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Moody Street, West Cairns produced in association with royroyesfamilylinks Family Links 36 have been as unconscious of the sacred duties of the Huffam and Son role as is Mr Dombey: ome years ago, Gillian West wrote an article “Godfathers, of course,” continued Mrs Chick, “are entitled “Huffam & Son” in The Dickensian in S important in point of connexion and influence.” which she suggested that Charles Dicken’s novel Dombey and Son had some connection with “...The kind of foreign help which people usually Christopher Huffam https://royroyes.net/getperson. seek for their children, I can afford to despise; php?personID=I3665&tree=rr_tree. being above it, I hope.” Charles Dickens’ full name “...It might have been is Charles John Huffam well for Mr Dombey, if he Dickens. had thought of his own dignity a little less; and Christopher Huffam was had thought of the great Rigger to His Majesty’s origin and purpose of Navy, a gentleman and the ceremony in which head of a well-known family he took so formal and so and a sponsor at Charles’s stiff a part, a little more. christening - his godfather. His, arrogance contrasted Dickens, however, has little strangely with its history.” Charles John Huffam to say about his relationship Christopher Huffam died at Dickens with his godfather. Forster’s the age of 67; he was buried Christopher Huffam biography of Dickens dismisses the subject in two on 6 May 1839. Dickens brief passages: makes no mention of his death in any of his existing his godfather... a rigger, and mast, oar and block letters, yet it would be surprising, and very sad, if maker, lived at Limehouse in a substantial, handsome he had not been invited to the funeral. My purpose sort of way, and was kind to his godchild. It was here is to argue that seven years later Dickens was always a great treat to him to go to Mr Huffham’s; still deeply concerned with his godfather, and that and the London night-sights as he returned were a the tragedy of Dombey is founded on the history of perpetual joy and marvel. Here, too, the comic-singing Christopher Huffam. accomplishment was brought into play so greatly to A chart illustrating the Hougham/Huffam links is on the admiration of one of the godfather’s guests, an page 4 and on the web site at https://royroyes.net/ honest boat-builder, that he pronounced the little lad histories/Resources/dickens_hougham.png to be a “progidy”. illian West’s article https:// His father’s resources were royroyes.net/showmedia. so low... that trial was G php?mediaID=660 goes on to look to be made whether his at suggested connections with mother might not come to Dickens’ novel Dombey and Son: the rescue... The godfather down at Limehouse was • The Huffam family and their reported to have an Indian firm connection. People in the • Limehouse recalled in East Indies always sent Dombey and Son their children home to be • Huffam and his family educated She would set up a recalled in Dombey and Son school. They would all grow • Huffam and Dombey rich by it.” ickens adds to this only Dthat when at the age of eight or nine he was lost in London, he bought food In this issue with the change from half- a-crown given to him on his Huffam and Son 1 birthday by his godfather - ‘a News & Notes 2 man who knew his duty and Photos from the past 3 did it’. Origin of names 5 Dickens’s failure to Research Notes 6 acknowledge any real debt suggests that Huffam may royroyesfamilylinks 36 • October 2017 Desme Sara nee Harvey, the youngest of Jane Elliott News & Notes Royes’ children with Leslie Harvey, died on 27 August 2017, aged 87. There was a lovely celebration of her life (Brisbane) and burial (Caboolture Lawn Cemetery at August 2017 Deception Bay) on Monday 4 September. [2nd cousin of May Royes] September 2017 Rob Roy (centre front) had a surprise 70th birthday celebration in Cairns, QLD. His five brothers (Neil, Tony, Trevor, Greg, and Cris) traveled to Cairns for the occasion. Rob comes from Weipa at the very tip of Queensland, Neil comes from Melbourne - 3000 km away. Maurie Roy (1917-2010) would have been 100 this [Rob is Maurie Roy’s nephew] month but there was a birthday party in his honour at the Yacht Squadron where family had celebrated his birthdays for some years. That’s Ena (daughter-in-law), Mandie (daughter) and Bruce (son). The Photos from the past feature (page 3) is based on Maurie’s years in Cairns. Erica Russell and Oliver Rix were married on the Gold Caught up with Helen (Royes) Bourke on