Ian Bolton
Honor Code SignatorySigned 14 Apr 2017 | 8,912 contributions | 170 thank-yous | 5,103 connections
Signed 14 Apr 2017 | 8,912 contributions | 170 thank-yous | 5,103 connections
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Ian H. Bolton
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Henry Bolton
and Laurel (Swinfield) Bolton
Brother of
[private brother (1950s - unknown)] and [private sister (1950s - unknown)]
Father of
[private daughter (1980s - unknown)], [private son (1980s - unknown)], [private daughter (1980s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1980s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Apr 2017
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Biography
Born September 1948 to Henry and Laurel Bolton. Henry had been recently demobilised after the war, and was working as a garage attendant at AGL. He and Laurel (and later myself) were living with his sister and family at 42 Ludgate St, Lakemba. They had bought a block of land near where Roselands shopping centre now stands - in those days Roselands was a dairy farm. They engaged a builder to erect the house - a simple timber and fibro dwelling. During the building period, we all lived in a tent in the back yard.
I started school at Beverly Hills North Public School, but was only there for a year or so, when we sold up and moved to Abbotsford, to be with my grandfather, who was in declining health. I achieved well at primary school, eventually being named Dux of School at the end of sixth class, as it was known then.
High school presented new challenges for a misfit nerd, and while I still achieved well, I was not as sharp as I had been in primary, for some of my old Abbotsford classmates were now outstripping me. Don't get me wrong, I was still in the top 10 or 15%, but not as good as I had been. During this period I developed an interest in electronics, and built a few projects, which included both a stereo amplifier and a guitar amplifier.
Beginning in second class, I had been taking piano lessons, first with a Miss Tilley, in Irene St, and later with Miss Dorothea Fraser, on Great North Road, just south of Edenholme Rd. I had done fairly well, and into high school I decided to expand my horizons to guitar. I did OK, but without any great flair. Keyboards were still my weapon of choice.
All this time I had been involved with church, first at Stanmore Baptist, where the Swinfield family had been prominent for a significant time, Mum being one of the organists, and later at Haberfield Baptist, after there had been some sort of falling out, the details of which I never knew (I was too young, at about 6 or 7), however neither Mum nor Auntie Doreen ever got involved at Haberfield. Us three kids were regular at Sunday School, and later, Christian Endeavour as well, and Neil and I were in the Lifeboys (junior Boys Brigade). Somewhat later, at about 18 or 19, I became disappointed with the Baptist-centric "our way or no way" attitude, and the continued lack of acceptance despite my loyalty and enthusiasm, and moved to Croydon Park Presbyterian Church, where, within a matter of weeks, I was the organist, usually for both services each Sunday.
At this stage I had started at the University of New South Wales, studying Industrial Chemistry. However, at the end of the first year, I bought my first car - a 1958 Austin A50. This was a clunker, in the very worst interpretation of the term. We drove it home, and immediately started pulling it down, to replace the rings and bearings. As a result, it was now possible to drive behind it without a respirator. I did many miles in that vehicle that year, breaking down on a number of occasions, but almost always making it home. However, my studies suffered, and at the end of the year I failed two subjects, resulting in me not being able to progress. I had, at this stage, taken a summer job at Unilever, as a lab assistant at the Balmain factory. When my results came out, I was able to convert this into a permanent position as a trainee chemist. Thus, after a further three years, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Technology (B. Sc. (Tech))
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ian:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ian:
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100.00%
100.00%
Ian Bolton:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ianbolton1948
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~25.00%
~25.00%
Belinda Conklin
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch WE8722523 [compare], Ancestry member BelindaConklin
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~1.56%
Gail Leabeater :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Barbara (Urquhart) Stevenson :
MyHeritage DNA
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edited by Heather Woodward
We're contacting you for the annual Australia Project membership checkin. We really appreciate your involvement in the Project in the last year. Thank you so much for all your help to improve Australian profiles on WikiTree.
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Ian
Regards, Margaret
It's time for the annual Australia Project membership checkin. Thank you so much for contributing to the project and Australian profiles on WikiTree during the last year. We really appreciate you!
If you would like to stay in the project, please reply to this message or send me a private message to let us know that you would like to stay on. Alternatively, if your WikiTree and research interests have moved away from Australia, please let us know and we can remove you from the membership list for the moment. You will, of course, be very welcome to rejoin the project down the track whenever you want to.
We are also keen to know if you want to make any changes to the team or teams that you want to focus on. Take a look on Australia Project Teams to see what teams there are to choose from. If you want to discuss this, or have any questions or suggestions about the Australia Project we'd love to hear your ideas.
Thanks for taking the time to get back to us!
Gillian, co-Leader, Australia Project
Yes, I'm still involved in various projects, mainly revolving around cemeteries, particularly in the Central West (NSW) but also more widely, mainly where I'm taken by the various branches of the families I'm working on. I don't know what projects I'm registered with, but the relevant ones to me would be NSW, cemeteries, convicts, bounty immigrants, born in the colony and free settlers. So put me down for what you like.
