I have included this company in my story about Joseph Michael Moore & sons of the Shamrock & Beverages Aerated Water Companies. Since that time, I have uncovered more material concerning the short lived company of Gibson & Starr. John Gibson and William Robert Starr traded at 106 Roe Street, Perth in 1912. Starr was born in Ballarat Victoria…
DAVID GEORGE WILLIAM DRYSDALE was born in 1904 in Zeehan, Tasmania. He married Ingrid Amelia Folland at Katanning in 1927 and in 1931 he was a Salesman living with his wife in Coburg, Victoria. In 1932 David volunteered to be a missionary for the Salvation Army in the Kimberleys and he journeyed to Derby where the couple bought a…
George Worth married Amelia Jones in Guildford in 1870. They had 5 sons and 5 daughters between 1874 and 1891. He was at Beverley between 1874 and 1882 and in 1881 he won the contract to shoe the Police horses in his occupation as a Blacksmith. Sometime in the 1890’s he established an aerated waters factory at Guildford only…
GEORGE SAURMANN was born in Germany c1851. By 1895 he had made his way to Fremantle and lived in Mandurah Road, Beaconsfield with his wife Annie. He advised the Municipal Council that a footpath was required outside his home in August. He joined Diamond and Son in Cliff Street, Fremantle as Shipping & Customs Forwarding Agents & also agents…
GEORGE JOHN FLAKELAR was born to John and Mary Ann Flakelar c 1870 in Cooma, NSW. He was one of seven sons of this couple and his brother Alfred, born in 1871 also ventured to Kalgoorlie where he became a hotel proprietor. His other brothers, Thomas, Lawrence and William also spent some time here. In May 1897, he married…
George Frank Chambers was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1890 and an only child. By coincidence when he was born, he lived in Walton Street which was the name of the street he eventually settled into at Corrigin. In 1911 at the age of 20 years he was an apprentice furniture maker. He arrived in WA between 1911…
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