KING John William (Jack)  

Research by Gordon Freegard September 2020

There are many conflicting reports in the various records of this family. 
They have been highlighted in red for your attention.                                    

John William (Jack) King’s Grandfather, John King married Albertina Mary (Mary) nee Patfield (sometimes Padfield) on her eighteenth birthday, the 11nd November 1851 at Pinner in the County of Middlesex, England. He was a year older. Her parents were Robert Patfield (or Padfield) and Harriette (nee Rogers) (or sometimes listed as Shambrook, Shambroek or Skambrook).

John King and his wife lived in Silk Mills, Watford, in the county of Hertford, England.  Their son George, was born five months after the wedding, on the 21^st April 1852
and it appears that Albertina was illiterate at the time as she signed the birth
document with an “X”.

JOHN WILLIAM (Jack) KING          #1
 

The Parents with their two children, George aged 4 and Letitia aged 3 arrived at Fremantle on the 8^th August 1857, as assisted immigrants on board the “City of Bristol”.
 

John and Albertina had 6 children:

GEORGE KING  (1852 – 1926)

LETITIA ( LETTY) KING  (1854 – 1948)

JOHN WILLIAM (WILLIAM) KING  (1859 – 1910)

CAROLINE KING  (1862 – 1865)

HENRY KING  (1864 – 1865) Died 1 year old

PHOEBE KING  (1865 – 1961)

John King died 7 years after arriving in Western Australia, on 26^th September 1864, aged 32 years old. After the death of John King, Albertina (Mary) remarried to John Andrew Weedon. They had 3 children:

JAMES WEEDON  (1870 – 1944)                 

HARRY WEEDON  (1872 – 1937)

AMY ELIZABETH WEEDON  (1875 – 1939)

Her new husband passed away in 1891 so she then returned to England. Residing first at Walthamstow, Essex and then later in 1911 at Watford, Hertfordshire, England. She turned to Australia and died on 26^th February 1926 at 214 Mandurah Road, South Fremantle, aged 92 years and is buried at the Fremantle Cemetery.
 

ALBERTINA MARY WEEDON (KING)          #2

    GEORGE KING & SOME OF HIS FAMILY 1896  JARRAHDALE     #3
Back: JOHN, ELIZA, MARY & GEORGE
Front: EDWARD, WILLIAM & HORACE
 

At the age of 22 their son, George married Eliza Emma Riley at the Congregational Church in Fremantle on the 13^th June 1874.

During the 1890's, the demand for Western Australian jarrah timber was increasing. Many more mills were built to cope with the demand particularly around the Jarrahdale area. No. 3 Mill (the 39) built on 39 Brook, and the No. 4 Mill on the Serpentine River, No 5 Mill (Chandlers) built to the north east of Jarrahdale. The latter was to be rebuilt at Big Brook at the end of the decade, followed shortly after by the building of the No. 6 Mill at Big Brook. Note, too, that by 1899 more than 300 men were employed at the mills plus many more employed at the bush landings throughout the forest, outside Jarrahdale.

This is where George found employment with the Jarrrahdale Timber Company and in May 1889 became a foreman at Bush Landing No. 3 Mill (the 39) built on 39 Brook.

He and his wife Eliza had 10 children:

LYDIA CAROLINE (Carrie) KING  (1875 – 1965)
          Married Albert Little on 1^st February 1891 at Jarrahdale, Western Australia. Died 28^th April 1965.

ELIZA EMMA (EMMA) KING  (1877 – 1952)
          Married Henry George Pridmore in 18^th February in Perth, Western Australia. Died 2^nd September 1952 at Wagin, Western             Australia.

AMY ELIZABETH KING  (1879 – 1943)
          Married William Nettleton on 16^th June 1896 at Jarrahdale, Western Australia. Died 14^th November at Midland, Western Australia.

GEORGE ANDREW KING (1881-1917)
          Private George Andrew King, eldest son of George King, Bush Landing, Jarrahdale, of the 31^st Battalion, died on 29^th November 1917,             in the 1^st Canadian Hospital, France, of meningitis, through wounds received in action on October 3, 1917. Aged 37 years. Wife Mary.

MARY ALBERTINA KING  (1883 – 1899)
          Sadly on 10th May 1899 aged fifteen or sixteen years old, Mary Albertina died from burns received when her clothes caught fire while             doing the washing at their home.

JOHN WILLIAM (JACK) KING  (1885 – 1964)
          Born 27^th January 1885 at Jarrahdale. Died 18^th August 1964 in RPH Hospital, Perth, Western Australia.

WILLIAM JAMES (BING/BILL) KING  (1888 – 1965)

HORACE HENRY KING (1890-1970)
          Married Elsie Theresa Postans on 27^th June 1914 at Dwellingup, Western Australia. Children Horace & Bonnie.

