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handed out tracts. She carried a portable record player and played records to spread the word to those who would listen. By now her daughters had bestowed on her the slightly cheeky but affectionate name of ''Clara''. She was often a difficult guest as she would arrive at her daughter Nancy's house without warning just on meal times and food had to be taken from each plate to giver her a meal. She annoyed her son-in-law, Hector Bull, with her talk and strained the patience of her small granddaughter, Jean, as she talked of her beliefs or, worse, handed over religious literature which was especially disappointing when such literature was given as a birthday gift.
In 1950 she wished to join a tour the Jehovah's Witnesses were taking to visit England and America. She sold her only asset, her home, to her granddaughter Audrey and Audrey's husband Ray Gendle, for just the amount she needed for her trip on condition that they provide a room for her for the rest of her life on her return. She had her trip and attended great rallies of Witnesses as well as doing the usual sight seeing. Not long after her return, Audrey and Ray, who needed bigger and newer premises, sold the house and Jane spent the next few years living with various Witness families in Fairfield.
As her long life stretched out she drew up a simple Will which left all her ''bits of bedroom furniture and contents to Edith Oakes'' (Allan's wife). Her daughter, Francis Leigh Bull, was appointed her executrix. In 1962 she wrote a note requesting that any money left after paying her funeral expenses should be divided between her two daughters.
She grew frailer and went to stay with her daughter, Wyn, who nursed her with great care and devotion. On 27 October 1963 she died and at her cremation a Theocratic Funeral Service was held for her according to her wishes. On that day her old house at Fairfield West was demolished.
These two very talented and capable people, Jane Peacock and Clifford Leigh Oakes, had difficult lives in which they worked hard and struggles to make ends meet and provide for their children. It is wonderful that Clifford, at least, received recognition for his achievements in the community in which he lived so long.
7.1.7.1 EVA ETHELWYNNE OAKES (1905-
She was born on 26 June 1905 at Bunnamagoo station, Rockely near Bathurst. She married Jackson Haynes on 7 December 1929 in the Methodist Church, Malvern Hill, Croydon. Her uncle, Leonard Peacock, officiated at the wedding. She was 24 years old and Jackson Haynes was 23. His occupation was a turner and hers was a stenographer. He was the son of Charles Frederick Haynes, a hairdresser and his wife, Annie nee Jackson. Jackson Haynes was living in Newcastle at the time of his marriage. Witnessess to the wedding were the bride's sister, Francis Leigh Oakes, and the groom's brother, Murray Haynes. They eventually built a home at 27 Wilga Street, Fairfield where Wyn still lives. Jack died on 26 March 1969. They had three children, Douglas Barry Haynes, Brian Charles Haynes and Suzanne Marion Haynes.
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Children of Eva Ethelwyn and Jackson Haynes. Brian Charles Haynes, Suzanne Marion Haynes and Douglas Barry Haynes, 1937.
7.1.7.2 FRANCIS LEIGH OAKES (1906-
She was born at Bunnamagoo station at Rockley on 21 July 1906. She married Hector Alexander Bull on 9 April 1931 at her parents' house in Rawson Road, Fairfield West. Witnesses to the marriage were her mother and his father. They lived on a vineyard at Thorney Road, Fairfield West until they moved to Gordon in 1965. Hector died on 14 September 1978 and several years later Frances moved to a home unit on the Pacific Highway at Turramurra. They had three children, Jean Elizabeth Bull, Nancy Margaret Bull and Mary Christina Bull.
7.1.7.3 ALLAN HASSALL OAKES (1909-1985)
He was born on 22 September 1909 and married Edith Shanks, daughter of Richard Dalkin Shanks, a farmer of Fairfield West, and his wife, Edith Shanks nee Ayton, on 11 October 1929 at St. Barnabas' Church of England, Fairfield. He was only 20 years old and therefore underage and needed the consent of his father. She was 21 years old. He was a motor mechanic, she was a machinist. Witnesses to the marriage were his sister, Frances Leigh Oakes, and her fiance, Hector Alexander Bull. Edith Shanks had been born at Newcastle on Tyne, England. They built a house in Rawson Road, Fairfield West on land given them by his father. Edith Oakes died on 29 June 1968 and Allan Oakes on 22 May 1985. They had three children, Audrey Oakes, Julie Roslyn Oakes and Robin Leigh Oakes.480
480 Information on the marriages of the children of Clifford and Jane Oakes were obtained from their respective marriage certificates.
