Perring Family History

George Alfred Perring (i)(a) married Bridget A Murphy, 1905 in Grafton, NSW, Australia. 

George Alfred Perring (i)(a) and Bridget A Murphy had the following children.

Francis George Perring (i)(a).

Francis George Perring (i)(a) married Joan Craig in 1932 in Grafton, NSW, Australia. 

Mary V Perring (i)(a). b. 1908 in Grafton, NSW, Australia. 

  George Alfred Perring (i)(a) husband of Bridget Perring nee Murphy

Bridget Perring nee Murphy. Mother of Francis (i)(a) and Mary V Perring (i)(a).

Mary V Perring (i)(a) & brother Francis George Perring (i)(a). 

Francis George Perring. Born August 6, 1906. Died July 20 1996. Francis Perring (i)(a) was the son of George Alfred (i)(a) and Bridget Perring both of whom were born into pioneering farming families from the Seelands and Carrs Creek areas near Grafton, NSW, settling in the 1860s.

Francis spent his school days at both Alumy Creek and Seelands schools and in his teens worked with his father and uncles and also on the local riverboats where he gained his steam boiler ticket.

During his 20s he worked in Sydney, NSW and Brisbane, Qld until the death of his father in 1930, when he returned to the Clarence river area.

He married Joan Craig in 1932 at Barretts Creek where they share farmed until successfully tendering for the operation of the Southampton ferry service.

At the expiry of the tender the family moved to Jackadgery where Francis worked as a plant operator for the Department of Main Roads until enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1939.

On his return in 1945 he started a small contracting business, operating until 1955 when he took a position as a boiler operator at the then new Grafton brewery, then to the Grafton Base Hospital and finally the Grafton Dairy Co-op from where he retired.

Francis spent a lot of his early retirement relieving some of his old mates working boilers around Grafton, until his health began to fail and he retired for good.

Francis lived through two world wars and served in one and raised a family through the depression.

Francis and Joan had the following children.

Shirley Joan Perring (i)(a). Born 20 March 1932 in Grafton, NSW.

Alfred John Perring (i)(a). Born 2 July 1936. 

Ronald Francis Perring (i)(a). Born 1945.

Alfred John Perring (i)(a) son of Francis and Joan Perring.