Janie Sunflower at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1920
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Kerry Charlton May 24, 2018 9:38 pmI think this photo of Mary Jane Sunflower nee Moreton, well known as Janie, was from the 1935 newspaper article re Welcome for footballers. It was cut out to use for a postcard or similar. Janie was a younger sister of Charlie Moreton who was voted 1st honorary mayor in 1928 & sworn in by then Brisbane Mayor William Jolly. Janie's niece was Sarah Davidson nee Moreton, a sister of my grandfather Alf Moreton who used to visit Cherbourg with family from Stradbroke Island for many years. My old Uncles and Aunts often recalled how they had to go to the Dept of Native Affairs and the long wait for permissions to be given for them to travel up there to visit the relatives and stay on the Mission with them from the Myora Mission and later One Mile on Straddy.