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« on: Friday 06 July 18 08:52 BST (UK) »
this is an extract from my Grandmother Hilda Jacobs nee Pearce daughter of Ada Grace Snell about Aunt Susan
On Grandfather Snell's side I know of only one sister, She would have been Susan Snell. Evidently she married twice, first to a Mr Baker, who died leaving her a little property of 3 cottages all side by side in Adelaide. These she was able to let two of and live in the third one. Later she married Mr Gilbert. We always spoke of them as Aunt and Uncle Gilbert. When Mr Gilbert died, Aunt lived on in her little cottage, She would come up to Paskeville at times and visit around her young nieces and nephews as she did not have any family of her own. We always paid her an afternoon visit when in Adelaide. I was very young, but remember her tidy little cottages each with a tidy front garden and a white picket fence. I think the address was Hobson Place off Wright St. Adelaide but I don't remember the number.
When Aunt Susan visited us, she would ask for a chair to be placed out the back yard on Washing day, there she would sit for hours just watching the clothes blowing out on the line, she had always lived in the city, where it was sheltered and the clothes did not get enough wind to blow them around.
Our Aunt Isabel (always known as Aunt Bel) used to live in one of Aunt Susan's cottages after her husband Mr Ferguson died in Broken Hill. He worked in the Broken Hill mines. died of pneumonia leaving his wife and 3 little children. Kenneth was frail little fellow and she lost him also. Aunt Susan was good to the family, took Aunt Bel and Katie and Charlie to live in this cottage rent free until Aunt Bel could get a new start and find work that she could do and look after the children as well.