John Richard Owen was born at Bet Bet near Dunolly in Victoria on 13 January 1858. His birth certificate tells us his father was Edward Owen, a digger who was 33 years old and born at Conwy in Wales and his mother was Elizabeth Evens [sic] who was aged 40 years and had been born at Montgomeryshire in Wales. Married in Liverpool in England in January 1849, Edward and Elizabeth emigrated to the colony of Victoria three years later. There they lived for a time at Emerald Hill near South Melbourne - where their first two children, Edward James and Elizabeth Ann Owen were born - before moving to Bet Bet in around 1857 and then, a year or so later, to Kingower near Bendigo (where their fourth child, Robert William Owen, was born in 1860). Edward and Elizabeth both died at Kingower, she in 1893 and he in 1908.

John Richard Owen lived much of his early life at East Charlton where he worked as a labourer, butcher and dairyman and played for the local cricket team (Maureen Gates tells us John may have also played cricket at the state level). One of John's cricketing companions was his good friend Henry Edward Hickmott who married John's older sister, Elizabeth Ann Owen, at Kingower on 24 January 1877. On 28 January 1878 John married Catherine (Kate) Buist (1854-1923) at East Charlton (Henry Edward and Elizabeth Ann Hicknott were witnesses to the wedding). Maureen Gates believes John met Catherine while travelling in Queensland. Born at Belfast (later Port Fairy) in Victoria on 17 December 1854, she was one of ten children of two Scots, John Buist (1822- ), who hailed from Fyfeshire, and Sarah McCleod (1832-85) who came from Argyleshire. Married at Port Fairy in 1850 John and Sarah later farmed land at East Charlton where Sarah died on 5 November 1885 and is buried in the cemetery there.

After their marriage in 1878, John Richard and Catherine Owen lived at East Charlton until around 1882 when they and their young family went to live in north western Queensland (her obituary published in the Cairns Post on 6 July 1923 tells us Catherine 'arrived in Queensland from Victoria at an early age and travelled overland from Roma to Boulia in 1882 with her uncle, Mr W. T. C. Lilley of Maryvale Station, Boulia'). The 1903 electoral roll for the Queensland seat of Woolgar (division of Kennedy) shows John Richard, Catherine, John Edward and a Jane Elizabeth Owen all living at Woolgar where the two Johns were working as miners. In 1905 John Richard and Catherine and their son John Edward Owen were registered as living at Powlathanga and the two Johns were working as wood cutters. In 1908 John Richard, Catherine, John Edward and Robert William Owen were at West Creek at Gurrumba where the men were again working as miners. Subsequent rolls have John Richard and Catherine at Chillagoe in 1913 and Aloomba south of Cairns in 1919. Maureen Gates tells us John and Catherine lived on a cane farm at Aloomba until the latter's death in 1923 whereupon John moved into Cairns and 'their son Charlie took over the farm'. Catherine (Kate) Owen nee Buist died in the Cairns District Hopital on 2 July 1923 and is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Monumental West Side, Row V, Site 1017). Her death notice published in The Northern Herald on 11 July tells us she was the 'beloved wife of John Richard Owen, Aloomba, mother of Mrs. J. A. Wolff (Edmonton), John Edward Owen (Aloomba), Charles Henry Owen (Aloomba), William Robert Owen (Kidston), & grandmother of Mrs. C. Neilsen, Acacia Farm, Stratford; aged 69 years'. After his wife's death John Richard moved into Cairns where he initially lived at Edmonton, then with his granddaughter, Violet Elizabeth Nielsen, at Stratford before, Maureen Gates tells us, spending 'the last couple of years of his life on the farm at Yorkey's Knob with Olga and Charlie Nielsen'. He died at Cairns on 31 August 1937, aged 79 years and is also buried in the local cemetery there (Monumental West Side, Row K2, Site 3360). John Richard's death notice tells us he 'leaves three sons, one daughter, 15 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren' (Northern Herald, 4 September 1937).

From the 'Nielson Family Tree' on Ancestry, this photo is said to be of John William and Catherine (Kate) Owen nee Buist
with four of their children (L/R): Sarah Elizabeth, Charles Henry, John Edward and William Robert Owen.

Probably taken in the early 1930s, this photo shows John Richard Owen (seated),
with his daughter Sarah Elizabeth Wolff (nee Owen), grandson Charles William Gordon Wolff
and great grandaughter Hazel May Wolff (later Milligan).

John Richard and Catherine had eight children between 1878 and 1899, four of whom - James (born at Boulia in 1886), Ethel Kate (1887, Boulia), James (1890, Boulia) and Alfred George Owen (1899, Boulia) - died young. As detailed below their remaining four children all reached adulthood, married and had children of their own:

1) John Edward (Jack) Owen (1879-1946). Born at East Charlton in Victoria on 24 June 1879, Jack was initially married/partnered to Jane Elizabeth Bradbury (1877-1952) who was born at Salford in Lancashire in England and emigrated to Australia on the steam ship JUMNA which arrived at Townsville on 13 November 1900. The 'Nielsen Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us they had one child, Violet Elizabeth Owen, who was born at Winton near Longreach on 20 October 1901. The Queenslsnd electoral rolls show Jack and Jane living with Jack's parents at Woolgar at the time of the 1903 election. It seems they separated not long after this and Jane later remarried. Violet remained with her father and was raised by Jack's parents. In 1905 and 1908 Jack was living at Powlathanga and working as a wood cutter. In 1913 he was again working as a miner and living at Ord near Chillagoe. Also registered at Ord was an Agnes Owen (home duties). At the time of the 1919, 1925 and 1936 elections, Jack and Agnes were at Aloomba where Jack worked as a labourer and later as a farmer. The 1943 roll has them at East Herberton in the Queensland tablelands. Jack died in Brisbane three years later, his death notice in the Cairns Post reading: 'OWEN - At the General Hospital, Brisbane, on 28th January 1946, John Edward Owen (Jack), beloved husband of Agnes Owen, of Mareeba, late of Herberton'. We don't think he and Agnes had any children.

The 'Nielsen Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Jack's daughter, Violet Elizabeth Owen, married Aloomba-born and Gallipoli veteran, Christie Ferring Nielsen (1892-1964), at Cairns on 3 April 1922. It adds that Christie's parents, Peter Nielsen (1857-1939) and Mette Maria Mogensen (1866-1944) were married in Hanning in Denmark on 7 May 1886. They travelled to Australia soon after and spent time in Townsville - where their first five children were born - before living at Aloomba and then Gordonvale near Cairns. Both died at Gordonvale and are buried in the local cemetery there (Plots COE 204 and 205). Violet and Christie, who worked as a labourer, lived all their married lives in and around Cairns and had five children there: 1) Arthur Charles Christian Nielsen (1922-2002) who died at Cairns and did not marry; 2) Harold Peter John (Paddy) Nielson (1925-2002) who married Daphne Victoria Crossland (1925-2018) in Cairns in 1948; 3) Peter Nielsen (1933-97) and two others (one male and one female).

