Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Frank Page Jacobs
Ancestor's date of birth: 27/07/1884
Ancestor's date of death: 12/07/1916
Cause of Death: Complications from a burst appendix. Passed away at the Cottage Hospital, Junee, NSW.
Service and Life Before the Boer War: A boundary rider on enlistment. Born Molong.
Service Number: 1466
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney, NSW
Unit: 3 Bn Aust Commonwealth Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 180
Contingent: Second Australian
Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 02/04/1902
Memorial details: n/a
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal and SA 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: A distinguished looking gentleman. Member of the Junee Masonic Lodge.
Reasons to go and fight: Unknown
Details of service in war: Arrived as the war was ending, no active service seen.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 9-13 August on Drayton Grange. At the time of his enlistment Frank was noted as a Boundary Rider. After Frank returned from South Africa on the Drayton Grange and the Coolgardie he became a Farmer at Carrathool. I assume this is how he met his wife to be Emily. Frank married Miss Emily Chown Pearse the daughter of John (dec'd) and Mary Elizabeth Pearse of 'Pine Grove' Argoon on 11 April 1906. The Pearse family owned many thousands of hectares of land. After their marriage Frank was working for the NSW Railways and moved his family to Junee, NSW. Between February 1907 and December 1915, Frank and Emily had six children. He was working at the Tenandra Pumping Station when he passed away from complications after a burst appendix. His young bride was left to raise six children under the age of ten, the youngest aged just six months.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Nicole Wecker, Westbrook QLD 4350
Relationship to Ancestor: Great grand-daughter.Name of Descendant: Annette Wade, Bundanoon NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand DaughterName of Descendant: Sandra Skinner, Oyster Bay NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand niece
