• Ian Macky • Genealogy • Uncle • |
• Peter Wallace Macky • |
4 | Leila Ada (Aunt Doll) STITT b.Aug 1872 ![]() |
Rev. Homer David WHITFIELD Pittsburgh, PA b.16 Jul 1866 ![]() |
Ethel Jane ARMSTRONG Albertland, NZ b.7 Mar 1872 — d.1 Dec 1930 ![]() |
Samuel Henry (Harry) MACKY Papatoitoi, NZ b.15 Nov 1872 — d.14 Aug 1916 ![]() |
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Mary MacLean WHITFIELD Elizabeth, PA b.21 Dec 1903 — d.1995 ![]() |
Wallace Armstrong MACKY Papatoetoe, NZ b.21 Apr 1903 — d.15 Jun 1988 ![]() |
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PWM (1 mo) · 1937 | DWM, Miss Jefferson, PWM (1 mo) · 1937 |
PWM (3 mo), Miss Jefferson, DWM · 1937 | PWM (3 mo) · 1937 |
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DWM (2 yr) and PWM · Dec 1937 |
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PWM, MMM, DWM · Hobsonville Airbase · 1937 |
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MMM, PWM (10 mo), DWM, MEM · 1938 | PWM (10 mo) · 1938 | DWM & PWM (10 mo) Hobsonville Air Base, NZ · 1938 |
PWM (11 mo) · 1938 |
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PWM (1 year portrait) | DWM and PWM (1 yr) | MMM, DWM, PWM · 1938 |
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PWM (1 year) |
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Christmas Tree · 1938 | DWM (3rd birthday) with PWM |
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DWM (3 yr) & PWM Pushing Teddies |
DWM & PWM on same tricycle |
PWM and DWM at beach Hobsonville Air Base, NZ · 1938 |
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First home: Merry Hill, St Georges, Bermuda October 24, 1939 |
Veranda, Merry Hill Looking to Kindley |
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PWM (2 yr), DWM (3½ yr) At Grandparents' Freeport, PA, June 1939 |
PWM, MMM, DWM · Spring 1939 | MMM, PWM, MEM, DWM Leaving Auckland for USA May 1939 |
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PWM's second birthday · July 1939 · Merry Hill, St Georges, Bermuda | ||
PWM, MMM, DWM | Barbara & Dorothy Whitfield, PWM, MMM, DWM |
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PWM (2nd birthday) and DWM at H. D. Whitfield's · July 1939 |
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PWM (2nd birthday) and DWM H. D. Whitfield's · July 1939 |
DWM and PWM · Oct 1939 | DWM and PWM First Christmas in Bermuda · 1939 |
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Jonathan Bartrum, PWM, DWM · 1940 | DWM and PWM Summer 1940 |
DWM and PWM Climbing tree · 1940 |
Jonathan, PWM, DWM · July 1940 |
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PWM, 3rd Birthday, July 1940 |
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DWM and PWM with love birds Merry Hill, St Georges · 1940 |
Cedar Christmas tree · Bermuda · 1940 |
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PWM and DWM Jammies & Teddies Dec 1940 |
DWM 5th birthday with PWM Merry Hill, St Georges · Dec 1940 |
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PWM, IWM, DWM · Aug 1940 | DWM (5½ yr), PWM (4 yr), Jonathan McCallens Beach, St Georges Bermuda · 1941 |
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PWM, IWM, MMM, DWM · 1941 | DWM, MMM, IWM, PWM · April 1941 |
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PWM, July 22, 1941 | PWM (4½ yr), IWM (8 mo), WAM, DWM (nearly 6 yr) Rocklands, Warwick · Sep 1941 |
WAM takes DWM and PWM to school on his bicycle |
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MMM, MEM, DWM, PWM | DWM and PWM with Victor, Iris and Valda Ford |
PWM, Jonathan Bartrum, DWM Merry Hill, St Georges, Bermuda |
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PWM, MEM, IWM, DWM · 1941 | DWM, MEM, IWM, PWM · 1941 |
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PWM, IWM, DWM · Rocklands, Feb 1942 |
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Baptism Certificate, July 1942 | Kirkdale, Warwick, July 1942 |
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PWM 5th birthday · 1942 |
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DWM's 7th birthday · Kirkdale, Warwick, Dec 1942 With Richard Kemp, Kathy Russel, John Frith, PWM, Jonathan and Charles Kemp |
PWM, IWM, DWM · Feb 1943 | PWM · Feb 1943 |
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DWM (7 yr), PWM & goats · May 1943 |
DWM, IWM, PWM with fowl · July 1943 |
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DWM, PWM, IWM (3rd birthday) · Dec 1944 | PWM, IWM, DWM · Dec 1945 |
