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John Jerome Blight (1917 - 1999)

John Jerome Blight
Born in St Kilda, Victoria, Australiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Brother of and [private brother (1920s - 2010s)]
Husband of — married 1948 in Victoria, Australiamap
Husband of [private wife (1920s - unknown)]
Father of [private daughter (1950s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1950s - unknown)]
Died at age 82 in Australiamap
Profile last modified | Created 3 Jan 2015
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Biography

John was born in 1917. John is the child of Henry Blight and Jessie Honeyman.


The marriage was celebrated at the Melbourne Grammar School Chapel on Wednesday last, of Connie Stratford, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tuck, of Benalla, and John Jerome, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Blight, of Toorak.

John Jerome Blight was born in 1917 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, the son of Jessie Muriel Blight and Henry John Blight.[1]

He died in 1999.[2]

Sources

  1. Birth record: 32542 / 1917. BDM Victoria. https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history.
    (Name: Jno Jerrome BLIGHT); (Place: ST KILDA, VIC); (Mother: Jessie Muriel HONEYMAN); (Father: Henry Jno)
  2. Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/249227163/john-jerrome-blight: accessed 23 June 2023), memorial page for John Jerrome Blight (25 Sep 1917–25 Dec 1999), Find A Grave: Memorial #249227163, citing Griffith Cemetery, Griffith, Griffith City, New South Wales, Australia; Maintained by MMTOT (contributor 50516602).
  • Victorian Great War Index 1914-1920
  • Military: "Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945," database, Ancestry Record 61172 #1587051 (accessed 23 June 2023), Name John Jeroine Blight, Birth Date 25 Sep 1917, Birth Place Ripponlea, Victoria, Year Range 1939-1948, Enlistment Place Griffith, Service Number N5459, Next of Kin J Blight, Series Description B884: Army Citizen Military Forces; citing National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, Series B884.




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Blight-375 and Blight-143 appear to represent the same person because: Hi, clearly a match - Fred Blight, John's brother was my uncle - Pam (nee Bassett-Smith), Fred's wife is my dad's sister and is still alive in Tocumwal

Regards Andrew Bassett-Smith

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