Also from the 'Nielsen Family Tree' on Ancestry, this was taken at St John's Anglican Church
at Cairns on 3 April 1922. Standing next to Christie is Anton Nielsen (brother)
and sitting next to Violet is Mary Wolff (Violet's cousin).

2) Sarah Elizabeth Owen (1881-1941). Born at East Charlton in Victoria, Sarah married James Arthur Wolff (1878-1962) - pictured on the right - at Charters Towers in Queensland in 1899. James was born at Rockhampton in Queensland on 13 January 1878, the eldest son of Jens (James) Hansen Wolff (1853-1910) and Emily Caroline Peacock (1854-1926). The 'Matsen Family Tree' on Ancestry and other sources tell us James Hansen was born at Hjelsminde in Denmark on 2 May 1853. On 20 April 1871, he sailed from Hamburg in Germany on the FRIEDBERG which arrived at Moreton Bay in Queensland on 12 August 1871. James Hansen was working as a farmer in the Laidley area of Queensland when he married Emily Caroline Peacock (1854-1926) at the Congregational Church at nearby Gatton on 23 November 1876. Born at Ipswich in Queensland on the 24 May 1854, Emily was the daughter of a Lancashire lad, Colin (Colling) Peacock (1806-66), who was transported to Australia in around 1837, and Australian-born Jane Brennan (1839-96). Colin and Jane both died at Ipswich and are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery there. James Hansen and Emily Wolff lived for many years in the Laidley area - where all of their ten children were born - before selling up and moving to Ambrose Siding in the Mount Larcombe area of Rockhampton. James Hansen died at Ambrose on 25 January 1910. Emily continued to live at Ambrose, where she worked for a time as the Station and Post Mistress, until her death there on 8 December 1926. She is buried with James Hansen in the Mount Larcombe General Cemetery.

The Australian electoral rolls show that in 1903 James Arthur and Kate Elizabeth Wolff were residing at Chillagoe, a small rural town in the Mareeba Shire to the west of Cairns. They were at Gurrumba in 1906, Kurranda in 1913 and 1914, Malanda in 1916 and 1917, the Cairns suburb of Edmonton from 1918 until the late 1930s, and then back at Chillargoe where Kate died in 1941. Her obituary, published in the Cairns Post on 10 February 1941 reads: 'MRS. S. E. WOLFF. The death occurred at Chillagoe on Saturday of Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Wolff, who prior to going to live at Chillagoe three years ago, was a well-known identity of Edmonton, where she had resided with her husband for 20 years. Deceased was the wife of Mr. J. A. Wolff, of the Railway Department . . . Beside her husband, deceased leaves a grown-up family, namely: Mrs. E. E. Armstrong, Edmonton: Mrs. C. J. Fuller, Edmonton; Mrs. T: Gladstone, Chillagoe; Miss Dorothy WoIff, Chillagoe; and Messrs. C. W. G. Wolff, and J. Wolff, Edmonton; A. Wolff and G. Wolff, Cairns; and S. Wolff, Forsayth'. The Find a Grave website shows Sarah is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Monumental East Side, Row U3, Site 4033). Her husband, James Arthur Wolff (1878-1962) is also buried at Cairns (Section: MES Row: U3 Site: 4118). He and Kate Elizabeth had eleven children, one of whom, Herbert Henry Wolff, died as an infant in 1906. Another son, John James Wolff (1905-58) who died and is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Monumental Front Side West, Row AF, Site 7658) did not marry. As detailed below, their remaining nine children did marry and provided their beloved parents with . . . grandchildren we know of:

Provided by Maureen Gates, the wedding party of Sarah Owen and James Wolff
(standing on the right of the group). Taken at Charters Towers in 1899

Also provided by Maureen Gates, James Arthur and Sarah Elizabeth Wolff (nee Owen)
and family at a picnic near Chillagoe Caves in Queensland in the early 1900s

2.1) Charles William Gordon Wolff (1900-63) - pictured with his mother in the photo above - was born at Stamford in Queensland on 12 September 1900. On 22 November 1922 he married at Cairns Gladys Hazel Carne (1899-1986) - pictured on the right - daughter of Thomas Symons Carne (1864-1947) and Florence Laura Bonning (1871-1950) who were married at Ingham in Queensland on 2 September 1893. Thomas Carne's obituary, published in the Cairns Post on 31 July 1947, tells us the 'late Mr. Carne was born in Cornwall, England, and came to Australia as a young man. He spent his whole life in the sugar lands of North Queensland, and was in the early days a locomotive driver at the South Johnstone, Kalamia and Macknade mills. He came to Cairns in 1898 and took up cane farming at Meringa in 1917, remaining there until he retired 10 years ago . . . He leaves a widow, six sons, Messrs. Shelley Carne, of Many Peaks; Claude Carne, of Alqambe; Stan and Dick Carne, of Edmonton; Sid Carne, of Meringa; and John Carne, Cairns; and three daughters, Mesdames J. Dougherty, of Glen Allyn; G. Wolff, of Edmonton, and C. Richards, of Cairns'. Charles William Gordon and Gladys Hazel Wolff were living and working on Charles parents' (later Charles') farm at Edmonton when Charles enlisted in the RAAF in Brisbane on 19 November 1940 (he served until 18 October 1943 at which time he was a Leading Aircraftman in the 3rd Embarkation Depot). After the war, Charles William and Gladys Hazel continued farming land at Edmonton until the early 1960s when they moved into town and Charles worked as a storeman. Charles William Gordon Wolff died on 27 December 1962 and is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Section: BMS Row: I6 Site: 8988). Gladys Hazel Wolff nee Carne died on 3 December 1986 and is buried in Cairns' Forest View Memorial Park (BOGAINVILLEA Section, Row 10). They had three children:

