George William Bennett Story

George William Bennett Story
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1849–1931 · 82 years old

Born 24 March 1849 in Colac, Victoria, AustraliaDied 3 June 1931 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Helped establish Sturmfels Ltd in 1907 and was its manager until he retired in 1925, working as a wool and produce agent in Brisbane.

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Parents

TS Thomas Story 1815–1860 father AD Annie Sarah Davis 1822–1899 mother

Partner

EF Ellen Lavinia Fletcher d. 1916

Children with Ellen Lavinia Fletcher

TS Thomas George Fletcher Story 1883–1903 JS James Sidney Story 1889–1952 ES Effie Constance Story 1890–1891 GS George Lloyd Story 1896–1945 FS Ford Howard Story d. 1954

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1840s
Born 24 March 1849

Colac, Victoria, Australia
1860s
11
Death of father Thomas Story 28 December 1860

Avoca, Tasmania, Australiaaged 45
1870s
25
Death of brother Thomas Davis Story 1874

aged 29
26
Royal Humane Society Gold Medal 1875

Awarded a Gold Medal by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing three people from the flooded South Esk River, in Tasmania.

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1880s
34
Birth of son Thomas George Fletcher Story 1883

Queensland, Australia
37
Occupation (Stock and Station Agent) from 1886

Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia

Stock and station agent at Cunnamulla from 1886, and later a manager for Cobb & Co. He was a member of the Paroo Divisional Board, the Cunnamulla Jockey Club, the Warrego Pastoral Association and the Marsupial Board.

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Birth of son James Sidney Story 1889

Queensland, Australia
1890s
41
Birth of daughter Effie Constance Story 1890

Queensland, Australia
42
Death of daughter Effie Constance Story 1891

Queensland, Australiaaged 1
42
Marriage of brother John Ford Story 1891

Queensland, Australia
47
Member for Balonne, Queensland Legislative Assembly 11 April 1896 – 27 August 1904

Queensland, Australia

Won the seat of Balonne in the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the 1896 colonial election as a Ministerialist candidate, and served three terms before his defeat in 1904.

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Birth of son George Lloyd Story 1896

Queensland, Australia
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Death of mother Annie Sarah Davis 18 May 1899

South Brisbane, Queensland, Australiaaged 77
1900s
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Death of son Thomas George Fletcher Story 1903

Queensland, Australiaaged 20
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Death of brother James Roode Story 7 November 1904

Queensland, Australia
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Occupation (Manager, Sturmfels Ltd) 1907–1925

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Helped establish Sturmfels Ltd in 1907 and was its manager until he retired in 1925, working as a wool and produce agent in Brisbane.

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1910s
64
Marriage of son Ford Howard Story 1913

Queensland, Australia
67
Death of brother John Ford Story 17 August 1916

Ingham, Queensland, Australiaaged 70
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Death of partner Ellen Lavinia Fletcher 1916

Queensland, Australia
67
Marriage of son James Sidney Story 1916

Queensland, Australia
1920s
70
Marriage of son George Lloyd Story 8 January 1920

Queensland, Australia
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Education (Geelong Grammar School)

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Attended Geelong Grammar School, Victoria.

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Occupation (Station Manager)

Queensland, Australia

Manager of Burhorah and Dareel stations in Queensland, having arrived in the colony in 1881 after earlier employment as a farmer in Victoria and Tasmania and as a miner in New Zealand.

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1930s
82
Died 3 June 1931

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Buried 1931

Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia

Buried in God's Acre Cemetery at Coopers Plains, Brisbane.

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