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Andrew LOW
Born 29 May 1875 in Auchterhouse, Forfar, Scotland [28]
Son of Findlay LOW and Jane STEADMAN [28]
His father worked as a Farm Servant and Ploughman [20] [28]
He was living with his parents and siblings John, David and Isabella at Knowehead in Glenisla, Forfar, Scotland in 1881 [20]
In 1901 he was a Gardener and living with his parents and brother Alexander on Keirton Farm in Inverarity, Forfar, Scotland [20]
He later worked as a Lorryman and lived in Thorn Street in Motherwell, Lanark, Scotland [28]
Married Isabella MCRITCHIE on 16 August 1911 in Motherwell, Lanark, Scotland [28]
Witnesses to their marriage were John RUSSELL and May LOW [28]
Departed London, England with his wife and daughter on the Australind for Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 February 1914 [203]
Later in 1914, when his wife gave birth to their son, they were living at Culham in the Newcastle-Toodyay district [84]
Teamster in Carnamah in 1916 [19]
Contractor in Carnamah in partnership with his brother David S. LOW 1917-1919 [6]
Farmhand in Carnamah in 1919 [50]
Farm Manager in Carnamah in 1920, and resided in Carnamah until 1921 [6] [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of North Fremantle [2]
Father of Margaret McRitchie and Findlay [84]
Died 15 March 1935; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Presbyterian, EE, 702) [2]


David Steadman LOW
Born 2 January 1878 in Lintrathen, Forfar, Scotland [28]
Son of Findlay LOW and Jane STEADMAN [28]
His father worked as a Farm Servant and Ploughman [20] [28]
He was living with his parents and siblings John, Andrew and Isabella at Knowehead in Glenisla, Forfar, Scotland in 1901 [20]
In 1907 he was working as a Police Constable and living at 7 Ferrier Street in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland [28]
Married Elizabeth Ramsay LUMSDEN on 28 June 1907 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland [28]
Witnesses to their marriage were his brother Allan LOW and Agnes C. LUMSDEN [28]
Departed London, England on the Osterley and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 November 1911 [70]
His wife and three children left England in 1913 on the Ajana and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 1 February 1913 [70]
In 1914 he was living with his wife and children at Culham in the Newcastle-Toodyay district [34] [84]
Worked away from home as a Contract Clearer on H. Randolph CHRISTIE's Felton Mains Farm in Carnamah during 1914 [34]
By 1915 his wife and presumably children had joined him in Carnamah, and by 1916 his brother Andrew was also in Carnamah [19] [50]
Farmhand and Contractor in Carnamah 1915-1921 [6] [19] [50]
From 1917 to 1919 he worked as a Contractor in Carnamah in partnership with his brother Andrew LOW [6]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of East Fremantle [2]
Father of Elizabeth, Findlay, Jane and David [70] [84]
Died 27 September 1959; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Presbyterian, EE, 417) [2]


Mrs Elizabeth Ramsay LOW
Wife of David Steadman LOW; see Elizabeth Ramsay LUMSDEN


George Henry LOW
Born 5 March 1925 in Carlisle, Western Australia [16]
Resided in Geraldton prior to being transferred to Carnamah around November 1941 [0: image 04031]
Employee of the Vacuum Oil Company depot in Carnamah from November 1941 to March 1943 [0: images 02973, 04031 & 04214]
For a time also worked doing the night shift from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. at the Carnamah Telephone Exchange [P167]
Would sleep on a folder bed at the Carnamah Post Office and was woken by a buzzer if there was a phone call to connect [P4]
Member of the Carnamah Tennis Club in 1941 [0: image 04039]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1941 [0: image 04060]
Left Carnamah on 16 March 1943 to spend a short holiday with his parents in Geraldton [0: image 04214]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 27 March 1942 [16]
Leading Aircraftman 83066 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 79 Operational Base Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 6 March 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bedford [2]
Died 1 April 1975; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (EC Section, Ground Niche, A, 8) [2]


Mrs Isabella LOW
Wife of Andrew LOW; see Isabella MCRITCHIE


Lizzie Winifred LOWDNES
Born 1902 in Fremantle, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of William Henry LOWDNES and Margaret HYDE [15]
Married Barton William Henry LLOYD in Perth in 1925 [66]
Resided in Carnamah with her husband and son Russell in the mid 1940s [0: image 04395]
Played the piano at the Welcome Home Ball held at the Carnamah Town Hall on Saturday 15 December 1945 [7: page 48]
Along with her husband and son left Carnamah in September 1946 and shifted to Derby [0: image 04395]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Mother of Russell [84]
Died 5 August 1990; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, HC, 559) [2]


Mrs Ellen Jane LOWE
Resided in Winchester in 1909 and 1910 [19]
Surname also spelt LOW [50]


George Allen LOWE
Fettler in Winchester in 1909 and 1910 [19]
Surname also spelt LOW [50]


W. LOWE
Resided in Carnamah in 1918 [10: 4-Oct-1918]
Led the Carnamah team which lost to Three Springs at Tug of War at the Three Springs Day held on 26 September 1918 [10: 4-Oct-1918]


Miss LUCAS
Attended the Plain and Fancy Dress Ball held at the Carnamah Town Hall on Thursday 8 August 1929 [4: 17-Aug-1929]
Attended the Grand Ball following the Carnamah Show and opening of Centenary Park on 19 September 1929 [4: 28-Sep-1929]
Attended the Anglican Church's Freak Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 3 October 1929 in a flame satin and coffee lace dress [4: 12-Oct-1929]


