Historical information
A black and white photograph of a member of the Branchflower Family who resided in Marysville in Victoria.
Significance
A black and white photograph of a member of the Branchflower Family who resided in Marysville in Victoria.
Thomas was born in London in 1896. He arrived in Australia in 1922 with his wife Alice and baby Peggy. Thomas spent the early 1930s in Marysville as a builder, in particular on Eric Dowdle's guesthouses, and built his family a house on the Buxton road. He built The Log Cabin in the traditional way with no nails. It was built for Gwendoline Pitman after the death of her father Clarence Pitman and the disappearance of her sister Olive in July 1926. Gwendoline operated an artist and souvenir shop in the newly built Log Cabin in partnership with Peter Mackey who was a Melbourne optician and artist.
Alice died in 1944 and Thomas married Irene Sutherland in 1945; they had three children.
Thomas Henry Branchflower died in Mont Albert in 1970. At the time of his death, he was a building assessor.
Keywords
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- cabinetmaker,
- peggy branchflower,
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- irene sutherland,
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- building assessor
