TitleEast Collection - Methodist Church Papers.Object TypeDocumentDescriptionHousehold Documents.
Various household documents relating to 'Ellerslie', Dunmore, home of the East family.
1. List of duties for cemetery trust and official letter for Leslie East as trustee of the Methodist Church portion of the Kiama Cemetery dated 28th November 1946 from Dept. of Lands.
2. Booklet from the N.S.W. Temperance Alliance Sydney called GRIT includes facts for Temperance talks from the road safety council reports. Dated September 1956.
3. United Christian Witness - Wednesday November 28th 1934.
4. Celebration of Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist Church, Kiama. Leslie P East on the reverse side.
5. 2 pages of notes on ' How to Use The Bible' handwritten in pencil on the 28th September 1929.
6. 6 Tickets of Membership from 1960 & 1967 for Mr. L East and Mrs. L East and Mrs. Ruth East.on the reverse side Rules of membership.
7. N.S.W. Methodist Temperance Society The Pledge.
8. Booklet - The Scripture Union November - December 1952.
9. Kiama Methodist Church Wesley Guild Meets every alternate Tuesday. All Young People Welcome.
10. The Daily Text Calendar 1934 list of daily readings for each month.
11. Scripture Union List of Scripture portions for the years 1936 & 1938 on yellow and blue cardboard.
12. Methodist Church of Australasia - Young Worshipper's League Duty Stamp Album for Leslie East Dunmore.
13. The Sunday School Scholar February 1927 with various articles inside with questions to be answered on the inside.
14. Parish of Kiama Uniting News October 1978 - newsletter produced by the local church for the area covering Jamberoo Gerringong Kiama.
15. Booklet of poems by Merle Stevens in Memory of Alf Stevens with coloured front page with coloured pictures throughout and all proceeds to the Illawarra Cancer Appeal.Provenance and SignifcanceThe East family is very well known in Shellharbour and Kiama. Thomas and Elizabeth East arrived in Australia in 1841 and farmed at ‘Prospect’, where East’s Caravan Park at Kiama is today. Thomas and Elizabeth had a family of six boys and six girls.
One son, John East, married Elizabeth Jarman in 1875 and settled at ‘Ellerslie’ farm at Dunmore. John and Elizabeth had a family of nine children, five boys and four girls, all raised on the farm.
Their youngest son, Wentworth ‘Wenty’ Lincoln East was Killed in Action in 1917 during the First World War. In a letter Wenty wrote to his parents, he said : “I am receiving all I require, and moreover I am facing this awful business calmly, knowing that if it comes to the worst, I am fully prepared for the end” (Kiama Library).
Percival ‘Percy’ John Walkden East, John and Elizabeth’s eldest son, carried on farming at ‘Ellerslie’.
In 1913, Percival married Elsie Gambell and two years later Leslie Percival East was born.
Sadly, Leslie was just four years old when his mother died, aged 31. Percy lost both his brother and wife within two years.DonorEast, Percival J.W.