Brett Edward LUCAS
Born 18 February 1974 [91]
Son of John Edward LUCAS and "Liz" Elizabeth Anne DRISCOLL [91]
Resided with his parents in Carnamah 1974-1986 [19]
Baptised by Father P. KIRWAN on 5 May 1974 at Saint Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in Carnamah [91]
At his baptism Mrs Josephine M. GRIFFITH of Carnamah was appointed his Godmother [91]
Received his primary education at the Carnamah District High School [64]
Shifted with his parents from Carnamah to Geraldton in the 1980s [64]
Received his secondary education at St Pats in Geraldton [64]
Attended the Geraldton Regional College of TAFE and later worked in Geraldton as a crayfishing deckhand [64]
Resident of Broome at the time of his death in 1996 [64]
Died 25 April 1996; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA [26]


Mrs Florence Isabella Matilda LUCAS
Wife of Frank LUCAS; see Florence Isabella Matilda PEARSALL


Frank LUCAS
Born 1887 in Nine Mile Creek, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of George John LUCAS and Elizabeth GILSON [15]
Arrived in Western Australia in 1904 and after initially farming in the South West prospected on the goldfields [7: page 66]
Married Florence Isabella Matilda PEARSALL in Perth in 1915 [66]
In early 1915 was working as a Commercial Traveller and was living at 33 Salisbury Street in the Perth suburb of Leederville [18]
Enlisted in the Australia Imperial Force on 14 February 1915 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [30: item 8206877]
     On enlistment was described as being 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 163 lbs. with bluish eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion [30]
     Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A48 Seang Bee on 18 July 1916 [18]
     Disembarked from the Seang Bee in Plymouth, England on 9 September 1916 and after further training proceeded to France [30]
     Private 5646 in the Australian Imperial Force's 1st Machine Gun Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
     Embarked from Devonport, England on the Souden on 12 May 1919 and disembarked in Australia on 21 June 1919 [30]
     Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 21 August 1919; awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
In 1923, as a Soldier Settler, obtained the 1,051 acre Lot 2 of the Inering Estate in Carnamah [7: page 66]
It took him three weeks to travel from Perth to Carnamah as he had to go via Walebing to avoid the sandplain near Watheroo [7: page 67]
Farmer of Floradale Farm in Carnamah 1923-1934 and 1939- [7: page 67] [60]
     His first home was two rooms made out of bush timber, corrugated iron and whitewashed superphosphate bags [7: page 67]
     They also had another one roomed building nearby where they bathed in a tub and prepared their meals [7: page 67]
     As the years passed additional rooms were added to the house before construction on a new home began [7: page 67]
     Had the telephone connected in 1924 - was telephone number Inering-3 from 1924 until 1940 [60]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son in the 1920s and 1940s [53]
Member of the Inering Progress Association 1925-1932 - was Chairman in 1925 and President in 1927 [4: 9-Jul-1932] [81: 24-Jul-1927] [276]
He was part of deputation that went before the Hon. Alexander McCALLUM, Minister for Works, on 12 December 1925 [276]
     At the deputation he requested that a school be established on the Inering Estate, and failing that a bus be run to Carnamah [276]
In 1927 was described in The Sunday Times newspaper as "the strongman of the district" in relation to the Inering Estate [81: 24-Jul-1927]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1927 [9: 5-Aug-1927]
Committee Member of the Carnamah Race Club in 1928 [4: 31-Mar-1928]
Inaugural Committee Member of the Carnamah Ratepayers & Citizens Association in 1928 [4: 27-Oct-1928]
Entered exhibits in the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Show on Thursday 19 September 1929 [4: 28-Sep-1929]
     Won 1st prize for Three Merino Ewes under Six Months, and won 2nd for a Bag of Wheaten Chaff [4]
     Also won 2nd prizes for Lettuce in the vegetable section and for Male and Female heavy breeds in the Poultry section [4]
Founding Member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 21 March 1930 [96]
Won 1st prizes for both male and female Black Orpingtons in the Poultry section of the Carnamah Show in 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Committee Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1931-1934 [4: 8-Nov-1930] [5: 17-Nov-1933] [13]
Member of the Inering Tennis Club in 1932 [5: 29-Jul-1932, 26-Aug-1932]
Won 1st prize for Three Merino Lambs at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 15 September 1932 [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1932, 1938 and 1941-1958 [13]
On 9 February 1933 attended the meeting in Carnamah at which Federal Member A. E. GREEN, M.H.R. was entertained [5: 17-Feb-1933]
The local newspaper revealed on 25 August 1933 that there was a parcel for him at the Carnamah railway station [5: 25-Aug-1933]
Steward of the Poultry section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1933 and 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934] [13]
Exhibited in the Poultry, Vegetable and Grain & Fodder section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 14 September 1933 [5]
     In Poultry won 1st prizes for male, female, cockerel and pullet Black Orpingtons; also won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Radish [5]
     Received 2nd prizes for Lettuce, White Turnips and Australian Premier Strong Wheat [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Judged the Poultry section at the Fifth Annual Three Springs Agricultural Show on Thursday 21 September 1933 [5: 29-Sep-1933]
In October 1933 sold four bales of wool through Dalgety & Co at 14d. per pound [5: 13-Oct-1933]
He was among those from Carnamah who attended the R.S.L. Reunion Dinner held in Morawa on 28 October 1933 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
On Tuesday 7 November 1933 he was the first to deliver a load of wheat to the Carnamah siding for the 1933 harvest [5: 10-Nov-1933]
Judge of the Poultry section at the Three Springs Agricultural Society's Seventh Annual Show held on 13 September 1934 [5: 21-Sep-1934]
Following the revival of mining at Rothsay himself in partnership with SHARP Bros opened Rothsay's first general store [5: 15-Feb-1935]
