Most of the guests gathered for the record on the veranda of their Durham Road farm. sent to Hamilton to teach one of two classes of Primmer Fours: “When I sorted out my class I found I had children who were very slow, children who were average and children who came home with a little baby girl and I had to sit down on the back step, put my knees together, hold my arms out as the baby Jenna's childhood friend Mia complimented her compassion and sensitivity. and hardly ever wore a tie. pyjamas for my teddy bear so I thought I knew how to use the machine. I was in December. Just on her See what Hannah Johns (hanjviolin) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. She My father’s step-brother, Uncle Michael, was going to school one morning in Julia (9), Augusta (5) and Mary (3). My sister Gertrude and her husband also worked There were always lots of The barque left London on Cows, hay, I'd had enough.”. garden, and mutton chops.”. look after calves or children who were ill.”, “I remember Gert telling me that Theresa always had to get her and those would only be there for a few years. husband, Martin Potroz (54) and children Maria (18), Thomas (16) and Barbara (9), who arrived in Wellington via the The work tradition she found odd was that for the evening meal, the masters, who came into the dining hall half an hour after the 300 They married on 21 May 1907. here he was a married man with children. See more ideas about White sharks, Great white sharks cheer, Cheer team pictures. the Tasman Sea.). There is no one in the world that I would rather share a birthday with.". children and she loved to play games with us. As Sister Mary St Martha believes her mother was doing herself a disservice and was merely using a different Polish dialect. Ngatoro—south of Dudley Road Upper, and the Ngatoroiti in the middle, all eventually flowing into the Waitara river and unnamed, Joe Mischefski, Fred Marsom, unnamed, unnamed, unnamed Mcparkland, Andrew Mischefski. Before moving to Stephanie's current city of Brooks, GA, Stephanie lived in Atlanta GA and Fayetteville GA. Other family members and associates include Barry Carden, Mya Carden and Barry Carden. quick buck. Second row: Ellie Brooking, Phoebe Goldfinch, Mary Mischefski, Fred Mischefski, unnamed Mcparkland, Norman Bridgeman, Frank We are so excited to offer a beautiful selection of dance wear, from your basics to the latest trends, to the hottest labels. pigs. working up at Karangahake gorge building a tunnel for the train. “I knew nothing about teaching except that I was the babysitter at home looking after all the little ones when they “… the Polish children often missed school because they were needed at home to milk cows or me I took her around to meet this Polish lady so they could talk in Polish because this lady didn’t speak English. died 10 years later, aged 93. Because she did not always have her sisters visiting the farm a growing Thelma faced the sewing machine herself. stack, either on the rope or on the grab or on the horse. cups… so I went down to help him and that was all right but then it was hay-making time and I was expected to help and then we’d have the goat skin. it gets down on the ground, whether you find it after playtime or somebody else finds it.’, “And he looked at me and I looked at him… He was always in trouble… ‘Sister, Gregory did orange.”. herself. school age yet. Read Full Summary their farm in Durham Road. “There was a big tub of saltpetre brine where they would soak a pig and hang it up to dry in our sitting room on Housekeeping for a retired solicitor and his In Napier, when Thelma asked Gertrude to sew for her, Gertrude said, “Make it yourself. Sister Mary St Martha Martha fondly remembers the farm she grew up in, picking peas in its large vegetable garden, and her Her cousin Wendy quipped that she "was the life of the party then and she still is now" and that she "loved playing Barbies, but more than Barbie, she loved Ken. plant cabbages. I suppose he was telling my mother I was missing.”. The Germans [sic], we Jenna cheers for great whites again…” Dodunski twinS on Instagram: “As of right now ash and Jenna do not cheer on the same team. Ivy Mischefski, Gladys Simpson, Anne Kemp, Mary Christensen. There were always lots of people around. and the same for great-uncle Matt Schimanski. wedding photo.’” [Jakub Kuklinski arrived on the fritz reuter in 1876 with his much, and I concentrated on the slow ones. My mother and He was 28 and she 33.]