Biographical Notes |
Note: Agnes Balk had a twin Christine. She first married a Mr. Taylor who died. She was matron at a maternity hospital where James' daughter Maggie worked. She married James in 1915 when she was 49 and he was 69. James and Agnes had a last house at Torrens Park, above Mitcham, near Scot's College, a substantial dwelling with a good deal of land about it where Agnes kept a great many hens and collected things in large quantities, and presented visitors with such items as bird cages, picture frames and other non useful items. Agnes died a year after James' death and left the Gibson treasures and James' money to her nieces and nephews.
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