2.1.1) Hazel May Wolff. Born at Cairns on 18 February 1923, Hazel attended Hambeldon State School along with the boy who would be her future husband. This was William Victor (Vic) Milligan (1918-68) who was born at Toowoomba in Queensland on 19 July 1918, the son of William Miles Milligan (1898-1969) and Mary Jane Viol (1895-1956) who were married there in 1922 and were living at Edmonton - where William was working as a labourer - during and after the time Vic and Hazel were courting. William Miles and Mary Jane both died at Cairns and are buried in the cemetery there (Monumental Front Side West, Row AB, Site 7276 and 7275). Vic and Hazel were married in 1943 the same year their son Bryan/Brian Victor Milligan was born and Vic enlisted in the Australia Army at Cairns on 8 February. His military record in the National Archives show that Vic served with the 51 Infantry Battalion from then until his discharge on 3 June 1945 including on active service at Merauke in PNG from 27 June 1943 to 18 February 1944 and 6 June 1944 to 7 August 1944. In a recent report in the Moreton Daily, Hazel tells us that after the war, Vic 'worked at the Hambledon Mill for a little while before he received a soldiers' settlement permit. They bought 160 acres at Little Mulgrave . . . [and] started a cane farm from scratch, even falling the trees. Vic was injured in an accident on the farm and they made the decision to sell it' (4 April 2023). After living next door to Hazel's parents in Edmonton for a few years, they moved to Cairns where Vic worked as a salesman. The 1968 election roll has them living in Main Beach in Coolangatta along with their son Bryan Victor Milligan who was working as a labourer (Vic was said to be a builder), William Victor Milligan died at Coolangatta the same year and is buried/memorialised in the Tweed Heads Lawn Cemetery.Hazel returned to Cairns and lived with her mother there before, in the mid-1990s, settling in Moreton Bay in Brisbane where, on 18 February 2023, she celebrated her 100th birthday.

William Victor (Vic) and Hazel May Milligan nee Wolff

Hazel Milligan with Moreton Bay Regional Councillor Cath Tonks in February 2023

2.1.2) Beryl Florence Wolff. Born at Cairns in 1925, Beryl married Howard Robert Jolliff (1924-2004) in the Methodist Church there on 26 November 1946. A report of the wedding in the Cairns Post tells us Beryl was attended by her cousin, Florence Carne, and Alva Joice with her younger sister, Laurel Wolff, acting as flower girl. Beryl's older sister, Hazel, made all the bridal frocks. The wedding reception was held at the Blue Bird Cafe where 'many costly and useful gifts were received, including several cheques, and congratulatory messages were read'. The report added that Beryl and Howard's honeymoon was spent at Kuranda in Cairn's National Rainforest and they were to make their home at Balaclava. The Department of Veterans Affairs' WW2 nominal roll tells us Howard was born at Cairns on 8 April 1924 and enlisted in the Australian Army there on 3 July 1942 (his NOK was said to be Edward Jolliff). According to the 'Jolliff-Gould' family tree on Ancestry, Howard's father was Edward James (Ted) Jolliff who was born at Shepherd;s Bush in Middlesex in England on 14 June 1890 and served as an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy from 1907 to 1913. They then think he 'probably worked his passage to Australia as a merchant seaman and jumped ship on arrival' (possibly to join his widowed mother and three younger siblings who had sailed to Australia on the SS NORSEMAN the previous year). Ted made his way to Ingham in Queensland where he married London-born Bertha Ann Coombs (1891-1968) on 9 January 1915 (Bertha had sailed from London to Cairns in 1914). The Australian electoral rolls Beryl and Howard lived at Cairns after the war and Howard worked for the postal service. According to the Find a Grave website, Howard died at Cairns on 2 May 2004, was cremated and is memorialised in the Cairns Crematorium and Memorial Gardens (his plaque there tells us he is lovingly remembered by his wife Beryl and girls Annette, Diane and Shirley and their families. The 'Jolliff-Gould' family tree tells us Beryl and Howard have nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

2.2.3) Laurel Edith Wolff (1933-2006). The 'Matsen Baker Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Laurel was born at Mount Isa on 21 October 1933 and married Ivan James Yesberg (1932-2010) at Cairns in 1954. By the time of the 1977 election they had moved to Canberra where Laurel died on 27 March 2006 and Ivan at Queanbeyan in 2010. It adds they had six children: Letitia May Yesberg (born in 1957) and five others (one girla and four boys). The Find a Grave tells us Ivan James Yesberg died on 6 November 2009 and is buried/memorialised in the Norwood Park Crematorium in Mitchell (Explorers' Garden, Bass Garden, On Rock).

2.2} May Elizabeth Wolff (1902-66). Born at Hughenden in Queensland, May married Ernest Emil Armstrong (born in 1901} at Cairns on 27 May 1925. The 'Matsen Baker Family Tree on Ancestry tells us Ernest's parents were John McGill Armstrong (1873-1953) and Anna Christina Osmundsen (1882-1918) who were married on 4 July 1908. His obituary in the Cairns Post on 16 November 1953, tells us John McGill was 'born and educated in Brisbane and after discharge from service in the Boer war came north, where he worked as a woodcutter in the Mungana district. Later he took up cane farming in the Stone River area before moving to Edmonton during which time he married Miss Anna Christina Osmundsen'. Born in Skudeneshavn on the island of Karmay in Norway, Anna had emigrated to Australia with her mother - also named Anna Christina/Kristine - and sisters on the RMS QUETTA in November 1885. Her father, Iver Osmundsen (1840-1914), who was a captain in the Norwegian merchant navy, had come to Australia in 1883 and later farmed land at Bloomfield near Cooktown. According to the 'mcconnell_tuttle' family tree on Ancestry, Iver and Anna Kristine had nine children the youngest of whom, Ernest Emil Osmundsen (1891-97), died at Bloomfield aged six years. Anna Christina Armstrong nee Osmundsen died at Cairns on 10 November 1918. Her obituary in the Cairns Post tells us she 'leaves a husband and three children, the eldest of whom, Ernest, is employed in the mechanical branch of the Cairns Post' (11 November 1918). We think their other two children were Rebecca Adelaide Armstrong later Blurton and Anna Jane Armstrong later Schroder (1909-41). John McGill Armstrong, who, after his wife's death, became involved in the work of the Waterside Workers' Federation, continued to live at Cairns until his own death there on 15 November 1953. Like Anna he is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Monumental East Side, Row H, Site 6657). His obituary states he was 'survived by one daughter Rebecca (Mrs. J. R. Blurton, Cairns) and one son Edward [sic] (Brisbane)'.