     His partners SHARP Bros were well-known travelling wool and skin dealers [5] (one of whom was Alex SHARP of Perth) [P191]
     Their store ran under the name of The Rothsay Trading and Agency Company and opened for business in February 1935 [5]
     The store was initially managed by Jack MURRAY, who had previously managed the Carnamah Cash Supply Store [5]
     He himself resided in Rothsay and ran the shop 1935-1938, however returned to his farm in Carnamah most weekends [P191]
     Their store sold general supplies, petrol from a bowser [P191] and everything from a needle to a wireless set [5: 15-Feb-1935]
     The store at Rothsay also became the Post Office and he delivered mail between Rothsay and Perenjori once a week [P191]
     In August 1935 his son Roy left school and from then until May 1938 assisted him in the shop at Rothsay [P191]     
     In his absence the farm in Carnamah was run by his son Frank, wife Florence and daughter Olive [P191]
     Around May 1938 he sold the shop in Rothsay and returned to his farm in Carnamah [P191]
Sold 23 ewes at 8/6, 51 lambs at 7/9 and 1 lamb at 8/7 per head through Dalgety Co & Ltd on 13 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Through Dalgety & Co Ltd sold ten bales of wool at 16¾d. per pound at a Wool Sale in Perth on 16 December 1935 [5: 20-Dec-1935]
Signed a guarantee on 8 December 1935 that two of his children would regularly attend the Inering State School [276]
     As a result of his guarantee and that of six other families the closed Inering State School was re-opened on 3 February 1936 [276]
Attended the Wedding Social & Dance for Stuart and May FORD at Koolabba Farm in Carnamah on 25 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Gave the Carnamah District Road Board permission to truncate the south west and north west corners of his farm in 1936 [5: 24-Dec-1936]
In 1939 purchased six Stud Merino rams from Geraldton - one for 9½ guineas, two for 10 guineas and three for 7 guineas [0: image 03877]
Foundation Committee Member of the Carnamah District War and Patriotic Fund in 1940 and 1941 [0: images 03074, 04014]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Red Cross Society [141]
In 1941 his telephone number changed from Inering-3 to Carnamah-50D and in 1958 it changed to Carnamah-90R [60]
Over nine years extended his farm to 7,107 acres with the following purchases: [3]
     On 22 April 1941 purchased Lot 3 of the Inering Estate from Mrs Robina T. BALMER (851 acres) [3]
     During the 1948-49 financial year purchased Lot 10 of the Inering Estate from Percival L. MILLARD (898 acres) [3]
     In 1950 purchased Bedwell, Ludeman & McIntosh's 4,307 acres on the Inering Estate in Carnamah from Angus MCINTOSH [3]
     The 4,307 acres consisted of Lots 1, 11 and 12 of the Inering Estate in addition to Lot M978 of Victoria Location 2022 [3]
     Transferred some of his farmland into his sons' names; his sons also purchased another 4,038 acres of farmland in Carnamah [3]
     The 4,038 acres consisted of Lot 5 of the Inering Estate and Lots M1027, M1028, M1475 of Victoria Locations 1935 and 2022 [3]
     By 1954 himself and his four sons Frank, Roy, Stan and Les owned a collective total of 11,145 acres of farmland in Carnamah [3]
He had the dream of purchasing all of the Inering Estate for his sons [P73]; by 1961 himself and his sons had 7 out of its 16 lots [3]
     To his misfortune William W. J. PRICE, who owned Lot 8 of the Inering Estate, went out of his way to sell it to someone else [P73]
Jude of the Poultry Section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1941 and 1947 [13]
Served on the Carnamah District Road Board 1941-1952 and was its Chairman in 1949-50 [7: page 111]
Member of the Carnamah Bush Fire Brigade - was Control Officer and 2nd Lieutenant in 1944 [0: image 04590]
Member of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League - was Vice President 1944-1946 [52]
Judge of the Poultry section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Victory Show on Thursday 13 September 1945 [13]
Also judged the Poultry section at the Mingenew District Agricultural Society's 1946 Annual Show [261]
Vice Patron 1945-1952 and Patron 1953-1966 of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society [13] [58]
By 1949 he had been made a Justice of the Peace for the Victoria Magisterial District of Western Australia [22]
     As a Justice of the Peace presided as Magistrate at criminal and traffic cases that went before the Carnamah Police Court [22]
     Presided over his first case on 3 November 1949; between 1949 and 1958 presided and made rulings at 120 cases [22]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Coorow farmer Baxter Diedrich BOTHE on 23 February 1950 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Pallbearer at the funeral of fellow Carnamah-Perenjori Road farmer John BOWMAN on 28 July 1952 at the Winchester Cemetery [4]
Patron of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1956-57 [4: 14-Sep-1956]
Patron of the Carnamah Golf Club in 1957 and 1958 [4: 5-Apr-1957 & 21-Mar-1958]
He was made a Life Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society on 30 April 1959 [58]
Later resided in South Perth [2]
Father of Frank, Roy, Stan, Olive and Les [7: page 67]
Died 1 November 1970; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, E, 86) [2]


From The Western Mail newspaper, Thursday 9 January 1930:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah's Advancement
"The winner this season of the No. 1 zone 50-acre crop competition was Mr. F. Lucas, a soldier settler on the Inering Estate, who scored 72 out of the available 100 points. Mr. Lucas cropped 400 acres of wheat this season, 210 acres of which were on fallow and the balance on new land. Despite the diminished rainfall his average was 18 bushels, while the champion 50 acres of Nabawa yielded approximately 10 bags an acre. Mr. Lucas took up his block seven years ago and owns 1,052 acres, of which 950 acres are cleared. It is all good country, but 600 acres are outstanding. On one trefoil paddock of 400 acres he has carried 500 Koonoona blood sheep for 12 months. Mr. Lucas has eight Koonoona rams and intends to build up a small flock. At the Carnamah show last year he won the first prize for three merino ewe lambs. Mr. Lucas, who was an artificer in France during the war, is developing his property on sound lines, and takes a live interest in the district's progress."


