John Oakes, nephew of Annie Woods nee Oakes was the instigater of the second marriage. Randle Woods could either read or write. On his will dated 26th Nov 1908, 7 days before he died. Stating John Oakes as his Executor. Randle Woods was in a coma for week.
Upon leaving School Randle Woods left home and commenced to work doing survey work for the New South Wales Government Railways. He married Kate Callinan in 1902 ( NSW Births Deaths and Marriages Index No. 5100/1902)
He worked for the N.S.W Government Railways in various positions including fettler, and in the latter stages of his career was the gatehouse keeper Kitchener St, Tamworth until the time of his retirement.
In those years there was no such thing as superannuation and when he retired he worked as a cleaner to support his family until at age 65 he commenced to receive the old age pension and lived until the time of his death at 6 Chelmsford Street, East Tamworth N.S.W.
He walked down to the Peel river to fish regularly. He was a kindly, quiet old man who smoked a pipe and never held a drivers licence. He lived in the days of horse and sulky and milked his own cow for milk and even made his own butter.
He kept two kookaburras around the house for pets and at one stage he had a sheep to keep his lawn down. If he wanted to go to town he walked.
He had nine children:
1. Randle Ellis Woods born 3.12.1915,
2. Victor Wyman Woods born 21.5.1919,
3. Mervyn Clive Woods born 1922,
4. Marjorie Iris Woods (married name Davis) born 30.8.1910,
5. Ivy Catherine Woods born 1903, died 10.5.65 at Orange, married name Cockett her Death Notice published after 10.5.1965, Cockett Ivy Catherine, May, 10 1965, at hospital, Orange, late of 56 McLachlan St, Orange. Loving wife of Len (deceased) loved mother of Pat (Mrs. Etherington, Orange, Marjorie (Mrs. Flohm Sydney.) Aged 63 years.,
6. Annie Beryl Woods born 1904,
7. Edith J. Woods (Married name Hawkins) born 1913, died 25.5.1939,
8. Elsie M. Woods born 1906, 9. Thelma D. Woods born 1908. He died at 80 years of age.
When his son Randle Woods commenced "R.E.Woods Sawmill" at the end of 1945 at 2 Chelmsford Street, Tamworth, Randle became his son's number one worker both in the bush logcarting and the sawmill until he became too frail to work.
Randle Ellis Graham recalls that his uncle Randle Woods used to stay with them occasionally. He used to fish all day from the wharf and would later repeat the names of every boat that entered and left the harbour.
He regularly used to ask Randle Graham what he wanted to be when he grew up and Randle Graham would always answer "a bus boy".
Kate Woods (nee Callinan) was the wife of Randle Woods, born 1880. Kate's mother Julia Callinan was an Irish immigrant, a flaming red haired lady, who was a singer in the Bowling Alley goldfields near Tamworth.
The identity of Kate's father is unknown and does not appear on her birth certificate.
Known to her family and grand-children as "Nin", nothing is known of her father. He was apparently a very good looking man but she was obviously born out of wedlock and there is nothing recorded of his details.Kate Callinan was born at Bowling Alley Point near Tamworth NSW 7th April, 1882, daughter of Julia Callinan.
Kate's birth was registered under the incorrect spelling of Callanen, Index No. 28108/1882. Julia's age was given as being 24 years born in Ireland.
The birth was certified by the mother Julia Callinan and she signed the register. The birth was registered on 6th May, 1882.
This was the era of the goldrush at Bowling Alley Point. According to family tradition Kate was fostered by the Brown Family of Bowling Alley Point.
Mr. Brown was thought to be a Baptist Minister or lay preacher of the Baptist Church. Kate Callinan married Randle Woods at the Parsonage of the Baptist Church in Carthage St, Tamworth, 25th March, 1902. Randle was the son of Randle Woods and Annie (nee Oakes).
Pam Brown conducted research on her great-grandmother Kate Callinan in an endeavour to locate a Baptist Minister or lay preacher named Brown who was in the goldfields around Bowling Alley Point during the 1880's and may have been the foster father of Kate Callinan. She located Wyman Brown but is yet to ascertain his religion.
Pam Brown felt he was the foster father of Kate Callinan as she gave her second son the name of Victor Wyman Woods, known to his siblings as "Pud". Wyman Brown, gold digger, was in the Bowling Alley goldfields in the 1860's.
His name appears on the petition for the construction of a public school at Bowling Alley Point.
It appears that Wyman Brown rose to a position of a community leader as he opened the Nundle Court House in June, 1880, was a local Justice of the Peace,and was the first permanent, resident clerk of Petty Sessions.
In 1892 Post Office Directory for NSW, Wyman Brown is listed as living in Blast Point Rd, Balmain, and also as a mining agent, Victoria Arcade, Sydney.
In the index to wills or probates for NSW his date of death is 7th November, 1899, at Balmain NSW. Kate Woods (nee Callinan) died at Tamworth on 25th March, 1956.
On her marriage certificate 25 March, 1902, two witnesses listed are Charles Fouracre and Mary Elizabeth Fouracre.
The latter was known to the family as "Aunty Poll Fouracre". She was Kate Callinan's adoptive sister and believed to have been the daughter of her foster father Wyman Brown however this is yet to be established. This would mean her maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Brown.
The Fouracre family lived in the Nundle-Bowling Alley Point area until about the 1950's but all are believed to now be deceased.
On 26.4.2000 Pam Brown discovered a marriage between Mary Elizabeth Brown born in 1871 who married a Charles Fouracre in 1899, so her earlier theory concerning Mary Elizabeth Fouracre being the daughter of Wyman Brown appears to be correct.
Pam has also located a marriage for a Wyman Brown at Tamworth in 1863/2928 to a Mary Ellen Smith and she is going to make further inquiries about this.
Wyman Brown, son of John and Elizabeth Brown, died 7 November, 1899 NSW Births Deaths and Marriages Index No. 12108/1899.
In the early 1980's, when Pam Brown was researching the family tree, Dorothy Woods and Marge Davis nee Woods both told her that Kate Callinan's father was quite a gentleman, he was well educated, good looking and wealthy.
The only hint they had of his identity was that they had seen a photograph of him as a member of a cricket team and he was circled in the photograph.
As family members recall that there were photographs of men in cricket attire in the Woods Family bible, it is possible that this is the source of the photograph they were talking about.