James Frederick HORSFALL / Queensland

[cando]

Electoral boundaries and names change frequently and simply looking at the electoral districts on Ancestry.com.au - why not use the website name - doesn't really give you the fully picture of where James lived and his occupations.  I can't see him with occupation cattle worker.

Australian Electoral Roll
1930
HORSFALL James Frederick  Mt Beppo   Farm Labourer

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113452833
Queensland Times  17 Mar 1933
Personal.--Mr. James Horsfall, who has been in England, and has been absent from Mt Beppo for 18 months, recently returned home by the Orient liner, Orontes.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119464183
Queensland Times  3 Apr 1935
James HORSFALL best man at SINCLAIR wedding.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118362769
Queensland Times 6 Mar 1936
Respectable Young Men seek Position together, Farm. Dairy, or Agricultural,
10 years experience. Near Brisbane or Ipswich, Wages 25/-.
 Reply to James Horsfall, Esk.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118348410
Queensland Times 16 Mar 1936
STANLEY DISTRICT.
MT. BEPPO. (From a Correspondent) Thursday.
Social-Mr. James F. Horsfall, who has been living at Esk for two years, is now visiting friends in the Mt. Beppo district. He is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Sinclair, Jun., and Mr. and Mrs. 0. Sinclair.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118350998
Queensland Times 26 Mar 1936
Mr. James F. Horsfall, who for the past 10 years has lived in the Toogoolawah and Esk districts, has taken up a position at Moggill. after a short holiday in the city.

1937, 1943
HORSFALL James Frederick  Long Pocket Road, Indooroopilly   Dairy worker

WW2 Service Summary
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=82576

And his move to the Rockhampton district.

1949, 1954, 1963, 1968
HORSFALL James Frederick  Westwood Sanitarium  Welfare Officer
http://www.achha.org.au/detailed.php?num=48

1972, 1977, 1980
HORSFALL James Frederick  346 George Street  Rockhampton  No occupation

[If you google the address it is 346 George Street, Depot Hill.]

Cando

[cupoflife]

Will of niece Diannysia (Dianne Rowena) Brown may provide more family details (sister if married, nephews, nieces etc) http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fgt/
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-55612-003
http://gazette.uk.globe24h.com/0/0/london/1999/09/16/55612-0-2903.shtml

[Aussie1947]

1934 Commonwealth Electoral Roll
Division of Darling Downs, Subdivision of Esk.
Horsfall James Fred, Gullinani, labourer.

Gerry

[yelkcub]

Thanks for that Gerry – I'd be glad to find out what became of James after 1980 - as long as it's not going to take up too much of your time. I have to say that I am most impressed by the thoroughness of Australian civic records. Best wishes IAN

[yelkcub]

Cando - That's an amazing amount of information - for which I am most grateful. I think my best plan for today is to use what you have kindly sent, follow up the links and construct a timeline, which I've found in the past to be a good way to begin to gain the fuller perspective on an ancestor's life.

When JFH left the UK for the first time, aged 18, he had been working as a joiner. I suppose that, arriving in a new country, he took whatever employment was available. It could be that he was recruited for farm work while still in the UK (which, let us remember, was in the middle of a terrible depression when the young man made the decision to migrate). Although his father was an undertaker, James's grandparents were farming people in Lancashire. Besides, for a youngish single man, working on a farm provided accommodation and companionship. I'm interested in the apparent change of career to working in the sanatorium, where he seems to have spent a good many years.

I think I need to download a well detailed map of Queensland to understand the extent of his movements over the years. Again - many thanks for this rich supply of material IAN

cupoflife - thanks for the links regarding Diannysia's will. I shall order up the probate report, just in case it gives me details of her sister.

[yelkcub]

cupoflife -
I've just ordered Diannysia's will online - takes about 10 working days: I receive an email when the item is available to view. Thanks for the link.

[Billyblue]

"I think I need to download a well detailed map of Queensland to understand the extent of his movements over the years. Again - many thanks for this rich supply of material"

Basically, Mt Beppo, Esk & Toogoolawah are all in the same area (adjoining postcodes) out a bit west of Brisbane.
Indooroopilly & Moggill are western suburbs of Brisbane
Rockhampton is 700km north on the Tropic of Capricorn

Cheers
Dawn M

[yelkcub]

Thanks, Dawn - I  know its a cliche thing to remark, but distances are vast in Queensland, and James's move to Rockhampton was quite an undertaking. I'd love to know what good reason he must have had for such a radical relocation.

[Aussie1947]

Hi

Rockhampton Crematorium

James Horsfall, 80.
D: 18th Feb 1989
C: 20th Feb 1989.

Gerry