Frank Charles Gilson LUCAS
Born 20 December 1916 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Frank LUCAS and Florence Isabella Matilda PEARSALL [P191]
Resided with his parents in Aberdeen Street, Perth and was baptised at the Charles Street Methodist Church on 9 November 1918 [84]
Arrived in Carnamah at the age of seven years with his mother and brothers in June 1923 [7: page 67]
Resided with his parents on Floradale Farm, Lot 2 of the Inering Estate in Carnamah [P200]
     His name was part of an application for a State School to be established on the Inering Estate in Carnamah in 1926 [276]
     Came 2nd in the 12-14 year Boys Running Race at the Inering Picnic on BATTY's Farm on Sunday 7 September 1930 [4: 20-Sep-1930]
     Won a 2nd prize for Boys Handwork in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
     Helped run his father's farm in Carnamah from 1934 to 1938 while his father was running a general store in Rothsay [P191]
     While his father was in Rothsay he worked at a general store in Carnamah and rode his bike back to the farm each weekend [P200]
     The Education Department paid him 10/- for cleaning out a 1,000 gallon tank at the Inering State School in September 1936 [276]
     Member of the Five Gums Tennis Club in 1937-38 and 1938-39 - was Vice Captain and a Committee Member in 1938-39 [89]
Lance Corporal of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the motorised 25th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment in 1939 [P15]
      The No. 2 Troop was a local militia unit made of people from the North Midlands and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 30 January 1940 [16]
     Spent leave in Carnamah in June 1941 before returning to camp at Darwin [0: image 04009]
     Corporal 7208 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 1 Personnel Depot during the Second World War [16]
     In December 1941 while stationed in Darwin received a Christmas present from the Carnamah Girls Club [0: image 04070]
     During the war married Clarice Jean CONINGSBY of Melbourne, Victoria Australia [7: page 67]
     Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 4 March 1946 [16]
Farmer in Carnamah 1946-1948 [19]
     Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
     Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 20 June 1947 [96] [153]
Farmer in Wagin 1948-1950 [79: 23-Aug-1973, page 19]
     He took up a War Service Land Settlement block in Wagin in 1948 but returned to Carnamah in 1950 [79]
Farmer in Carnamah 1950- [79: 23-Aug-1973, page 19]
     Upon his return to Carnamah he farmed in partnership with his father and brothers on the Inering Estate [79]
     By mid 1955 he had become the owner of 2,281 acres of his father's farmland - Lots 11 and 12 of the Inering Estate [3]
     Lot 12 of the Inering Estate bounded the Carnamah-Perenjori Road while adjoining Lot 11 bounds the Back Inering Road [62]
     By 1965 he had also taken up a 4,000 acres sandplain block in Victoria Location 10425 west of Carnamah [3] [79: 23-Aug-1973, page 19]
     Victoria Location 10425 bounds onto the east side of Wilton Well Road east of the Yarra Yarra Lakes [62]
Committee Member of Carnamah's branch of the Farmers Union in 1950 [4: 22-Apr-1950]
Had obtained the telephone by 1951 - was telephone number Carnamah-50G until 1957 and then Carnamah-90K [60]
Committee Member of the Five Gums Tennis Club in 1950-51 [89]
Served on the Carnamah District Road Board from 1952 to 1961 [7: page 112]
     Following the Board's change in name to the Carnamah Shire Council he remained as member from 1961 to 1985 [7: page 112]
     President of the Carnamah Shire Council from 1963 to 1985 [7: page 112]
     Served a total of 33 years - a feat that was outlined in an article in The Western Australian newspaper in April 1985 [39: 27-Apr-1985]
Financial Member  1952-1971 and Committee Member 1952-1969 of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society [13] [58]
Member of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1954 [7: page 193]
Member of the Carnamah Tennis Club - was President in 1955 [0: images 04778 & 04787]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club- was Vice President in 1957 [4: 5-Apr-1957]
Chief Shed Steward at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1953 [13]
Inaugural Secretary in 1956 and Committee Member in 1957 of the Carnamah Pasture Improvement Group [7: page 236] [4: 5-Apr-1957]
Worshipful Master of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC in 1958 [96] [153]
By 1962 had been made a Justice of the Peace for the Victoria Magisterial District of Western Australia [22]
     As a Justice of the Peace he presided as Magistrate at criminal and traffic cases that went before the Carnamah Police Court [22]
In 1973 he ran 2,500 sheep and cropped 1,600 acres of wheat, 100 acres of barley and 200 acres of lupins  [79: 23-Aug-1973, page 19]
In August 1979 he was made an Honorary Freeman of the Municipality of Carnamah [7: page 106]
Attended the "Day of Pioneers" luncheon at the Carnamah Shire Council Chambers on 13 October 1982 [7: page 251]
Announced Carnamah's Citizen of the Year on 14 March 1984 [7: page 108]
Addressed the gathering at the opening of the Carnamah Swimming Pool on 15 December 1984 [7: page 51]
Retired from the Carnamah Shire Council on 11 May 1985, after a service of 33 years on the Road Board / Shire Council [7: page 108]
After retiring from the farm resided in Carnamah town until shifting to Geraldton in 1989 [P200]
Father of Ann, John and Margaret [P200]
Died 12 July 2005 in Geraldton; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah [45]


