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Yay! 1926 Census link

William is 34, a Motor Car Proprietor.

Wife Ellen also 34.

Children:
John
Johanna (Mary Ann)
Mary Anne
Margaret
Elinor Josephine
Mannix
Madeline Patricia
Kathleen Bridget

Finally, a photo with people smiling.

Niall McAuley We'd love to know Ellen's maiden name... (when you have a moment :)

Of Kelly's Kar Kompany?

Jonathan Raymond Wright and Elizabeth Jane Daley are my great grandparents.

Brief history Tobacco growing commenced during Australia's early years of settlement. Governor Macquarie experimented with plantings at Emu Plains in New South Wales in 1818, and by the 1820s tobacco was cultivated by farmers in the Hunter Valley. During the 1850s growing extended to Victoria and Queensland. It is likely that some proportion of the early crop was intended to supply the colony with the makings of pesticide for use in ridding sheep of parasites.9 Growing reached its peak in the early 1970s, when nearly 16 000 tonnes of leaf were sold annually,10 but by 2006 the crop yielded under 4000 tonnes.11 Prior to deregulation of the market, most Australian leaf was purchased by local manufacturers.12 Major influences contributing to the downturn in local tobacco growing included declining tobacco consumption in the Australian population, and successive reductions in the protective tariff on Australian leaf during the 1990s, which permitted manufacturers to purchase leaf more cheaply on the international market (see below).12 This led to an increase in diversion of Australian leaf into the illegal tobacco trade12 (see also Chapter 13, Section 13.7). Commercial tobacco farming no longer occurs in Australia. The industry began to wind down during the mid-1990s, with successive announcements at state and federal level for government-financed restructuring grants (exit grants) to tobacco farmers to assist them in leaving the industry. Source: www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-10-tobacco-industry...

The house name is on the right hand side of the front door. This house is also located next to a two story Queenslander on the left. Both the subject house and house to the right have brick chimneys.

And on the right it seems like it is a near replica