Charles Francis William Warner JULIUS [726]

  General Notes:

Charles F Julius
Birth Date: 1910
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1910
Registration Place: Warialda, New South Wales, Australia
Father: Edward Julius
Mother: Mary L
Registration Number: 21200

Charles was educated at St Peters Adelaide, and Sydney. He was a Government Anthropologist in P.N.G. He is said to have died in rather odd circumstances. His letter below was in reply to a request from George Julius for information on the family,

Charles did not marry.

1933 Electoral Roll Milsons Point Nth Sydney: Charles was recorded as a student M of Claro, Upper Bayview St.
Ancestry

1936 Electoral Roll Milsons Point Nth Sydney: Charles was recorded as a student of 50 Kirribilli Ave
Ancestry

1937 Electoral Roll Milsons Point Nth Sydney: Charles was recorded as a student of 50 Kirribilli Ave
Ancestry

WWII Records
Charles Francis William Julius
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1910
Birth Place: Warialda New South Wales
Year Range: 1939 - 1948
Enlistment Place: Port Moresby Papua
Service Number: NX141423
Next of Kin: Edward Julius
Series Description: B883: Army, 2nd Al F

Charles, on the 28 Jun 1955, sailed from London to Papua on the Oranto. Ref: Findmypast.co.uk

Charles F W Julius
Birth Date: abt 1910
Departure Place: Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Arrival Date: 11 Dec 1957
Arrival Place: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Age on Arrival: 47
Charles F W Julius is recorded as a passenger on a flight from Bangkok to Sydney 11 Dec 1957, he is described as a Govt anthropologist address Wentworth Hotel Sydney or Dept of Territories Sydney. (Note the Wentworth was probably one of Sydney's best hotels at that time !)

Charles, on the 28 Nov 1958, sailed from London to Sydney on the Orsova. His address was recorded as 7 Rancliffe Hall 2 Chelsea Embankment SW3. Ref: Findmypast.co.uk

Charles Francis William Julius
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1910
Birth Place: Warialda New South Wales
Year Range: 1939 - 1948
Enlistment Place: Port Moresby Papua
Service Number: NX141423
Next of Kin: Edward Julius
Series Description: B883: Army, 2nd Al F
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  Research Notes:

Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow.
By Suzanne Falkiner - 2016
Mick Stow is an aclaimed Australian Writer - In 1959 he was seconded to the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, as assistant to Charles Julius, the government anthropologist where he subsequently became a cadet patrol officer.
This book contains many references to Charles Julius when they worked together.
https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=S_nJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT193&dq=Charles+Francis+William+Warner+Julius&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJnYbRmcTqAhXzwTgGHXJfBo8Q6AEwAHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Francis%20William%20Warner%20Julius&f=false

Some extracts:
In May Mick (Stow) was to accompany Charles Julius, the departmental anthropologist, to the Trobriand Islands, where they would investigate the disputed chieftainship of Omarakana. Julius would return after four or five months, and then Mick would stay on and work as a Cadet Patrol Officer at the Losuia sub-district for rest of his term. This was quite an opportunity, Mick wrote to his mother: now he could accomplish about half the work required for an anthropology degree . . . . .

. . . . . Charles Francis William Warner Julius - Mr Julius to Mick, had been unenthusiastic about acquiring an assistant, according to one of his contemporaries. Originally from Adelaide, he had studied under Elkin at the University of Sydney and arrived in the Territory in 1939 as an Education Officer in the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit, or ANGAU, before being appointed as an anthropologist in the Department of District Services in 1950.

A tall, thin, quiet, solitary man, at forty-nine and never married, Julius was known for his genteel and reserved manner. Described by an observer as handsome even foppish he had a fair complexion, meticulously groomed greying hair, well-shaped hands, and wore a tailored safari jacket and expensive shoes when not in the field.
For the past decade he had assisted the Territory's Administrator, Brigadier Donald Cleland, in collecting ethnographic objects, storing them in unused sheds in the Government House grounds until, in 1959, a museum was established and he became its first curator. Over the years he had developed a particular interest in magic and sorcery: part of his job in the Department was to assess and 'troubleshoot' local incidents of 'cargo', which also involved these elements.

In February 1959 Cleland and his wife Rachel had made a two-day official visit to Losuia on Kiriwina Island, headquarters of the Trobriands sub-district, where Brigadier Cleland had interested himself in the chieftainship system. The authority of the Trobriand chiefs appeared to be waning as various factors underpinning their prestige polygamy, and a belief in their power of magic and beneficent sorcery declined with the encroachment of European ideas. If the breakdown of order continued, it was believed, lawlessness might result. The present Paramount Chief, Mitakata, was elderly, and there were questions as to who might succeed him.

Back in Port Moresby, Cleland had suggested to Alan Roberts that Charles Julius should investigate the issue, and he had Charles Julius sent there, and I of course went with him. . . . .
. . . . . Charles Julius had first visited the Trobriands in 1947 with a nutrition survey party, a large, ponderously equipped group that was flown in in several plane-loads from Lae and included a doctor, seven scientists and a cinematographer as well as himself. At that date it had seemed to Julius that the Trobrianders were inured to anthropologists. and happily guided their visitors to all the most interesting events: one almost had the impression they had read all Malinowsld's books and were engaged in dramatic performances of them, he noted.
No doubt, in April 1959, Julius had been looking forward to revisiting the islands unostentatiously and alone, and making his observations discreetly, rather than being burdened with a raw new CPO who might blunder about. However, Mr Julius was stuck with Stow.. . . . Perhaps to test his enthusiasm, Julius presented Mick with the complete works of Malinowski to reread.

I get on fine with Mr J we seem to spend a lot of time just talking which is pleasant and instructed. Only hope we don't start getting on one another's nerves at Omarakana. He's a funny bloke, very shy, and has stacks of money according to Murray Groves, his father was Sir somebody Julius who invented the Tote hence the money I suppose . . . . .
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  Other Records

1. Charles Francis W W Julius: Letter to Sir George Julius re family, 19 Jul 1935.
Kings Lynn
Kirribilli Ave
Sydney
19 July 1935

Sir George Julius
Sydney
Dear Sir
As I said I would I have written to my aunt and asked her if she could give me any information about my grandfathers family in St Kitts. She was very interested to hear of the records you have been able to trace, and thinks that, considering the size of St Kitts and the uncommon name, the two families must certainly be connected. Unfortunately she is in Melbourne at present (and will be there for some time) so that, though she has a number of old letters and so on at home, the only information she can give me is from memory.
My grandfathers name (as you probably already know) was William Warner Julius, his father was Edward Julius of St Kitts and his mother was Margaret Warner of (I think) Trinidad. My grandfather left St Kitts and went to sea while still in his teens - his mother having died and his father having married again. He never returned to the Island, but while still a very young man he came to Australia as a ships purser. He remained here at first growing sugar at Sunnyside near Brisbane but later in partnership with John Robb of Melbourne he built the sugar cane mill which is still standing at Cudgen, on the Tweed River - but all this is not much help.
My Aunt also mentioned Charles Fox Julius as a relative of whom her father had often spoken and whose name he gave to one of his sons. Another relative was a Church of England clergyman in St Kitts. She does not remember his name but thinks he was an uncle or great uncle of he fathers. The only other point was that she remembered her fathers brother Edward visiting Sydney when she was a small child.
This is not much, and may not be useful at all, but perhaps I shall be able to let you have a few more facts later.
Yours faithfully
Charles