I was born at Royal North Shore Hospital at North Sydney. According to my mother, there were koalas in the gumtrees within the hospital grounds.
Members of my father’s side of the family have resided in the Manly area for many decades – after one of my ancestors was originally transported from England for ‘borrowing’ a shirt to wear to work. That was young Jonathon, who was very well educated and worked as a clerk in London, doing bookkeeping and correspondence for a large company I remember . when I was only seven or eight years of age, at school, I did a Christmas
