Various household documents relating to 'Ellerslie', Dunmore, home of the East family.
1. Boomerang glider with instructions
2. Royal Lifesaving Ribbon from Nowra/Kiama
3. Words for school song 1932
4. Guide Handbook Jillian Unsworth Part 2 Badges Emblems and Pennants
5. Girl Guides supporters badge sent to Ruth East
6. Wedding Invitation from Mr. & Mrs Claypole for the marriage of their daughter Christine to Stephen J Morrison.
7. Post Card of the ship ' Oronsay' Orient Line
8. Post Card Christmas Wishes with love from Doris
9. Sincere thanks from the Youll family
10. Birthday Wishes for Leslie East x 2
11. Christmas Card addressed to Leslie East from 'Moggs'
12. Commemoration Service Anzac Sunday 28/4/1935.
13. Booklet - Sixteen Explorers of Australia
14. Cardboard wheel with smaller inner wheel made by Pix to aid in giving the correct change
15. Letters from various members in the Kiama and Warilla Girl Guides.Provenance and SignifcanceThe East family is very well known in Shellharbour and Kiama. Thomas and Elizabeth East arrived in Australia in 1841 and farmed at ‘Prospect’, where East’s Caravan Park at Kiama is today. Thomas and Elizabeth had a family of six boys and six girls.
One son, John East, married Elizabeth Jarman in 1875 and settled at ‘Ellerslie’ farm at Dunmore. John and Elizabeth had a family of nine children, five boys and four girls, all raised on the farm.
Their youngest son, Wentworth ‘Wenty’ Lincoln East was Killed in Action in 1917 during the First World War. In a letter Wenty wrote to his parents, he said : “I am receiving all I require, and moreover I am facing this awful business calmly, knowing that if it comes to the worst, I am fully prepared for the end” (Kiama Library).
Percival ‘Percy’ John Walkden East, John and Elizabeth’s eldest son, carried on farming at ‘Ellerslie’.
In 1913, Percival married Elsie Gambell and two years later Leslie Percival East was born.
Sadly, Leslie was just four years old when his mother died, aged 31. Percy lost both his brother and wife within two years.DonorEast, Percival J.W.
