Physical description

John Jobson was born in 1824 in Marylebone, London, England and arrived in Victoria in 1871 along with his wife Elizabeth and their eight children on board the Anglesey. Prior to arriving in Australia, he had held the position of a government Tax Collector and member of the Westminster Council.
After their arrival in Melbourne, the family settled down in Station Road, Williamstown and he set up a successful timber merchant’s business, Jobson’s Timber Yard, in Nelson Place and built many residences in the town.
He was a director and the largest shareholder of the Williamstown Gas Company, a shareholder in the Greta Coal Company and a Justice of the Peace presiding over many cases in the local court. Mr Jobson was also a local councillor for many years and was elected Mayor in 1885.



He died in 1905 as a very wealthy man and was buried in the Williamstown Cemetery.