was very nimble and agile and used to perform concerts for us. He was a good entertainer.”

After his marriage to Jean in 1926 he bought a brand new Rugby tourer, which they drove on their honeymoon to Victor Harbor. He shortly after built a house at Reade Park (now Colonel Light Gardens)and bought a billiard saloon in Pirie Street Adelaide. When times became tough as the great depression approached he lost most of money he had received from his share of his fathers property, as the business failed. He sold his house in 1928 and moved to Windsor onto a small 3acre property. Quote Claire “Later, the Rugby tourer was transformed into a buckboard, in fact I remember Mum being upset about the conversion. Fred lent the Rugby from time to time. Jack Stoyel, Jean's brother metioned he borrowed it to drive to Western Australia. He also recounted driving it to the top of the Bluff at Victor Harbor in reverse, because it couldn't make it going forward.

In Windsor Fred grew vegetables; they had a horse a cow and some pigs. During the great depression Fred trapped rabbits and sold them. The family took trips to Port Parham and Fred used to fish there. A story was told of Fred driving the Rugby out at low tide and sitting on the roof of the car to fish when the tide came in. Quote Claire “Dad used to net fish at Pt. Parham. He used to catch whiting and Tommy ruffs and take them around with his newly hatched chickens. Both were sold for 1/- a dozen.”

In 1945 Fred and Jean took a job in Walkerville where they worked at an Anglican boys orphanage, Jean was the cook and Fred was the gardener, general helper. Janine and Valerie lived with Fred and Jean at the orphanage, Nancy was boarding and attending Nailsworth Technical school and the 3 older girls were working at Victor Harbor. Late in 1945 they then moved to Rymill’s farm at Ashbourne were they did similar work. During this two year period the house at Windsor was vacant. In December 1946 Fred went back to Windsor to tidy up the house for eventual sale and Jean went to Victor Harbor to have Robert. After the house was sold about 1950 they moved to Victor Harbor as caretaker of the council caravan park. They lived in a van with a large annex with Janine, Valerie and Robert.

In 1952 the family moved to Blackwood and moved in with Jean’s parents, then to a rented house at Fern Road Blackwood. When living in the Fern Road Blackwood home the family experienced the 1954 earthquake. Valerie remembers hearing a large rumble very similar to the noise the trains made as they approached the Coromandel Station near the house. This time it was not a train but the earthquake which shook the old house opening a gap in the ceiling of Valerie's bedroom so that stars could be seen in the sky above and plaster fell on to the bed. Her brother Robert was awakened by a hair brush falling on to his head from the cupboard above his bed.The whole family moved out into the street to see what was happening (as did many other residents) and walked around to Jean'sparents home in Woodleigh Road to check on them. The main damage to houses in the Blackwood area was to brick chimneys and large cracks opening in the brick houses.
At that time Fred was working at a dairy at Bull Creek and used to heat the oil in the old Overland with burning newspaper, to thin it, before cranking it on cold mornings.

In 1953 Fred, Jean, Valerie and Robert moved into a caravan next to the railway line at Lower Mitcham and in 1954 shifted to a rented ex army hut at Centennial Park.

Buried on 28 Aug 1969 in Clarendon & Kangarilla Public Cemetery,
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