The Australian electoral rolls show that in 1949 Ernest Emil and May Elizabeth Armstrong nee Wolff were living in the riverside suburb of St Lucia in Brisbane (Ernest was working as a storekeeper). Living with them was their daughter, Jean May Armstrong shop assistant (who had been born on 28 November 1925). The 1954 and subsequent electoral rolls have Ernest and May at 15 Mellor Street Kedron in Brisbane and Ernest working as a contractor (the 1954 roll has Jean May Armstrong, now a bank officer, also registered there). On 15 May 1954, readers of the Brisbane Telegraph were informed of Jean's marriage as follows: 'CAREY - ARMSTRONG 15th May at St. Augustine's Church of England, Hamilton, by Rev. Dunbar, Jean May, only Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Armstrong, Kedron, to Albert John, only Son of Mrs. Rube Carey, Kew, Victoria and late John Carey'. The electoral rolls show that Jean May and Albert John Kimber Carey, who was also a bank employee, were living with Albert's mother in the Melbourne suburbs of Kew in 1963, Whittlesea in 1967 and Doncaster in 1968. The Victorian bdms show Jean's mother, May Elizabeth Armstrong, daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Owen and james Arthur Wolff, died aged 64, at Whittlesea in Victoria in 1966, presumably while visiting Jean and Albert there. We have not as yet been able to find where she is buried. The Southern Melbourne Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust website informs us that Albert John Kimber died on 25 March 2005 and was cremated at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery (he is memorialised in the Dodonaea Area, Garden N3, Bed 3, Rose 25). Jean May Carey died on 29 July 2011 and was also cremated at the Sprinvale Botanical Cemetery and is memorialised there with Albert. Their respective death notices published in the Melbourne Herald Sun indicate they didn't have any children. The electoral rolls show Jean's father, Ernest Emil Armstrong continued to live and work in Brisbane after the death of her mother May at Whittlesea in 1966. We have not yet been able to determine when and where he died.

2.3) Emily Katherine Wolff (1908-93) married Francis Patrick Hogan (1905-78) at Cairns on 20 July 1929. Born at Stannery Hills, a tin-mining town southwest of Cairns, Francis' parents were Victorian-born John Hogan (1880-1948) and Robina Sophia Holder (1882-1958) who were married there on 31 October 1904. According to Sharon Hogan's 'hogan (kallangur)' family tree on Ancestry, John Hogan was one of eight children of Patrick Hogan (1835-1918) and Margaret Long (c1834-1915) who both came from Tipperary in Ireland and were married at Kyneton in Victoria on 18 May 1858 (both died at Tenterfield in NSW and are buried in unmarked graves in the Stanthorpe Cemetery). Sharon adds that Robina's parents were George Holder (1853-1925), who was from Gloucestershire in England, and Norwegion-born Inanda Sophia Johnsdatter (1852-1903). Married at Cardwell in the Cassowary coastal region north of Townsville on 10 February 1873, they had 14 children between then and 1897. The Australian electoral rolls show that John, who worked as a 'lengthsman' and Robina Sophia Hogan and their family lived at Stannery Hills until the mid-1920s and then in Cairns where John died in 1948 and Robina ten years later. They are buried together in the Cairns Cemetery (Monumental East Side, Row T4, Site 5554). Sharon tells us Robina and John Hogan had seven children in addition to Francis Patrick: John William (1902-66), Thomas (1907-7), Winifred Iandra Munro (1908-77), Margaret Grace (1910-36), George Mathew (1912-75), Alfred Michael (1914-14) and Eileen Mary Buckley (1919-2004). Winifred Iandra Munro and John William Hogan are also buried in the Cairns Cemetery,

Francis Patrick and Emily Katherine Hogan lived all their married lives in Cairns - where Francis worked as a labourer - and both died there, Francis on 29 August 1978 and Emily on 12 July 1993. They are buried next to each other in the local cemetery (Section ELP, Row EP14, Sites 20 and 19). They had two sons, who both attended Hambledon State School and later served for a time in the RAAF, and six grandchildren we know of.

2.3.1) Kevin Francis Hogan (1929-2021) married a divorcee, Mavis Isobel Hine (1926-2014), at Cairns on 21 July 1955. Mavis' father was Frederick Hugh/Hughie Hine (1887-1970) whose military file in the National Archives shows was born at Einasleigh in northern Queensland and enlisted in the Australian Army at Enoggera in Brisbane on 8 February 1915 (he was then working as an engine driver). After spending time at Gallipoli with the 9th Infantry Battalion, Frederick served in France initially with the 49th Infantry Battalion and, from August 1916, as a mechanic with the Australian Flying Corps. He returned to Australia on 6 May 1919 and married Mavis' mother, Ethel Charlotte Genninges (1901-54), on 4 June 1921 (probably at Ravenshoe although that is still to be confirmed). Ethel was born at Tumoulin in Queensland and died at Cairns on 24 January 1954. Her obituary in the Cairns Post tells us she was 'an old resident of the Tablelands district and is survived by her widower, Mr Frederick Hugh Hine: her sons Joseph (Tully), Stanley (Cairns), and her daughters. Phyllis (South Grafton), Mavis (Cairns) and Iris (Byron Bay), and six grandchildren' (21 January 1954). Both she and Frederick are buried in the Cairns Cemetery, Ethel at Monumental West Side, Row A and Frederick at Section: FSD Row: J12 Site: 1474A. The 'Roberts-Purkington Best/Petersen-Hine' family tree on Ancestry tells us Mavis was earlier married to Eric Peck with whom she had a son, Graham John Peck Hogan (1948-2019). The electoral rolls indicate Kevin Francis and Mavis Isobel Hogan lived all their married lives in Cairns where Kevin worked as a labourer. They both died at Cairns, Mavis on 25 September 2014 and Kevin on 22 January 2021 and are buried in the Catholic portion of the Cairns Cemetery (Section CW4, Row A, Sites 37 and 38). His entry in the Find a Grave website tells us Kevin 'passed away peacefully at Cairns Base Hospital . . . aged 91 years. Beloved Husband of Mavis (dec) loved father and father in-law of Graham (dec), Wayne & Leisa, beloved grandchildren Niamh & Lochlann. Loved brother and brother-in-law to Ray (dec) and Rita, Phyllis & Tige (dec), Joe & Daphne (dec), Stanley (dec) & Dang, Iris & Ted (dec). Kevin was also a cherished Uncle to his many nieces and nephews and their respective families'.

2.3.2) Raymond John Hogan (1931-79) married Rita Mary Lawler and lived and worked - as an electrical fitter - at Helidon near Toowoomba in Queensland until his death there on 24 December 1979. He is buried in the Helidon Catholic Cemetery, where his plaque tells us he was the 'loved husband of Rita [and] dear father of Kevin, Vivienne and Robert'.

