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Note: 9 WILLIMENA AUGUSTA SIMMS FATHER JOSEPH SIMMS AND BLANCH MARTIN 18 JUNE 1883 MOONTA BAY OCT 1993 TAKEN FROM MOONTA PRIMARY SCHOOL RECORDS 1878 MINNIE SIMMS-FATHER JOSEPH SIMMS -FISHERMAN STARTED SCHOOL1 JULY 1891 FOUND IN CATHOLIC RECORDS WILLEMONA SIMS BORN 18TH JUNE 1883 BAPTISTED 15TH MARCH 1885 PARENTS FATHER JOSEPH SIMMS MOTHER BLANCHE SIMS (NEE MARTIN) SPONSORS GALELINUS SWAN & ELIZABETH FENTON SWAN CLERGY JOHN JOSEPH POWER HOUSE AT SIMMS COVE WAS WILLED TO WILHELMINA 28 OCT.1907 EXERT FROM LETTER FROM COLIN WARN 1993 I have a number of photographs that Aunt Eff had that might be of interest to you. Included in these photographs of the Simms "boys" rowing team. Perhaps you could catch up with me when you get home. Mr information regarding Minnie is unfortunately a bit sketchy I don't have any details such as time and place of marriage.I think Robyn has that material as it was with the papers that surfaced when Mum passed away. What I do know is that Minnie lived at home until she married Henry (Harry or Andy) and that they lived fro a time in Oldham Street Glenelg until after the girls were born. (The Anderson family all lived in the area between Beckman Street, Glandore and Glenelg and Harry's mother owned a fish shop in Gouger street and apparently all the family helped there at one time or another) Harry was an expert grey hound trainer in the field or coursing and won many prizes in this area, both with his own and other peoples dog. Included in this were two Waterloo cups which are the equivalent of the Stawell Gift. During the depression when the girls were still young the family moved back to "Glencoe" the old family home that had passed to Minnie following the deaths of her parents. Times were tough and Minnie, a tireless worker raised her family by raising and hand milking a small herd of cows. The milk was either sold to her brothers as they owned the other houses in the little hamlet of Simms Cove or it was separated using a hand separator. The resultant cream stored in a water cooled safe and sent too Adelaide by train once the churn was full. The separated milk was used to feed a flock of muscovy ducks which were then sold as dressed poultry. Minnie continued this practice till in her early 80's, with the one concession to a modern practice, being the introduction of an engine powered milking machine when she was in her 60's (and this only because she went to stay with Effie and the chore fell to Connie) The original cow shed was at the rear of the stables and dog kennels and in the 1950's Minnie had just completed ,milking when the wall of the shed, a wall some 18" thick, constructed by Curly Joe, and built of limestone and mud but without foundation fell to the ground. Minnie regarded this as just one of those things and went on milking cows in the open until another shed was set up. Auntie Minnie was a generous person and the junior members of some of her cousin's families were often visitors at Glencoe. Harry worked around the Moonta area and continued to train coursing dogs. He was helped by Effie instilling in her a love of horses which she rode competitively at local shows till she gained a position with the Police Department, firstly as a wardress and then as a Police woman. When work become difficult to obtain in Moonta area Harry returned to Adelaide but Minnie decided to stay on in the family home. When Connie married in April 1942, she stayed on with her mother as her husband Frank Warn was in the Airfares and was posted overseas. Connie had her first 2 children at Moonta and when Frank resigned from the service he moved into Glencoe while maintaining his job in the merchant marine. Eventually he set up a poultry farm on the property and later worked in a number of businesses in the Moonta area. It was not until she was in her mid 80's that Minnie suffered from a form of what would now be termed as Al
Note: REFN13 MORTLOCK LIB. JULY 7 1992 BIRTH REGISTRA DALY DISTRICT BOOK 307 PAGE 14
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