Shep's Place Family Tree

From a letter written by Vera Simms Harvey:

"...Auntie Emilie and Uncle William Luke Heerey were married in 1918 at Piesseville. I remember crying when Auntie Emilie and Uncle Bill drove off after the ceremony, as I wanted to go with them. As it happened they were only driving out to our farm three miles east of Piesseville for their wedding reception.

Another memory was her love of birds and animals. I loved watching her feed the magpies.

I also remember helping mother hang out the clothes when she told me Auntie Emilie had died, after having a litle baby girl, and then we were both crying..."

From Barbara Heerey Wood:

"My mother died the following day after my birth. I was brough up in Bunbury by my aunt and uncle, Ardrossan and Clement Wood, and adopted by them in 1925.

From 1933 - 1937 I went to Kobeelya Church of England Girls School at
Katanning, a great southern town about 200 miles from Perth. When war broke out I joined the WRANS and was enlisted in 1943 and discharged in 1946. I w as attached to H.M.A.S. Leeuin and H.M.S. Maidstone, a mother ship for the British submarines. In the early part of the war I was in charge of the Brownies in Bunbury and attached to the plane spotting depot in Bunbury."

From Joan Harvey Thompson:

"Barbara did quite a lot of social work as a young woman and chose to stay home after the war. She never married, but was god mother to seven babies and a second-mother to lots of children over the years. She was especially good to girls in boarding school. She is a born home maker and like her mother has a love of animals."