George Neville Mackelcan Johns

  General Notes:

Supposed to have settled in Western Australia, according to Marjorie McKelcan Baker Jerry A. Baker

Confirmed by the following description:

Emigrated to Western Australia aboard the Charlotte Padbury in 1869. First found work at the Swan Brewery in
Perth; after some time sold his shares and went farming at Claremont, a suburb of Perth, then moved north to
Geraldton and worked as an agent for a cartage firm. Married Annie and set up their own horse teams and a small
pastoral lease of 20,000 acres between Nanine and Meekatharra as a depot for his horses called Edenhope. As the
railroad pushed forward it practically put them out of business so they opened a tavern. In 1947 they sold
Edenhope to a neighbouring station and bought another called Kilara .
Were very early settlers on the goldfields and had the Twelve Mile Hotel, half way between Nannine and
Meekatharra

George married Annie Lucas. (Annie Lucas died on 24 Apr 1955.)