Eileen Nora Ritchie

Notes:

Notes by David J. Griffiths
...Eileen used to holiday in Naseby, staying at the boarding house run by a Mrs. Brown. Among the crowd was Reta Whelan and Rex Griffiths. On 30th May 1908 she married Rexiter John James Griffiths. The built a brick home in Look-Out Point, Riselaw Road, although there was an inside toilet it was many years before it was connected, therefore they used an outside toilet. Risela Road was o the edge of the then city on the top of the hill. On the other side of the road were paddocks where wheat was grown; sowed by casting and reaped by hand.
...In 1939 there was a great snow fall and the snow covered the ground up to the fences, hiding any cars that were parked. David and Bryan were born while living there. It was not unusual to see Bryan in the push chair, with David standing on the back, being pushed up the hill from Caversham Terminus by Eileen. She did this to save a penny bus fare. Eileen and the boys would, on Sunday, walk to St. Patricks for Mass and work back, sometimes stopping at a dairy at Caversham for Ice Cream that was required by law to be eaten in the shop. Progress came in the form of new roads being made on the town side of Riselaw Road; the contractor boarded with the Griffiths.
...At the start of the war they moved to Atkinson Street, South Dunedin, between Oxford and Melboourne Street. Russel and Dawn were born here, and Bryan was married at St. Patricks. Eileen's mother was getting old, so the Griffiths shifted again to Ascot Street, St. Kilda, to a house that had a separate living area, which Eileen's mother came to live in. Russel, Dawn and David were married while living here.

Christened:
St. Patricks Church

Eileen married Rexiter John James Griffiths on 10 Dec 1930 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Rexiter (son of David Edward Griffiths and Margaret Beck) was born on 21 Aug 1902 in Naseby, Central Otago, New Zealand; died on 22 Jun 1974 in Dunedin, New Zealand; was buried in Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Griffiths was born on 10 Dec 1932 in New Zealand; died on 12 Jul 2021.
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