Individual Notes

Note for: James Gilbert BLACKBURN, 12 MAR 1891 - 5 JUN 1968 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Inspector, Quality Control

Residence:
     Place:   Church of England

Burial:
     Date:   7 JUN 1968
     Place:   Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic.

Individual Note:
     Notes written by James Andrew Duncan Blackburn:
James Gilbert Blackburn was the third child and eldest son of James Chrisp Blackburn and Georgina (nee Gilbert) He was born at 40 Mount St Hawthorn East on 12/03/1891. There were four boys and five girls in the family. The family fortune was
lost at the time of the Land Boom in 1890. According to family tradition his father, James Chrisp Blackburn, had streets of houses half completed when the bottom fell out of the market. The father spent the rest of his working life as a
carpenter (in the railways?)
JGB left school at the age of 12 yrs, at about the same time the family left Mount St as judged by the directory records. Again family tradition has it that his father, JCB, had gone to Kalgoorlie gold field to try to recoup the fortune, but
failed to do so and worked there as a carpenter.
On 14 Mar 1911 JGB was apprenticed to the trade of "Spring Fitting" with the firm of W Evans & Co, 281 Grant St, South Melbourne. The apprenticeship was for a period of two years and four months, and was witnessed by F Gilbert, (his Uncle Fred
who was, I think, killed in the 1914-18 war. (The apprenticeship papers are in the family archives.) The circumstances seem strange as he was 20 years old at the date of signing. I can remember my father telling me that he worked on the
building of the Gardenvale railway station, which probably would have been prior to this date.
In my mother's autograph album there are several drawings and small paintings signed by my father and dated 1911 (check this).

Individual Notes

Note for: Emma Edith DUNCAN, 9 JUL 1892 - 15 MAY 1964 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Home Duties

Residence:
     Place:   Church of England

Burial:
     Date:   18 MAY 1964
     Place:   Fawkner Cemetery, Fawkner, Vic.

Individual Notes

Note for: James Chrisp BLACKBURN, 15 JUN 1864 - 2 NOV 1938 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Carpenter and Joiner

Burial:
     Place:   Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, Vic. (Methodist D206)

Individual Note:
     James Chrisp Blackburn & Georgina Gilbert were married on 30 March 1887 at St Mark's Fitzroy by Rev Alex Campbell Morley. The witnesses were Peter Gilbert (the bride's father) and Isabel Berwick.
Address in 1903 (SLV Electoral Roll 1903 - Division of Kooyong - Fiche 067): 4 Mount Street, Kew. Occupation: carpenter.

Individual Notes

Note for: Margaret Rosalind BLACKBURN, 24 OCT 1856 - 13 JAN 1936 Index

Alias: Known as "Rosa" //

Individual Note:
Margaret Rosalind Blackburn & James Reid were
married on 22 Dec.1880 at St Mark's Fitzroy by Rev Robert B. Barlow. The witnesses were James Blackburn (Mary's father) and John Clayton (a Law Clerk of Rae Street, North Fitzroy).
Margaret Rosalind lived at 15 MAHONEY ST, FITZROY in the early 1890's when her daughter Jeannette was a young child. according to the inscription on a photo in possession of her grand daughter Joyce Rosalind Greening.

Individual Notes

Note for: James REID, ABT 1858 - JAN 1937 Index

Alias:   Age 22 years at time of wedding //

Occupation:
     Place:   Coach builder

Individual Note:
     Arrived Melbourne Dec 1860 per ship "OWEN GLENDOWER" aged "Infant"

Individual Notes

Note for: Eleanor Rachel BLACKBURN, 20 JUL 1858 - 26 JUL 1930 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Wynyard, Tasmania

Individual Note:
     Eleanor Rachel Blackburn & Alfred Bock were
married on 25 March 1881 at St Mark's Fitzroy by Rev Robert B. Barlow. The witnesses were James Blackburn (the bride's father) and Mary Adelaide Burrell nee Blackburn (the bride's sister).
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Notes re 1880 photograph:
Title: Eleanor Rachel Bock (nee Blackburn) c1880
Creator(s):
Bartlett, R. H
Date: 1880
Description: 1 photograph :
Notes: Exact measurements of copy: 129 x 77 mm Title inscribed in pencil on verso in unknown hand. Head and shoulders inclined to left. B&w copy of original sepia cabinet photograph in Bock purchase 1969.
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Individual Notes

Note for: Alfred BOCK, ABT APR 1835 - 19 FEB 1920 Index

Christening:
     Date:   9 APR 1835
     Place:   Hobart, Tasmanis

Alias:   Born "Alfred /Cameron"/, assumed name "Alfred

Occupation:
     Place:   Artist, Photographer

Burial:
     Place:   Wynyard, Tasmania

Individual Note:
     Baron Von Mueller, botanist, and Alfred Bock, Artist and Photographer.
Extract from a letter, dated 15 Dec.1995, received from Esme Johnson, (nee Bock) of 12 Nuttall St, Lawnton, Q.4501:-
"Family history has it that my grandfather, Alfred Bock, (born 1835/04/19. Hobart Town Tas. died 1920/02/19, Wynyard, Tas.) photographed the wildflowers of Gippsland (when he lived at Foster St. Sale, before he married Eleanor Rachel Blackburn
{ on 25 Mar.1882 }. in conjunction with the botanist, Baron Von Mueller. He then faded out the photograph with a special process intil only the outline was left and then coloured them. I have an album of 26 cards (they were mounted on "board"
and sold as postcards in sets or singly) given to me by Uncle Dick Bock."
Alfred Bock married twice; 1858/07/24, & 1882/03/25. By his first marriage he had "a large family" and six sons and one daughter by his second.
J.A.D.Blackburn. January 9, 1996.
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Notes re 1880 photograph
Title: Alfred Bock c1880
Creator(s):
Bartlett, R. H
Date: 1880
Description: 1 photograph : b&w. ; 13 X 8 cm.
Notes: Exact measurements of copy: 129 x 77 mm Title inscribed in pencil on verso in unknown hand. Head and shoulders inclined to right. B&w copy of sepia cabinet photograph in Bock purchase 1969.
Subjects:
Bock, Alfred - 1835-1920 - Portraits
Men - History - Portraits
Photographers - Tasmania - Portraits
Bow ties - Photographs
Format: photograph
Location: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
ADRI: AUTAS001125882209
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Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Adelaide BLACKBURN, 28 JUN 1860 - 26 MAR 1939 Index

Alias:   Known as "Addie". //

Burial:
     Date:   28 MAR 1939
     Place:   Melbourne General Cemetery, Vic.

Individual Note:
     Mary Adelaide Blackburn & Henry George Burrell
married on 9 March 1881 at St Mark's Fitzroy by Rev Robert B. Barlow. The witnesses were James Blackburn (Mary's father) and John Clayton (a Law Clerk of Rae Street, North Fitzroy).