CUSSEN .... and my family.

This post is in honour of the man I knew as "Dad".  Jack Cussen (Michael John Cussen).  He and his wife Edith reared me until I was 12 years old in Stanthorpe.  Edith was my Great Aunt and sister of my Grandmother Matilda Peters (nee Butler).



Michael John Cussen b: 17 Sep 1907 d: 13 Mar 2002 + Edith Violet Butler b: 1909 d: 2 Jun 2003

1 Mary Mollis b: 1879 d: 13 May 1918
  + James Cussen b: 1876 d: 27 Jul 1959
    2 David Remous Cussen b: 6 Aug 1900 d: 13 Nov 1970
      + Alice Butler b: Abt 1904
        3 Leonard James Cussen b: Abt 1925 d: Bef 14 Jul 1969
    2 Ellen Cussen b: 13 Dec 1902 d: 28 Jan 2003
    2 Mary Ann Cussen b: 13 Sep 1904 d: 9 Dec 1976
    2 Michael John Cussen b: 17 Sep 1907 d: 13 Mar 2002 + Edith Violet Butler b: 1909 d: 2 Jun 2003
    2 Nora Eileen Cussen b: 30 Jan 1910 d: 1 May 1919
    2 Theresa Cussen b: 30 Jan 1910 d: 4 Nov 1959
      + Richard Cotter b: 1902 d: 30 Jan 1950
    2 Kathleen Cussen b: 17 Dec 1912
    2 Charlotte Cussen b: 23 Aug 1914

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=wrcushing2&id=P8211

Aesculapius

Aesculapius:

A red cross with a snake, like rod of Aesculapius (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The ancient Roman god of medicine, whose staff with a snake curled around it is commonly used as a symbol of medicine. According to mythology, Aesculapius's children included Hygeia, the goddess of health, and Panaceia, the goddess of healing.

English: Panacea Helping the Sick. The Veronese physician J. Gazola created this picture as part of a larger woodcut in 1716. It was for his book, The World is Deceived by False Doctors, in which he wrote of the four elements of the panacea (the cure-all). He cited Ecclesiastes 7:17b, “Do not be a fool — why die before your time?” as a reason to use his recipe (incidentally, the verse is taken out of context). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hygiene Latin hugieinē technē, meaning "(art) of health"

The words Hygiene and  Cure come to mind here and I want to explore those words above, the names of the goddesses of health and healing.

Medicine is one of the oldest occupations on the planet too.   Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.

Stanthorpe Hospital build in 1923

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

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