POSTICH, Francis

Name – POSTICH, Francis
Born – 21/08/1859
Died – 30/12/1946
Location – No 66 Catholic Section
Mother – Alice Aikison (Atkinson)
Father – Joseph Postich

Notes – Francis was born to immigrant parents Alice (nee Aikison – Atkinson) and Joseph Postich. His Father was from Croatia and his mother was from Ireland. He had seven siblings.

His surname was often mis-recorded as Postage in the earlier days. Thomas came up to Qld. Frank was for a time, a gold miner in West Australia. He sold his property at Teddywaddy to fund his way to West Australia. He left West Australia from Albanyin in 1900 on the “Orya where he disembarked at Adelaide then returned to Victoria.

He then became associated with the Goldsmith Group which included Godfrey Morgan and others. The group was trying to influence govenments and others to make a railway track from Miles to Condamine, saying that thousands of acres had been sold to Victorians who believed the railway was coming and therefore they could dairy farm the area. The group originally come up from Victoria to bulk buy land that was then split amongst the group.

Census records for Frank for 1913 have him at Aurbial, Condamine, Graizer. Annie, Josephine, Joseph, Mollie, Rose and Thomas were all at Lillyvale. From 1922 & 1930 he was at  Aurbial and from 1936 & 1943 he was living in Meandarra.

Francis never married and decided that Meandarra was a good place to retire to because it was still close to his nephews farm at Condamine. Frank and his father were very keen horse race owners. From trotters to race horses. There are many paper articles from 1892 to 1918 mentioning Franks horses winning or placing in races.

the inscription on his headstone reads – In Loving Memory of Francis Postish Died 30th Dec 1946 Aged 87 Years.

Newspaper Article – Read here.

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