G J FALKINER Western Australia

[sparrett]

In reply #50 i posted a link to contact a group about services radio.
Here it is again

http://www.radioheritage.net/Story57.asp

I am certain his broadcasting wasa part of his artmy service.

He would need to be well educated and have a well-modulated speaking voice.

If his father was indeed a stockbroker, it is possible he was well educated.
 He was "an interior decorator"  on the Electoral Roll in WA.
Painter, plasterer, ?

What was the reason for the move to Melbourne, tascj?

Sue

[tascj]

Why the move to Melbourne? (Uncle) "Had a job in radio he was going to"

"An interior Designer at Boans in Perth"
"He had been an Interior Designer" (1958 WA Electoral Roll confirms this)
"English accent"
"An insurance salesman" (Salesman listed on 3rd birth certificate)

[majm]

Google tells me that WA archives have files re Boans department store.  Perhaps that includes employment records.

JM

ADD  employment records often include dob.   

[sparrett]

"An interior Designer at Boans in Perth"
"He had been an Interior Designer" (1958 WA Electoral Roll confirms this)
 

The word is Decorator.

Sue

[majm]

Yes ... Decorator is physically  hands on working ... trades .... building the interior ... walls,  kitchen,  bathrooms etc  while Designer is a planner ... drafter ... clean hands ... planning where the walls, doors, windows go... so at a department store perhaps the decorator reports to the designer ... so GJF as interior decorator in 1958,  previously a salesman,  previously a soldier perhaps/likely a former Sergeant ...  in 1954.

JM

[majm]

There is an excellent armed forces board here at RChat.  Perhaps they may have some advice on how to approach the UK Ministry Of Defence for records for BCFK, particularly when the person of interest may well be still living.  If you start a thread on that board, please remember to give a link to this thread, to save duplicating information.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/armed-forces/

JM

[majm]

 

5 April 1921
There is an Edith FALKINER, listed as the Occupier, at 62 Winter Road, Portsea Island, Portsea, Hampshire.  The property’s owner is listed as H GODDARD. 
Reference info: DT/R/3/79  Portsmouth History Centre,  Folio 29, Rate Books …

JM

[tascj]

That sounds promising. Thank you.

I am tonight writing to the Radio Archives.  They are located in Wellington, NZ.  Cross your fingers they are able to provide us with some more details.

[sparrett]

Hi tascj,
I do think that it most likely he used the name FALKINER during his radio days before coming to Australia.

To get a job in radio in Melbourne he must have needed references to describe his experience and these would obviously have to correspond to the name under which he applied for the Melbourne position.

Therefore, somewhere there has to be a record of this man of some kind

My other thought is the possible reason the word "married" is on the immigration card.

The children had been registered under false information i.e.that  the parents had married in 1947.
Like you, I think he probably was their father and, in order to maintain the lie on his entry to Aust in EDIT 1954 7, he stated married (meaning to Mabel).



Sue