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Record #5585

Name :: : Brian ELLISON (1943 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1943
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Northumberland, Northumberland City

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : May 1950
Country: : Australia
Ship: : Ormonde
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Fairbridge Homes

NotesA birth registration was found for Brian Ellison: Mother's Maiden Surname: Johnson; Date of Registration: Apr May Jun 1943; Registration district: Nthmbld C; Registration county: Cumberland, Northumberland/Westmorland; Volume Number: 10b; Page Number: 645. Mother: Emma Johnson.

In 1950, B. Ellison, 6, arrived at Fremantle, Australia, in a group of children c/o Miss D. R. Hall, The Fairbridge School, Inc., Creagh Hall, 38, Holland Villas Road, London, England en route to Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Australia. (Brother, John Ellison and sister, Maxine Ellison, arrived in 1952.)

In 2002, Brian's sister, Maxine Ellison, told their story to Margaret Price, who reported:

Maxine looks back on 50 years in WA ...

Aged five and seven respectively, they had come from Middlemore Children's Home in Birmingham to Fairbridge Farm School in Pinjarra. ...

Their elder half-brother Brian had arrived at Fairbridge earlier.

The three siblings, who hailed from Northumberland, stayed at the farm school until age 16, before finding work, marrying and raising families.

Brian settled in Derby and John in Dalwallinu.

Although, over the years, Brian talked of an older sister Pat, information was scarce, even from their elderly mother, Emma.

When Brian and John visited her in England, she spoke only of four half brothers and sisters -- Mark, George, Gillian and Linda -- born after her older children had left for Australia.

They discovered that Brian had a different father although, to add to the confusion, John and Maxine shared his surname, Ellison.

About six years ago, fate intervened.

John struck up a conversation with a woman at wedding in Perth, sharing family information including the name of his father, John Turnbull Cowan.

It turned out that John and the woman were relatives.

She told him Peter an older half-brother in England had been searching for his Australian siblings.

Peter and his sister Pat were from John and Maxine's father's first marriage.

The Australian brother and sister also found a full brother, Tom, born just before they left for Australia and adopted out at six weeks in the local village.

'Tom came out for his 50th birthday and Christmas about four years ago and it was the best Christmas we have ever had,' Maxine said.

'Tom and John are the image of each other.'

Maxine said John and Brian had returned to England about 11 years ago to seek information about their family.

'They found our dad's grave, but they never found out anything,' she said.

'In fact Tom was only seven miles up the road and they never knew.

'Our mother never wanted to talk about it. ...'"

ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-15 20:57:11 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-03-16 09:23:57 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
27391	ARTHUR, James Lafferty	1940	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27393	ASHWORTH, Gordon Herbert Charles	1943	ENG, HAM, Alton	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27392	ASHWORTH, Maurice Benedict	1941	ENG, HAM, Aldershot	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27401	BANNISTER, Trevor	1931	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27388	BELL, John George		ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27389	BELL, Joyce	1938	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27390	BELL, Rosalind Barbara	1937	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27402	BELL, William	1932	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27400	BODDEY, Peter Ernest	1932	ENG, LND, Wandsworth	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27378	BROOKER, Peter Rowland	1932	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27403	BROWN, Douglas W	1932	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
26990	BULL, George	1908	ENG,	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21142	BULL, John	1911	ENG,	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26991	CHAMBERLAIN, Leonard C	1911	ENG,	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5458	COLE, Gwen	1942	ENG, LIN, Grimsby	Jun 1952 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27404	CORMACK, Alexander	1931	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27384	COX, David		ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27405	DI CARLO, Vincenzo	1932		Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
5582	DIXON, John	1940	ENG,	May 1950 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27385	DODDS, Avril Rose	1937	ENG, MDX, Edmonton	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27386	DODDS, Edith Hannah	1939	ENG, MDX, Edmonton	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27387	DODDS, Michael David	1940	ENG, MDX, Edmonton	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27406	DONALDSON, James	1932	ENG,	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27407	EAGLE, Sidney	1932		Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
21147	ELLIOTT, Albert Cecil	1909	ENG, BRK, Abingdon	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21146	ELLIOTT, Evelyn Violet	1910	ENG, BRK, Reading	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21145	ELLIOTT, Hilda Gladys	1908	ENG, BRK, Reading	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5585	ELLISON, Brian	1943	ENG, NBL, Northumberland City	May 1950 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27408	FAGG, Rodney	1931	ENG, LND, Lambeth	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
27409	FELL, Raymond	1932	ENG, HAM, Portsmouth	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Big Brother Movement
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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