Obituary on Frank Charles Gilson LUCAS, written by his son John:
"Sometimes known as Frank. "Fraaank" (by the bird, old cockie, whom he had a love hate relationship for over 50 years. The bird loved him, !!!). Also known as Dad, Grandad, Grumps or by many as just plain old "FCG." Frank was the first son of Frank and Florence Lucas. Frank senior enlisted and served in England as an Artificer in the Australian Artillery til the end of the First World War and did not see his son til he returned. Frank was the eldest of five children, being Roy, Stan, Olive and Les. The family always had great respect for each other and to the end; I can't recall Dad uttering a bad word or personally critical comment about his siblings. In reflection, I think this had a lot to do with his parents influence. After the war, the Lucas family took up a settlement farm east of Carnamah known as Floradale, part of the original Inering Estate. The farm was developed over the pursuing years as the family grew and cultured a community with many other war service settlers of the time. Frank's education, along with other family members, consisted of attending the local Inering School, of which he related many stories, also educated in the 'school of hard knocks' or learning by experience that many of his time endured. Life on the farm during the 20's and 30's was tough compared to today's standards, but was accepted as the norm. When the depression hit in the mid 30's, the family turned to shop keeping on the goldfields at Rothsay to support the farm. This business was mainly run by Frank senior and Roy but was very much part of the Lucas family history. The outbreak of the Second World War saw Frank, along with Stan, sign up with the RAAF. He was moved to Darwin as an Aircraft fitter where he gained many skills in basic mechanical engineering of which he excelled and put to good use later in his life in farming. Many experiences endured whilst in Darwin were later relayed to anyone willing to listen. I think Frank really enjoyed this time and adventure in his life. Just prior to the bombing of Darwin, he transferred to Melbourne and took up a position as an Instructor in Aircraft maintenance. This move proved to be a turning point in his life, as he then met a young lady by the name of Clarice Coningsby, whom he courted and convinced her to marry him. Well we all know what happened after this. Married in Melbourne, Frank and Clarice lived there for a short while til Ann was born then came back to the farm at Floradale. They applied for and were granted a war service block east of Wagin. This was home for a while til the early 50's when they returned to Carnamah. During this period, John and Margaret arrived to complete the family. The Lucas Family partnership purchased the neighbouring farm of Inering. The original Inering Homestead block became the family farm for the Frank & Clarice Lucas farming partnership over the next three decades. Frank had a great thirst for improving farming in his patch, and his involvement in farm improvement groups and the like, were indicative of his approach to achieving his goals. Cereal production and wool were his main focus, though he did try cattle for a while, but cows really tested his patience, as well as farm fences. His mechanical nous came to the fore during his farming days. The mid 60's saw Frank and Clarice expand west with the addition of a Conditional Purchase block. This addition tested resources but presented many different challenges - eagerly accepted and worked through. Inering for us was the hub of our life, and an intricate part of the farming community in the area. Many lifelong friendships were forged with our neighbours over the years and will be cherished always. Frank was proud to be a neighbour and friend to all. Our family had many memorable incidents, achievements and involvements with all sorts of characters in the time spent at Inering. Wool production, approximately 2500 bales sent to wool stores under the "F&C Inering" brand was something he was very proud of. Some employees had a lasting attachment to his list of close friends. These included "Old Mac" (Stanley McNeil) a retired farmhand that got lost on the way to the goldfields looking for work, as he could not get accustomed to the confines of Perth. He dropped in for directions and left many years later. Old Mac was an excellent stockman who was admired by all that knew him. Others such as Jack Roberts, John Herold and their families. And who could forget Wally Rowland, who was Dad's right hand man for many years. In the mid 50's Frank became involved in many community activities, which eventually saw him become a member of the local Road Board. This was the beginning of a very long association with Local Government seeing him a councillor for 32 years, 23 as President. Frank saw himself as a Statesman of Local Government and promoted the community and its interests at every opportunity. The development of the Shire, including the towns of Carnamah and Eneabba, plus many local government political issues, work on equitable wheat quotas and so much more, were a part of his life. The presentation of "Freeman of the Town of Carnamah" was a great honour accepted by him, which he regarded as one of his greatest moments in life. Other organisations frank became involved with were the Masonic Lodge; Civil Defence, later known as SES; Local Fire Brigade and Agricultural Society. This period of time also involved Clarice participating in many community activities and he was extremely proud of her achievements. Frank's early sporting prowess in Tennis and Golf was very questionable, but no one could doubt his endeavour and participation. Some days on the golf course really tested his patience as well as everyone else's endurance, especially when the golf clubs, bag and buggy went further than the ball. He did however find his niche in Lawn Bowls, as he was a founding member of the Carnamah Bowling Club. His success in Bowls was evident in the many trophies and events won, including winning the Singles. Undoubtedly, his greatest achievement in Bowls was when he teamed with his brothers, Roy, Stan and Les to dominate the local Massey Ferguson Fours at a local level for a few years and compete at a State level. Many enduring friendships were forged on bowling greens over the years. Frank's life of 88 years placed him in a unique generation that saw many changes; the like of those before and we following will never endure. But I do hope, that we will understand what his generation contributed, achieved and suffered so that we can appreciate the world that we know today. He started life in the days of horsepower, i.e., horses in the field for work, as well as transport. He related many stories of his days with horses. He saw the transformation of farming through development of tractors, albeit primitive by today's standard, headers from horse drawn, and tractor drawn to large SP's. If it was not orange (Chamberlain), it did not rate. Owned five over the years. He saw farming develop from the mull board plough, stump jump plough through to modern air seeders. He was often amazed but not surprised of late when I would explain things such as GPS navigation and tramline farming. He saw the evolution of primitive fertilisers in bags, wheat bagged off headers through to bulk handling and more specific fertilisers. There were Tilley lamps, then electricity in the form of 32 volt, which made life on the farm tolerable, and the advent of 240 volt was stuff dreams were made of. The old days of everyone sitting around a crackling valve radio through to colour TV with remote was something he lived through. Memories of holidays in the early days for us was trips to Australind, old cabins, catching crabs, the horse drawn ice wagon, playing with friends, and the long suffering of Dad in the cramped confines of a motor car, with three kids on the way there and back. We did go east to Melbourne on two occasions, which gave him more time in a car with us excited kids. Mum was a good peacekeeper. In later years, a caravan was bought and he and Mum set off on several adventures around the block and over east. One holiday that he went on readily comes to mind, and this was when Mum convinced him to go on a bus trip through central Australia, to Darwin and back, organised by a church group (she obviously got to him in a moment of weakness). Dad did have respect for all those with faith, but when it came to bible reading etc under the stars at the end of a day, he and the bus driver found solace with a beer around the back of the bus. Towards the end of the trip, the numbers meeting around the back of the bus grew substantially from the starting two. He was adamant that we kids got an education, so we were all packed off to boarding school when the time came. This had a vast influence on us in gaining different life skills, not too sure about the education, and I'm sure he had his doubts as well. When he retired from farming he moved into Carnamah and continued his involvement in community affairs until making the move to Geraldton in 1989. Whilst living in Carnamah, the family home was a great haven to his grandchildren. This is where he got the name of Grumps, but he did enjoy their company, shared many stories watched them grow, mature and develop with pride. This continued right through to the end. Life in Geraldton for him revolved around the Wonthella Bowling Club where he became Coach and spent many days at working bees as well as many more actually playing bowls. A stroke eight years ago was a cruel blow and severely restricted him and was a blight on his quality of life. He was very appreciative of the loving care Mum gave him and his one wish was that his health did not deteriorate further, to become a greater burden on his lifelong companion, wife, and true friend. His passing last Tuesday morning bought to an end, a life that had a significant influence on many of us, as well as more than a passing influence on many of his friends, colleagues and most of us here today, and Dad we sincerely thankyou for this. So to Frank, Dad, Grandad, Grumps, or plain old FCG, your journey of life on this earth has come to an end, but you will live on forever in our many memories. Thankyou." Presented by John Lucas, 18/07/2005.


