John Edward Blake

[thistlebay]

Yes Aurora that is correct.  So you have done a lot of research on the Marshall family?  I don't know when Richard Marshall sailed to NSW but know that he and Elizabeth Blake married there.  Elizabeth sent for her nephew and niece John Edward and Margaret Blake when her husband Richard died in 1907.  Yes, I've seen the grave/headstone online, apparently there is also a huge  memorial window in the local church there bought by Elizabeth before she died I think.  John Edward Blake never married but Margaret married Harold Reardon.  You've probably read through all the posts here, its amazing how people are brought together in genealogy isn't it?
Regards
Catherine

[Aurora]

You said that John Blake was living at Flower Hill in 1949.  Do you mean Flower Hill, Gundagai?  I remember an old Blake gentleman living along the road at Jones Creek, Gundagai (this would be the road that goes westward towards Burra and Bongonglong).  He lived on the outskirts of the town, in a hut in a paddock.  I think he was a bit of a hermit.  I was born in 1948 and I think this memory of mine would date from when I was a child - Sometime in the 1950s or early 1960s?  Where I can remembering him living, would not be far from Flower Hill, which is on the north western side of the town. 

[thistlebay]

Well there were different Blakes at different times at Flower Hill Gundagai.  I need to check them all again but I think John Edward lived at Windowie around 1940 as it would seem he had a few visits to him (I have this stated on documentation).  On 1943 Edward John born Gundagai approx. 1920 was living on his own in flower hill.  His parents living at Jones Creek.  John Edward Blake born 1881 in Ireland, in 1943 was living with his half cousin Julia at Gilmore. 
ON the 1949 I can't find John Edward (he died in 1951) but can't find him anywhere after 1943, maybe he was staying somewhere else, but I found Edward John living in Flower Hill with his aunt Julia and uncle James.  I'm not absolutely certain where John Edward died but know he was living local to Gundagai/Tumut and that his cousin Julia was either living with him or with him or went to him when he had his heart attack as she called a family member who called the doctor but by the time the doctor got to him about 5 hours later he had already died.  I don't have an address of where he was living though.
The geography of the whole area is not known to me so these are just area names to me.  Julia's brother Samuel and his wife were the ones living in Jones Creek throughout til their deaths.  Edward John was their son.  I wonder if it was Edward John who you remember, I very much doubt it would have been John Edward as you would have only been 3 when he died.  It may also have been James Blake who the brother of Julia and Samuel or even Charles another brother.
Gosh! living in a hut in a paddock!!  I wonder why?  I'm sure though that Edward John inherited the family home and land in Jones Creek when his parents died one year apart 1961/2.
Ok I just found James Blake brother of Samuel, in 1958 living in Flower Hill.
Just found Edward John living in Jones Creek 1963 after his parents died and James, his Uncle still lving in Flower Hill so it must have been James you saw.  He was born around 1877.