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GRAY PEATEY FOSTER VICTORIA

Journal by Yacka

My grandmother Jeanette Grace Gray married Bill Peatey. At the little dance in Toora, he had taken a fancy to her (she was scared of him, as he was wild, one time riding his horse and rearing it on its hind legs in the local pub, and whenever he turned up there was a fight [her words]). Well on this occasion after the dance he chased her home on her horse Bonnie, through the scrub and gullies up to her mothers farm.. she was so frightened, she forgot to wipe the horse down when she got back to the farm. She married him when she was a young girl, and had three children, Ronald Alan Peatey (lived in Mildura) Jeanette mary Peatey, married kevin Richardson and lived in East Malvern (Rothesay Avenue) and Beryl Peatey married Bert Lucas from Sale and lived in East Melbourne (Victoria Parade). Jeanette Grace Gray was born in Benalla in 1904, 15th June and their family moved to Foster after her father had been burnt in a bushfire and was confined to a wheelchair. There is a road in Foster called Grays Road, and this is where their farm used to be, with her mothers farm on top of the hill. One day when the nappies were drying over the fire, Bill Peatey told her to throw her wedding ring into the fire and go up to her mothers..which she did.... At her mothers, her mother exclaimed your house is burning. that bastard had burnt it down, claimed the insurance money and gone off to Beechworth as a logger. Jeanette Peatey(nee Gray) heard where he had gone and followed him, she left Ronnie with her mothe on the farm r, and took Jeanie and beryl and trapsed down the gullies into the logging area, feeding beryl out of a tomato sauce bottle filled with milk, whilst holding jeanies hand. No women were allowed there but the cook took pity on her. As soon as he realised she was there, he left and deserted again and wasn't heard of again until Ron Peatey his son, was 60 years of age and living in Mildura. A solicitor contacted him telling him your father is dying in Brown Hill, seems he was run over drunk. Ronnie replied what father? he had never seen him in his life. That is the story of Bill Peatey of Foster/Gippsland. His death notices appeared in local papers over the years until he finally died in Brown Hill, Victoria. And Post I believe had a story about him Rearing his horse on its hind legs in the local pub

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on 2018-04-10 18:39:41

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