George FRANKLIN

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Robert FRANKLIN Joseph FRANKLIN (1813 - 1898) Elizabeth FRANKLIN (1838 - 1896)	George FRANKLIN + Elizabeth JOHNSTONE

+. Elizabeth JOHNSTONE

Children (3):

Robert FRANKLIN

Joseph FRANKLIN (1813 - 1898)

Elizabeth FRANKLIN (1838 - 1896)

Grandchildren (15):

Elizabeth FRANKLIN (1838 - ), Frances FRANKLIN (1840 - 1901), George Edward FRANKLIN (1842 - 1912), Agnes FRANKLIN (1843 - 1929), Thomas FRANKLIN (1845 - 1925), John Maurice FRANKLIN (1848 - 1931), Michael Edward FRANKLIN (1852 - 1867), Joseph VALLANCE (1859 - 1900), Janet VALLANCE (1860 - ), Frances VALLANCE (1862 - 1911), Hugh VALLANCE (1862 - 1934), Mary VALLANCE (1869 - ), George Michael Edward VALLANCE (1871 - 1950), Bertram Thomas VALLANCE (1877 - 1878), Mabel Agnes VALLANCE (1877 - 1878)

Events in George FRANKLIN's life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1813		Birth of son Joseph FRANKLIN	Doonass, Co Clare, Ireland		6
1838		Birth of daughter Elizabeth FRANKLIN	Doonass, Co Clare, Ireland		6
26 Apr 1896		Death of daughter Elizabeth FRANKLIN (aged 58)	Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia		6
10 May 1898		Death of son Joseph FRANKLIN (aged 85)	Yass, New South Wales, Australia		6

Personal Notes:

George Franklin and Elizabeth Johnstone, the parents of the Franklins who arrivied in Australia lived and worked on Doonass. Although George farmed on the Estate he ran a hedge school at Doonass in 1807. In 1824 he was running the Church of Ireland Parish school in Clonlara (Protestant). He is important in the history of schools in the area. The 1807 info includes only on other school in the immediate area which was on the adjacent Coolisteige Estate

Source References:

6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001

- Reference = 107 (Name, Notes)

18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool

- Reference = David George 21 Nov 2014 (Name, Notes)

- Notes: Via a brief taxi ride around the area Beth and I visited Clonlara and surrounds in 2011. Near the town is Doonass where the Franklins lived. This Estate was originally owned by the Dillon Family who lived in a grand Georgian Mansion on the neighbouring Doonass Demesne. The Demesne is on the banks of the Shannon River. Doonass is the name for the waterfalls/rapids there.

George Franklin and Elizabeth Johnstone, the parents of the Franklins who arrivied in Australia lived and worked on Doonass. Although George farmed on the Estate he ran a hedge school at Doonass in 1807. In 1824 he was running the Church of Ireland Parish school in Clonlara (Protestant). He is important in the history of schools in the area. The 1807 info includes only on other school in the immediate area which was on the adjacent Coolisteige Estate.

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.

My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).

I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
g.bell@bigpond.net.au
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Geoff Bell, September 2020

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