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| Bowen Bourke Mathew Jones |
| 26 September 1887, Subiaco, WA 2 Aug 1913, Perth, WA 17 August 1950, Subiaco, WA Catholic Clerk at Swan Brewery Edith May Geddes |
| Mary Josephine Jones Sheila Elizabeth Jones Nancy Alicia Jones James Brian Jones Kevin Francis Jones Margaret Cecelia Jones Peter John Leon Jones |
| Born: Married: Died: Religion: Occupation: Wife: Children: |
| The first while child born in Subiaco, Western Australia |
| Identity Prized : A History of Subiaco, by Ken Spillman, 1985, p.207 Such was the intensity of local feeling that an unwritten code of 'responsibility' demanded the enlistment of at least one member of each family. Within this code, a young husband could evade some of his 'due' harassment if his father or another close relative joined the colours 'in lieu'. Asked whether her husband went to the war, one Subiaco woman [Edith Jones], the daughter of Bartholomew Stubbs, a Member of the Legislative Council for the district, replied: 'No, that's why my father went... He came home and told me, and I said "Why you, at your age?" He said "To save your husband"{i.e. Bowen Jones}. The people of Perth : a social history of Western Australia's capital city, C.T. Stannage, 1979, p. 250: An active though conservative union man, Stubbs was elected as the local MLC in 1911. His children went to the local Roman Catholic school. In 1913 his stepdaughter married a local man called [Bowen]Jones who worked as a clerk at the Swan Brewery. With the aid of a grant from the Workers' Homes Board (created in 1912) they bought a block of land in the bush along the sandy track known as Heytesbury Road, a mile fromthe shopping centre. A local builder named Henderson designed and built for them a brick and iron house. Despite financial stringency they raised a family and were active in church and community affairs. As Mrs Jones was to put it: We put a deposit on a workers' home and paid 15s per week and reared a family of eight. At 4 pound a week we had no luxury. One of their children married into the Henderson family. Some members of the family still live in Subiaco (1979), as does the aging Mrs Jones. In February 1916 Mrs Jones' father, Bartholomew Stubbs, MLC, ordered his son-in-law to stay in work and care for his daughter and the children. He then volunteered for service overseas. He was 46 years of age. In September 1917 he was killed in action on the Western Front. Stubbs had won 'freedom and honour' for his family in Subiaco. He believed that their achievement was worth fighting for--even to death. |
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