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Barry says: I have only a vague recollection of the original homestead at Hinomungie, which was sold with (uncles) Fred and Herb having separate properties nearer Benambra. Fred looked after both during the 2nd war, when Herb was in the army.
Herb later sold out and bought a property, Spring Farm, near Mornington, then sold that and bought Setel Downs, a 70 acre property right on the corner below the tower at Kangaroo Ground.
We used to go there often in the 60’s, (we lived on Lower Heidelberg Road), I shot some rabbits there. Herb’s family was beset by tragedy; his son Doug died of nephritis/bright’s disease in Colac while staying with us while he was under treatment from a Colac doctor who was reckoned to be the best for that disease in Victoria. I was a kid of maybe 12. A daughter, Phyllis, died from a fall from a high rise in Perth, Uncle Herb died at 69 from throat cancer.
The youngest, cousin Nancy, lost her only child Liam to leukaemia at 5; she lives in Hobart and we visited her a few years back, and stay in touch.

Birth	27 Sep 1899	Benambra, Victoria, Australia
Marriage	1926	Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia - Alice "Muriel" CLOSE
Death	1969	Donvale, Victoria, Australia
Ancestral File Number		1396-91Q

Spouse	Alice "Muriel" CLOSE (1898 - 1985)
Child	Phyllis May TOMKINS (1927 - 1979)
Child	Douglas Hugh TOMKINS (1929 - 1957)
Child	Living

Father	Edwin "Ted" TOMKINS (1862 - 1950)
Mother	Esther COLLETT (1869 - 1951)
Sibling	Elizabeth May "May" TOMKINS (1894 - 1994)
Sibling	Cecil Henry TOMKINS (1896 - 1988)
Sibling	Edwin Walter "Ted" TOMKINS (1897 - 1918)
Sibling	Esther Martha "Essie" TOMKINS (1902 - 1974)
Sibling	Frederick John "Fred" TOMKINS (1903 - 1987)
Sibling	Captain Reginald Collett "Reg" TOMKINS O.B.E. (1906 - )
Sibling	Alan William George TOMKINS (1912 - 2001)

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