George Weldon

George Thomas Weldon was born on 27 February 1861 at Berrima, New South Wales, son of George Weldon and Mary Weldon. He married Elizabeth Jane Baker on 20 November 1881 at Frogmore, New South Wales, and the couple had five children over the next 17 years.

By the early twentieth century Weldon was a baker at Angledool.

Weldon was an early opal miner at Lightning Ridge. Working with Paddy Donoghoe, he held one of the early successful claims at the Nine Mile.

Weldon later operated the Boorooma Hotel, along with one of the Angledool hotels.

Weldon’s death notice in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate places him at New Angledool at the end of his life. The paper reported that he died at the Dubbo District Hospital after a week’s illness, and that he had conducted a bakery at New Angledool, on the Queensland border. He was described as well known in the Trangie and Narromine districts.

George Weldon was well known in the Trangie and Narromine districts. He died on 26 April 1933 at Dubbo, aged 72, after a week of illness, and was buried there. He was survived by a widow, three sons — Patrick Joseph, George Herbert (of Trangie), and John Thomas (of Narromine) — and two sisters, Mesdames G. and W. Cross of Hebel, Queensland. His funeral, conducted by W. Larcombe & Son, took place in the Catholic portion of the Dubbo cemetery, with Father Dahill officiating at the graveside.

Article: Research by Russell Gawthorpe and Leisa Carney, edited by Russell Gawthorpe. LRHS research compiled by Len Cram and Barbara Moritz. Sources: ‘George Thomas Weldon’, The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, 29 April 1933, p. 6; The Lightning Ridge Book, Stuart Lloyd, 1967, p. 55; Charles Sturt University Regional Archives, Albert “Possum” Green Photograph Collection - RW1247.