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Gordon John Lewis Balfour 1910 - 1968

Gordon John Lewis Balfour of Caulfield Australia was born on June 7, 1910 in Clunes, Hepburn Shire County, VIC to Laura Louise (Williams) Balfour and William Johnston Balfour. He had siblings William Evan Balfour and Laura Louisa Balfour. He married Elsie Lillian (Walker) Balfour on March 27, 1942, and they were married until Gordon's death on January 10, 1968. Gordon Balfour had a child Lauriss Wendy Balfour.

Gordon John Lewis Balfour

Caulfield Australia

June 7, 1910

Clunes, Hepburn Shire County, VIC, 3370, Australia

January 10, 1968

Caulfield, City of Glen Eira County, VIC, 3162, Australia

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[NAME/SUMMARY] Balfour, Gordon John Lewis (7 Jun 1910 ~ 10 Jan 1968) [NOTE] {🞺} TRADE: Rigger @NAA [BIRTH: 7 Jun 1910, Clunes Vic] {🞺} MISSING @BurialInfo {🞺} BORN: circa 1911 AT: Clunes @DeathRegistry {🞺} VIC [B]DM # 23013/1910; BORN: 1910 (SMEATON); NAME: Gordon Jno Lewis [BALFOUR]; FATHER: Wm Johnstone [BALFOUR?]; MOTHER: Laura Louise [BALFOUR?] (born WILLIAMS) {🞺} 7/6/10 @NAA {🞺} Birth: June 7 1910; Lawrence, Vic @MyHeritage [MARRIAGE: 1942, Vic] {🞺} VIC BD[M] # 5391/1942; MARRIAGE: 1942; OF: Gordon Jno Lewis [BALFOUR]; SPOUSE: Elsie Lillian [WALKER]         [❀] Marriage: 27 Mar 1942; Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia @FamilySearch [CIVIL SERVICE] {🞺} Personal files for members of the Civil Constructional Corps enlisted in Victoria, single number series with "CV" Civil Constructional Corps,Victoria prefix;         TITLE: BALFOUR Gordon John Lewis - [Civil Constructional Corps - Victoria] number CV33523 - Year of birth 1910; ITEM ID: 6587809; REC RANGE: Aug 1942 - May 1944; LOCATION: Melbourne; CITATION: NAA: B4218, CV33523; DOCUMENTS: 2 EXIST at 2022-09-28         [@NNA] Click the blue "Items" box at "
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- 'recordsearch.naa.gov.au'" (Item ID=6587809). [DEATH: 10 Jan 1968, Caulfield Vic] {🞺} MISSING, SERVICE DATE (died on or before): 12 Jan 1968 @BurialInfo {🞺} VIC B[D]M # 5543/1968; DIED: 1968 (Caulfield); AGED: 57 years; NAME: Gordon John Lewis [BALFOUR]; BORN: circa 1911 AT: Clunes; FATHER: William Johnstone [BALFOUR]; MOTHER: Laura Louise [{missing}] (born WILLIAMS) {🞺} Jan 10 1968; South Caulfield, Vic @MyHeritage [FUNERAL NOTICE] {🞺} SURNAME: BALFOUR; GIVEN NAMES: Gordon John Lewis; NOTICE TYPE: Funeral notice; DATE: 12JAN1968; EVENT: Funeral; PUBLICATION: The Age (Melbourne); PUBLISHED: 11JAN1968; AT: RyersonIndex.net [CHILDREN] {🞺} @FamilySearch (1 children of Elsie Lillian Walker and Gordon John Lewis Balfour):         [❀] Lauriss Wendy Balfour (1942 ~ 1950, ID:KHFZ-357)                 (✤)
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- 'familysearch.org' {🞺} @BdmRegistry:         [❀] Balfour, (circa 1942 ~ 15 Nov 1950)                 (✤) BORN: circa 1942 AT: CAULFIELD                 (✤) VIC B[D]M # 12828/1950; DIED: 1950 (CARLTON); AGED: 8 years; NAME: Lauriss Wendy [BALFOUR]; BORN: circa 1942 AT: CAULFIELD; FATHER: Gordon John Lewis [BALFOUR]; MOTHER: Elsie Lillian [{missing}] (born WALKER)                         -✪- SURNAME: BALFOUR; GIVEN NAMES: Lauriss; NOTICE TYPE: Death notice; DATE: 14NOV1950; EVENT: Death; AGE: 8; EXTRA: at The Childrens Hospital, late of Caulfield; PUBLICATION: The Age (Melbourne); PUBLISHED: 15NOV1950; AT: RyersonIndex.net                         -✪-
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- 'findagrave.com' [SIBLINGS] {🞺} @MyHeritage (siblings):         [❀] Alicia May Kenyon (born Balfour, July 22 1907; Smeaton, Vic ~ Oct 30 1995; Kerang, Vic)         [❀] Lauriss Vera Balfour (Aug 20 1911; Lawrence, Vic ~ Mar 4 1993; Canberra, Vic)         [❀] Lawrence Balfour (Nov 19 1908; Lawrence, Vic ~ Nov 19 1908; Lawrence, Vic)         [❀] William Evan Balfour (May 7 1906; Smeaton, Vic ~ Mar 8 1962)         Daughter: Linley Cook (born Leask)); 1925 - 2002 {🞺} @BdmRegistry:         [❀] Balfour, William Evan (1906 ~ 8 Mar 1962)                 (✤) VIC [B]DM # 13962/1906; BORN: 1906 (SMEATON); NAME: Wm Evan [BALFOUR]; FATHER: Wm Johnston [BALFOUR?]; MOTHER: Laura Louise [BALFOUR?] (born WILLIAMS)                 (✤) VIC BD[M] # 24387/1949; MARRIAGE: 1949; OF: William Evan [BALFOUR]; SPOUSE: Marybelle [LEASK]                 (✤) VIC B[D]M # 5353/1962; DIED: 1962 (Mont Park); AGED: 55 years; NAME: William Evan [BALFOUR]; BORN: circa 1907 AT: Lawrence; FATHER: William [BALFOUR]; MOTHER: Laura Louis [{missing}] (born WILLIAMS)                         -✪- @MyHeritage, In Australia, Victoria, Will and Probate Index 1850-2009; Name: William Evan Balfour; Residence: Smeaton, Victoria, Australia; Death: Mar 8 1962; Occupation: Council Employee; Nature of grant: P; Date of grant: May 24 1962                         -✪- SURNAME: BALFOUR; GIVEN NAMES: William Evan Smeaton; NOTICE TYPE: Death notice; DATE: 08MAR1962; EVENT: Death; EXTRA: at Melbourne; PUBLICATION: The Age (Melbourne); PUBLISHED: 09MAR1962; AT: RyersonIndex.net                         -✪- William Evan Balfour; BIRTH; 1906; Smeaton, Vic; DEATH; 8 Mar 1962 (aged 55–56); Macleod, Vic; BURIAL; Creswick Cemetery; Creswick, Vic; PLOT; Var., Row 3, Grave 96; He was married to Belle
