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Meet a Member Joey & Daniel Hespe, Maitland Members since 2021
Tell us a little about yourselves and how you came to live in the Maitland area.
We’d both always felt a strong connection to the Hunter region and have familial links to the area. Daniel is maternally related to a pioneer of the Hunter, Thomas Adam (who Adamstown is named after), and my 5 x Great Grandfather was Chief Constable of Maitland Mounted Police in the late nineteenth century. I’m certain there are some distant relatives floating around Maitland that I have yet to meet! We feel so lucky to be able to raise our daughter in such a beautiful place surrounded by a wonderful community.
My husband, Daniel, and I both spent our formative years by the ocean in Sydney. We’d been dreaming of a tree change and moving out of the city for a few years however, due to work commitments, it wasn’t a reality for us. The silver lining of the pandemic meant that Daniel was able to pivot his construction business and work predominantly from home. Falling pregnant with our daughter at the beginning of 2020 was the catalyst we needed to move. 18
