Barney Thorburn
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Earl Clive Thorburn (1923 - 2011)

Earl Clive (Barney) "Borax" Thorburn
Born in Casino, New South Wales, Australiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 11 Dec 1948 in St. James Presbyterian Church, Burwood.N.S.W.map
Descendants descendants
Father of and [private daughter (1950s - unknown)]
Died at age 87 in Panania NSWmap
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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

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Also known as Barney, Earl was born at Casino...He loved the country and living near the Richmond R. he swam and enjoyed his childhood. The family moved to Lismore where he saw the river flood...Even saw a house float by , although their home never flooded...
He hated leaving the disrict and his friends but the family moved to Sydney when he was twelve (1936). He attended Belmore Technical School , but he never settled properly and left school early. When he was 16 he started with State Rail and at 18 went into the Army,where he spent 3 1/2
years......1945 saw him back home returning to work in the railway where he completed a Carriage
Builder's Course.....While in New Guinea he commenced writing to Joy and we fell into a happy court-
ship with lots of good friends and wonderful times.
We married in 1948 and had our 2 children in the 1950's. Barney built our home at Panania
and he enjoyed working with the Scout Assoc.He found much enjoyment,too, working with Pnania Masonic Lodge and made many good friends over the years
Barney left the Railways in the 1950's going on to work for Lenix Hoists at Camperdown who were taken over by Clyde Engineering and soon after he left to finish his working life with D.W.& H.O.
Wills. The Tobacco Company
After he retired we travelled to New Zealand,Europe and Britain which we loved and later we
enjoyed touring Australia with a 4 wheel drive vehicle seeing many remote parts

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  1. Thorburn-185 was created by Keith Thorburn through the import of Hamilton 1-1.ged on Jul 31, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.




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