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Clifford left Bathurst and went to work in Sydney. Wyn had been sent to stay with her two
aunts, Prudence (Fay) Vickery and Francy, at 12 Culdees Road, Enfield and stayed with them till
she was five. Jane and her daughter, Nancy, went to Sydney on the train when Nancy was three and
they went to stay with Jane's mother, Ann Peacock, at Eastwood, and there Allan Hassall, weighing
10lbs, was born on 22 September 1909.

Clifford got a job first as a foreman at the gas works and later in Annandale with a backyard
manufacturer named Ewings. A close friendship was established with the Ewings, and the father,
who suffered from consumption, came to stay later at Fairfield West and other members of the
family came regularly for holidays. While he worked in Annandale the family rented a house in
Merrila Street, Burwood. There was always a very close relationship between Jane and her sisters,
Fay and Francy who frequently had their nieces and nephew to stay and participated in and
encouraged theatricals and provided the children with a second home, especially Wyn, who spent
much time there. Later frequent visits to the sisters' weekend cottage at Pittwater were a pleasant
part of the family's life. Auntie Francy did much sewing for her sister and for her nieces.

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Theatricals at Enfield. Wyn, Eva Peacock, Nancy, Auntie Fay, Leonora Peacock.

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