Noted your reference to the children of John Close Bleakley and Carolyn Mason. My grandfather was one of their sons: Charles Abraham Bleakley. I notice that you don't mention my grandfather's older brother John William. This is a link to an entry about him in the ANU Australian Dictionary of Biography:
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070331b.htm?hilite=B...