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Escape to Paradise
The story of Frank Cunningham Jaunay 2
The Krugs had again been in the right place at the right time. The period from the 1870s had seen the industry take a new turn with fewer larger houses cornering the market. The brand names and patents held by L Jaunay & Co were sold to Krug et Cie with Frank and Jules to receive �100 per year for the rest of their lives. Louis Brunet's portrait of his mother, Ann, along with most of the Jaunay furniture and larger possessions were left with the Krug or Jacquesson families.
PHOTO:The Jaunay family in their Reims Garden 1888. L-R: Frank, Mary, Yvonne, Gertrude, Irene and an unknown woman.
In the meantime, Frank and Mary had had six children, Annie Mary Irene, Gertrude Ellen, Louisa Dorothy Yvonne, Louis Frank, Robert John Cunningham and Gladys Hilda Puttick. Louis died at Reims but all the other children accompanied their parents on the voyage to Melbourne Victoria in 1894. The family departed London on the Orient steamer Ormuz on 9 March 1894 after seeing their English cousins for the last time.
On arrival in Melbourne in April 1894 Frank sought employment as a champagne blender with Great Western near Stawell in Victoria. This position lasted the very short time of three months only because the company was not prepared to adopt the méthode champenoise which was considered too expensive and time consuming. Australia was not yet ready for such a sophisticated move!
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