EDWARD JOSEPH (Ted) KING (1893-1969)
          Born 2^nd April at Jarrahdale. Married Elizabeth Louise Fitzgerald in 1916 at Irwin, Western Australia. Returned from 31^st Battalion. Died             26^th May.

PHOEBE EMMELINE KING  (1895 – 1933)
          Born 23^rd October 1895. Married Reginald Frederick James Freeman on 27^th September 1915 at Beaconsfield, Western Australia. Died             27^th June 1933.
 

George’s wife, Eliza died on 26^th October 1895, aged 41 at Jarrahdale, three days after giving birth to their youngest daughter Phoebe Emmeline.

   GEORGE KING & HIS MOTHER ALBERTINA WEEDON      #4
 

George died on 20^th June 1926 at his daughter Lydia’s residence, in Jarrahdale, aged 73 and is buried in the Jarrahdale Cemetery, Western Australia.

Their second son John William was born on 27^th January 1885 and at 24 years old he married 21 year old, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ann Scrivener in the old Jarrahdale Hall, Jarrahdale, on the 10^th February 1909. It was registered number 1/1909, being the first wedding for the year. Elizabeth was born on 27^th September 1888 in Jindivick, Victoria.

WEDDING OF JOHN KING & ELIZABETH SCRIVINER      #5
 

JOHN WILLIAM KING      #6

Seven years later in 1916, John, his wife Elizabeth (Lizzie) and 4 children are at Barton’s Mill, Pickering Brook, where he was employed at the mill.

Also on the 10^th January that year, he joined the 48^th Battalion and served in WW1 through till 3^rd March 1919. Unfortunately he was captured on the 12^th October 1917 and became a prisoner of the war at Passchendale, Belgium and subsequently was interned at Limberg, Germany.

JOHN WILLIAM KING'S NOTICE OF PRISONER OF WAR      #7
 

JOHN WILLIAM KING'S ARMY SERVICE RECORD      #8
 

They had a total of 5 children, with Mary arriving whilst at Barton’s Mill:

GEORGE WILLIAM KING  (1909 – 1967)
              Born on 1^st September 1901 in Jarrahdale, Western Australia. Died 14^th September 1975 at Bentley, Western Australia.

JOHN WALTER KING  (1911 – 2006)
             Born on 11^th July 1911 in Jarrahdale, Western Australia. Died December 2006 at Armadale, Western Australia.

LILLIAN EMMA KING  (1912 – 1982)
             Born on 19^th October in Marrinup, Western Australia. Died 23^rd December 1982 at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital, Perth, Western                 Australia.

RUBY ELIZABETH KING  (1915 – 1986)
             Born on 20^th January 1915 at Marrinup, Western Australia. Died 28^th January 1986 at Mandurah, Western Australia.

MARY ALICE KING  (1920 – 2006)
             Born on 15^th July 1920 at Gosnells, Western Australia. Died 16^th March 2008.
 

LILLIAN KING'S FIRST MARRIAGE 1933      #9
Back  L - R: LEN SHEPHERD, SPARS GEORGEFFE or GEORGEFF, LILLIAN KING, JOHN KING
Front L - R: MARY KING, RUBY KING
 

LILLIAN KING'S FIRST MARRIAGE 1942      #10
L - R: Groomsman BOB DOYLE, Bestman LEN SHEPHERD, Groom FRANK SKEATS, Bride LILLIAN KING, JOHN KING, RUBY SHEPHERD (nee King), Bridesmaid     ?    DOYLE
 

L - R: JOHN WILLIAM KING, AMY ELIZABETH WEEDON, ALBERTINA WEEDON, HARRY WEEDON      #11
 

Helen Hewison had opened a little shop, attached to her house at Barton’s Mill. The very industrious Helen sold homemade hop and ginger beer, biscuits as well as tobacco and cigarettes to the workers. She brewed the beer out in the yard in kerosene tins which must have taken hours, but she did it to enlarge her husband’s pay packet which was fairly meager. When Mrs. Hewison and her husband, William left Barton’s Mill to run Lindley’s shop at Pickering Brook in 1915, an opportunity opened for Lizzie. She opened a small shop to serve the workers and families at the mill. It operated very successfully for number of years but then fell into hard times. On the 12^th September 1928 she called a meeting of creditors and then on the 26^th September filed for bankruptcy.

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References:                 Article:       Gordon Freegard
                                                   Stephen King
                                                   Raymond Morris

                                 Images:    1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8          Stephen King
                                                 3, 4, 9, 10, 11          Raymond Morris                    
                                                

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