my recent work and Jan Cameron/Don Talbot
Graham Pearce
In the past little while, I've created or expanded five articles relating to
Australian Paralympians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Davies_(athlete)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hooper_(Paralympian)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dufty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Dowling
While working on Pauline English's article, I noticed that the page about
her coach, Jan Cameron (n�e Murphy, formerly Talbot) didn't mention her
coaching career. I'm working on fixing that, but a stumbling block is trying
to figure out precisely when her and Don Talbot were married, or indeed
anything about Don's personal life (which isn't even mentioned in Don
Talbot's article at the moment ... and now I know why!). Jan Cameron says in
this article that she and Don were married for seventeen years:
http://allproof.co.nz/jancameron/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Queen-of-the-Talent-Pool.pdf
But that makes no sense because he was still married to Shirley in 1973:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19730807&id=1kZGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-OcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1652,1478607
They were divorced around 1988/89 per the above Women's Weekly article plus
this one:
http://allproof.co.nz/jancameron/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rosebank-College-Article.pdf
Can anybody shed some light on these details, so I can write an internally
consistent article? Just trying to find any info about Don's wives was like
pulling teeth ... I know that he was married to Shirley before he married
Jan, but was there another one after that? I take it that Don doesn't
discuss his personal life much, which should be respected, of course, but to
me this is basic biographical information. Does it appear somewhere in his
2003 book Nothing but the Best? Or in "Who's Who of Australia" (which costs
over 500 dollars for a yearly online subscription, which is a great shame)?
Or would any of the NSIC resources be helpful here?
Regards, Graham