MARGARET VERPLAK (MEG) (Margaret Cranswick & Hugh Cranswick) Sydney Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meg.cranswick (Meg Cranswick) We remained good friends, until she involved herself with my proceedings with Mayette Verplak.

INTRODUCTION We first met when I hired a TV set to the girls in a Bondi flat in the 1970's. After the account was terminated (about a year later) I looked her up. Not so easy, as she actually was in hiding from her family. I was living in my home unit at 15/85 Broome Street, Maroubra, having started my TV rental business a few years earlier. Margaret was a qualified trained nurse at a hospital in Ashfield. Both Margaret and me did not have the best of childhood, and our relationship was difficult. Nevertheless we were good companions to each other and we produced a child who we named Anton Michael Verplak. He arrived well about a year before our wedding... couldn't wait... lol. This photo was taken on the balcony of the home unit.

THE WEDDING Margaret was very keen to get married (she felt extremely insecure without a wedding) but I was not able and willing to make a committment (childhood issue - relates to all members of my family). After some time she gave me an ultimatum and told me: "Either we get married or you will never see us again...". We married in a small church in Kentucky, NSW.

THE MARRIAGE For our honeymoon we went to our Victorian property (Glenlyon), staying with my brother Michael and his wife Wendy. In the caboose, my brother couldn't keep his hand off her and Margaret played along all the way. I got blamed for not telling them to stop. Two weeks into the marriage we realised it was a mistake and decided to separate. Actual separation was postponed for six months for practical reasons.

THE SEPARATION Initially she went to live with her foster parents on their farm near Dubbo, NSW. When I visited her there I was refused to stay overnight by her foster mother, thus forcing me to sleep in my car down the road with the engine running all night to avoid the freezing temparuture outside. Margaret told me that prior to the wedding her brothers expressed their disapproval about a wedding. They did not like the idea of having 'a wog' as brother-in-law (their exact words). Later, Margaret went to live on the northern beaches of Sydney, as far away from Maroubra as possible (but still within travel distance). I will never quite understand what motivated her to do that as the travel time was horrendous (about two hours each way). Margaret never was very generous about access times for me. In fact while we were together she once told me that she did not accept me as Anton's father. In reality I had very little to do with his upbringing. Only when Anton was almost 10 or so, did she allow me to bring him with me to 'the farm' (my rural property) in Victoria.

THE PROPERTY SETTLEMENT There were no Court proceeding as such. As settlement I offered one of my home units in Maroubra for her occupancy and to be held in trust for Anton when he would come of age. Margaret declined, instead asking for a cash settlement of some $12,000. My lawyer thought she was crazy not to accept the home unit. We agreed on shared custody of Anton, There were no proceedings in that respect either. However, I had a very limited relationship with Anton, although when he was with me he was very happy. The insecurity in Margaret's mind really became a problem. She even feared that I might kidnap Anton.

LATER During subsequent times I had no say in his education. Years would pass without even seeing him at all. Anton later told me that Margaret had another relationship and gave birth to a girl named Leila (later she married Hugh Cranswick). When Anton came of age, I granted him a Dutch passport so he could live and work in Europe. Although I have some photos of him, I heard little from him for quite a while. Some time later Anton wanted to sell his black car and I offered to buy it and take over the terms of his car loan contract, for which he apparently needed his mother's consent. But his mother refused. Somehow she harboured a fair amount of hate. When Anton last visited me and Arlene, he did cook up a fantastic dinner. He is a chef, also runs his own business.

THE COLLUSION When my second wife Mayette (the visa scammer) started proceedings against me in an attempt to get what she always wanted, Margaret agreed to support her and signed various false and bullshit affidavits, as well as Franky van Workum (Hans's ex-girlfriend). Maureen (an old friend of mine) declined. To this day (2017) they remain friends. During that time, Margaret also decided to start her own proceeding for more child maintenance and enforcement proceedings. At one time I had five concurrent different proceedings against me between those two. Margaret spent a lot of money on her lawyers but didn't get anywhere. Until then I was paying child maintenance for Anton, which subsequently I was stopped. (Margaret was well supported by her new husband Hugh Cranswick). One reason why I got my back up is that no discussion took place except for the "I want" and earlier Margaret asked Franky if I should be paying 100% of Anton's preschool even though she refused to tell me which school it was. She also took that matter to court but got nowhere, except we all spent more money on fucking lawyers. Unfortunately, these proceedings have also robbed the kids from any inheritance. Anton came to me asking me if he could get money from the Family Trust to buy a new car. I had to tell him... "Sorry Anton, I had to dissolve the Family Trust to pay the lawyers." In view of the fact that these two ladies colluded with each other and that Mayette told me "Danya will inherit your properties - that is the law" and "I will spit on your grave...", sorry guys. There will be no inheritance. Your respective mothers fucked that up for you, well and truly. I have my own life and responsibilties which continue after I am gone. Besides, I wouldn't want to give these ladies any pleasure in that respect.

ANTON'S WEDDING Spanning over several years, Anton had occasionaly mentioned his Japanese girlfriend, but never introduced her to me or arranged a visit with her. I would have met her when I drove to Sydney from Daylesford, but I could not locate his place or anywhere to park the car (CBD in Sydney) in peak-hour traffic, having driven around the block several times. Then headed out of the city and as the earliest opportunity I stopped and called him on his cellphone. No issue then but to this day Anton argues that I did not bother to visit him. Some years later he told me he was going to marry his girlfriend and asked me if I would attend the wedding. On being told that both Mayette and Margaret would be there, I said sorry but I made a vow never to share the same space and time with either of them. No wedding invitation was ever received (to enable me to send my best wishes to him). Anton later said that no invitation cards were printed... really, for an Asian wedding in Japan? Never received a single photo, nothing. As with his mother who never accepted me as Anton's parent, I simply have no place in Anton's life. In 2016 Anton suggested he visit me with his wife Eriko (on Boxing day), taking a train from Melbourne to Daylesford. Then it was realised we would only spend an hour or so together (after much travelling), and my suggestion to stay overnight did not happen. He wrote "Merry Christmas and we will organise a visit next year".

This page forms part of Antoon's Official Memoirs and is for the benefit of family and interested friends. Margaret Verplak, Margaret Cranswick, Anton Verplak