1877-1960
Father
Mother
Siblings
Hugh Arthur, Mary (Wilson), Leo Cecil, Zita Kathleen, Eileen Agnes (MacPherson), Roy Lawrence, Rupert Joseph
Married
Gwendoline Catherine Morrell
Ivy Constance Little (nee Swain)
Children
Hugh Phillip, Marie Josephine(Carson), Gwendoline Winifred (Payne), Leonard Frances, Bernard Joseph, John Arthur, Evelyn Margaret (Flanagan)
Wilma Waterford, William Bede, Paula Catherine (Burnheim, O’Connor)
William’s Life
My father, William Ernest Waterford, Solicitor, Homemaker, Church man and a Gambling Horse Owner and Racer was also an Intellectual.
He was a child, a youth, and a man who had been spoilt all his life by his mother, siblings, family members, his wives and his children. He showed intelligence at a very young age and was taught by his mother until the age of 11 (1898) when he went to the Convent School at Mudgee.
At 14 Will was sent to St Stanislaus College Bathurst carrying on the tradition that his father and his uncle started in 1874.
He completed his schooling in three years and was dux of the school in 1904.
The family acknowledged Will as a genius. As an articled clerk he passed his law examinations before his articles were completed. He had a photographic memory and his mathematical ability was proven when he multiplied five figures by five figures without pen and paper.
He is best remembered for his social Justice and charity and wanted to die with no money because the Bible said ‘it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven’. Also ‘the only thing you can take with you into the next life is what you have given away in this’.
Authored by Paula O’Connor