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IWM, PWM, DWM Kirkdale, Warwick ~Jan 1946 |
DWM and PWM Sea Scouts · 1947 |
PWM, Sylvia Bryant, IWM, MMM, DWM DWM's 12th birthday · 1947 |
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PWM, MMM, IWM, WAM, DWM Christmas Day · 1947 |
DWM, WAM, IWM, MMM, PWM Christmas Day · 1947 |
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DWM, PWM, IWM off to party on the Sheffield, Christmas 1947 |
Family holiday · USA 1948 |
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MMM and the boys · Niagara Falls · 1948 | DWM, MEM, PWM, IWM Queen of Bermuda · 1949 |
DWM, IWM, PWM · 1949 |
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PWM, MMM, IWM, DWM, WAM · July 1949 |
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Sea Scout camp, August 1949 |
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MMM, IWM, DWM, PWM March 1950 |
PWM, table tennis champ March 1951 |
PWM w/swimming cups Autumn 1951 |
PWM, swim champ 1951 |
Macky trophies |
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WAM, MMM, PWM · Bermuda, 1952 |
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Graduation Day, The Hill School, June 1953 |
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Bermuda Team For Empire Games |
PWM at the British Empire Games, Vancouver, BC, August 1954 |
[Newspaper photo caption] Three of Bermuda's team of four for the British Empire Games with the team manager, Mr. D. J. Williams, just before they boarded a Trans-Canada Airlines plane at Kindley Field yesterday on their way to Montreal and then Vancouver, where the Games start next Friday. Left to right are Thelma Jones (track), Peter Macky (swimming), Keith David (track) and Mr. Williams. The fourth member of the team, Orien Young (track) now in England, will join his team-mates in Vancouver.
When a Vancouver newspaper in a sports
article about Empire Village — the temporary home for competitors
in the Empire Games — referred to members of the staff "whose
job it is to translate Fiji and Bermuda and Pakistan, etc. for you,"
the Colony found an ally in Mr. Geo. Spear of Vancouver.
In a letter to the newspaper Mr. Spear
pointed out that during his stay in Bermuda during World War One he never
heard any other language than English spoken and "very good English
at that."
He went on to say: "Maybe I am wrong,
but you could ask some of the Bermudians; am sure you will not need an
interpreter to do so."
Mr. Spear took the opportunity to wish the
Bermudians, who "treated our boys so well while stationed with the 38th
Battalion CEF," lots of good luck and a pleasant stay.
The newspaper cutting of Mr. Spear's letter
was forwarded to The Royal Gazette by Mr. Ralph Down, station manager
in Bermuda for Pan American World
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Peter Macky's progress as a competitive swimmer can be gauged by the following sets of figures — one, the times recorded in 1954 when he won seven events and the title of Bermuda's all-round champion; the other, Peter's current official times, supplied by Harvard University:
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50 | yards free style | 25.4 | 23.0 |
100 | yards free style | 56.4 | 52.0 |
220 | yards free style | 2:26.1 | 2:13.5 |
100 | yards back stroke | 1:10.9 | 1:05.0 |
200 | yards individual medley | 2:30.4 | 2:26.0 |
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PWM, IWM, MMM, WAM, DWM | PWM, IWM, MMM, DWM, WAM | PWM, MMM, DWM, IWM, WAM |
DWM's 21st birthday · 1956 |
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MMM, PWM, Sylvia, IWM, WAM MMM & WAM's 25th Anniversary September, 1958 |
IWM, MMM, Sylvia, PWM · Oct, 1958 | PWM and IWM · 1959 |
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WAM, PWM, MMM, IWM, DWM Yosemite · 1983 |
DWM, PWM, IWM · Bermuda | MMM's 90th birthday · 1993 PWM, MMM, IWM, DWM |
My relationship with my older brother was not close because Peter was 4 years older than me and as he was only 18 months younger than our oldest brother David, he did much more with him than with me.
I don't remember either of them ever playing with me but our mother says they were very good with me. That's fine, it's just that I don't remember.
They went off to prep school in their early teens and so we only were together when they were home on Xmas and Summer holidays.
I remember my brothers always wanted to sleep in the mornings and I could never understand that.