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- 'findagrave.com'         [❀] Kenyon, Alicia May (born Balfour, 1907 ~ 30 Oct 1995)                 (✤) VIC [B]DM # 22183/1907; BORN: 1907 (SMEATON); NAME: Alicia May [BALFOUR]; FATHER: Wm Johnston [BALFOUR?]; MOTHER: Laura Louisa [BALFOUR?] (born WILLIAMS)                 (✤) VIC BD[M] # 11521/1935; MARRIAGE: 1935; OF: Alicia Mary [BALFOUR]; SPOUSE: Chas Manifold [KENYON]                         -✪- Charles Manifold Kenyon; BIRTH; unknown; DEATH; 17 Oct 1966; BURIAL; Kerang Cemetery; Kerang, Vic; PLOT; Lawn Row L # 20; VX117337
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- 'findagrave.com'                 (✤) BORN: circa 1907 (Died 30.10 1995; AGE: 88) @FAG                         -✪- Alicia May Kenyon; BIRTH; unknown; DEATH; 30 Oct 1995; BURIAL; Kerang Cemetery; Kerang, Vic; PLOT; Lawn Row L # 20         [❀] Balfour, Lauris Vera (born Balfour, 1911 ~ )                 (✤) VIC [B]DM # 32067/1911; BORN: 1911 (SMEATON); NAME: Lauris Vera [BALFOUR]; FATHER: Wm Johnston [BALFOUR?]; MOTHER: Laura Louisa [BALFOUR?] (born WILLIAMS)                 (✤) NOT LOLA:                         -✪- VIC BD[M] # 20632/1946; MARRIAGE: 1946; OF: Lauris Vera [BALFOUR]; SPOUSE: Clarence Vivian [PYKE]                         -✪- SURNAME: PYKE; GIVEN NAMES: Lola Vera; NOTICE TYPE: Death notice; DATE: 13JUN2009; EVENT: Death; AGE: 90; PUBLICATION: Hobart Mercury; PUBLISHED: 18JUN2009; AT: RyersonIndex.net                         -✪-
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- 'findagrave.com'         [❀] White, Laura Louisa (born Balfour, 1913 ~)                 (✤) VIC [B]DM # 18071/1913; BORN: 1913 (ARARAT); NAME: Laura Louisa [BALFOUR]; FATHER: Wm Johnston [BALFOUR]; MOTHER: Laura L [BALFOUR] (born WILLIAMS)                 (✤) VIC BD[M] # 14225/1935; MARRIAGE: 1935; OF: Laura Louise [BALFOUR]; SPOUSE: Rheuben Geo Maxwell [WHITE] [PARENTS] {🞺} @MyHeritage (parents):         [❀] MARRIED: May 30 1905; St Agnes of Jerusa, Lawrence, Vic         [❀] William Johnston Balfour (Mar 18 1866; Clunes, Vic ~ May 23 1953; Smeaton, Vic), Burial=Creswick, Vic         [❀] Laura Louise Balfour (born Williams, 1875 ~ 1913; Ararat, Vic) - Burial: Aug 10 1913; Ararat, Vic {🞺} @BdmRegistry:         [❀] FATHER: Balfour, William Johnstone                 (✤) William Johnston Balfour; BIRTH; 1866; Clunes, Vic; DEATH; 22 May 1953 (aged 86–87); Creswick, Hepburn Shire, Vic; BURIAL; Creswick Cemetery; Creswick, Vic; PLOT; Var., Row 3, Grave 96
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- 'findagrave.com'         [❀] MOTHER: Balfour, Laura Louise (born WILLIAMS)                 (✤) Laura Louise Williams Balfour; BIRTH; 1875; Ballarat, Vic DEATH; 8 Aug 1913 (aged 37–38); Ararat, Vic; BURIAL; Ararat General Cemetery
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- 'findagrave.com' [RESIDENCES/Electoral Roll] {🞺} 1942: 67 Teak Street, South Caulfield, Victoria @NAA [SAME/CLOSE CEMETERY PLOT AND/OR LIKELY RELATED PEOPLE] {🞺} FATHER:         NAME: Gordon John Lewis Balfour; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 12 January 1968; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 2, Rose 26
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- 'findagrave.com' {🞺} MOTHER:         NAME: Elsie Lilian Balfour; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 22 October 1985; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 2, Rose 26
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- 'findagrave.com' {🞺} DAUGHTER:         NAME: Lauriss Wendy Balfour; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 15 November 1950; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 2, Rose 26
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- 'findagrave.com' [BURIAL/CREMATION] {🞺} NAME: Gordon John Lewis Balfour; TYPE: Cremated; AT: Springvale Botanical Cemetery @smct.org.au; SERVICE: 12 January 1968; PLOT: Grevillea, Garden J4, Bed 2, Rose 26         GRAVE INFORMATION @
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- 'www.ancestry.com.au' {🞺} Gordon John Lewis Balfour (@AncientFaces) [BY: DENNIS BAREIS, 2022-09-28.1634 - for BIOGRAPHY (ANCIENT FACES)] This information should help you find your relatives.
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1910