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7.1.8 WILLIAM SHELLEY OAKES (1866-1912)
William, the eighth child of John and Elizabeth Oakes, was born on 2 December 1866 at Berrima. He married Kathleen Emily Burgess, eldest daughter of John Burgess, at Barcaldine on 22 August 1912, the ceremony performed by the Reverend Father P. Cornel. He, like his brother Clifford, seemed to spend much of his early life on the road. His mother wrote on 20 July 1909 that ''I heard from Willie this week, he is still on the line from Blackall to Jericho''. Later she wrote with evident pleasure when William came to visit his brother, Spencer, at Kelso: ''It is a great pleasure for me to see my Baby again, but he has grown so much since I last saw him I can hardly believe it is really Willie, he is stopping at Kelso, so I do not see very much of him. I do hope he may be able to get suitable work & not have to go so far away again, any way, while I live...''
William Oakes and his wife came to stay with his brother, Clifford Oakes and his family, at their house in Merrila Street, Burwood while he had an operation to remove a growth from his face. He did not survive the operation and died on 18 December 1912 only four months after his marriage and eight months after his mother died and is, like her, buried at Kelso. His widow survived him by many years.
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Grave of William Shelley Oakes and his mother, Elizabeth Mary Oakes. Holy Trinity Churchyard, Kelso.
7.1.9 ALAN FRANCIS OAKES (1870-1872)
He was born on 24 February 1870 at Berrima, the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Oakes. He died on 7 December 1872 at Balmain.
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7.2 CHARLES SHELLEY (1830-1912)
Charles Shelley was born on 31 January 1830 at Parramatta. He married Mary A. Terry on 3 August 1864 in Nattai. He died in 1912 at Corowa and she died in 1929 there. They had four children.
7.2.1 CHARLES SHELLEY (1865-?)
Charles Shelley was born on 14 May 1865 at Mittagong.
7.2.2 AMELIA L. SHELLEY (1867-?)
Amelia L. Shelley was born on 2 May 1867 at Blowering, Tumut and in 1899 at Corowa in Victoria marries Jonas Vagg.
7.2.3 MARIANNE S. SHELLEY (1869-?)
Marianne S. Shelley was born in 1869 in Tumut.
7.2.4 WILLIAM CHARLES SHELLEY (1872-1843)
William Charles Shelley was born on 16 December 1872 in Albury and on 17 January 1906 at Yarrawonga married Lily Jean Johnson. He died on 28 March 1943 in Boorowa and she died on 28 May 1975 in Melbourne. They had four children: William Vernon Shelley who was born on 27 July 1906 at Corowa and who married on 3 January 1940 in Eden Valley, South Australia, Desma Lorriane Lehmann and who died on 11 June 1980 in Ryde; John Charles Shelley who was born on 24 August 1912 at Boorowa and married twice, first on 16 May 1936 he married at Yass Thelma Alice Thornton who died on 30 March 1968 in Sydney and secondly on 20 December 1969 he married Jean Margaret Piddick, he died on 27 July 1986 in Rivett, ACT; Faith Shelley who was born in 1915 at Boorowa and in 1935 married Charles H. Weeden at Boorowa; Jeffrey Norman Shelley who was born on 20 October 1917 at Boorowa and died on 29 October 1944 in World War II in Malaya; and Lily Shelley who was born in 1918 in Boorowa and married in 1939 in Waverley Lionel George Owens and she died in December 1971.
7.3 LUCY ANN SHELLEY (1832-1913)
Lucy Ann Shelley was born on 2 January 1832 in Parramatta. She married Christopher Moor who had been born on 13 April 1837, on 29 October 1859 at Berrima. Christopher Moor was a storekeeper in Bowral in 1889. She died in 1913 in Sydney and he died on 14 December 1897 at Parramatta. They had five children.
7.3.1 LUCY LILLIAN MOOR (1862-?)
Lucy Lillian Moor was born on 2 July 1862 in Balmain remained unmarried.
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