Obituaries Australia

John Fleming, n.d.

from Pastoral Review, 16 May 1916

The late Mr. John King Fleming, who died at his residence, Kelvinside, Aberdeen, New South Wales, at the end of last month, was a son of the late John Park Fleming, senior partner of the old-established legal firm of Montgomerie & Fleming, of Glasgow.

Mr. J. K. Fleming was born in that town in 1837, and came out to Victoria in 1858, getting his first colonial experience on Warracknabeal Station. In 1866 he married Helen, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hastie, of Bunninyong, Victoria, and bought in turn Antwerp and Mt. Pleasant, two properties in the Wimmera, where he lost heavily through drought. In 1882 he settled near Walgett, in New South Wales; here he prospered, and for many years, until his death, had owned Ulah, in that district, together with a property on the Culgoa, in Queensland, known as Kinglebilla, and Kelvinside and Russley at Aberdeen, on the Hunter River, New South Wales.

His wife died three years ago, and six children were born of the marriage, all of whom are living. They are:—Mrs. H. C. Lewis, of Eurool, Collarenebri; J. J. Fleming, of Doreen, Wee Waa; T. H. Fleming, of Russley, Aberdeen; Mrs. L. Leake, Mt. Brandon, Collarenebri, N.S.W., and Bendee Downs, Queensland; W. M. Fleming, M.L.A.; and F. B. Fleming, of Holmleigh, Walcha. In his young days the late J. K. Fleming was a man of exceptional strength and remarkable activity, and in his mature years he was a solid man in every sense of the word.