Hubert John (Jack) McCubbin

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. Ken McCubbin 's links to me are as follows:

Ken McCubbin
His father was Hubert McCubbin who married Roma Jarvis (1915)
Her father was Frank Jarvis (1883) who married Lillie Harvey (1886)
Her father was William Harvey (1861) who married Sarah Gentle (1862)
Her father was Thomas Gentle (1827)
His father was Richard Gentle (1789)
His father was Samuel Gentle (1760) who married Elizabeth Waldock (1748)
They had Richard Gentle (1789)
He had Elizabeth Gentle (1817) who married John Goss (1817)
They had Sarah Goss (1850) who married Alfred Larkinson (1843)
His father was George Larkinson @ Malster (1817) & he also had Frederick Larkinson (1865)
He had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
They had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• note. Back in Scotland, many of the brothers,(& maybe sisters) left Scotland for foreign lands.
Fred's father, Alexander, came to Melbourne, set up a bakery business.
His twin, John, went to the Otago area of New Zealand where he went into hotels..
At one stage he owned 2 hotels in central Otago, but when the NZ economy hit hard times,
he had to sell them. He moved to Hokatika on the east coast, where he owned the Robert Burns Hotel.
In his marriage, he had 2 children, the elder, Hubert John,(Jack) and then David George.
His wife died shortly after David's birth.
Maybe because he needed a married woman on the hotel premises- sometimes was a condition of a license,
he married again one year later.
Not long after this, he sold up and came to Melbourne.He must have found his own accommodation there,as shortly after he left for Darwin,to set up a hotel on the newly opened gold fields in the N.T.
However, late Jan or early Feb, 1883, he died there, basically from the effects of alcohol.
Not long after, the 2nd wife brought the 2 boys to the bakery and asked the family there if they would
mind the children while she attended sessions with the solicitors to finalise the estate. etc.

Jack, being older, never really settled with the family, became a wanderer, went to sea, also later worked on the Melbourne trams, also the Yallourn open cut, but several times worked for his younger brother David, who set up a bakery in Broken Hill, and later in Ararat.
David have lived with Fred's parents, and learned the bakery trade.
Jack worked for his brother at Broken Hill, and Ararat.
When Jack much later came down to Melbourne to see a specialist,he died in his sleep at the People's Palace there

Hubert married Roma Gentle Jarvis, daughter of Frank Jarvis and Lillie Gentle Harvey, on 25 Jan 1936 in Beechworth, Victoria Australia. (Roma Gentle Jarvis was born on 3 Jun 1915 in Beechworth, Victoria Australia, died on 18 Oct 1975 in 49 Oxley St,Taree, NSW Australia and was buried in Dawson River Cemetery, Taree, NSW Australia.)