One summer Peter was working for the Bermuda Health Department and was traveling around from house to house checking for stagnant water in barrels or pots or whatever and encouraging homeowners to empty out any containers. This process was to reduce the number of mosquitos which carried yellow fever. In fact they even used to concrete up the pot holes along the cliff edge that held rainwater just to reduce the areas where mosquitos could breed. In our rainwater tanks under our houses (where all domestic water came from) small fish were put into them to eat the mosquito larvae. Peter used to carry bottles with these little fish. He used to come home during the middle of the day because it was so hot and then go out later. [According to DWM, he was the mosquito-fish boy, and IWM is mixing him and Peter up in this case.]
While Peter was at prep school and then at Uni he used to come home to Bermuda for Xmas and brought the best presents; usually books for us and particularly for Dad. I can remember Mum's concern that he was spending money that he didn't have. Peter was reported as saying that it "didn't matter because 'we' (by this he meant the family) have lots of money".
It was his idea to buy the silver tea and coffee service set for our parent's 25th wedding anniversary, but on that occasion he and David convinced me to pay for it because they didn't have any money. When Mum died I was allowed to inherit the silver service because I paid for it in the first place anyway.
I was only in the US several times in my teens and one of those occasions was in 1956 when I was at Hyde Bay Camp for Boys on Lake Otsego in New York State. I flew from Bermuda and caught a train from New York to White Plains where someone from Hyde Bay picked me up. Peter was at that camp as a senior counsellor in charge of swimming. It [was] obviously though him that I got a job as a junior counsellor and had a tent of 8 year olds to look after. It was good because basically my job was to have fun and ensure some boys had fun with me. Sailing, canoeing, horse riding, etc. That was a great summer. I don't remember how I got back to Bermuda.
In the summer of 1959 I went across to California to work at Forest Home Christian Conference Centre in the San Bernardino Mountains behind Los Angeles. It was a job that Peter organised for me and I enjoyed the experience immensely. But in order that I could travel from Forest Home to Beverly Hills where he lives in a downstairs flat, Peter bought me an apple green Chevrolet car. We called it the Green Bug. Unfortunately my Dad found out that the car was not insured and wouldn't let me drive it. The insurance was much more than the value of the car so I think Peter gave the car to one of his girl friends. I didn't have a driver's license when I arrived at Forest Home and we had to make several trips to San Bernardino before I finally got my ticket. I failed several tests because I was judged as waiting too long at intersections. Eventually I did get a license and helped drive the Camp garbage truck (Ford C600?).
Again I don't remember how I get back to Allegheny. I must have flown or maybe driven with Peter but I don't remember any of it.
This is a part of disputed history as far as Peter and I can remember. I believe I went from Allegheny to Princeton in the summer of 1959 and met up with Peter and we drove in his car (Hydramatic) to California. He denies this. I helped him drive (so I had a license) and I distinctly remember getting a speeding ticket in the desert country. At one pointy Peter warned me not to pass a long line of cars ahead but I ignored him and pulled out and passed them at great speed. This was in undulating desert country with no trees or places for police to hide. Shortly after we were waved down by a police man who told me I had been going 85mph. He directed [us] to a small white building up the highway. We duly pulled in and stood in line with others. I swear the building was just two rooms with one where a secretary type took my particulars and then I was sent into the second room where an old judge was sitting behind one of those high judge stands you see in the movies. A pile of paperback books was stacked on the stand behind him. After a short exchange he pronounced me guilty and fined me a sum I no longer remember. What really hurt was that he added "court charges" well in excess of the fine. As I left another customer was driving in. I was back on the highway at speed in less than 15 minutes. Obviously a good money raiser for that district.
PS Nancy, it would be nice to find out when Peter was at Princeton so we can find out when I went there to meet him. I even have a photograph to record the occasion. One time I met up with him and we drove up to the Toronto World Fair. Can we find out when that was? What I cannot understand is how I drove his car on the trip to California when clearly I didn't get a license to drive until after I arrived in California. Peter suggested I dreamed it all up!
The known dates are: I went to Allegheny in Sep 1958 and left for Australia in Jan 1960 so there was only one summer available for the Forest Home job and that was Jul/Aug 1959. When I left for Australia in Jan 1960 I flew a milk run flight from Youngstown through Chicago to San Francisco where I stayed with Uncle Red and Aunt Dorothy. I waited there a few days for Dad to arrive from Bermuda.