2.4) Sarah Edith (Edie) Wolff (1909-75). Edie was born at Einsaleigh in Queensland on 1 July 1909 and married Cecil Jeremiah Fuller (1905-44) at Cairns on 22 December 1928. Born at Mount Shamrock in Queensland on 21 February 1905, Cecil was the youngest child of Charles Knight Fuller (1869-1939), who was born at Glen Innes in NSW and died at Maryborough in Queensland, and Margaret Theresa Buckley (1869-1910) who came from Kilgarran in County Kerry in Ireland and died at Didcot in the North Burnet region of Queensland (she is buried in the Degilbo Cemetery near Mount Shamrock). Charles and Margaret were married at Maryborough on 14 February 1892 and had seven children between then and 1905. These included Robert Bernard Fuller (1893-1916) who was killed in action in France while serving with the 25th Infantry Battalion and Charles Daniel Fuller (1897-1983) who served as a Trooper in the 15/11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt and the Sudan. After their marriage in 1928, Cecil and Edie Fuller lived at Edmonton outside Cairns where Cecil worked as a labourer and then a train driver. The Department of Veterans Affair's WW2 nominal roll shows he also served in the 17th Battalion of the Volunteer Defence Corps between 12 June 1942 and his death at Edmonton on 21 August 1944. His obituary published the next day in the Cairns Post tells us Cecil 'was born in the Marlborough district, and had been engine driving for the C.S.R. Co. for 17 years. He had lived a long time in Edmonton . . . [and] leaves a widow, a son, Cecil, aged 15, and daughter, Joan, 13'. Cecil is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Monumental West Side, Row P3, Site 4723). The 'Matsen Baker Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Edie, who after Cecil's death lived for a time in Sydney, died in the Cairns region on 27 July 1975 and is memorialised (as Edith Sarah Murphy) in the Cairns Cemetery (Section: CW1 Row: A Site: 114).

Edie and Cecil had two children: Cecil Bernard Fuller (1929-75) and Joan Dorothy Fuller who was born in 1930. Ancestry's 'Queensland School Admission Records, 1860-1992' tells us Cecil enrolled at Hambeldon State School at Edmonton in 1934 and Joan the following year. A number of articles in the Cairns Post show a Joan Fuller was at St Mary's College at Herberton during the 1940s (we have not yet been able to confirm this was our Joan). We do know that on 22 March 1947 the then 18 year-old Cecil spent two years in the Royal Australian Navy probably in Sydney where, in 1948, he married Joan Alice Smith at Paddington. His military record in the National Archives, tells us Cecil undertook two further engagements with the RAN: a six year term from 5 June 1953 and two years from 4 September 1961. In both cases he served as a Steward and then a Leading Steward. The electoral rolls show that over this time Cecil and Joan Alice lived in the Sydney suburbs of Dulwich Hill and then Yagoona, They were still registered as living at Yagoona at the time of the 1972 election along with a Patricia Ann Fuller, typist. The 1977 roll has Cecil, said to be a painter, and Joan at Buttaba near Toronto in Newcastle. Cecil was still living there in 1980 while Joan was back in Sydney (at Dulwich Hill). The Find a Grave website shows that Cecil Bernard Fuller died in 1986 and was buried in the Toronto General Cemetery (New Anglican 3, 26). The inscription on his grave reads: 'C.B. Fuller Leading Steward R32067 Royal Australian Navy 25th July 1986 Age 57 Sadly Missed By His Wife Barbara And Family. Rest In Peace'.

2.5) Arthur Richard Wolff (1911-63). Arthur attended Hambledon State School and later lived at Cairns where he worked as a labourer. On 11 January 1937 he married Dulcie Rebecca Henrietta Leck (1912-2002) who, the 'Matsen Baker Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us, was one of three children of Ernest Walter Leck (1890-1916) and Kesiah Gliddon (1883-1932) who were married in Queensland on 31 December 1908. At the time of the 1943 election, Dulcie was still living in Cairns while Arthur had relocated to Petersham in Sydney where he was working as a crane operator. They were both living at 39 Golden Grove Street at Chippendale in Sydney when Arthur died at Darlington on 9 April 1963 (we have yet to find where he is buried). By the time of the 1968 election, Dulcie had become partnered with a truck driver and near neighbour, Raymond Donald (Don) Thompson (1918-95), and was living with him at his home at 37 Golden Grove Street Chippendale (they were still there in 1980). The 'Thompson Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Don died at his home on 27 July 1995 and was cremated at the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park Cemetery four days later. We don't think he and Dulcie - pictured with Don's niece in the the photo, taken on 8 August 1970, on the right - had any children. Dulcie Rebecca Henrietta Wolff nee Leck died on 18 June 2002 and is memorialised in the Cairns Cemetery (Section CW2, Face A , Site 199).

2.6) George Francis Wolff (1914-62). Born at Cairns, George - pictured on the left - was also educated at Hambledon State School after which he worked as a labourer, scaffolder, engine driver and storeman. On 5 December 1935 he married at Cairns Amanda May Steensen (1912-54), daughter of Rasmus Peter Steensen (1877-1935) and Jessie Thomas (1884-1959) who were both born at Charters Towers and were married on 4 July 1903. The 'Wolff Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Jessie's parents were Gibraltar-born John Thomas (1825-1914), founder of the Black Jack mines at Charters Towers and Ravenswood, and Mary Ann Bethell (1856-1916) who hailed from Wolverhamton in England. The Australian electoral rolls show that after their marriage George Francis and Amanda May Wolff lived in the Cairns region until the early 1940s when they moved to Brisbane where they lived at Stafford near Kedron. Amanda died in Brisbane on 25 December 1954. We have yet to find where she is buried. At the time of the 1958 election, George was registered as living at Acacia Ridge in South Brisbane along with a Hilda Wolff, home duties. George Francis Wolff died at Cairns on 25 June 1962 and is buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Sect BMS; Row K6; Site 8853). He and Amanda had nine children and at least 17 grandchildren. Their children we have some details on are: 1) Hazel Beverly Wolff (1836-93) who married Douglas Pratt (1936- 2020) in Brisbane on 17 May 1956 and had six children: Deborah Leigh Pratt (1960-65), Tracy Maree Pratt (1965-2013) and four others (two girls and two boys); 2) Elizabeth Jessie (Betty) Wolff (1941-2002) who married Brian Albert Rice (1938-2015). Betty died died at Peakhurst in Sydney on 13 August 2002. She and Brian had five children: David Anthony Rice (1965-2015) - who died in Perth was twice married and had six children - and four others (three boys and a girl); 3) George Arthur Raymond Wolff (1943-2014) who was married and had one child; 4) Darryl Lloyd Francis Wolff (1944-80) who married Lorraine Shirley Gourley (1949-78) in Brisbane (Lorraine died in Brisbane and Darryl at Townsville).nThey had two children: Wayne Allan Francis Wolff (1970-2009) who died in Sydney and one other (male); 5) Dale Robert Bruce Wolff (1952-64) who died at Ipswich in Queensland and is buried/memorialised in the Mount Gravatt Cemetery in Brisbane (MONUMENTAL-2B-7-682); and 6) a female who married Raymond George Adams (1943-88) and had three children.

