On Oct 30, 9:31 am, "Kerry Raymond" <kraym...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > I guess "living with "family" *might* imply his parents or siblings rather > than a wife and children. > > Kerry Kerry, you are indeed correct, I assumed this meant he was married and had children as one of the newspaper items it gave his age at the time of the rescue as 47 years old. In the Victoria 1899 Referendum Index, it had him indexed as John Reardon Senior, sterotyper, then living in Stewart Street, Richmond. That is as far as I can go, there were a lot of John Reardon's in the Melbourne at the time and most of them had sons named John. Shirlee Wellington NZ