Day Thirty Three

Time flies  and I have been remiss in recording the history of my family.  It is time now to return to the quest.

Jen Creighton, my mother, was born one hundred years ago today, September 4, 1911 in Alligator Creek, North Queensland.  Her father Harold Havindon Cordingley was at that time a proprietor of the North Queensland Meat Export Company, a company established by his father Thomas Cordingley in 1896.  The sale in 1913 of this company to the American company, Swifts,  financed the purchase of the grazing property, Mihi, in New England.

The illustration, shows the meat-works at Alligator Creek and is from the recently published history of Thomas Cordingley, written by Gweneth Cordingley.  The book gives a detailed account of the life of my great grandfather, who arrived in Australia in 1866 to work as a "technologist" at  Charles Tindall's Ramornie meatworks and of his significant role in the establishment of the Australian meat industry.