Among those present at the funeral of Frank Charles Gilson LUCAS in Carnamah on Monday 18 July 2005 were:
Ashley ARMSTRONG, Olive ARMSTRONG (sister), Murray and Annette ATTHOWE, John BOWMAN, Ross and Yvette BOWMAN, Ray BOYER, Joe CLANCY, Lance and Caroline CROFT, Peter and Judy DRING, Bridie EVANS, Rod FLEGG, John and Norma FORREST, George and Pam FOWLER, Neil GILMOUR, Bill and Al GRIERSON, Brenda HEINRICH, Patrick MAHON and Ainslie LUCAS (grand-daughter), Alan LUCAS (nephew), Ian and Chris LUCAS (nephew), John and Elizabeth LUCAS (son), Michael LUCAS (grandson), Narelle LUCAS (grand-daughter), Robert and Christina LUCAS (nephew), Roy and Elma LUCAS (brother), Stan LUCAS (brother), John MULLER, Effie ORLICZ, Allan and Dulcie PERRY, Val PERRY, David SMITH, Denis and Eileen SMITH, Melva SMITH, Peter SMITH, Rhonda STOKES, Jill TILLY, Neville and Jacqie TOPHAM (grand-daughter), Stan WALLACE, Hal WALTON and Yvonne GILMOUR, Terry and Elizabeth WALTON, Marie and Drew WATERMAN (grandson), Marg WATERMAN (daughter), Martin and Velma WELLINGTON, Ruth WHITE, Vida WHITEHURST, Ron and Marg WILTON, Warren and Lisa WILTON (grand-daughter).


"Harry" Harold David LUCAS
Born 6 July 1906 in Toodyay, Western Australia [16]
Son of William Thomas LUCAS and Linda Mary KILPIN [5: 5-Feb-1943] [18]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1934-35 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Won a bottle of whisky at the North Midlands District Hospital Ball in Three Springs on Easter Monday 22 April 1935 [5: 26-Apr-1935]
Member of the Carnamah Football Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 31-May-1935, 29-May-1936]
Played for the North Midlands Football Association in a match against the Perenjori-Morawa Association on 28 July 1935 [5: 2-Aug-1935]
Attended the Carnamah Rifle Club's Opening Shoot for the 1935 season over the 200 yard range on 18 August 1935 [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 13-Sep-1935, 31-Jul-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Badminton Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 30-Aug-1935, 30-Oct-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1935-36 - played for "Carnamah Blues" [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Member of Carnamah's Parkinson Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 7 December 1935 in a group dressed as a "Coster Bill" [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Played for victorious Carnamah in their cricket match against "The Rest" in Coorow on Sunday 22 March 1936 [5: 27-Mar-1936]
Came 2nd in the Men's Bike Race at the R.S.L. Easter Sports Meeting in Carnamah on Monday 13 April 1936 [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Scratch Match & Bike Races in aid of their Injured Players Fund on 28 June 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
     Came 3rd in the Adult's Bike Race at half-time, and 2nd in the Bike Race of three laps around the oval held after the match [5]
Competed as a Senior Rider in the Carnamah Athletic Club's Bike Races in Carnamah on Sunday of each week in 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Came 3rd in the Carnamah Athletic Club's Senior Bike Race at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 9 August 1936 [5: 14-Aug-1936]
Won the Carnamah Athletic Club's Hurry Scurry Bike Race in Carnamah on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Resided in Kalgoorlie prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 21 December 1942 [16]
Driver W93860 in the Australian Army's 9 Auxiliary Hospital during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 5 October 1944 [16]


