The FATCHES Family
Peter Fatches recalls: "Our family was my parents Leslie and Therese, then me, and my sister Vicki. After running a business in Sydney, my father moved us to Broulee in 1965 and ran a boat-hire business in Narooma in the summers for about ten years. We moved into a house that had been my grandfather George Waldock's. He had died in 1960, his wife Alma had died some years before that, the house was in the corner between Grant Street and Lyttle Street.
Grandfather George had been the caretaker of the camping ground on the other side of Lyttle Street since 1949. It was similar to some of today's primitive camp grounds, it didn't have a proper amenities block and water was available through hand operated pumps. Progressively upgraded, around 1977 it was given Cyclone fencing and by then was becoming more like it is today.
Rose Stewart (nee Davidge) and her mother lived next door in Grant Street, my grandmother Alma Waldock and Rose's mother were Lawler sisters, they came from Nerrigundah. Rose's husband had been killed in a riding accident, Rose lived next door for a year or so caring for her mother, then moved on.
The family sold the Broulee property in 1974, and moved into Merlyn House in Moruya, it had been the Erin Go Bragh Inn on Broulee Island in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1976, we moved to a farm on Larrys Mountain Road outside Moruya."
There is more about Rose Davidge in the A-Z page under the entry 'Cattle'. As well, there is more about the Erin Go Bragh Inn/Merlyn House on the page 'Places: Broulee Island'. And we are most fortunate that Peter Fatches has produced a plan of the Erin Go Bragh Inn, it's there as well.
Grandfather George had been the caretaker of the camping ground on the other side of Lyttle Street since 1949. It was similar to some of today's primitive camp grounds, it didn't have a proper amenities block and water was available through hand operated pumps. Progressively upgraded, around 1977 it was given Cyclone fencing and by then was becoming more like it is today.
Rose Stewart (nee Davidge) and her mother lived next door in Grant Street, my grandmother Alma Waldock and Rose's mother were Lawler sisters, they came from Nerrigundah. Rose's husband had been killed in a riding accident, Rose lived next door for a year or so caring for her mother, then moved on.
The family sold the Broulee property in 1974, and moved into Merlyn House in Moruya, it had been the Erin Go Bragh Inn on Broulee Island in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1976, we moved to a farm on Larrys Mountain Road outside Moruya."
There is more about Rose Davidge in the A-Z page under the entry 'Cattle'. As well, there is more about the Erin Go Bragh Inn/Merlyn House on the page 'Places: Broulee Island'. And we are most fortunate that Peter Fatches has produced a plan of the Erin Go Bragh Inn, it's there as well.
