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« Reply #54 on: Wednesday 14 August 19 09:59 BST (UK) »
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What good news to find the address was connected.
I wonder if Edwin means it was 7 months of his renewed association with Marjorie rather than 7 months of marriage.

She sounds like a complete narcissist.

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« Reply #55 on: Wednesday 14 August 19 11:06 BST (UK) »
Yes,  the profile that's coming to the focus re Majorie is quite confronting .... I think it is possible she was known as Mrs Wallace before she met up with our OPs dad ....  I wonder if her funds to travel came from her Dad  ...

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« Reply #56 on: Wednesday 14 August 19 11:48 BST (UK) »
What a family Dad got himself involved with! Poor Hal probably had no idea about Cuthbert the jockey (it was a whole extended family of jockeys) but we'll probably never know as everyone involved is long gone.

I'm sure Dad didn't know about Addie's colourful history; he was a complete innocent, having been brought up to the strictest of moral codes, believing the best of everyone, and a physically rather shy man always.

Whether or not your cynicism about the divorce process is justified (I know that stuff went on, in the UK as well), poor Garnet Haughton couldn't take it.

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« Reply #57 on: Wednesday 06 November 19 07:04 GMT (UK) »
It's a while since I visited here; been bust transcribing Dad's memoir, which I intend to publish - it reads very well! Looking again at Marjorie and her extra-marital liaisons I thought I'd try once more to find the Jumbo Mine. This morning I had success, finding an account of it here: http://www.rhodesianstudycircle.org.uk/category/explore/mines/page/5/
... but it appears that the Jumbo Gold Mining Company was liquidated in 1932! I suspect that this failure may have prompted Marjorie's flight - again - from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and she traded on the glamour of the story when she returned to Sydney. The mine is still going strong, now as the Mazowe Gold Mine (see: http://metcorp.co.uk/operations/gold-fields-of-mazowe-ltd.aspx ) so it must have just been the company that went haywire, as it was actually a good time for the South African mines (ref: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7033 ).  Pam
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