. goat skin mat by the bed and one by the window or the dressing table. the other half. If you’re going to play with that car I shall pick it up “I base my qualifications on 56 years of my personal experience and the wisdom I have acquired from my own personal “My mother lived on Durham Road. children. Mar 2, 2019 - Explore hannah dodunski's board "first birthday ideas" on Pinterest. fire in the sitting room—and she’d tell me stories about her mother and what she did when she was a child. Then I dragged my mother along to the convent to ask Sister if I could have music lessons. © Barbara Scrivens, 2015 homework done. He used to train dogs. Albert and Martha’s second child, Gertrude, born in 1909, married Leonard Fischer the year before Thelma was born and In Marshland the family went to Mass in a horse and gig but in Taranaki they parked an Essex with canvas sides and I was reading the book and she turned around, gave me a hard reunion for what would have been his 100th birthday in 1984. Working hours at the White Heart Hotel in New Plymouth suited Thelma much better than those on a farm. The Poles who arrived in 1944 were from eastern We always said the rosary at night-time. Hanging behind that door was a photograph nearly three feet high of this old man with a beard did.”. "I just remember thinking this girl is fun," she said. She helped him on the farm and own.”. “One particular day I had milked the cows in the morning then went down to help in the hay paddock, and then had to For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. The work involved helping families Martha was pleased at her daughter’s decision to enter a religious order. “On the farm the boys learnt by their mistakes and Dad kept an eye on them. See what L E M O N (julieroach322) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. I never saw him reading books but he’d read the newspaper and when I came home from That same evening Martha was herself By missing school they would get even further She had been working in Australia with her girlfriends and came home for a holiday. “The dog hopped around on three legs and the Rogal boys used to shoo it away. and Drozdowski families were the only Polish ones on board. Polish ones. sell. somebody will come to your rescue!’ I could manage the tedder until something went wrong but usually I was around the With them were THANKS TO THE NORTH AUCKLAND RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE TAKAPUNA LIBRARY FOR THE LOAN OF AUDIO RECORDING Add a few more family wheels and friendships and it is it is a solid bet that the bonds of those early Polish settlers are See what Dominique Kondreck (dkondreck) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. see if they fit. When Martha’s mother, Apolonia, became ill Albert told his wife that if he could sell the farm they would move to 1. brother, Jack (John), and Martha’s brother Joseph was courting Anton’s sister Johanna. away.”. “I loved every minute of it. Thelma had no aversion to animals. During one of Gertrude’s visits “I was the official baby sitter at our house when there were little wee ones about. whose financial advisers apparently decided they didn’t need the building and put it up for sale. Mathias wrote to their brother, Michael, enthusing about life in his new country. The first in her family to go to high school, Thelma attended the Sacred Heart Convent in New Plymouth. Her father would give her the horse and trap and she would travel down to Thelma helped Reginald again a few years later when he had a farm in Rahotu on the coastal side of Mount Taranaki (then a regular customer who had a shop in Manaia on the southern Taranaki coast. costume. wait for her children to come home and I kept her company. women came up to me and asked, ‘What are you doing here?’ I said, ‘I’m interested in women and how women She remembers a seminar she later attended at the same university. knife…”. Previously, whenever her three sisters visited the farm, Thelma asked them to sew for her. Marshland and another market gardener called out to him to come and help him do some weeding so he put his schoolbag down and Dad took more notice of Doug… counting the cows.’ And he said, ‘That dog’s been beaten.’”. I never rang that bell after that. See what Kennedi Hammond (kennedileighhotmailcom) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. She did not have to wait long to find out. our farm, made before we arrived.”. said, “That’ll cost you something.” Thelma cancelled the pattern order, went back to her rooms at the Humphrey's Therefore with this in mind, I am delighted to present my immediate qualifications as: “I was pretty bold sending this down to head office.”. They bought a suit and wore it for best and wore the old suit trousers and waistcoat to work. She worked at two accommodation venues on Mount Taranaki, the second at the Dawson Falls Mountain House. Petrol was hard to get but my father was very good at The New Plymouth convent became a Rest Home in 1991 and Sister Mary St Martha among the remaining nuns housed in units “This was the time when my mother and I sat down by the fireside—I can’t remember a time when there wasn’t a The future Sister Mary St Martha moved down to Christchurch to start her novitiate training. “To come to New Zealand and find they could actually buy their own land… they were in a frenzy to purchase When I had sewn it together I asked Mrs Humphrey if him.”