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 Note: Percy was educated at Balhannah and Mt. Barker and following the death of his mother in 1889 when he was aged 10, he lived at "New Westbrook" with his grandmother Ellen until 1896. He went to Adelaide that year to board with his Aunt Marion Lakeman at Alfred Street, Parkside for 12 months while he had further education and obtained employment. Like many of the Wilsons he had considerable artistic ability, his cousin Violet as a very small girl believed he could draw "anything" as he sketched a ship for her. When his father left farming at "Westbrook" in 1902, when Ellen's long ownership was ended and the farms were sold, Percy joined his father at Newton, or more often spoken of as Campbelltown. After his marriage he lived at Glynde Road, Firle.
In 1947 he visited Violet at Clarence Park to collect an oil painting of his sister Louisa who had died in 1922 in Victoria which was the work of Diana (Dan) Paterson of Wistow, S.A.. It had been owned by Maude Wilson, aunt of both Percy and Violet, who had inherited the portrait. She felt it belonged to the Edward Wilson branch. Percy had the Wilson family Bible and loaned it to Violet so that she could copy the entries, including the birth dates of the 15 children of Ellen and Allen.
The "Advertiser" dated 17 Dec 1947 published:
"Mr. P.P. Wilson who recently retired as Town Clerk of Campbelltown after being associated with the Town Council for 25 years was presented with a leather armchair by the Mayor, Mr. M.J. Daly at Monday's meeting of the Council".
Percy was then aged 68 and he and Ruby went to live at Milang, the small town by Lake Alexandrina, near the mouth of the Murray River.
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