in Australia
Eatonswill then Lota
William Duckett White bought land at Lota, now a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, at about the time that his daughter Helena married Graham Douglas Mylne. The "grand new house" at Lota (described as such in Graham's diary) was completed in about 1866, the year Graham Ernest Mylne was born. Graham Ernest lived at Lota with his White grandparents for a while after his father died in 1876, but he soon moved to Sydney with his mother. After serving for a number of years in the British Army, then working in various capacities in rural Australia and New Zealand, interrupted by three years fighting in the Boer War, Graham Ernest married Kathleen Nicolls in 1910. In 1913 they moved to Queensland, bought Lota from a White cousin, and brought up their children in the house the children's great-grandfather had built. Lota remained in the Mylne family for 47 years. Graham Ernest died in 1958 and the house was sold in 1960.
By the early 1950s when this photograph was taken, the men of the Lota Mylne family – Graham Ernest, his two sons and their four sons (pictured at right) – were the only male descendants of James fourth of Mylnefield still to carry the Mylne name.
The closest relations of Graham Ernest's descendants are the descendants of William Ogilvie of Yulgilbar who married Graham's sister Ethel. Their next closest relations are the descendants of Charles Kinloch of Gourdie who married Agnes, sister of Thomas Mylne, fifth Mylne of Mylnefield. One of those descendants was Kathleen Nicolls, matriarch of the Lota Mylnes.
