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Justin
Fox Greenlaw Foxton (father) |
Emily
Panton (mother)
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John
Panton Foxton (son) |
Cecil
Justin Moffatt Foxton (son) |
Dr.
Harold Vernon Foxton (son) |
Isabel
Mildred Foxton (daughter) |
Claude
Gilson Foxton (son) |
Constance
Geraldine Foxton (daughter)
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Both boys were treated for their illness by their father's brother-in-law,
Dr. W.L. Marley, of Stanthorpe. Dr. Marley and his wife, Edith Foxton,
also lost a newborn son the following month.
John Panton was named after his maternal grandfather,
and Cecil Justin after his father.
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- Harold Vernon FOXTON
MB. BS. FRACS.
was born in 1878 in Stanthorpe, Queensland. He studied medicine at Melbourne
University. He married
Mary Cater, of Brisbane, and had one son, Justin Richard Vernon Foxton. Before his wife's death from tuberculosis in 1914, he was Superintendent
of a mental hospital, Sandy Gallop, near Ipswich. He served as a Major in
the Medical Corps in France in WW1, where he met his second wife, Annie
Bell. They had two children - Mary Constance Foxton and
Harold Alexander Bell Foxton.
On his return to Australia in 1918, he practised at the
Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, then the
Eye and Ear Hospital
in Brisbane, where he settled. He lived at "Kebroyd",
Indooroopilly, then "Rona", Indooroopilly.
He became a prominent ear, nose and throat
specialist in Brisbane. He died in 1952.
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- Isabel Mildred Foxton
(Mil)
was born
in 1880 in Stanthorpe, Queensland, where her father, John Greenlaw Foxton
ran a
property farming tobacco. She was unmarried, and lived with her
brother,
Justin Fox Greenlaw Foxton, at "The Priory" Indooroopilly,
Brisbane, while he was a MLA in Queensland, then at "Bulimba
House" Bulimba, Brisbane, after he became a MHR in the federal
parliament in Melbourne.
After his death in 1916, she undertook several
positions, including as a "lady cook" to households in England,
then as Matron of "Churchie" Prep (an Anglican boys' boarding school in
Brisbane), then as a carer of the children (John, Helen and Rosemary) of
the Montefiore family in Toowoomba.
She died in the late 1940's in Brisbane after suffering
from breast cancer and a stroke.
She was named after her mother, Isabel Potts, and her
father's sister, Mildred Frances Foxton.
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He
married Evelyn
Stewart Brown-Lumsden, of Hamilton, Brisbane.
After her family inherited
an estate in Scotland - Auchrey House in
Cuminestown, near Aberdeen, the Brown-Lumsden
family and Claude Foxton moved to Scotland. Telephone records of Aberdeen
show that Mrs. Agnes Brown-Lumsden (mother) lived at Auchrey House until
1944. In 1945 the telephone service is listed for Miss Lucy Mary Stewart
Lumsden-Brown.
Visit
http://www.monquhitter.co.uk/ for information on the home farm of
Auchrey House, Cuminestown
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- Constance Geraldine Foxton
(Connie) was
born in 1883 in Brisbane, Queensland. She married Charles Bright, and had
one daughter, Mary Bright. Charles Bright was the Head of the Postmaster
General's Department (PMG) in Australia. They lived in Melbourne.
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