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Emily Augusta Hooper (1854 - 1908)

Emily Augusta Hooper
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Wife of — married 9 Jan 1878 in Oatley St, Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, Australiamap
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Died at about age 54 in Sydney, Australiamap
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Buried 10 JUL 1908. South Head Cemetary, Sydney, Australia. Note: burial allotment 503, section C, South Head.

Note: #N64.

Notes

Note N64.

1903 census; 114 Hunter St, Sydney; occupation, agent.

of Wentworth, Sydney, Australia; predeceased husband. 1

Letter to son Ernie.

Kotobuke, The Retreat,?Woollahra, Sydney NSW.

Friday 12th (some time before July 1908). 1

My darling Son.

I promised I would give you the?family tree so here goes as far as I?know. My father Late JJ Hooper was the.

eldest son of a Dr who wrote.

a medical book that at one time no one.

could do without - he was a widower. Son & Daughter.

My step brother John fell in the Indian.

Mutiny. He was in the 6th Dragoon Guards.

My step sister Emma Hooper married a.

Dr of Divinity named Carl Kruger.

a Russian gentleman. Their 3 Daughters.

are married. One to an Indian Nabob.

My mothers maiden name was Hordern.

She was an orphan though highly educated.

in the Convent in France for 13 years.

There were 16 children. My mother died.

of Consumption aged 45. The eldest.

Brother James took his life in.

New Zealand through a bad woman.

My second brother Walter(?) was killed & eaten.

by the natives at Soloman.

Islands on his 16th birthday and my younger.

brother Charles was killed in.

NZ through the result of a fall.

My only living brother Frank is in.

Townsville North Queensland there.

are 4 living sisters Anni (Annis?) who is married.

to the (son of then )[pencilled in at an a««««g/e].Reslut(?) Earl of Limirick?and may some day be an Earl he.

is honourable the HN Pery (moronorohoro?) - Aunt.

Kobriak (?) is Mrs Darcy(?) NZ Her Grand.

son are of a veiy old English.

family. Dad's Father was a sea.

Capt. & brought a ship out here.

do not know the name. Nana.

married him at Portsmouth &.

came out here when Aunt Mini(?) Grace.

was 2 years old. Grandpa Peters was half.

Spanish. His wife pure English.

Aunt Mini Grimes married George.

Underwood Grimes Grandson of the.

Late Cap. G. Underwood & was left.

very rich. Aunt Mini fell off.

South Head [Sydney]& was killed. Her share.

of money £50,000 - fell to George.

& Percy Grimes & Percy.

went through best part of it.

An Uncle of mine named Whickchurch?was 3 times Lord Mayor of London.

Many of my cousins are Dr. There?is a family name Dr Dempsey.

Cousins but I never found them a?thought I had. several cousins in?Deniliquin N.S.W. My first?Cousin William Hooper died 3?years ago, all his sons are in?Banks there & here. That is all?I can remember.

Today Lill & Blanch.

have gone on a farm with the 2.

children for a fortnight - so Dad &.

I are alone. This is the 12th. used to get your letters.

on 5 or 6th why dear man you.

altered the date . Your Dad is.

so worried with that Keith(?).

he will not work & last week was sitting.

in the park at 12 at night when an.

old man charged him with.

robbery & thanks to me he got.

out of it. I had to bale him. & poor Dad has to pay.

£5-3 for the solicitor.

just for the families sake.

& keep it out of the.

paper. I waste days walking.

all over the place & the fellow would.

not say thank you - Aunt.

Kobriak (Gabrial?) is seriously ill & Katie(?).

had to go home. Aunt.

F is splended it was a.

blessing poor Mick(?) Sim(?) Died.

You will have received all?my letters I suppose dear Son. are settled at Pretoria?now I hope. Not in tents. I long to?hear dear. Dad is going to write to?you on Sunday. He says he?has no news that I tell?you all. Now dear I will.

say good night - I hope all I?have said will please you.

God bless you darling.

From your loving?Mother.

Kisses mv Son.

XXXXX

XXXXXX 1

["Mother" was Emily Augusta Peters nee Hooper,?married to James Chambers Frederick Peters.

their son, Ernest Francis James Peters, died age 41 near Johannesburg?South Africa in 1920[.

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