- John Gorton - Wikipedia
Sir John Grey Gorton (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971 He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a senator for Victoria He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament to assume the office of prime
- John Grey Gorton KCMG AC CH (1911-2002) - WikiTree
The older Gorton and his wife Kathleen had emigrated to Australia by way of South Africa, during the Boer War They separated in Australia, and Gorton established a de facto relationship with Sinn, who died of tuberculosis in 1920 Gorton the younger then went to live in Sydney with his father's estranged wife and his half-sister
- John Gorton - More Than Our Childhoods
They were happy days (Hancock p 7) But in 1919, Alice contracted tuberculosis On her death certificate, she is recorded as the wife of John Rose Gorton; the couple allegedly married in New Zealand when Alice was twenty-two John Grey was cited as the only child of the couple, and yet Kathleen was raising his sister, Ruth
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At age eight, his mother contracted tuberculosis, was sent to a sanatorium and died, aged 32 Gorton lived with his father’s estranged wife, Kathleen, where he met his sister, Ruth, having been told she was dead
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Growing up Gorton was probably born on 9 September 1911, the second child of John Rose Gorton and Alice Sinn No birth certificate has been located, but a Victorian birth registry lists a John Alga Gordon, born in Prahran on 9 September 1911 This record also wrongly gives his father’s name as ‘John Robert Gordon’ Also false was the belief that his older sister Ruth had died in infancy
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In 1920, his mother died of tuberculosis and his father took John to live with his wife, Kathleen, and John's twelve-year-old sister Ruth John had known that he had a sister called Ruth, but had been told that she had died as an infant
- Alice (Sinn) Gorton (abt. 1887-1920) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
On her death, nine year-old John went to live with his half-sister, Ruth, and his father's estanged wife, Kathleen Sources ↑ birth record has yet to be located; age listed at death in 1920 as 32 years ↑ New South Wales Death Index #13269 1920 Ian Hancock (2011) "John Gorton: He did it his way" Hachette Uk, also on Google Books
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His elder sister lived with John Rose Gorton’s wife Alice, whose photograph shows a strikingly handsome woman, died of tuberculosis at 32 when Gorton was only nine
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