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[7] GEORGE ARTHUR TILBURY (c1875-1944)
Son of James Thompson (1845-1931) and Esther (nee Gardner) (1851-1936).
Father of:
Clive Edwin (1918-1996) and
Lloyd David (1919-1993)
1875. George was born 25-Aug in Balmain, Sydney.
1876. When he was 12 months old the family moved to Queensland’s Central District where for some years his father James carried on
a storekeeping business at Aramac and another at Winton. The drought of 1883-85 proved disastrous and the family returned to Sydney for several years.
1886. Marcus (11) and George (10) entered the Rockhampton Grammar School (RGS), presumably as boarders.
1888. The family moved to Rockhampton and at the end of 1890 George left the RGS, aged about 15.
c1907. George lived at ‘Grantham’ until he was around 31 years of age. It is assumed he returned to Sydney around 1907, when he was in his early 30s.
1917. George married Dulcie Mildred Blacket on 1-Jun in St. Clement’s Church, Mosman, Sydney. George was 41 years of age, Dulcie 21. Prof. Ralph Blacket believes Dulcie joined the Bank of Australasia, now part of the ANZ, and met George whilst there. ?They lived at ’Cooinda’, Waters Rd., Neutral Bay.
1918. Clive was born.
1919. Lloyd was born. George was a bank accountant living at ‘Cooinda’, Waters Rd, Neutral Bay, Sydney.
c1925. George was the manager of the Bank of Australasia at Kogarah during the teenage years of Clive, Lloyd and their Blacket cousins Ralph (1919), Selwyn (1921) and Joan (1923). Lloyd was nine days older than Ralph. Ralph’s father Selwyn Edwin Blacket (1889-1939) worked at the same bank but resigned and became a real estate agent at Hurstville just prior to the Depression. The boys were fond of sport, playing tennis and using a paddock near the bank manager’s residence to play hockey and cricket. The two families often took holidays together at Austinmer on the NSW South Coast.
1940. The family was living at 28 Joubert St., Hunter’s Hill NSW. The old sandstone coach house still exists. In April son Clive, 21 enlisted for service in World War II, followed in May by Lloyd, 20.
1942. On 20-April George and Dulcie moved to 1 Marimbah Flats, Alexander St, Hunter’s Hill.
At some time after managing the bank George became a bank inspector.
1944. On 2-Sep George, aged 69 died at 107 Pacific Highway, Chatswood NSW as a result of cancer of the colon. He had suffered from Locomotor Ataxia for 5 years. His cremation was held 5-Sep at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium. Clive was 25 and preparing for his wedding; Lloyd, 24 was at his first diplomatic posting in India.
[7] DULCIE MILDRED TILBURY (nee BLACKET) (1895-1956)
Daughter of Edwin Newbald (1848-1908) and Rose Annette (nee Barker) (1860-1916).
Mother of:
Clive Edwin (1918-1996) and
Lloyd David (1919-1993)
1985. Dulcie was born 11-Nov in Dubbo.
She was tall, about 5’10” and slender. She and her brother Selwyn played the piano, excelling in the classics. Their father Selwyn was an excellent pianist.
Ralph remembers his favourite aunt as having a lot of style. The children were captives of their mother, Rose Annette Barker, who was dedicated to the Church of England in general and Holy Trinity Dubbo in particular. There Dulcie and Selwyn learnt music but neither of them became ‘knees on the ground’ christians. Selwyn preferred cricket, tennis and rugby and formed a little dance band in
Dubbo ’which earned him more than his bank job!’ He died when Ralph was 20 and the only time Ralph ever saw him in church was at his funeral.
1950-51. After George died and World War II had ended, Dulcie went overseas and served in Frankfurt, Germany with the British Red Cross under the British Army of Occupation.
[when did she move to Toowoomba?]
1956. Dulcie died 8-Oct at the age of 60, whilst employed at the Glennie Girls School in Toowoomba. She was cremated in Brisbane.
The Blackets
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Dulcie’s grandfather, Russell Blacket (1822-1877) brought his family out to Australia in 1858. Russell was the brother of Australian
colonial architect Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817-1883) and was assisted by Edmund in his early years in Australia.
Dulcie’s father Edwin (Eddy) was born in Kent and was 10 years old when the family moved to Australia in 1858. He had carrot-red hair, was a skilled water colour artist and was fond of writing doggerel. He was a storekeeper in Gulgong NSW and married Mary L’Estrange (1856-1884), aged 24 on 31-Mar-1874 in Gulgong. Mary was an ancestor of the Lawries. In the early 1880s Edwin ran a general store in Dubbo and then opened a stock and station agency. Mary died at the age of 28 and two years later Edwin, 38 and Rose Annette
Barker, 26 were married on 14-Aug-1886 at St. Matthew’s church, Windsor by Edwin’s brother Rev. Arthur Russell Blacket.
Rose was born in Norwich, Norfolk, the daughter of a Church of England minister [the Dean of Norwich? Ref. Ralph]. She was well educated and after travelling to Australia in 1884 had been a governess to Edwin’s children from his first marriage. She was living in Sydney at the time of her marriage to Edwin.
Edwin and Rose lived in ‘Arborfield’, Bourke St., Dubbo, where all eight children, of which Dulcie was the seventh, were born. Around 1900 Edwin and Rose retired to ’Glesca’, Park View Rd., Manly, where Edwin died of a heart attack on 28-Jul-1908 at the age of 60. Rose moved to ’Trequillo’, Warren Rd., Marrickville and died there on 22-May-1916 at the age of 56.
c1905. Dulcie’s brother Selwyn Edwin entered his first job as a bank clerk in the Bank of Australasia at Dubbo. Selwyn and Dulcie’s
father Edwin Newbald Blacket was a stock and station agent in Dubbo and a friend of Mr Sillar, the bank manager who gave Selwyn, aged 16 or 17, his first job. Ralph, commenting on a photo of Selwyn and Edwin taken 300 miles inland of the colony, 1,200 miles away from England, was impressed that they were turned out as gentlemen, dressed as they would be in London.
[8] CLIVE EDWIN TILBURY
(detail Chapter 8.1)
[8] LLOYD DAVID TILBURY
(detail Chapter 8.2)
