Richard Arthur Blackman

  Birth Notes:

Mudgee, Lawson Street.

  Christening Notes:

Mudgee, Weslean Church.

  Burial Notes:

Sandgate, Salvation Army Cemetery.

  Noted events in his life were:

� He served in the military Lord Kitchener's mounted forces in South Africa in the Boer war. ⁶ He had to take his own horse.

� Registration: Death, 1944, Wallsend District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁷

Richard married Julia May Maher, daughter of Richard James Maher and Julia Cournane, on 9 Jan 1915 in Parramatta, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia.^{1 2} (Julia May Maher was born in 1881 in Carlingford, Cumberland County, New South Wales ¹ and died in 1930 in <New South Wales> ⁸.)

  Marriage Notes:

Parramatta, All Saints Church of England.

Richard next married Mabel Stallard, daughter of Frederick Stallard and Mary Jane Vail, on 10 Dec 1924 in Newcastle, Northumberland County, New South Wales, Australia.^{1 3} (Mabel Stallard was born in 1893 in Merewether, Northumberland County, New South Wales ¹.)