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18-12-09, 11:59
Name - "official" name and what they were known as
John Creek, known as Jack

Date and place of birth
17 Aug 1851 at Pringle House, Ely Cambs

Names of parents
Richard Creek and Sarah Goodenough

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
23 May 1852, St Mary Ely, Cambs

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
1. married Catherine Dorothea Kemp on 8 Feb 1873 in Gulgong NSW
After 8 children, she died 29 April 1902, in Marrickville, Sydney NSW
2. married Helen Kerr on 15 Nov 1908 at her fathers residence, 5 Nicholson St, Tempe, Sydney NSW, where they subsequently lived.

Occupation(s) - if any
railway worker, a ganger at Marrickville, possilby a goldminer in Gulgong

Military service - if any
none

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.

1851 census, Pringle House, Ely Cambs
1852-53, per Java to Sydney New South Wales (6 month voyage, rife with deaths from gastro-enteritis)
1854 Maitland NSW (baptism of sister Jemima)
1858 Phoenix Park, Near Morpeth NSW (death of Sister Sarah)
1862 Jump Up Creek near Patricks Plains NSW
1864 Camberwell, near Patricks Plains NSW
1867 Muswellbrook, NSW
1873 Gulgong NSW
1881 Marrickville NSW
1886 Petersham NSW
1908-1917 5 Nicholson St Tempe NSW

Date, place and cause of death

15 Nov 1917, 5 Nicholson St Tempe, Sydney NSW, of Pneumonia

Date and place of burial / cremation.

17 Nov 1917, at Woronora Cemetery, Sutherland Sydney NSW - a resting place place much favoured by the Creeks, and Kerrs.

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any