"Aunty Annie" was the youngest child of Emilie (nee Diehl) and Charles Cogger. She was my dad's great aunt, so my great-great aunt. As I recall, EVERYONE called her Aunty Annie.
Annie was born 7 June 1880, and died 21 February 1970, when I was 12.
I certainly have a memory of meeting Aunty Annie when I was little.
She married at age 64, in 1944, to a widower named Thomas Dunn. He died in 1962.
Mum recalls that Aunty Annie looked after her nieces, Nell (my grandmother) and Emilie, and nephews, Maurice and Eric after their mother Violet (Annie's sister-in-law) died. This was because their father Henry's new wife didn't want anything to do with the children. That probably helps explain why Aunty Annie was always spoken of fondly. Electoral rolls from 1949, 1954 and 1963 show that she lived in the old family home, The Laurels at Mt Macedon, where previously Henry and Violet had lived. Her brother, Henry Edward Cogger and his second wife were living in Blackwood Rd, Macedon in 1942, and at Woodend (a nearby town) in 1949.
All this must have caused quite some family consternation and disruption. I remember hints of skeletons in closets, as the adults we visited had coded and whispered conversations out of earshot of the children!
Nevertheless, Alma, the wife of one of Annie's nephews, Eric, looked after and visited her husband's stepmother, Lillias, in Lillias's older age.
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