John Alan FREE
1918 - 1986 (68 years)
Has 80 ancestors and 41 descendants in this family tree.
1904 - 1980 (76 years)
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Name John Alan FREE [1] Relationship 
with William George BRADY Birth 1918 Hastings, Victoria, Australia 
Gender Male Birth Record 1918 Victoria, Australia #28155 AKA Jack Death 1986 Mornington, Victoria, Australia Burial 1986 Cemetery, Mornington, Victoria, Australia [2] - Craigie Road, Mount Martha
Jack Alan Free 1918 - 1986 in BillionGraves GPS Headstones | BillionGraves FREE-JohnA1918-DE001 Siblings9 siblings Siblings5 brothers and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
William FREE, b. UNKNOWN d. DECEASED (5 x Great Grandfather)
Anna Louise REEPSCHLAGER, b. 1825 d. 28 Mar 1905 (Age 80 years) (Great Grandmother)Person ID I20223 MyBradyTree | BRADY, AJF, KLF, MAC, SMF, JF Last Modified 29 Nov 2024
Father 
George Bruce FREE, b. 6 Oct 1875, Raglan, Victoria, Australia d. 12 May 1948, Mornington, Victoria, Australia (Age 72 years) Mother Martha Clara VOGEL, b. 4 Mar 1884, Mount Torrens, South Australia, Australia d. 18 May 1957, Mornington, Victoria, Australia (Age 73 years) Marriage 25 Feb 1902 Watchem, Victoria, Australia Reference Number #1280 Family ID F566 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Dulcie Mary HEINRICH, b. 14 Aug 1918, Dalby, Queensland, Australia d. 5 Aug 2002, Mornington, Victoria, Australia (Age 83 years) Marriage UNKNOWN Children 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living + 4. Living 5. Living + 6. Jacqueline Anne FREE, b. 24 May 1942, Mornington, Victoria, Australia d. 26 Mar 1996, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 53 years)Family ID F7622 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Nov 2024
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Birth - 1918 - Hastings, Victoria, Australia 
Birth Record - #28155 - 1918 - Victoria, Australia 
Death - 1986 - Mornington, Victoria, Australia 
Burial - 1986 - Cemetery, Mornington, Victoria, Australia = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Jack was the eighth child of George and Martha and was born with one leg shorter than the other. This was only slightly noticeable but I suspect he may have been favoured for this as a child.
Jack grew from being a naughty child to being a naughty adult!!!!! He was always balancing between having loads of money or absolute destitution.
He went to Far North Queensland to work in the cane fields. Something I always admired him for. This was hard, dirty and back breaking work - cutting cane by hand. He returned with a wife, Dulcie from Innisfail. I always thought she had a lovely tan until I moved to Cairns in the early 1970’s when I quickly realised she was related to the kanakas from the islands that had been brought in to work in the cane fields - known as blackbirding. I don’t mean this in a nasty way at all. In Victoria on the Mornington Peninsula none of us had ever seen an aboriginal, let alone a south sea islander so it did come as a bit of a revelation.
Some years he and his growing family would return from the north in a flash new car, all dressed in lovely new clothes but other years they just turned up bedraggled and looking for a loan to buy food. They would do the rounds of the family just to survive. I remember great quarrels between my parents who were doing it tough to put it mildly after a visit from Jack that ended in Dad lending him money which he knew would never be repaid.
On one of my infrequent visits back from Cairns there was a family gathering and I told Jack how I admired him cutting cane and what a hard job it would have been. He just laughed and told me he would never be that stupid - he ran the poker school at the Garadunga Pub!
Some years later he owned a race horse named ‘Flying Sox’ and by chance it did very well. He owned a gold LTD (Ford) and my dad told me that he and Jack and someone else went and collected all Jack’s winnings and sat in the car and threw the money around like confetti - all $75,000 which was an amazing amount way back then.
He did run a poker school in Mornington but I doubt his family would approve of me continuing along that line………………. Suffice to say he had a lot in common with Alfred Free 1868-1946 but he was lucky in that he had better connections! Although I do remember him going to court when I was very young.
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Kay Lorraine Armstrong (nee Free) - 2012
Reference Darryl Brady. "John Alan FREE". Brady Family Tree in Western Australia. https://bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I20223&tree=Brady2008 (accessed November 30, 2024).
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