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June 7, 1910

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Clunes, Hepburn Shire County, VIC 3370, Australia

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1968

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January 10, 1968

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Caulfield, City of Glen Eira County, VIC 3162, Australia
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Gordon John Lewis Balfour lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 57.

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In 1910, in the year that Gordon John Lewis Balfour was born, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. U.S. publisher W.D. Boyce was visiting England when he became lost in the London fog. An unknown Boy Scout helped him find his way out, declining a tip (he said that he was a Boy Scout and was doing his good deed for the day). Boyce was so impressed that he incorporated the Boy Scouts of America when he returned home. Its purpose was "to teach boys patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred values."

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In 1937, at the age of 27 years old, Gordon was alive when on May 28th, the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge opened to cars. Taking 5 years to build, the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge was an engineering marvel of its time - 11 men died during construction. The "international orange" color was chosen because it resisted rust and fading. To the present, it is the symbol of the City that is known throughout the world.

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Gordon Balfour's Family Tree & Friends

Gordon Balfour's Family Tree

Laura Louise (Williams) Balfour May 6, 1875 - Aug 8, 1913

William Johnston Balfour Mar 18, 1866 - May 23, 1953

Laura Louisa Balfour Aug 3, 1913 - Apr 8, 2015

Gordon John Lewis Balfour Jun 7, 1910 - Jan 10, 1968

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William Evan Balfour May 7, 1906 - Mar 8, 1962

Marriage

Elsie Lillian (Walker) Balfour