"Wattle Vale"
Blowering Road, East Blowering
&
"Riverdale" Blowering Road,
Jones's Bridge
Tumut, NSW
In 1876 George Richard Johnson was born at "Wattle Vale" Tumut as shown on son George Richard's Baptism Record and (Ref- NSW BDM 21179/1876) This property was just south of Brandy Mary's Flat on the Monaro Highway. His parents were
Napoleon Bonaparte JOHNSON & Elizabeth Ann QUARMBY.
George Richard Johnson died in 1956 in Cootamundra, NSW.
George Richard Johnson married
Miss Harriett BRUMBY .
who was born in 1885 in Tumut. They married in 1909 in Tumut.
Jones Bridge, Blowering
Gilmore
On Sam Gordon's propery at Gocup, NSW
35 Herbert Street, Tumut - Ref Margaret B
1956 Cootamundra, NSW
SCHOOL - East Blowering School
WORK
Farm hand
1914 Farmer - Ref Baptism record
NSW Railways Dept
In 1912 Gordon O JOHNSON parents GEORGE R & HARRIETT in PETERSHAM, Sydney. - (Ref- NSW BDM 8530/1912).
The late Mr George Johnson of Tumut, whose death is reported elsewhere in this issue, was a son of the late Mr and Mrs N B Johnson of Jones Bridge, Blowering, where he was born and went to school.
In early manhood he was a carrier between Tumut and Gundagai before the advent of the railway and later was farming at Gilmore and Goup and managed his mothers property at Jones Bridge for a time.
He married Miss Harriet Brumby, by whom he is survived. Two other survising sisters not included in the other reference in this issue are Lillian ( Mrs W Grady of Grahamstown) and Ivy (Mrs Stan Prowse of Tumut). Deceased had resided in Herbert Street, Tumut for many years.
He is survived by his widow Mr Harriet Johnson, of 35 Herbert Street,Tumut. Two of his sons, Gordon and Horace, live at Cootamundra.
Other members of the family are Ella (Mrs J Nuttall, Tumut), Claire (Mrs W Bamwell, Tumut), Walter (Tumut), Fred (Tumut), Jack (Western Australia).
The funeral left the Church of England Cootamundra after a surface at3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. - (Ref Margaret B)
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