In the words of Frank Lawson "Mick"
"Our mother, Alice Gamble, became a catholic when she married our father, James Lawson. I often wonder about the wedding - who organised it, who was there, etc. In my whole life I can never remember my father or indeed my mother organizing a social occasion. Our parents settled on a property next to my father's parents family at Macedon. Each property was about 150 acres. My father cleared the timber from the bush, built a house and commenced mixed farming (sheep, cows, pigs, milk, apples, firewood, oats). For economic reasons he had to do share farming with a wealthy property owner next door. He also cut telephone and electrictiy poles from Baringo at the foot of Mt Macedon. We were poor in everything but food of which, as we were ona farm, there was an abundance. (Pure cream on our Weeties.) We did not have a motor vehicle until 1932, a REO truck. My father gave the policeman a load of wood for a licence without a driving test."
Birth BDM 20576
Death BDM 5571
Alice Gamble was reared in the Carisbrook, Talbot, Boort and Swan Hill districts. Her parents were amongst the earliest pioneers. Her father William Gamble, was from Northern Ireland, her mother Sarah from Nut's Corner, Cornwall.
Birth BDM 18431
25. Agnes LAWSON
Died age 2 years
Birth BDM 18566
Death BDM 8905
Alphonsus left his parents home to go to the Kalgoorlie goldmines and never returned.
Occupation and Residence 1915: Contractor Macdonald Street Kalgoorlie WA
Res 1926: 53 Beatty Ave Victoria Park WA
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