2.7) Stanley Edwin/Edward Wolff (1916-81). Born at Malanda in Queensland's Atherton Tablelands, Stanley enrolled at Hambledon State School in 1921. At the time of the 1937 election he was living at Forsyath, to the south of Georgetown in the central base of Cape York, and working as a butcher. While there he would have met Clara May Secombe (1911-91) who he married at Cairns on 4 May 1938. The 1937 electoral roll shows Clara living with her parents, Louis Edwin Secombe (1879-1972) and Alice May Matilda Fitzsimmons (1890-1973), and siblings on Lyndhurst Station at nearby Einasleigh where Louis was working as a stockman (Clara was enrolled at the Einasleigh State School in November 1919). According to the 'Jolliff-Gould' family tree on Ancestry, Louis and Alice were married at Georgetown on 22 January 1909 and had nine children between then and 1931. They both died at Mareeba in Queensland and are buried in the cemetery there (Section 3 Protestant, Row V, Plots 19 and 20). It adds that Louis Edwin's parents were a Scot, Alexander Secombe (1840-85) and Albury-born Malvina Rachel Vincent (1846-1925) who were married at Corowa on the NSW-Victoria border on 14 January 1864 and moved up to Gympie in Queensland in around 1870.

The Australian War Memorial's WW2 database shows Q230229 Stanley Edwin Wolff of Wirra Wirra at Einasleigh enlisted in the Second AIF at Forsayth on 13 Sep 1942. His military file in the National Archives tells us he was then working as a railway fettler, was married with one child, and his NOK was Clara May Wolff of Wirra Wirra. Stanley served as a private soldier in the 23rd Regiment VDC and was discharged on 21 October 1945. The 1949 electoral roll has Stanley, who was then working as a coal miner, and Clara May living at Mount Mulligan to the west of Mareeba (the same roll shows Clara's father, who was still working as a stockman, was living on Quill Street in Cairns). Reports in the Cairns Post around this time indicate Stanley and Clara's daughter, Maureen Alice Wolff, attended Mount Mulligan Primary School and later went to Mareeba State High School. Subsequent electoral rolls have Stanley Edward, as he was now registered as, and Clara living at Mareeba in 1954, Gordonvale south of Cairns in 1963, Ingham in 1968, and Cairns from the early 1970s (the 1972 roll shows them at 13 Quill Street there along with Clara's brother, George Henry Secombe). Over this time Stanley worked as a welder, miner, organiser and tiler. Stanley and Clara both died at Cairns, he at Herberton on 6 March 1981 and she on 9 July 1991. They are both buried in the Cairns Cemetery (Section LH, Row B15, Sites 12 and 14). As noted above, they had one daughter, Maureen Alice Wolff (1939-2017) who was born at Cairns and married a local motor mechanic, Alfred John Gates (1935-96) at Gordonvale on 20 February 1960. We believe both died at Cairns, Alfred on 5 September 1996 and is buried in the Martyn Street Cemetery (Sect NLP, Row NP3, Plot 34), and Maureen on 13 December 2017. We don't think they had children although that has still to be confirmed.

2.8) Edna Florence Wolff (1918-87). Like most of her siblings, Edna attended Hambledon State School, enrolling there in 1924. We think she may also have spent time at Greenslopes State School in Brisbane. On 19 March 1935 Edna married Thomas William Gladstone (1913-80) at the St Francis Church of England in Cairns. The 'Jonti Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Thomas' parents were Victorian-born Robert John Gladstone (1868-1954) and Minnie Mary Jane Walkey (1891-1959) who were married at Chillagoe on 19 August 1907 and had seven children between then and 1928. Robert died on 14 August 1954 and is buried in the Mount Mulligan Cemetery. Minnie died at Cairns on 1 August 1959 and is buried at the Cairns Cemetery (Section: BMS Row: W5 Site: 8078). A report of Edna and Thomas' wedding in the Cairns Post says Edna entered the church on the arm of her brother, Gordon Wolff, and was supported by two of her sisters, Emily Hogan, who acted as matron of honour, and Dorothy who was her flower girl. Edna's brother, George Francis Wolff, supported the groom. The report added that 'Mr and Mrs Gladstone spent a short honeymoon in Cairns and district before leaving for their future home at Chillagoe'. On 3 April 1941, the same newspaper in its 'Chillagoe Notes' informed its readers that 'Mr T. Gladstone, of the staff of Jack and Newell Ltd. has been transferred to Mt Garnet; and left here during the week with his wife and child. Miss Dot Wolf, of the staff of Jack and Newell Ltd. relinquished her position, and left by train for Edmonton, where she will reside with relatives'. The Australian electoral rolls show that Thomas, who worked as a shop assistant, and Edna moved from Mount Garnet to Cairns in the mid-1950s. They were at Mundubbera in the north Burnett Region of Queensland in 1963 and then back at Cairns until the late 1970s when they moved to Rockhampton. Thomas and Edna both died at Rockhampton, he on 23 June 1980 and she on 9 March 1987. They are buried together in the North Rockhampton Cemetery (Church Of England Section 4, Row 18, Grave No 16).

