Biography

The child's parents were married on 1 December 1879 (Marriage Registration 1879/C/1006). Their other children were: Emily, born 1880; Arthur Edwin born 1882; Mary Jane born 1886; William James born 1889; George Robert born 1891; Alfred Charles born 1894; Harry born 1896; Walter Herbert born 1901; Cecil Roy born 1902; Ivy May born 1910. John George was the third of these 11 children, one of 8 boys and 3 girls. George Redgwell was born on 12 December 1856 in Essex, England. His wife was born 1860 in Bangor Downs, Ireland, and died in 1942 in Queensland, just a year after the death of her husband. Deceased's father was an outstanding judge of the draught horses which for many years gave him his livelihood and a sturdy sense of independence. In later years, he took up cane growing and did contract ploughing. The advent of the mechanical age failed to weaken his love of horses and it was a familiar sight to see him making his trips to town by horse and buggy. Beaten at times by fortune, George Redgwell Senior was one of those grand pioneering characters never known to acknowledge defeat. He stood high in the regard of the district as a man of unblemished integrity and his many acquaintances, always knew him as ''Honest George."

John George Redgwell is buried in Dulbydilla.