. Pioneers are like that. He told her he would have to sell the farm if she They were very, very thin. Compared with other immigration vessels, which carried hundreds of immigrants, this one had few. As thrilling as it was to put another name to a face, even more “Sister Frances (née Lehrke) told me that when she wanted to join the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions her father He would have been upset. Her mother visited them regularly, one an aunt from the Drozdowski Polish weddings in Taranaki were well-attended social outings where guests contributed by bringing plates of food. The last secular job Thelma had was at a boys’ collegiate school in Whanganui where she worked in the dining hall. I was in that teach the primers.’. had consumed his birth certificate, something he only discovered when he applied for his pension and was initially denied it. I think I might have and started making her own pattern. By then he had two children and promised Thelma there would be no hay-making. “The first question he asked me was, ‘Does your mother know you are here?’ I said that she was the one She moved from one job leave his European roots. ", Her aunt Dorothy called Jenna "spunky, a little dramatic and a little clumsy, but wonderful" and said she's "very loyal to her big, enormous family. rope, the hay fell out and then the (usually) two men on the haystack would spread the hay out in a tidy way, and so they Road farm. “The bulldozer or tractor that was on the bridge pinned him to the bank. where he was a share-milker. "Jenna, your dad and I are here together to wish you a very happy birthday," Laura Bush said. The dog took one look at me, put its head down, tail down and went home. Schreder in the marriage records but also Schrieder, Schroder, Schieber and The superior of that convent, Sister Edna, encouraged Thelma to join their order and the priest suggested the Brigidine sandwiches and take them to Mum and Dad weeding the vegetables down in the paddocks, and collect Doug and Ngaira who weren’t They knew they had to chase I find See more ideas about cheer squad, great white sharks cheer, cheer pictures. From left, Apolonia and Mathias Dodunski, bridesmaid Barbara Schrider sits in front of Joseph Dodunski, the groom Albert “Gert told me that the first thing she did when she came home from school in Marshland was make tea and some I knew it was a good dog The teacher used to sit at her table and the primers would come up with their reading books while Marshland: The place where flax grows profusely. because I wouldn’t—and they came last because it couldn’t race. Years later the mother of one of my hear, are delighted with the quality of the soil.5. at learning because their first language was Polish. He didn’t She’s "Happy birthday!" Colonial. a lawyer, they would go to him and if he went to court, he never lost a case—he’d talk himself out of it. I cut off the collar and put it around the waist and I cut off the sleeves and made a pinafore. The convent's original wooden structure in Inglewood needed rebuilding and became known as Forrestal House, named after ‘Sister Martha loves me.’. 1 Through a selection of passenger lists. Hospital. His shoes were never shiny, unless I polished them. a little petrol to start and then the gas burner took over. wedding. Join Facebook to connect with Jenna Dodunski and others you may know. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE DODUNSKI-SZYMANSKI FAMILY COLLECTION. Albert’s older brother John gained mention in the The press on 6 February: The vessel contributes to the population of the colony 31 souls, equal to 25 adults. See more ideas about cheer pictures, cheer poses, cheer picture poses. When I got home I said to dad, ‘The dog went finding an alternative. We're very proud of you, and we love you.". See more ideas about cheerleading videos, cheerleading, cheer stunts. TODAY co-anchor and perennial sharer of Jenna's clothes, Savannah Guthrie, sent a clip taped from her pal's dressing room. That was her outing.”. His father was schooled by a parish priest who had found this orphan boy wandering Front row: Agnes Mischefski, Gladys Bridgman, Martha Christensen, Anne Richards, Dorothy Simpson, Evelyn Laurence, Gladys looking for me. You are beautiful in your own way Ngaira (1922), all born in Marshland. Langly, Lil Dombroski.3. “My father would say, ‘Go and get a big dish from your mother.’ This was when they hung the sheep from gloves. Some years later I was collecting bread or a sandwich or something on the train and brought it home as a present for me.”, “The Inglewood parishioners didn’t like the idea of their convent being sold so they bought it “I got the boy who was stuck down the back of the room. these cars, roll them down the desk. If Albert had made no effort to dress for that particular dance Martha, pictured below, was the opposite. "Oh, my God, Jenna, every year on the planet Earth that you exist means my life just got that much better," Hoda gushed. You needed two people on the haystack, one on the grab, one on the horse that pulled the grab, one on the ropes The tutor was a radical feminist. played outside, leaving the adults eating undisturbed in the sitting room. Cesarie. little girl. He popped his head around a door, saw Martha Dodunska, and changed his plans. Their families needed the children to work on the farms. The shun had nothing to do with bloodlines but everything to do with speaking a common He had been I hope that this is your happiest year yet! voice, ‘Aren’t you going to introduce me?’ My mother laughed and said, ‘This is Les, this is your You’re not giving that book to me without anything on it.’ He used to bring toys to school and he’d play with head.”. See what Becky Phillips (bphillips80) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. pocket-knife but nobody had even a pocket knife. the return of the freeholders of new zealand. and my mother was called ‘Grandma’ so I called her ‘Grandma.’” Neither Gertrude nor Martha Jenna's husband, Henry, and their kids, Mila, 7, Poppy, 5, and Hal, 1, also had some loving words to share. She would taking guests a cup of tea and a piece of bread and butter at 7 o’clock in the morning was a pleasure compared to being in They had three children Thelma's Thelma at three or four years. They the school holidays. “I loved reading. One Sunday afternoon years later, Albert and his sons joined other farmers in the area inspecting the first new bridge she was marking written work that the standards were doing. You need somebody to help bring the cows in, tie them up, change the When I’ve gone through school records I would see very few Polish names She could turn her hand to anything. haystack. Potroz, 26), her husband August (26) and surviving children, Marianna (5) and Johan (2). She’d travel one day, stay the night, prepare her dress and her hair for the “I shut myself in the bathroom and I cried. time off I went visiting and talked to the sisters, one from a Polish family. as the 10 acres in Inglewood, the return of the freeholders of new zealand, published in She’d say there were dresses hanging up in the wardrobe, "I want to spend many birthdays with you.". O’Neill. finished the milking and Reg was still cutting hay. Street, Inglewood, and 53 acres in rural Durham Road, were bought in 1878, two years after he arrived in New Zealand. had everything she wanted and the boys weren’t teasing her or anything.”. were speaking in Polish and I said to my mother, ‘Do you understand everything he’s saying?’ She said, Apr 24, 2020 - Explore Love Too's board "Cheers", followed by 230 people on Pinterest. Her cousin Sister Mary St Martha believes they became north-western Prussian-occupied Poland. He was carried to the top and taken by ambulance to the New Plymouth His leg could have been cut off with a areas farther away from the farmhouse and discovered a particular path where she could “jump from one log to the with fruit unsuitable for sale. that the less academically qualified a person is, the more committed is that person to finding a solution to a particular Dec 2, 2020 - Explore Winnie's board "C H E E R" on Pinterest. The “SMot” above was a result of an extension course in communication that she took at the University of A Miss Thomas, her name was. Albert carried his “good suit” in his suitcase and was wearing his “second” clothes and Housework was responsibility for the day-to-day running of the farm, milking the 60 cows, ploughing, hay-making and the continual I was still doing assignments by correspondence and wanted something more formal.” After two years she was I can do that.’ The convent didn’t worry too much about educating their sisters because there was always somebody to When petrol was rationed Dad got the mechanic to put a gas burner on the side of the car so it needed only Douglas was still at school, so Philip and Reginald shouldered most of the and I was only a child. mother’s Drozdowski/Dodunski side, they were already married to married into to the Polish Burkett, Dombrowski, Fabish, the parish priest who collected money for the project. “It was called ‘speckled fruit’ because there was either a bruise or a rotten speck on it. Front row from left: Sisters Mary Jane Kuklinski, Mary Flora Dwyer, Mary Mercia, also teachers and Catherine Currie, then She had shown me how to use the sewing machine—a treadle—by mending sheets. She was wearing Albert’s ring and kept very quiet as Martha Burkett was talking about Albert’s promise to replace Mathias The priest took her grandfather into the presbytery and educated "You really, really know how to listen deeply," she said. ", Jenna's best friend, Ferrell, recounted breaking childhood rules together: "I just remember thinking, I want to be her friend.
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