Our Research Officer at the Boorowa Museum recently received an email from David Mack, a gentleman living in Nottinghamshire, England, asking for information about two school girls who attended Frogmore Public in 1944.
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These girls were Dulcie Roberts and Betty O'Neill.
It appears that David's mother, Gladys Gibson, survived a V2 rocket that demolished her terrace home in Leyton, London in that year.
The bomb left the family destitute because the house was deemed unsafe and they could not rescue anything at all.
However, Gladys was fortunate to receive donated clothing.
Two of these donated items were from Australia, one was a jumper made by Dulcie and the other was a skirt made by Betty.
Pieces of paper attached showed their names and the name of the Frogmore Public School.
Our Research Officer has determined that Dulcie Roberts, born in 1925, lived her entire life in Frogmore until entering a nursing home in Boorowa a few years before her death aged 94 years.
She was very community minded and worked tirelessly for Returned Soldiers of the district.
Dulcie married John Michael (Jack) O'Malley of Frogmore and they raised two sons, Maxwell and David (who with his wife Rhonda still operate the property).
Betty O'Neill was born in 1931, and lived in Frogmore until she chose a career in nursing in Sydney.
She married Bernard McGrath a farmer of "Noongah" Boorowa, and they had four sons and a daughter.
Bernard died in 1990 aged 62 years and Betty passed away in 2016 aged 85 years.
The property was sold and the family moved on.
These details have been sent on to David Mack.
They have also been sent to Eddie McGrath, who now lives in Narellan Vale and David O'Malley, of "Ascanius", Frogmore.
Our Research Officer often receives requests for information about people who lived in the area or events that occurred around Boorowa and environs, and the Museum is gradually building up a very good research unit.
