Hermann Christoph Wilkens --Germany to Australia

Notes

28. Ivy Kathleen Margaret Wilkins

married a STOKES had daughters Margaret & Dorothy & son Jack

 

33. John Otto Wilkins

BODY FOUND ABOUT 5 DAYS LATER

95. John Norman (Jack) Wilkins

John contacted polio in the 1937 epidemic, he was just 8years old.
He spent the rest of his life in hospitals in an iron lung. In the later [Photo1] [Photo2]
stages of his life he was able to be out of the lung for up to 48 hours. Volunteer.drivers with vans transported him from the Austin Hospital to his sister Mavis's home on the Saturdays when possible where he spent the night before retuning to the hopital on the Sunday afternoon. During his stay with Mavis he was sometimes taken to the local cinema whose staff were most helpful in placing John's trolly type bed to be placed in a position that enabled him to view the screen. Other times during the summer months he was wheeled down to the nearby beach to enjoy some sea air.

John was a very independant person, he organised for the hospitals carpenter to construct a locable, wheelable newpaper stand, then arranged with the local newsagent to stock it with daily newspapers & magazines, thus providing a service for hospital staff and visitors while earning himself some pocket money. [Photo]

An avid supporter of the Richmond AFL football team his wonderful disposition towards life despite his tremendous disability which only allowed him a very limit movement of one arm only, endeared him to a great many people who sadly missed him with his passing in his 27th year.

 

 

36. Hilroy Clyde Wilkins

married an Irene who bore him 2/3 sons. Irene remarried after Hilroy Clyde
was committed to a mental hospital for the rest of his life.