Thanks,
Ian
Thank so much for all that hard work! That's so fantastic.
You're only on the Convicts team at the moment, I think. How about I add you to NSW as well? You're welcome to work on tasks relevant to any of the teams, whether you're on the team or not, anyway. If you decide want to focus in a particular area/team, just get back to me again. Also you might think about checking out the Cemeterist Project and see if the scope of that project fits in with what you're doing.
Great to have you in the project! Gillian
In fact, cemeteries are really my main focus. My order of operations is thus:
1. Determine if a cemetery has been entered on Australian Cemeteries Index. (Generally I concentrate on the Central West of NSW). 2. Photograph all the individual graves in the cemetery. 3. Transcribe the details on each headstone, creating a profile on austcemindex for each. 4. Create profiles for each person on wikitree, adding as much detail as I easily can (birth, death and marriage dates and references among others).
As you can imagine, this is all quite time consuming, so that's where most of my geni time goes.
Regards,
Ian
I just replied to you reply, but it goes to a "no reply"address. so following is a copy and paste of the message.\
"OK Gillian, put me on any that you feel are relevant. I don't do much on the bounty immigrants or the convicts, but there are interests there (e.g. there are at least 4 convicts in my direct ancestors). I am already registered with the cemeterist project.
Ian."
The Australia Project leadership team are carrying out our annual check-in to see how you are going in the project. We'd really like to thank you for all your work on Australian profiles over the past year! We think we've made great progress in 2020/21 with your assistance.
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards
Margaret Haining Membership Coordinator
The Australia Project leadership team are carrying out a check-in to see how you are going in the project and especially to thank you for all your work on Australian profiles on WikiTree. We really value your participation.
Please could you get back to me by private message to let me know if you are happy with your current role and team involvement within the project or if you would like to do something additional or different. Currently we have you down as a member of the Convicts team. If you would like a change, you can check on the Australia Project page to see what other options there are.
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Gillian, co-Leader, Australia Project
I'm still plugging away at my cemeteries, but mainly on Photographing, and even more so, on transcribing. It looks like I'm going to have to go back and re-photograph some, as they are too indistinct to transcribe. But I'll get there!
Ian
The Global Cemeteries Project is currently undergoing our member check-in and wanted to verify that you are still active and interested in being a member of the project. Are you currently assigned to or working with one of our Cemetery Teams? If not, is there a particular Team or area you are interested in participating with? I would be delighted to help you get setup in one or more of our collaborative teams!
We use Google Groups for internal project collaboration, so if you are not yet setup for access feel free to submit a join request and we will get that approved as quick as possible. We also ask that members check their follwed tags to make sure you are following the correct project tag (CEMETERIES) so you don't miss any disucssions in G2G.
Last, but not least, we would like to thank you for all of your contributions to WikiTree and let you konw that any ideas or suggestions for improvement you may have for the Global Cemeteries Project would greatly appreciated!
I look forward to hearing form you soon!
Steve ~Global Cemeteries Project Leader
Ian
On behalf of the Australia Project leadership team, we're carrying out a Project Members Check-in to see if you are still interested in being involved as an active member of the project. In particular, we are ready to launch our new teams for the project. Please could you let me know what team/s you would like to contribute to.
A list of teams is on the Australia Project page. Please respond by private message.
We really appreciate your enthusiasm in working on Australian profiles on WikiTree, and thank you for all the work you have been doing. We look forward to hearing back from you and that you will decide to be part of the project as we move forward with the new teams for the project.
Kind Regards
Margaret Haining Membership Coordinator
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Have entered Birth & Death Sources for Mary Bolton, as the profile was not sourced under wikki suggestions. hope that's okay.
Thanks Kevin Sweet
I sent you a message a week ago about the new-look Global Cemeteries Project but have not yet heard back from you. If you would like to continue in the project, please can you PM me your team(s) selections and your e-mail address for the Google group.
If I dont hear back from you by this time next week Ill assume you no longer wish to be in the project at this time.
Many thanks,
Susie :-)
Leader, Global Cemeteries Project
Weve made some exciting changes to the Global Cemeteries Project. The sub-projects have been merged into the Global Project to help with Leadership and to facilitate collaboration.
Some roles within the project have changed. From now on, there are Project Coordinators for each continent, and one for Welcome and Integration, plus Team Leaders for each individual Country etc.
Please let me know if youd like to stay on in the new project, if youd like to continue in an existing role, and which team(s) youd like to be on. Please also give me your e-mail address so that I can get you added to the projects Google Group.
Many thanks,
Susie
Leader, Global Cemeteries
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Ian
This week we have your last stop on the guided tour. Hopefully, you're feeling like a WikiTree pro! If not, you can always revisit the tour stops via the comment boxes on the right side of your profile.
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There's a fast and easy way to access those profiles using the Watchlist. So, this week we're going to look at How to Manage Your Watchlist.
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PS. Looks like you've had fun with the lessons, your tree is starting to take shape. Next time you touch the profiles, please consider adding some sources (examples). It will help collaboration. Thanks for sharing!
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