Hi Everyone J.A.M.
I was recently looking up Island Magee and came across this thread. My name is Ros Booth (née Wood) and my grandmother was LUCY LOCKLEY.
My Great Grandmother was SARAH GARDINER who I last remember visiting with my mum Joan Wood (née Lockley) and my siblings. We were all young, primary school aged, and GG was bedridden. This was the very early 1970’s. She crocheted each of us a different lined ‘handbag’, which mum was choked up about because she had debilitating arthritis. We also heard of how our Great Grandfather came to Australia with the oldest sons to farm and clear land before the younger ones came out. Grandma Lucy spent the train trip with her face pressed to the window in sheer awe. They must have lived very hard because their home didn’t have flooring, and Sarah had to sweep the packed dirt floor everyday. I’m unsure which son it was, but one of them had around 4 children but the story goes his wife left and Sarah raised them as hers.
My grandmother Lucinda (Lucy), married my grandfather Thomas LOCKLEY.
They had 4 children, 3 girls and a boy:
Elsie (Married name Thomas)
- x 3 kids
Joan (Married my father James WOOD, both deceased)
x 4 kids
Roma (Kept former marriage name Fung)
x 2 kids (one relinquished)
Peter
x 2 kids
