First thing to know about this man is that there is another in the annals of history that holds this name and there is no chance that my James Augustus is the former mayor or governor or something or other in some city in the US. I mean, that guy may have been more important than mine, but mine is rather fascinating.
Facts that I know.
- That he married an Irish girl from Limerick in western Queensland in the 1860s
- That he was a business associate of my great -grandfather before he suggested that his daughter might be a good wife for him (he was a widow with 4 children) as she was a well trained housekeeper who had no prospects and was 24
- He was right
- That he was a published author of and therefore recipient of some of the most damning reviews in the last 250 years of colonial literature
- And from his death certificate, his father was Edwards and his mother was Phoebe
- All of the below:
- Wouldn't he had made a fascinating dinner companion?
- I like to imagine that he and Mary Annie had a bit of a hoot.
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"Importance" is subjective.
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