Frederick Gloss

Story

Frederick’s parents were Irish and English and they looked for a better life in Australia

Father Frederick Gloss and his daughter Elizabeth arrived on the Demosthenes and his mother Eleanor and Frederick my father arrived two years later.

Grandfather was very happy at first until there was a rape in the family and he took his family to live in a tent. Grandmother crocheted around Hankies for David Jones to help save money. My father and grandfather worked for cinemas and my father also ran a horse and cart to deliver groceries to North Bondi and Vaucluse. He later became an upholsterer. He still worked in a cinema at Clovelly Hoyts while my mother who also immigrated from England worked as shoe sales person in David Jones. My father with his experience on machines made many items and gave them to charity. He worked for different religions i.e. Jewish community giving potholders and other small items, he worked for the Sisters of St. Joseph, he built a maypole for St. Catherine’s School in ‘Waverley. He was always a generous man with his time and what he could make for charities to sell. He also spent much times taking my asthmathic mother to hospital. His biggest disappointment was when he was described as an alien because he had never realised he needed to become a naturalised person and when he applied for a passport to go back to England before he was too old he was regarded as an alien. He was cremated at Botany and his ashes are interred near the crematorium there.

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