Research Tracking down the 'missing Hawks'

[Gibbsy]

Skipper appears to be on facebook, living in Perth. He doesn't respond to messages though.

Apparently he's looking for work on LinkedIn too.

 

[WhiteHartLane23]

Partially related question -

Can anyone point me to the wiki page for Jack White, Hawthorn player no 181? I'm certain there used to be one...

Think he also went by John F. White.

The link from this page doesn't work

List of Hawthorn Football Club players - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_White_(footballer,_born_1912)&action=history - the article was nominated for deletion as subject was deemed not sufficiently notable... I fear there may be hundreds of these (which is partly why I've beefed up so many of the early Hawthorn ones in particular!)

 

[WhiteHartLane23]

For Frank Booth it appears there are no direct descendants - only death notice I can find was this one from SMH on 31/7/1974 and he does not share a surname with anyone at the same address where I have been able to trace him. Seems unlikely he married...

Closest living relatives I can trace are the daughters of his elder brother Norman William Booth (1912–2001) m Hilda Marjorie Lee (1910–1996) who are Frances Marjorie Booth and Alison Lee Booth - likely born in late 1940s.

Frances Marjorie Booth is (I believe) a doctor who graduated from U Syd in 1967 and received an AM in the 2006 Australia Day honours. She would be 81 now but I cannot see anything that suggests she has passed. She was residing in Hunters Hill in 2006.

Alison Lee Booth is a labour economist and novelist who is/was professor of economics at Australian National University (and would now be 79)

This should be enough to enable contact to be made by the club if desired

 

[WhiteHartLane23]

Bill Brown is another player who has no direct descendants

His parents, William James Brown (1875–1925) and Charlotte Edwards (1875–1965), had five children:

• Ida Hollis Brown (1902–1975) m Norman Edwin Walker – no children from death notices
• Annie Lillian Brown (1904–1963) – never married; no known children
• William John Brown (1906–1981) – never married; no known children
• Amy Beatrice Brown (1913–1921) – died young
• Cyril Robert Brown (1918–1968) m Eileen Elizabeth Glen - one child

Bill lived with his mother & sister (Annie) until his mother’s death in 1965.

In subsequent electoral rolls Bill is living at 623 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood with his Cyril (until his death), Eileen and their son Kevin. Eileen died in 2005 and given Kevin first appears in electoral roll in 1972 he was likely born around 1950 (voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1973).

So, closest relative we might find appears to be Kevin Robert Brown, born ~1950 and living in Spotswood until 1980. Ryerson Index indicates there was a death notice in the Herald Sun for Eileen on 9 Nov 2005 but it is not visible online. Hopefully it shows Kevin was still alive at that point but I haven’t been able to find any online presence for Kevin yet…

 

[35Daicos]

For Frank Booth it appears there are no direct descendants - only death notice I can find was this one from SMH on 31/7/1974 and he does not share a surname with anyone at the same address where I have been able to trace him. Seems unlikely he married...
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Closest living relatives I can trace are the daughters of his elder brother Norman William Booth (1912–2001) m Hilda Marjorie Lee (1910–1996) who are Frances Marjorie Booth and Alison Lee Booth - likely born in late 1940s.

Frances Marjorie Booth is (I believe) a doctor who graduated from U Syd in 1967 and received an AM in the 2006 Australia Day honours. She would be 81 now but I cannot see anything that suggests she has passed. She was residing in Hunters Hill in 2006.

Alison Lee Booth is a labour economist and novelist who is/was professor of economics at Australian National University (and would now be 79)

This should be enough to enable contact to be made by the club if desired

A tree on Ancestry does have this for him (without mentioning the name of a spouse):

So this may well have been his marriage:



This probably would be him, but why is he living with a Patricia Booth?! Is that Bertha (nee Hall)?

This does indicate that he was married at the time of his discharge from the Army (December 1943):


He gave his parents address as his intended place of living, which seems a bit odd.

Perhaps the marriage didn't last long, but who knows what went on there?!

 

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WhiteHartLane23

Successfully made contact with Alison Booth via her publishing page.

This is really great, thanks again.