Robert Julius Moxon (1861-1910) was the first of three brothers from Kent and India to migrate to Australia. He was born in Bangalore, India, the son of a British Army Officer. He was educated in England, as were his brothers and migrated to Australia aboard the SS John Duthie in 1883. He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1886, priest in 1889 and was married to Hilda Brunskill Moran in 1888.
They had seven children - Hilda D (1889), Robert W.G (1891), Thomas D.B. (1893), Marjorie May (1897), Clifford J.M. (1900), Violet F.E. (1903) and Patricia E. (1908).
He worked in the Parishes of the Lower Clarence, Tenterfield and Inverell (all in NSW) before being created an Archdeacon in Grafton. He died at the age of 48 in 1910.
Sadly, his daughter Hilda's husband Archibald Tindal was killed at the Battle of the Somme in World War 1, and their son was the first person killed by the Japanese in Darwin in World War 11. Tindal RAAF base is named after the latter.
His son Thomas D.B., known as Doug, had one son T.W.G., known as Glen. Glen Moxon, born in 1922 passed away in 2010 in Byron Bay (northern NSW). His son Geoff Moxon wrote a long obituary which was published in the Moxon Magazine in April 2011.
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