John Francis Campbell (1865-1909)

brother of Isabella and Kesty, was born at Markdale between Binda and Bigga.
John was the youngest of the three Campbell Children..

Isabella and Kesty were his big sisters...he also had 9 other half siblings from his mums previous marriage to William Marks....

Markdale in the 1960s was a busy place...12 kids.

John Francis Campbell married Eliza Charlotte Godden (in Rockley Wesleyan Church in 1891 6th of September)
John was 25 and Eliza was 17.

John had been married before (Ellen Steward) but she died in Childbirth.

John and Eliza lived at Caloola on the Vale Creek near the weir.

John Francis was a miner and the story goes that he was a lime smelter. Johns father Francis was also a miner at Junction point on the Tuena Creek between Tuena and Binda.

Children of John and Eliza include Eiljah James, Keffy, Charlie, Cec, and Mick (Harold)...there are others (again more info to come).

Mick was the youngest.

John Francis died shortly before Mick was born

After Johns death....
Eilza had 7 or 8 children to look after when John Francis died. Possibly a mining accident (TBC).

Elijah James (the eldest child) was 17 and Mick was yet to be born. They lived in a wattle and dawb hut on a flat where the Vale Creek and Summerhill Creeks meet (just north of Ettlesdale) at Caloola.

Harold Mick Campbell (John and Eliza's Youngest)
Mick spent some time in the hut in later years in his work as a rabbitoh. The hut later burnt down.

Eliza Charlotte and son Mick moved to corner of Bathurst Road and George street Newbridge when Mick was a boy.

They later moved to a new house in George Street Newbridge.

Mick Married Jean Doreen Mckellar and Eliza moved across the road to the former Buckley House..

Mick was a farm labourer and rabbit trapper.



He was later foreman at Ettlesdale in Caloola for the Larnachs

John Francis and Eliza Charlotte are buried at Caloola Cemetary.

Mick (Harold) is also.

Eiza's Parents Thomas Godden and Elizabeth Wheat are buried at Caloola as well.

Jean Doreen (Great Great Grand daughter of Duncan McKellar and Jane Craige of Hobbys Yards) is 96 (Living in Bathurst 2009).

All locations are in NSW Australia (south of Bathurst) I will format and add required details for this information later. 15.