Coast, QLD, Australia. Queensland’s Gold Coast - she is the only surviving {Erica is 2C1R or Maurie Roy] sibling of her family. [May Royes’s sister] Thank you contributors Daphne [Crossley] and Ray Clay, Peter Roy, Penny Sara, Alissa Baxter 2 • royroyesfamilylinks 36 • October 2017 Maurie Roy would have been 100 in August Photos from the past and our photos from the past record three of the homes he lived in in Cairns, QLD, Australia. The first was where the family lived when they arrived in Cairns from Northern Ireland in 1923. It was located at 104 McLeod Street, and no longer exists as the area is now part of the Cairns central business disrict. He married May Royes in 1940 and in 1941 built his first house at 102 Cairns Street in North Cairns - a fairly typical “Queenslander”. This is where his three children first lived until May died in 1951 and they all moved in with his parents, now living at 5 Moody Street, West Cairns. There is no known photograph of this house. He married Rose Thorburn in 1957 and they built a house at 45 Morehead Street, Bungalow not far from the city centre. Rose had a son Nicky and the four children went to boarding school in Charters Towers. After the children had gone their various ways he and Rose continued to live there until they died, Maurie in 2010 and Rose in 2012, both at 92. Below is a photo of Maurie and May and their three children a year or so before May died. Alissa Baxter has written another Regency romance, A Marchioness Below Stairs. Alissa wrote her first Regency romance, The Dashing Debutante, during her long university holidays. After travelling the world, she settled down to write her second Regency romance, Lord Fenmore’s Wager, which was inspired by her time living on a country estate in England. Also the author of two contemporary romances, Send and Receive and The Blog Affair, Alissa currently lives in Johannesburg with her husband and two sons. [Alissa is Maurie Roy’s 2C1R] royroyesfamilylinks 36 • October 2017 • 3 Huffam & Son chart - from page 1 From the Townsville Daily Bulletin [edited]: Road train drivers carting cattle to Townsville meatworks stop there for a meal. Just about anyone Tweny-three’s a crowd travelling past pulls in for fuel or just to see a human in a small space bush bar face. “They’ve packed the bar out plenty of times, If you are planning an end of season Rugby League but it’s not hard to pack out. Mostly they sit out tour of the bush, keep in mind that the barn at The front,” said Laurel Royes from The Oasis. Oasis Roadhouse is only 1.37m by 1.42m. In 1992, 22 people taking part in a car rally packed You can’t swing a cat in here, let alone a couple of into the bar, creating what was then an all-time second rowers. record. You could fit two wingers inside and maybe a couple During Christmas 2004, the record was smashed of centres, but forget about prop forwards. They’ll when 25 members of the Royes family packed into have to go in one at a time. the tiny space. Locals from surrounding stations had The roadhouse sits just off the Gregory a go at cracking the record set by the Royes family Development Road “Three Ways”, 112km south of when [TV program] Seven Sunrise rolled up to do Mount Garnet. It’s 53km north of Greenvale, 270km a program there one morning in January 2016, but north of Hughenden, 76km southeast of Einasleigh managed only 23. and 400km northwest of Townsville. The official records still stands at 25. 4 • royroyesfamilylinks 36 • October 2017 Origin of names A series looking at the origin of surnames in the family tree. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to “develop” often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. Luther Moody uther appears 26 times as a surname - the 21st oody occurs 25 times in the family tree - the Lranking surname in our data. There are 54 people M25th most common surname in our data. In our in our Luther-Royes branch, based on the marriage of Moody branch there are 360 people based on the Maria Royes to Freidrich Christian Luther in 1842 in descendants of Patrick Moody (c.1827-1879), born Sydney, NSW, Australia. and died in Ireland - his son Thomas Stewart Moody ccording to House of Names, Luther is derived migrated to Australia in 1877. Afrom a Germanic personal name compounded oody is English and Irish, a nickname for a from the words liut, “people”, and heri, “army”. Mcourageous, arrogant, or foolhardy person, or he earliest Luther in our data is Freidrich C.
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