" PAST " YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED TOMORROW IS THE DAY!

 

 We will pick up the story in 1886

This little girl Louisa Wilson was born in Sydney on 5th September,1886, she married Edward Beckmann , German by birth but a proud Australian since 1904 the year they were married......on 1st March,1904. On 28th May 1905 she gave birth to her first child:

 

 

Elsie Georgina Beckmann. On 22nd March,1927 she married John Joseph Dixon at St. Joachim's Catholic Church Lidcombe . Her conversion to Catholicism repaired the damage done to the Beckmann and Dixon families by the apostate Father Martin Luther and King Henry VIII some 400 years earlier, and on 9 th April, 1940 she gave birth to her second child :

 

  Anthony John Dixon your scribe! Here I am seen in later months Alert but not Alarmed - you try looking alarmed after being woken up from a nice nap on the way to the doctor's for a check up ! But DEFINITELY interested in all that's going on! That's still the case!! And yes I'm looking forward to a Happy 71st Birthday tomorrow, including a family celebration with our son Matthew and his wife Cathryn and their dear children : Stephen, Josephine, Gabriel and Anastasia and phone lines running hot from the South. I was delighted this morning to receive in the mail a Birthday Card from Marist Brother Peter Salta ( Brother Albanus in better times) a great teacher and devout Religious.

So, there you are - so many significant events recalled on the one day! So many people for me to remember and be thankful for.