A proud Aunty Ada
Aunty Ada pointing to her parents names on the wall
Myself and Aunty Ada
Marie and me
my sister Liz
Myself, with neice Marie, took Aunty Ada to Fremantle to view the Welcome Walls where back in 2010 the third stage were unveiled at the wharf on the 11th December and Aunty Ada had gone to the unveiling. At that time I was living in Wynnum in Queensland. Now back in Western Australia in Kelmscott, we went to the walls to see the names of these special people: Henry Lockey, Aunty Ada's father and my grandfather, Margaret H Lockey Aunty Dad's Mum and my grandmother, and M.E. (Margaret Elizabeth), their daughter, Aunty Ada's eldest sister and my mother. My sister Lorraine, called Liz, came down to meet us there as she lived nearby in Spearwood. It was a wonderful moment seeing this link of our ancestors that started off the family in Western Australia. Granddad arrived on the
Jervis Bay in 1923 and he sponsored Nanna and my tiny Mum, who was two and a half, out in 1924. They arrived on the
Barramine