Frederick Peek (Fred) Frean

  Noted events in his life were:

• note. ⁸⁸¹ Lisa Kriel notes:
The youngest of 6 children. Caught typhoid - isolated for 6 weeks. Aged ~5 the family moved to Auckland. Primary education at Edendale School, secondary at Seddon Memorial Technical College, where he was School Captain, a keen gymnast and rugby player. Sergeant-Major in the Territorial Cadets. Lightweight boxing champion at Trentham MC in 1921, but not long afterward his father's shop burnt down. Having to earn money immediately, he became a teacher. During the next 2 years as a probationer-teacher, he met Dorothy. Rugby, athletics, dancing and singing lessons, boxing; jobs delivering milk and in a bike shop. Then training college. NZ Universities lightweight boxing champion.
1925: Teaching at Wharehine, a remote school on Kaipara harbour, Port Albert. Lived in an ancient farmhouse in trees, rode his horse Sylvie to work.
1926: Teaching at Birkenhead school in Auckland (is this the right year?)
married where/when?
My guess is 1927/8 when Fred was at Birkenhead, Auck.
1927: Ruawai. Fred established a new experimental High School, drove the school bus morning and night, taught 6 subjects to (and played rugby with) 32 teenagers of all ages, and played the saxophone or sung at Saturday night dances.
While in Auckland Fred gave regular recitals over 1YA. Billed at Auck. Town Hall for successive Saturdays, as Freddie Frean, boxer and as Frederick Peek Frean, Soloist.
Moving around for Fred's teaching positions at Kawhia, Mangatawhiri, Matapu during WWII, Nightcaps (Southland), Ashburton, Geraldine, Christchurch (Waltham School), and finally Nelson.
1930, 10 May, b. Roland
193? b. Barbara (m John Maguire, b. Laurie (m Keri, b. Richard, Jason; div., m Lynne (b Ashley), b Geoffrey & Sam), Teresa, Frances, Marion, Rachel, Andrew and Dorothy). Christchurch.
193? b. Peter. Brain problems stemming from difficult birth meant that he never matured mentally. Was institutionalised eventually, but prior to that a huge strain on Gran particularly.
Settled at 500 Atawhai Drive, Nelson. Fred headmaster at Nelson College. Built a bach at Cissy's Bay in the Marlborough Sounds, and moored the launch "Questa" there.
197? Dot died.
In 1982 Ruawai school established the Fred Frean Scholarship Fund and aged 80 he was guest speaker at their Golden Jubilee.
Went travelling in Europe and Sth Africa, moved to Palmerston North, then to Auckland when Roly died, then to Greenwood Park, Tauranga, and finally to Christchurch shortly before he died in April 1995.

Frederick married Dorothy Frances Mary (Dot) Jones circa 1922. (Dorothy Frances Mary (Dot) Jones was born on 23 Feb 1905 in New Zealand and died in 1977 in New Zealand ⁸⁸¹.)