Home	S.A.	Haddington	Rev David	William Clarence	Gibson	Alfred Westcott	Henry Arthur	Herbert James	Irvine Magnus	Cecil Samuel	Allan Monteith

David Magnus BADGER

Early days. Maggie Knox THOMSON   Donald Gibson Neil Thomson David Lloyd		Stories   Don's Memories of his Mother Don's Childhood Memories The Next Generation Life in England. Neil's Trip to Adelaide - Feb '13.
	David Magnus, John McDougall & Archie Maxwell Badger, Gibson's 3 sons.

	BADGER.— On the 18th April, the wife of Gibson Badger, storekeeper, Dawson, of a son ; both doing well.

 

Early Timeline form home page when the site was going to be about David's descendants in particular Don & Olga.

David Magnus

1914 - marries Maggie Knox Thomson

1915 - January - Birth of Donald Gibson

1916 - May - Birth of Neil Thomson and David Lloyd

1918 - March - Birth of Olga WILLIAMS

1920 - June - Birth of Iris WILLIAMS

1922 - July - Birth of Jean WILLIAMS

1924 - April - Birth of Pat WILLIAMS

1942 - October - Lloyd marries Thelma BATES

1943 - - Neil marries June ROWLEY

1944 - March - JaniceSteuart born

1944 - April - Don marries Olga WILLIAMS

1944 - May - Neil Killed in Action

1946 - April - Neil Gibson born

1946 - May - Don, Olga & Neil go to Washington D.C.

1946 - July Jean marries Leslie Mervyn BILL.

1947 - July - Geoffrey Neil born

1947 - October - Lynette Lesley & Maureen Ann born.

1948 - February - Iris marries Ronal Eric James McCARTHY

1948 - February - Margaret Robyn born

1949 - April - Michael born

1949 - July - Christine Elizabeth born.

1951 - March - Bronwyn born

1952 - February - Rosemary Dawn born

1952 - July - Patricia Jean born

1953 - March - Kerrie born.

1953 - March - Jennifer Maureen born

1954 - Marchish - Don, Olga, Neil, Margaret & Patricia move to Epping.

1954 - July - David Edmund born.

1955 - Unsure - Pat marries Frederick

1956 - June - Susan Joy born

1957 - March - Paul Frederick born

1958 - May - Maree Sylvia born

1960 - Robert born

1960 - November - Don, Olga, Neil, Margaret, Patricia & Susan head for London

1961 - March - Noeline born

1961 - July - Robert Alexander Sorrell dies.

1962 - September - Pat dies

1964 - April - Alice Henrietta WILLIAMS dies

1968 - August - Lynette marries Ronald Terrance

1969 - December - Margaret marries Jeffrey Charles HAWKINS

1970 - September - John Charles born

1970 - September - Maureen marries Gregory Allan

1970 - December - Neil marries Megan Rose

1972 - March - Mike marries Patricia Ann

1973 - December - Patricia marries John Ray Piddington BIFFIN

1977 - July - Kerie marries Stephen Moore

1977 - September - Wendy Anne born

1978 - June - Neil, Megan & Wendy move to Tamworth.

1980 - July - Julie Maree born

1980 - December - Susan marries Howard Freeman JOHNSON

1985 - Thereabouts - David marries Louise

2007 - June - Neil & Megan move to Port

Early Days

David was only three years old when his father Gibson was drowned in the Murray River at Renmark.

His mother Annie continued to run the business for some years with the help of Gibson's step-brother, Henry.

Interesting to note then that David did not have a "normal" two-parent upbringing & that his wife died whilst his children were very young meaning they also grew up without "normal" parenting.This may answer some questions that had originally been put down to their dour scottish heritage.

Link to Don's memories of the early days.

Don's Recollections of his mother, Maggie Knox.

Don wrote piecemeal recollections of his childhood over a number of years as well as writing some specific memories that would be relevant to Lloyd’s kids. These he wrote shortly after Lloyd’s death. I typed them up for him but have no recollection of ever getting the document back for correction, of which there were certain to be many. Fifteen years later I have found the documents amongst Dad’s stuff and reproduce them here.

Maggie Knox Thomson

 

	UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE. The following are the results of the examination for the advanced commercial certificate, October, 1906 (banking and exchange) :-David Magnus Badger, Howard Henry Bishop, *Clifford Samuel Bray,

Donald Gibson

Born 2.1.1915

 

Donald Gibson with his mother Maggie Knox

Neil Thomson

David Lloyd

Maggie Knox with Don & the twins Neil & Lloyd.

	Auntie Grace, Maggie's sister, with the boys at Graham Place, Prospect.
Maggie Knox died when Don was only 4 and her sister Jessie, took over the raising of the boys till she married and moved to Graham Place. This house and the yard feature in many photos of the boys and it is clear that the Thomson girls and Jessie in particluar continued to play an active role in their upbringing.