Herbert George Firkin

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Frank Firkins' notes

• known as. Herbie

• Occupation. coal miner who worked at the Cullen Bullen (Renown) and on the South Coast (Excelsior) mines

• Residence. They moved from Catherine hill Bay to Cullen Bullen aobut 1922 following their friends the Brennan family.. They moved to Sydney during WW11 and ran a mixed business at Leichardt, later moving to a newsagency at Wilson and Randle St Leichardt. Their son Mervyn came back from Japan after the war to take over the business and they moved to Coaldale about 1950 and later Bulli

• connection. ¹⁴⁸ Neville Firkin's connection to me through Robert is as follows:
Neville Firkin (c1959)
His father was Neville Firkin (1921)
His father was Herbert Firkin (1897)
His father was Caleb Firkin (1875)
His father was John Firkin (1846)
His father was Chalim (Caleb) Firkin (1811) & he also had Thomas Firkin (1833)
He had Caleb Firkin (1863)
He had Caleb Firkin (1892) who married Laura Effie Landeryou Bray (1893)
Her father was Thomas Alfred Inglis Bray (1872)
His father was Thomas Alfred Bray (1848)
His father was Thomas Bray (1821) & he also had Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
He had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (1950)

Herbert married Elsie Vera (Vera) Pointer in 1920 in Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW Australia. (Elsie Vera (Vera) Pointer was born on 7 Sep 1896 in Botany, Sydney, NSW Australia and died on 11 Sep 1967 in Bulli, NSW Australia.)