WILLIAM PICKERING

Birth Date: 8 Sep 1850
Birth Place: Liscard, England

According to the disposition of the estate of F.V. Pickering {1859-1932], the heirs of Williams' estate in 1933 were his children.

Spouse: Blanche Morrison

Children:
Elizabeth Blanche
Charles Morrison (born 1875) St. Albans Hartford England m. Mary Ann Haworth (Bowen, Queensland on 27 Feb. 1900 at South Brisbane.

Charles William Pickering, 1900
Roy Clifford Pickering, 1902
Cyril Morrison Pickering 1904-1991, born Paddignton Brisbane m. Florence Jessie Pearce (Islington London) on 24 July 1926 at Brisbane, Queensland.
Edward Pickering
Douglas Pickering
Leslie Pickering
Dawn Pickering

Mabel Clara
Katharine
Roy

Family History
by Cyril Charles Pickering

Charles Morrison Pickering and his brother Roy migrated to Australia in the late 1890’s.

He married Mary Anne Howarth and had six sons and a daughter. He worked as a motorman for Brisbane Tramways, when in August 1914 he enlisted for service in the Australian Army. He embarked for Alexandria, North Africa and then in November 1915 for Gallipoli. He was transferred as a Staff Sergeant to the Western Front in France in April 1917 and subsequently returned to Australia in March 1919, and was discharged from the Army in June 1919.

Charles eventually owned a Dairy Farm at the Gap, Brisbane, which he worked with the help of some of his sons. A dairy farm in those days consisted of milking by hand twice a day, loading the milk into a van and delivering it to your customers (no middle man).

All the necessary feed for the cows was grown on the farm.

I have very fond memories of spending many school vacations on the farm with my Grandfather, whom I considered a very warm and caring person

I lost track of Roy Pickering until he turned up in Toowoomba (where I reside). He owned a Seed Grain Business, which he expanded into a plant nursery.

My father, Cyril Morrison Pickering married in 1926 and worked as a motor mechanic and a waterside worker. While working on the waterside he rescued a seaman from drowning and was awarded a Certificate of Merit from The Royal Humane Society of Australia in 1930. Unfortunately my parents parted when I was very young and I was the only bi- product of this marriage. I lived with my mother and did not have a lot to do with my father until after I was married and had a family.

He enlisted in the Australian Military Forces on 29th May 1940, with two of his brothers, in World War II. He served in Palestine, Libya, Syria and Egypt from Oct, 1940 to Nov, 1942 and then from Oct, 1942 to Nov, 1943 in New Guinea

After his discharge on 6th January 1944 from the Army he owned quite a range of business such as Guest Houses, Pineapple Farm, Service Station and Real Estate Agencies until his death in 1990.

I was born in Brisbane in April 1927 and came to live in Toowoomba at a very young age and completed my education there. At the age of 15, I commenced an apprenticeship as a Letterpress Machinist (Commercial Printing) and eventually became Pressroom foreman of Downs Printing Co. I then graduated to Production Manager and became a Shareholder in the Company. In 1954 I met Norma Wirth, a young lady who had moved to Toowoomba from Armidale, NSW and we were married in 1955. Three children resulted from this marriage: John was born in 1956 and he had two daughters and a stepson: Deborah was born in 1957 and had a daughter and two sons: Glenn was born in 1960 and had a son and a daughter.

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