"Harry" Charles Harriet LUCAS
Born 28 March 1913 in Toodyay, Western Australia [16]
Son of William Thomas LUCAS and Linda Mary KILPIN; and brother of Harold David LUCAS [5: 5-Feb-1943] [18]
Resided and worked in Carnamah for a period during the 1930s [5: 5-Feb-1943]
Winner of Euchre at the Carnamah Parents & Citizens Association's Card Evening on Thursday 17 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Later worked as a Contractor and resided at 40 Piccadilly Street in Kalgoorlie [18]
Resided in Kalgoorlie until enlisting in the Australian Army on 15 June 1940 [16]
Gave his next of kin as his mother Mrs Linda Mary SMITH, also of 40 Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie [18]
Private WX4187 in the Australian Army's 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Wounded twice in the Middle East before being Killed in Action in Papua New Guinea on 1 December 1942 [0: image 04023] [18]
Buried / Memorialised at the Bomana War Cemetery in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea [17]
His name appears on Kalgoorlie's Roll of Honour [16]


From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 5 February 1943:
"For King and Country - Late Pte. Harry Lucas. Those local people who remember Charles Henry (Harry) Lucas have learned with regret that he paid the supreme sacrifice during the fighting in New Guinea. A son of Mrs. L. Lucas and Mr. W. Lucas, he was born at Toodyay. At one period he worked for a time in Carnamah where his elder brother, Harold, was better known. At the outbreak of the war he was at Kalgoorlie and, enlisting early, was twice wounded in the Middle East and on returning and going to New Guinea he fell in action. In the flush of victories won, we at home are apt to forget the sacrifices that must be made to make them possible. The realisation that for such boys whom we knew all is ended, is a sobering thought."


Kenneth Porch LUCAS
Born 5 February 1909 in England [16]
Son of James and E. M. LUCAS [16] [70]
Left London, England with his parents on the steamship Osterley and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 27 February 1920 [70]
Presbyterian Home Missionary in Broomehill and Presbyterian Minister in Kondinin before shifting to Carnamah [6]
Arrived in Carnamah on Friday 5 February 1937 to succeed Rev. David H. DYKE as minister of the Presbyterian Church [5: 12-Feb-1937]
Presbyterian Minister in Carnamah in 1937 and 1938 [5: 12-Feb-1937] [6]
He conducted services in Carnamah, Winchester, Billeroo, Waddy Forest and Three Springs [5: 12 & 26-Feb-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Parents & Citizens Association in 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Social Club - was Secretary in 1937 [5: 9-Apr-1937]
Gave "an interesting and inspiring address" at the Anzac Day Commemoration Service in Carnamah on 25 April 1937 [5: 23 & 30-Apr-1937]
Attended the meeting in Carnamah on 28 April 1937 to organise Coronation Celebrations for the children of Carnamah [5: 30-Apr-1937]
Travelled to Perth during the second week of May 1937 to attend the annual Presbyterian conference [5: 21-May-1937]
Upon his return to Carnamah on Friday 21 May 1937 he was accompanied by his mother Mrs LUCAS of Kalamunda [5: 28-May-1937]
He was among the 80 who attended the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social Evening at the Carnamah Hall on 25 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Attended the Valedictory Social to bid farewell to William H. & Eva M. MOORE at the Carnamah Hall on 31 July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
     During the evening Himself and Charles ROBERTSON presented a dialogue entitled "In the Midst of Life We are in Death" [5]
Extended a welcome to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in WA when he visited Carnamah on 4 August 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Repertory Club in 1937 [5: 27-Aug-1937]
     Played the butler in the one act comedic play "Meet the Family" at the Club's Concert on Friday 20 August 1937 [5: 27-Aug-1937]
Offered to run a Cobbers Club in Carnamah once a fortnight when the Club's country organiser visited in September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Resigned as Secretary of the Carnamah Social Badminton Club in August 1938 pending his departure from the district [0: image 03724]
Presbyterian Minister in Leonora in 1939 [6] [19]
Resided in Leonora until enlisting in the Australian Army on 11 November 1939 [16]
     Sergeant WX915 in the Australian Army's 2/11 Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
     In June 1941 he was listed as "missing" in a casualty list released by the Department of Information [0: image 04017]
     He was a Prisoner of War however returned to Australia and was discharged from the Australian Army on 5 October 1945 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Greenwood [2]
Died 14 February 2000; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]


