News from Stephen Rodgers
Something else to pass on:
the Essendon player of 1920-21
George Faulkner, is now a new man.
It wasn't the right chap, that we had in our records.
The descendants of the player, fortuitously, contacted Essendon.
He was born illegitimately under a different name.
(Of course I didn't know that, when I was looking for who could be the right bloke, in the birth records, 20 to 25 years ago!)
He eventually became George Michael Faulkner.
His correct d-o-b is 4/2/1901.
(Not 4/2/1903, as he states - as you'll see - in his WW2 Nominal Record.)
(Another add-on for Barb!!)
He later dies 25/5/1985.
The family also told us, his half-brother was Ross Faulkner of football manufacturing fame.
All that then leads to his original birth registration being:
Pemberton Waters (Vic BDMs reg #1130 in 1901), father unnamed, mother Daisy Waters.