Robert Bernard BLACKWELL [1543] ^2666,2667

   Other names for Robert were Bernard BLACKWELL and Bob BLACKWELL.

  General Notes:

Christened at St Andrews Church Kettering.

Robert enlisted in WW1 on 2 October 1916 as Bernard Robert Blackwell. His service number was 53566. He was medically discharged on the 19th of March 1917 due to chronic asthma.

In October 1918 he re-enlisted as Robert Blackwell and served 58 days before being demobilized on 24 December 1918 due to the end of the war. His service number was 81303. He did not serve any time overseas.

Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) Thursday 13 April 1922 Page 13
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/147419163
The engagement is announced of Miss Mia McIntosh Fraser Edward, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Edward, ''Edinburgh," Champion-street, Brighton Beach (late Ascot Vale), to Mr Robert Bernard Blackwell, second son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Blackwell, of Nar-Nar-Goon, Gippsland.

This engagement seems to have been ended as Bob did not marry Mia Edward and a couple of years later she married someone else.

Robert lived for many years in Clayton and Malvern. Towards the end of his life he moved to Cairns FNQ where he and Rita lived in a Granny flat at the home of Rita's daughter Eileen. Bob was able to recount memories of his time living in England and was able to pass on many family stories and information in a tape recorded letter to his nephew Geoff Blackwell in the late 1980's shortly before his death. These memories have proved an invaluable source of information.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence, 31 Mar 1901, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. ²⁶⁷⁰

2. Residence, 1911, Kettering St Peter and St Paul, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. ²⁶⁷⁰

3. Military: World War 1, did not serve overseas and was discharged and re enlisted under the name Robert SERN 53566 and 81303, 1914-1918.

4. Residence: 1413 Malvern Road Malvern, 1949, Malvern, Vic, Australia. Bob is listed at 2 different addresses in this year.

5. Residence: 33 Nightingale Street, 1949, Saint Kilda, Vic, Australia.

6. Residence: Block 108 Brown Road, 1954, Clayton, Vic, Australia.

7. Residence: 58 Brown Road, 1965, Clayton, Vic, Australia.

8. Residence: 9 Parslow Street, 1977, Malvern, SA, Australia.

9. Residence: 15 Herries Street, 1989, Earlville Cairns, Qld, Australia.

Robert married Eileen Rita DALRYMPLE [1544] [MRIN: 470], daughter of Alexander DALRYMPLE [8209] and Rita Doncaster AH CUE [1545], on 5 Dec 1936 in Malvern, Vic, Australia.²⁶⁶⁵ The marriage ended in divorce. (Eileen Rita DALRYMPLE [1544] was born on 14 Oct 1916 in Malvern, Vic, Australia.)

Robert next married Rita Doncaster AH CUE [1545] [MRIN: 471], daughter of Lem AH CUE [8203] and Sarah Hanna DONCASTER [8204], on 25 Sep 1984 in Cairns, Qld, Australia. (Rita Doncaster AH CUE [1545] was born on 15 Mar 1894 in Wangaratta, Vic, Australia,^2671,2672 died on 10 Aug 1989 in Cairns, Qld, Australia ^2673,2674 and was buried on 14 Aug 1989 in Cairns, Qld, Australia.)