| Birth | George Frank Wightman was born 30 October 1868 in Thornton, Victoria, Australia. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX Australia Birth George Frank Wightmann [sic]. Father Richard. Mother Heatty [sic] Helen. Event place: Alexandra. Reg. Victoria 1868 #20713. (AVRI.) |
| INFO | BAPTISM Yea-Alexandra [Anglican] parish St. John's and St. Luke's. #199 George Frank Wightman, born 30 Oct 1868, bapt 11 Apr 1870. Parents Richard and Helen Heatly Wightman of Thornton, occup. farmer. (CorresANVST e-mail 13Feb2005.) |
| Marriage | He married Hannah Jane Mccracken 1896 in Victoria, Australia. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX Marriage Australia, Victoria. Geo Frank Wightman and Jane Hannah McCraceen [sic]. Registered Victoria 1896:1021. (AusMarIndAnc.) |
| Marriage | George Frank Wightman married Coralie Eliza Kimber, daughter of Robert Anthony Kimber and Mary Ann ...?..., 1922 in Victoria, Australia. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX AUST Marriage. Geo Frank WIGHTMAN. Spouse: Coralie Eliza GARNOCK. Reg. Victoria 1922 #3137. Note: additional entry for Caralie Eliza GARNOCK. (VicMarInd42.) |
| Death | George Frank Wightman died 2 October 1938 in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at age 69. |
| INFO | FUNERAL NOTICE. The Argus (Melbourne). 4 Oct 1938. "WIGHTMAN. -- The Friends of the late George Frank Wightman are informed that his funeral will leave Sleight's northern chapel, St. Kilda road, Melbourne, This Day (Tuesday, 4th October), at 11:30 a.m. for the Box Hill Cemetery. Service by Rev. J. Legge at 11.15 am. A.A. Sleight Pty. Ltd., Brighton, x1146." (ArgusTro 4 Oct 1938, p.12.) |
| INFO | DEATH NOTICE. The Argus (Melbourne), 4 Oct 1938. WIGHTMAN. --On the 2nd October, at private hospital, East Melbourne, George Frank, loved husband of Caralie Wightman, formerly of Kew, and loving father of Frances, Dick, Lillian, and Jean., aged 69 years. (ArgusTro 4 Oct 1938, p.12.) |
| INFO | OBITUARY. Alexandra and Yea Standard ...[Victoria, Australia] 7 Oct 1938. "The death took place on Monday of Mr. George F. Wightman, a Victorian engineer. He was a resident of Kew for many years. Mr. Wightman was born in Alexandra 69 years ago, and was apprenticed to the Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat, which held contracts for building Victorian railway locomotives for many years. He was one of the earliest electrical engineers in Victoria, and was one of the first mining engineers on the Kalgoorlie goldfield, where he worked for four years. After further experience on goldfields in Victoria and New South Wales, he returned to Melbourne, where he was engaged on metropolitan engineering for 20 years. Mr. Wightman was a past master of the Orion Masonic Lodge in Ballarat. He is survived by a widow and family. (Mr Wightman was a step-brother of Mr. F. Wightman (Thornton) and Mr. C. Wightman (Taggerty.) (AlexYeaStTro 7 Oct 1938.) |
| INFO | PROBATE NOTICE. The Argus (Melbourne) 28 Oct 1938. "After the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof application will be made to the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria in its Probate jurisdiction, that Probate of the will, dated the twenty-fourth day of August 1936 of George Frank Wightman, late of Fergie street, Fitsroy, and formerly of 66 Glenferrie road, Kew, in the said State, engineer, deceased, may be granted to the Ballarat Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company Limted of 101 Lydiard street south, Ballarat, in the said State and Thomas Richard Wightman of Kitcheneer street, Kew, in the said State draftsman, son of the said deceased, the executors appointed by the said will, leave being reserved to Coralie Eliza Wightman, of Illawarra raod, Hawthorn, in he said State, the widow fo the said deceased, and his daughters, Edith Lillian Weir (nee Wightman) of Gotham road, Kew, in the said State, married woman, and Margaret Frances Bradford (nee Wightman), of Red Cliffe in the said State, married woman, the executrices appointed by the said will, to come in and prove the same. Dated the twenty-eighth day of October,1938. Brent Robinson, 80 Swanston street, Melbourne, proctor for the applicants." (ArgusTro 28 Oct 1938, p.16.) |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX Australia Victoria Death. WIGHTMAN Geo Frank. Father: Wightman Rard [sic] Wisdom. Mother: Eleanor HEATLY. Death place: E MELB, age 69. Reg. 1938 #9378. (VicDea85.) |
| INFO | PROBATE APPLICATION. Wightman, George F., of Fitzroy, engineer, 2 Oct 1938. Probate granted 27 Jan 1939. 302:316. (VicProbAppl LDS209305.) |
| INFO | NEWSPAPER AD. Executor's Sale. The Argus (Melbourne), 9 Aug 1939, p.21 and p.22 "Wednesday August 16 At
Three O'clock on the Premises. Executor's Sale Under Instructions from Ballarat Trustees, Executors, and Agency Co. Ltd., 50 Market Street, Melbourne, and Thomas Richard Wightman, as Executors of the Estate of George Frances Wightman, Deceased. Situated on Fergie Street, North Fitzroy, No. 117-123, and Facing St. George's Road. One Two-storied Brick Dwelling 6 Rooms and Convs., With 2 Buildings, One Each Side, and Used as Factories, and Having a total Frontage Approximately 99 1/2 x 100 ft. Yearly Rental ???? . Further Particulars from Agents in Conjunction: J. Douie . . ., Le Roux and Calder . . ., Solicitors, Brent, Robinson. . . G.J. MacKay auctioneer. . . (ArgusTro 9 Aug 1939 two ads.) |
George Frank Wightman