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following his father’s death. While working at the hospital he had studied the possibility of extracting gold from this waste using the Cyanide Process as set out by M.Eissler in his book published in 1902. George collected the discarded waste from the miners’ diggings and using cyanide settlement tanks retrieved some gold metal. This work proved quite successful and gave him a reasonable return, but following an accident of one of his workers using the cyanide tanks he sold the plant and decided to try his hand at chicken farming! Later he went to Melbourne working as a labourer in a Glass Works in Spotswood and then moved to Mobil Oil who gave him a job in their stores. He only stayed a short time before he got himself a Watchman’s job at the Commonwealth Transport where he stayed until he retired in 1963 when he was 65 years old.

George & Tot married at St Mary’s Church, Castlemain in January 1932 In 1937 George was digging and struck something metallic which turned out to be 4 Gold Sovereigns

George and his wife Tot both became United Kingdom Citizens in 1940. Frank, their only child, told me that his father back in 1937 George was digging and struck something metallic which turned out to be 4 Gold Sovereigns.

Frank was born January 1935. . He married Jocelyn Joyce in July 1965. And together they have a family of six children. Michel b: April 1963; Daniel b: Dec 1964; John b: June 1966; Ann Marie b: Nov 1967; Christine b: Dec 1969; and Paul b: Feb 1975.

Jeanne Marie Gerardine Jumpertz, also spent a lot of time in England often staying with my parents in Kensington. After the first war ended she hoped to meet and marry a ‘lord’. In 1922 she thought she had found such a man by the name of Ernest Selwyn Joseph Wilkinson. She had first met this man in Brussels. Ernest gave her valuable jewels and gifts but failed to inform her they had been stolen from his mother and his wife, Ethel Beatrice Wilkinson! He had married Ethel in December 1914 and she knew him as Basil Francis Seymour, an actor. They lived together at a boarding house in Half Moon Street. When her husband left her, Ethel went into a convent in Rottingdean.

Wilkinson married Jeanne at the Servite Church, Kensington on March 17th.1922 and they lived at two hotels in London but soon after their marriage Jeanne had started to suspect Selwyn was not what he professed to be she suspected another woman and while alone in their room searched through his papers and found reference to a former marriage. When confronted with these accusations Ernest had her locked her in their room. She only escaped when someone found a letter she had thrown from her window asking for help. Jeanne left Ernest and obtained legal advice. She placed an advertisement in the Daily Mail and found Ernest’s first wife. The two then identified their husbands, Ernest alias Basil, as one and the same person using his passport photograph and the signatures on the two marriage certificates. The case was taken to court in January 1925 and in undefended lawsuits, decrees nisi of nullity were awarded to both wives on the grounds of bigamy and adultery.

To avoid arrest Ernest alias Basil left the country only to turn up some weeks later in Malden! He made his way to George who at this time was starting his new project as a poultry farmer. He introduced himself to George as his brother in law, telling him the family owed him a lot of money. He told George that Jeanne had said George would settle this dept. George had no money available, all his savings were in the farm,.

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