Father:     Eric Oxenham Goodman           Mother:    Muriel Wiggins

Born:     */4/1941

Place:    Sydney, Australia.

Married1:  Shirley Teoh† (b1949 Taiping).  Died Oct 2004

Married2:  Tiexia Li

Qualified:   Librarianship, Teacher of oriental languages.

Speaks: Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese (sings: Ue o Muite Arukoo), Russian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian (sings: Bengawan Solo), Neapolitan, Italian (sings: O Sole Mio).

Children by Shirley:   Joanna,  Peter;

Children by Tiexia:  Tracey

Family life: John’s Slideshow   (starts new tab)

                       Returned from China to Australia 4/12/2019.

At Gold Coast 1982

Two Oxenhams and an Adolphus 1959

Made his own Japanese Shogi Chess Set.

Sydney 2020

John & Tiexia wedding

6/1/2010

John is a prolific writer. See John Oxenham’s Books

Have you seen:     Goodman’s Pre-War Slideshow

He made Chinese Three Kingdom Chess - a version of traditional Xiang Qi.

† Shirley died after 12 years of nasal pharyngeal cancer: radiotherapy course twice then chemotherapy.

Aged 5

Burketown State School 1946