According to Maureen Gates, Edna and Thomas had four children: Valmae Edna (born at Chillagoe in 1936), Janet (1943, Herberton), Pamela Ann (1954, Cairns) and David John Gladstone (1955-55) who was born and died at Cairns. The 'BANHAM COMBINED FAMILY TREE 2023' on Ancestry indicates Valmae married Michael John Patterson (1935-95) at Cairns on 10 September 1955. Born at Kogarah in Sydney, Michael was the only son of Sydney-born George Joseph (Banjo) Patterson (1902-50) and Mildred Mary McNamara (1908-57) who came from Young in central New South Wales. They were married at Enmore in Sydney on 27 April 1929 and lived at Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter region of NSW - where Banjo worked as an electrician - until the war years when they moved to Warwick in Queensland. The Department of Veterans Affair's WW2 nominal roll shows NX39148 George Joseph Patterson enlisted in the Australian Army at Paddington in Sydney on 21 July 1941 and was discharged on 29 November 1945 at which time he was a Sapper in the 2/12 Australian General Hospital. His military record in the Australian Archives shows he spent part of his time in the Army on active service overseas including in Ceylon and Borneo. George Joseph (Banjo) Patterson died at Warwick in Queensland in October 1950 and is buried in the local cemetery there (RC Section D, Grave 225). Mildred Mary Patterson nee McNamara died at Concord in Sydney on 3 June 1957. The Australian electoral rolls show that Michael John Patterson served in the RAAF during the 1950s and 1960s, and he and Valmae lived at Ipswich in Queensland and Wagga Wagga in NSW. By the time of the 1977 election, Michael had left the Air Force and he and Valmae were living in the Brisbane suburb of McGregor (along with a Julie Marie Patterson, clerk). The 1980 roll has them at 4 Talford Street in Rockhampton (along with a Stephen Thomas Patterson, distributor). The Ryerson Index tells us Michael John (Mick) Patterson 'formerly of Loganholme' [a suburb of Brisbane] died on 9 November 1995 (Courier Mail, 11 November 1995).

2.9) Dorothy Jean (Dot) Wolff (1924-2020). The Queensland Schools Admissions records show that Dot attended Hambledon and Greenslopes State Schools during the 1930s. As noted above, in 1941 she moved from Chillargoe, where she had been working as a shop assistant, to Edmonton in Cairns. On 28 August 1944 Dot married John Victor Kelleher (1917-96) at Townsville. The 'McCourt Provke Love Story' family tree on Ancestry tells us John was the son of an engine driver, Jeremiah Kelleher (1894-1958), and Bridget McCourt (1898-1986) who were married at Boonah in Queensland on 6 July 1915. Jeremiah and Bridget both died at Townsville, he on 13 December 1958 and she on 30 October 1986. They are buried together in Townsville’s Belgian Gardens Cemetery (Section A4, Row 14, Grave 418). Bridget's parents, John McCourt (1840-1926) and Anne Catherine Connelly (1855-1929), were both born in Ireland and were married at Bombay in India on 21 August 1870. John McCourt's obituary in the Brisbane Daily Mail on 28 July 1926 tells us he died at Dugandan near Boonah in Queensland's Scenic Rim Region where he had resided for about 50 years. 'In the early seventies', it continues, 'he regularly travelled through the district to Northern New South Wales, with packhorses loaded with merchandise. In his younger days, he served in the British Army, and saw service in India'. A second obituary, published in the Queensland Times on 3 August 1926, tells us John 'was of those hardy pioneers who cut their way through the dense Dugandan scrub, and was one of the very few remaining residents who could relate the early history of settlement in Fassifern'. It adds that 'one of the approaches to Boonah via Millong and Coulson is known as McCourt's Hill. It was at this place that [John McCourt] had conducted a general store, and which progressed until, with the advance of settlement, it was removed to Dugandan, where It had been a feature for upwards of 35 years'.

At the time of Dot and John Victor's marriage at Townsville in 1944, John - pictured on the right - was serving in the Australian Army's 31/51st Infantry Battalion. His military file in the National Archives shows he had enlisted at Townsville on 14 August 1940, was working as a carpenter, and his NOK was Jeremiah Kelleher of Hermit Bay in Townsville. At the time of his discharge on 14 March 1945, John was working as a cabinet maker and his NOK was Dorothy Jean Kelleher of PO Edmonton Qld. His file shows John spent roughly half of his time in the Army outside Australia (mainly on Thursday Island). The Australian electoral rolls show that after the war Dot and John lived at Cairns until the early 1960s when they moved to the inner Sydney suburb of Balmain where John worked as a plant operator. They seem to have separated sometime after this with Dot living at Leichardt and John at Gladesville in North Sydney. The Find a Grave website tells us John Victor Kelleher died in Sydney on 28 September 1996, was cremated and is memorialised in the NSW Garden of Remembrance at Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery. Dorothy Jean (Dot) Kelleher nee Wolff died at Hawks Nest north of Newcastle on 8 November 2020. Her death notice, published in the Cairns Post on 14 November tells us she was the 'Loving mother and mother in law of Patricia and Les. Treasured Nan and Grandma of Kellie, Warren and families. Aged 96 years'. She was cremated and is memorialised in the Newcastle Memorial Park atBeresfield.

3). William Robert Owen (1884-1945). Born in Boulia in North West Queensland in 1884, William was working as a miner and living with his parents at Gurrumba in Queensland at the time of the 1908 Commonwealth election. Still working as a miner he was registered as living at Oaks Rush and then Forsath in the Division of Kennedy at the time of the 1913 and 1919 elections. By 1925 he had ceased working as a miner and was the head stockman at Oaks Station at Kidston in north Queensland. On 14 February 1925, William married Gladys Pearl Campbell (1906-91) at Kidston. Born at Charters Towers in Queensland, Gladys' parents were a miner, William Stephen Campbell (1862-1929), and Margaret Ellen Wright (1872-1945) who were then living at Charles Creek at Kidson. After their marriage in 1925, William Robert and Gladys Pearl Owen continued to live at Oaks Station until the early 1940s when they moved into Kidston. The Find a Grave website shows a William Robert Owen, born on 9 April 1884 died on 17 December 1945 and is buried in the Mareeba Pioneer Cemetery. The same source informs us that a Gladys Pearl Benjamin nee Campbell (1906-91) is also buried in the Mareeba Cemetery - Section 4 Catholic, Row T, Plot 25 - along with a William Benjamin (1913-2003). According to the 'Brodie/Borghero/Owen Family Tree' on Ancestry, William Robert and Gladys had four children: 1) Catherine Pearl Owen who was born at Cairns in 1925 and died at Newcastle in NSW in 1993. She is buried in Newcastle's Sandgate Cemetery (Catholic Section 16 Plot 12). Like her mother, Catherine was married /partnered a number of times and had seven children in all; 2) Margaret Ellen Owen (1925-6); 3) Roy William Owen (1926-66) who was born at Kidston, married Townsville-born Faye Hind (1927-61) at Mareeba in 1953 and died and was buried there in 1966 (Section 4 Catholic, Row D, Plot 13). He and Faye, who died in 1961 and is buried in the Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens in Brisbane, had four children including Darcy Owen (1949-2012); and 4) Lance Robert Owen who was born in 1928 and died and was buried at Charters Towers in 1996 (LAWN, Section 60, Plot 590, Grave # 590). The 'Brodie/Borghero/Owen Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us that after William Robert's death in 1945, Gladys married or was partnered with Frederick Charles Hambrook (1902-49) with whom she had two daughters, James David Brose (1899-1975), and the aforementioned William Benjamin.

