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William Spurgeon

9/10/1840 - 19/03/1927

Parents:
- William Spurgeon 1803-1865
- Ann Gedge 1810-1864

Brothers & sisters:
- Matilda Spurgeon, 6/5/1827 - 23/8/1827
- Robert Spurgeon, 7/11/1828 - ??/5/1867
- John Spurgeon, 3/5/1831 - 31/05/1912
- James Spurgeon, 5/1/1836 - 1912
- Harriet Spurgeon, 1/1/1839 - 20/5/1868
- Eliza Spurgeon, 10/6/1845

Married:
- Susan Ray, 31/1/1863
- Eliza Jane Clarke, 14/9/1910

Children:
- George Ray Spurgeon, 17/5/1863 - 25/5/1884
- Harriet Spurgeon, 1866 - 12/01/1949
- Aurthur W Spurgeon, 1869 - 11/8/1885
- Emma Spurgeon, 11/1/1871
- Mary E Spurgeon, 21/6/1873 - 20/06/1968

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Cooinda @ Homefield Road, Chorleywood

Cooinda (aboriginal for 'happy home'), our home at Chorleywood from August 1960, designed by Roy Spurgeon:

Roy & Joan Spurgeon

Cooinda viewed from the scout hut

Joan, Graham & Dinky

Front garden, June 1978

Inside Cooinda, early 1961:

Joan, Paul, Graham & Dinky in the lounge

Joan in the kitchen

Joan, Graham & Dinky in the lounge

Landscaping involved lots of family team-work:

Roy, Paul & Graham removing tree-root, spring 1961

Removing tree-root - Joan driving, spring 1961

Roy building back garden retaining wall in the rain, April 1967

Paul & Graham helping thier father Roy landscape the back garden, July 1963

Winter at Chorleywood:

Cooinda from the scout hut, January 1962

Homefield Road in snow, December 1962

Icicles in the snow, February 1968

Paul & Graham enjoy a snowball fight, January 1962

In the back garden:

Spurgeon & Lee families, summer 1964

Joan beside the garden pond, spring 1969

Roy, Joan, Leslie Lee, Jim (James) Lee & Stephen Lee

Back of Cooinda (dinky in window)

Paul & Graham started a tree-house, March 1963

Video of Spring at Chorleywood in 1974: