Gordon Evans "Bink" JULIUS [890]

  General Notes:

Bink worked the Ottery Mine until the family moved to Elouera. During WW2 he managed the farm until 1954 when he bought it from his father. He then sold it in 1958 when he went into the manufacture of ornamental concrete blocks at Ashford and Maroochydore.

He bought a property at Obi Obi Valley, then one at Toogoolawah. He worked for his brother Harry when Harry and his son reopened the tin mine at Tent Hill Emmaville. He retired to Ashford but still helped out on the families properties at Sabrina and Strathsevern, he kept bees.

His sister Gloria writes (2005)
"Bink, also worked the Ottery Mine until the family moved to Elouera. During WW2 he managed Elouera. I have recently read all my father's diaries (1939-1954) where he describes Gordon as being in great demand by the local farmers as he had a talent for veterinary work. He was also an expert horse breaker. He passed on to George [4473] a lot of his animal husbandry experience. He worked at Elouera until he sold it in 1958. Next he worked making bricks and manufacturing swimming pools in Maroochydore Queensland. He was definitely a jack of all trades."

Gordon was cremated

  Other Records

1. Gordon Evans Julius "Bink": Various pictures: Australia.
Binks baptism, as a young man, with his parents & grandmother 1947, with Daughter Lesley Anne, with his siblings Gloria, Bink, Henry, Ralph, callup of mortgage 1958.

Bink married Norma Elizabeth PIKE [4477] [MRIN: 1540] on 11 Nov 1950 in Brisbane Queensland Aust. (Norma Elizabeth PIKE [4477] was born in 1919, died on 6 Nov 2006 and was cremated in Albany Creek Cemetery Brisbane.)

Bink next married Bernice Emily JULIUS [753] [MRIN: 1720], daughter of William John JULIUS [750] and Gladys WILLIAMS [751], in 1976. (Bernice Emily JULIUS [753] was born in 1923 and died on 24 Jul 2017 in Ipswich Hospital QLD.)