Please note: I am yet to commence compiling the Clark and Brady sections of the site and hope to do so in the near future.

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I cannot express adequately the importance and influence my paternal grandmother, Catherine Ruth Clarke, (also known as Kathleen), had on my life. Having been raised by her and my father from the tender age of 8, she was, in every sense of the word, my mother. Of course my mother still played an important and active part in my life, but it was Nana who I lived with, who cared for me and who provided the day-to-day love and support a growing young girl needed.

 

The Clarke and Brady genealogy is different to all my other families on this site in that they are the only lines to come from an Irish Catholic background. My information has not only been obtained through a number of different and helpful resources, but also from the wonderful stories and memories she would tell me of her childhood days, growing up in the mining town of Silverton, just out of Broken Hill in New South Wales.

 

The Adoption Story, the moving story of her meeting my grandfather, George Henry Erwood, and the birth of my father can be read by clicking here.

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