Monday, August 10, 2009

Children of John George Brown and Charlotte Willett.



1.John George Brown.
John George Brown was born on June 23, 1906, at Wangaratta, the first child born to newlyweds Charlotte Willett, 21, and her husband Jack, 32. He was a young child when the family moved to Bundalong and then Yarrawonga, and attended the Yarrawonga Primary School for his education.
Like his father, John was always known as ‘Jack’, and as an adult for years worked as a sleeper cutter with his brothers in the forests of East Gippsland. At the age of about 28 he married Anne Elizabeth Norton, and they had one child, a son named Allan James Brown, who was born c. 1936.
My mother remembered her Aunty Anne as a wonderful lady, and my grandfather Norman
Oakley thought the world of her. Unfortunately, my branch of the family has sadly lost touch with their son Allan, who was a very successful industrial chemist.
Jack Brown ended his years at Yarrawonga, living at 51 Hume Street with his sister Lil and Lil’s partner Bill Eccles. He died there of cancer of the liver and pancreas, aged 60, on April 28, 1967, and was buried in the Yarrawonga Cemetery the following day.

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