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Work at the Gunning home

We were really interested in your Gunning article (History page, Horowhenua Star, July 4). My mother, Elizabeth Conchie (nee Harris), daughter of Dal and Ellen Harris, grew up in Shannon. She left college at 14 and went to work at Gunnings’ home looking after the children. It was probably Eric Gunning’s family, about 1920. Mum loved looking after the children but after a couple of years left and worked at a nursing home in Palmerston North. She didn’t stay long as she was not happy there, so went back to Gunnings’ until about 1925. Mum then went to work as a housemaid at the Club Hotel. She married in 1927. Later on in life, Mum lived with my husband and I for five years before passing away in 1999. We had many conversations about Shannon and when she worked at the Gunning home. Mum loved children and there were 11 in our family, four boys and seven girls – heaps of descendants.

Wendy Bovey, Levin

 

 

 

 
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