Dad: John

John 'Jack' Henry Brisbane was born on the fifth of September 1868 in Berwick, Victoria to English emigrants James Grimmond and Elizabeth Brisbane. He was the fourth surviving child of 11.

He was nearly, if not profoundly, deaf although at what age and for what reason has not been established.

John Brisbane did not drink alcohol and took the Temperance League pledge in early adulthood.

At some stage, John migrated from Victoria to Warwick and on the 18th of December 1912, John married Ethel ‘Dolly’ Freeman near Warwick, Queensland.

They had four children: Linda Jane (born 1 March 1916), Lawrence Henry (born 21 April 1918), Bertha Ethel (born 4 November 1920) and Isabel ‘Betty’ (born 8 September 1924). Records show the couple may have had a stillborn girl sometime before Bertha was born. They started their married years on a share farm at Lord John Swamp where they stayed until Linda and Lawrence were both school aged.

In about 1923, Ethel and John bought a farm at Swan Creek, which was then called Leura. They lived, worked and raised their children there for about 16 years. When their children had grown up, Ethel and John sold their farm at Swan Creek in about 1939 they were to move to the Stanthorpe Road home.

But on the moving day, John had an accident in the sulky, which rolled onto him and killed him. He died on the 18th of September 1939 aged 71.