Herbert Christian WILDER [12866]

   Cause of his death was heart failure.

  General Notes:

Herbert was a fencing contractor and teamster of Julia Creek Qld.

I (Albert N Wilder) was born on the 24th of July 1925 in Charters Towers. The reason for that was the family was living in Julia Creek but when one of us was to be born Mum always went to the Towers. Mum and Dad met there. I think they came to Julia Creek around 1912 or 14 and more or less used it as a base. Dad was a teamster, drover, fencing contractor. Mum used to go with him until there were too many kids. After 1922, when Herbie and Biddy started school, she stayed in town.
Dad would work at anything. When the council couldn't get a dunny carter he took that on for a while. He didn't have much schooling behind him and couldn't read or write, but he was learning. Towards the end he could write his own name.
He was Common Ranger when he died. I tell you what happened to him. He was on Mick Byrne's property, Wallacooloobie, wool pressing. There's a lever with a pawl on it that drives a ratchet mechanism. You push on the lever and the pawl presses the wool down. He had it just about down and the pawl broke, the lever sprang back and hit him under the heart. Well he was quite sick for awhile there, and he decided that we were all going to his brother's place for a holiday, a milk farm out from the Towers. At the Cape River a fella was bogged - it was all sandy roads. Dad had no tow rope so he gets out and helps push. He was a big powerful bloke. When we got to his brother's place he felt tired and went to have a lie down. They got tea ready and then Mum tried to wake him. He was dead. His heart was strained too much by pushing the car, plus the damage from the accident on Wallacooloobie. He's buried at Charters Towers. I was three 1828, yeah.
Mum was left with all us kids, Herbie, Biddy, Hilda, Clivey, myself and Donny - six kids. And then Pat, seven kids. She married Mick Skinner soon after Dad died. Mick was a navvy. He'd work at anything, anything at all, a bit like Dad. He started a little fruit shop in Julia Creek and did all right in that. They called him Mick but his name was Percy. He was a good bloke, too - treated us really well. It couldn't have been too long before he married Mum because Donny was a baby in arms. Eventually they had Pat, there only child. He's a half brother, Pat. He's a Skinner and we're all Wilder's.
Albert Norman Wilder

  Research Notes:

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  Other Records

1. Herbert Christian Wilder: Pictures across time: Queensland.
Herbert & Emily, Frank Gerahty, George Hornung standing, Herbert C Wilder & Herbert Julius Wilder (baby), Ned Kelly Wilder and his truck, the Wilder home Goldring St Julia Creek, Herbert Christian Wilder.

Herbert married Emily Jane GERAHTY [12864] [MRIN: 4328], daughter of Digby Augustus Edward GERAHTY [1397] and Mary Isabella TREEVE [12854], on 11 Mar 1913 in Queensland Aust. (Emily Jane GERAHTY [12864] was born on 8 May 1892 in Normanton QLD. and died on 14 Nov 1985 in Charters Towers QLD.)