William Robert and Gladys Pearl Owen nee Campbellf

4. Charles Henry Owen (1892-1967). Born at Boulia on 24 March 1892, Charles - pictured on the left - was living with is parents and siblings on their farm at Aloomba when he enlisted in the First AIF at Cairns on 29 January 1916. The 'Aloomba Notes' in the Cairns Post on 24 February of that year tells us 'a social and dance was given to celebrate the occasion. Mr Owen has always been to the fore in any entertainment held at Aloomba, and his absence will be felt by the dancing community. During the evening an engraved illuminated wristlet watch was presented to the departing recruit by Mr A. J. Broughton on behalf of the residents, and Mr Owen suitably responded.The dancing under the direction of Mr Adam McNab was kept going in good style'. Allocated to the 19th Reinforcements for the 15th Infantry Battalion, Charles embarked from Brisbane on the A50 ITONUS on 8 August and disembarked at Plymouth in England on 18 October 1916. After undergoing initial training at Rolleston on the Salisbury Plain, he proceeded to France via Folkestone on 12 December 1916. Following further training at Etaples and after spending time in hospital with mumps, Charles finally joined his battalion on 20 January 1917. On 16 October 1917 he was wounded in action - a GSW to the back - and admitted to 5 General Hospital at Rouen before being transferred to the 2nd Southern General Hopital in England. After rejoining his Battalion in France on 9 February 1918, he was gassed on 25 August and again invalided to the UK. On 26 November 1918, readers of the Cairns Post were informed that 'Private Charles Henry Owen, Aloomba, was admitted on 2nd November to the First Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, England, seriously ill with pneumonia'. A subsequent edition of the newspaper announced that 'Private Charles Henry Owen is due to arrive in Melbourne about January 23rd. He has already arrived at Fremantle' (20 January, 1919).

After his discharge from the Army on 3 March 1919, Charles returned to his parents' farm at Aloomba. On 27 June 1923 he married Alice Amy Robins (1903-82) probably at Cairns although that has still to be confirmed. The /Waites Kilkenny Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us Alice was born at Cairns, the third daughter of Arthur Proctor Robins (1874-1929) and Evelyn Daisy Livesey (1883-1964) who were married in Queensland on 28 June 1900 and had five children in addition to Alice: Ivy Alice (1900-01), Evelyn May (1901-65), Arthur (1905-65), Gibbon John (born in 1908) and June Annir Robins (1911-74). Evelyn's father was Hampden/Hampton Gibbon Livesey (1846-1926) who was born at Basford in Nottinghamshire, served 'with the Empire in the South African war' (Cairns Post, 20 April 1926), and died and is buried at Cairns (Monumental East Side, Row G1, Site 1448). Arthur's parents were Tasmanian-born John Robins (1831-1917) and Sarah Ann Price (1838-77) who was born in Sydney. Married at Moreton Bay north of Brisbane on 8 March 1853, they had ten children between then and 1876.

The 1928 electoral roll has Charles Henry Owen still registered at Aloomba while Alice Amy Owen, home duties, was living on Swan Street in Gordonvale. The 1932 roll has them living in the Brisbane riverside suburb of Toowong (where Charles was working as a labourer and Alice's mother was also residing). They were still in Brisbane at the time of the 1943, 1949 and 1954 elections (along with a Charles Arthur Owen, motor mechanic, and Veronica Doreen Owen, home duties, in 1954). Charles Henry and Alice then moved back to the Mareeba region west of Cairns where they were registered as living at Danbulla in 1958 and Sunnybank in 1963 (along with an Amy Alice Owen, home duties). Charles Henry Owen died in Brisbane on 24 August 1967, was cremated at Albany Creek Memorial Park and is buried/memorialised at Bridgeman Downs in Brisbane (inscription: 6120 15 Battalion). The 1972 electoral roll has Alice Amy living at 137 Sutton Street in the Brisbane suburb of Redcliffe (near where her and Charles' son and his family were then living). Alice Amy Owen nee Robins died at Brisbane on 1 October 1982. We have yet to determine whether and where she is buried.

Charles Henry and Alice Amy Owen had two children we are aware of: 1) Charles Arthur Owen (1924-99) and 2) Mary Owen who was born and died at Cairns in 1928 and, we think, is buried as 'Baby Owen' in an unmarked grave in the cemetery there (Monumental West Side, Row I1, Site 1891). The Amy Alice Owen registered as living with them at Sunnybank in 1963 may have been another daughter or, possibly, their granddaughter. Their only son, Charles Arthur Owen, was born on 21 April 1924 and attended the Toowong State School from June 1932. His military file in the National Archives tells us Charles - pictured on the right - enlisted in the Australian Army at Brisbane on 5 May 1943. He was then working as a motor mechanic and living with his parents at 605 New Cleveland Road Morningside. Charles Arthur was discharged from the Army on 6 March 1946 at which time he was serving as a Craftsman in the Brisbane Area Workshops AEME. His military file shows he had spent all of his time in the Army within Australia and was married in Brisbane on 28 April 1945. Charles' wife was Veronica Doreen Barrett (1924-95) who, the 'Thomas John Garbutt Ashworth' family tree on Ancestry tells us, was born at Port Pirie in South Australia, the second daughter of John Peter Barrett (1887-1973) - who was born at Chetwynd in Victoria's Wimmera District and died at nearby Edenhope - and Ruby Annie Hayball (1899-1937) who was born at Port Pirie in South Australia, died in Adelaide on 4 September 1937 and is buried in the Port Pirie Cemetery. They were married at Port Pirie on 13 March 1919. The Australian electoral rolls show that Charles Arthur and Veronica Doreen Owen lived much of their married lives in Brisbane where Charles worked as a motor mechanic. The Ryerson Index and Redcliffe Cemetery records tell us that Veronica Doreen Owen, 'late of Clontarf' died on 23 March 1995 and Charles Arthur Owen, 'late of Scarborough' died on 8 October 1999. They are buried together in Brisbane's Redcliffe Cemetery (Section 105, Row SS Plot 0010). The 'Owen Family Tree' on Ancestry tells us they had a daughter who is married and has a son.