Alan Francis Jeanneret (1899 - 1984)

Alan Francis Jeanneret and Sophia Mary Dickson

Alan Francis Jeanneret was born on 05 May 1899 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) Sophia Mary Dickson, daughter of Bassett Richard (4) Dickson and Janet Lucie Murray Macgregor on 03 Feb 1926 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia (St Lukes). She was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 

Alan Francis Jeanneret and Sophia Mary Dickson had the following children: 

1. Ruth Frances Jeanneret was born on 15 Mar 1929 in Tasmania, Australia. She died on 18 May 2010 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married (1) John Coulson in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. (2) She married John C. W. Thrower. He was born in England. He died in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 

2. Robin Alan Dickson Jeanneret was born on 09 May 1931 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 29 Mar 2011 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married an unknown spouse in Sep 1954 in Uckfield, Sussex, England. He married (1) Christine Reed. He married (2) Mabel Brown on 16 Jun 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 

3. Colin Bassett Jeanneret was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosemary Philp, daughter of Keith William Alexander Philp and Vallis Linda Johnstone on 07 May 1955 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia (St Aidans). She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Alan Francis Jeanneret married (2) Laura ‘Cecilie’ Marsh, daughter of Charles Henry Vautin Marsh and Laura Mary White on 02 Jun 1978. She was born on 17 Oct 1897 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 16 Mar 1996 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. 

Alan was educated at Woolwich Public School and Fort Street High School, Sydney. He served in the First World War with 21st General Service Reinforcements, 1st AIF. He then graduated fom Sydney Technical College as a Farmer & Qualified Wool Classer.

Alan made an application for a grant of land under the ‘The Soldier Land Settlement Scheme’ on 2 August 1919, he was provided with house plans by the Department of Public Works in December 1919 and advised he had been successful with his application in May 1920. He was living at ‘Glen Ayr’ at the time. 

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In 1939 he enlisted to Australian Instructional Corps and served during a period of the Second World War with AIC 40th Battallion & RAASC. In 1952 he was discharged at rank of Captain - Medically unfit. In 1947 Alan and Sophie were granted 548 acres of land seven miles north of St. Helens. (see photo below for approximate boundary) Alan applied to the Nomenclature Board to name the small beach north of Binalong Bay after his great grandfather Dr Henry Jeanneret in recognition of his time spent with the aborigines on Flinders Island.