Kevin Leslie LUCAS
Born 2 May 1958 in Mount Lawley, Western Australia [84]
Son of Leslie Thomas LUCAS and Pamela Violet RICE [84]
Resided with his parents in Carnamah 1958-1971 [19] [84]
Baptised by Methodist Minister Rev. Neville A. THRELFALL in Carnamah on 7 December 1958 [84]
Student at the Carnamah State School [P4]
Member of the Naturaliste Volunteer Sea Rescue Group and a Life Member of the Busselton Marine Rescue Group [45]
Husband of Lynn [45]
Father of Jenna, Chris and Carly [45]
Died 14 August 2004 in Busselton WA [45]


"Les" Leslie Thomas LUCAS
Born 1926 [15]
Son of Frank LUCAS and Florence Isabella Matilda PEARSALL [P191]
Arrived in Carnamah with his mother and brothers in June 1923 [7: page 67]
Resided with his parents on Floradale Farm on the Inering Estate in Carnamah [P191]
Student at the Inering State School on the Inering Estate in Carnamah [276] [278]
Came 2nd in the 4 to 6 years Boys Running Race at the Inering Picnic on BATTY's Farm on Sunday 7 September 1930 [4: 20-Sep-1930]
Received 2nd prizes for Handwork and a Crayon Drawing at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
At the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1934 won 2nd prize for a Crayon Drawing  and 4th prize for a Flowering Pot Plant [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Won 2nd prize for a Pencil Drawing in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 10 September 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club 1944-1946 [0: images 04389, 04569]
On 19 February 1946 purchased from the Midland Railway Co 1523 acres of farmland on the Back Inering Road in Carnamah [27]
The 1523 acres consisted of Lots M1027 and M1028 of Victoria Location 1935 and cost £190.7.6 [27]
Farmer in Carnamah 1946-1971 [6] [19]
He had P.O. Box 79 at the Carnamah Post Office [84]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1946-1958 [13]
Wrote to the Education Department to see if he could purchase the white enamel bath from the closed down Inering State School [276]
Steward of the Wool section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1947 [13]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 21 November 1947 - was Worshipful Master in 1975 [96] [153]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1950 - played for Carnamah Country [0: image 04524]
Married Pamela Violet RICE [7: page 68]
Committee Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1952-1969 [58]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club 1956-1958 [4: 3-Aug-1956, 11-Jul-1958]
Obtained the telephone in 1956 - was telephone number Carnamah-50S in 1956 and 1957 [60]
In 1958 his telephone number changed from Carnamah-50S to Carnamah-90U [60]
Sold his salt block in Carnamah to Lindsay R. SMITH in February of 1971 [P220]
Father of Kevin, Dee and Robyn [45]


Paul John LUCAS
Born 2 June 1968 [84]
Son of "Stan" Stanley Harold LUCAS and Lois Betty CARTER [84]
Resided with his parents in Carnamah [84]
Baptised by Rev. D. Neil MCGREGOR formerly of the North Midlands Parish on 28 July 1974 [84]
In 1989 he was working as a Computer Operator and living at 1 Robertson Street in the Carnamah townsite [19]
Later worked as a Driver while living at 15 Galilee Way in the Geraldton suburb of Woorree [19]
Died 9 December 2009 in Eneabba [P22]


From The West Australian newspaper online, 6:41 a.m. Wednesday 9 December 2009:
"One man died and several others suffered serious injuries in a horror spate of crashes on WA roads last night. A truck driver was killed when he collided with another truck on the Brand Highway near Eneabba, 35km north of Badgingarra, in the this morning's early hours. The fatality brings the State's road toll to 179. A St John Ambulance spokeswoman said the man died at the scene."


From The West Australian newspaper online, 8:45 a.m. Wednesday 9 December 2009:
"The Brand Highway, 35km north of Badgingarra, remains closed after a fatal crash during this morning's early hours. Northbound traffic is being diverted onto Jurien Road, Indian Ocean Drive, Coorow Green Head Road and back onto Brand Highway. Southbound traffic is being diverted onto Coorow Green Head Road, Indian Ocean Drive, Jurien Road and back onto Brand Highway."


Roy Albert LUCAS
Born 2 April 1920 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Frank LUCAS and Florence Isabella Matilda PEARSALL [P191]
Arrived in Carnamah with his mother and brothers in June 1923 [7: page 67]
Resided with his parents on Floradale Farm, Lot 2 of the Inering Estate in Carnamah [P200]
His name was part of an application for a State School to be established on the Inering Estate in Carnamah in 1926 [276]
Came 2nd in the 10 -12 year Boys Running Race at the Inering Picnic on BATTY's Farm on Sunday 7 September 1930 [4: 20-Sep-1930]
Won the Special Prize for Boys Handwork in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Received a 1st prize for a Crayon Drawing and a 2nd for Writing at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
At the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 14 September 1933 won a 2nd prize for Cane and Raffia work [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Member of the Inering State School's team who competed in tennis against the Carnamah State School on 21 April 1934 [5: 27-Apr-1934]
Won 2nd prizes for Handwork and a Pencil Drawing at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 6 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
At the 1934 Three Springs Agricultural Show won 1st for Fretwork and 2nd for his WA Copy Book and a Pencil Drawing [5: 21-Sep-1934]
Himself and his brother Stan departed Carnamah by train on Monday 7 January 1935 for a two week holiday in Beverley [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Student at the Inering State School on the Inering Estate in Carnamah in 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
Won 2nd prize for a Pencil Drawing in the Educational section of the Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Later a student at the Geraldton High School in Geraldton [5: 20-Dec-1935]
Member of the Five Gums Tennis Club from 1937-38 to 1939-40 [89]
Farmer in Carnamah 1939-1992 [6] [19]
     Purchased the 1,354 acre Lot 5 of the Inering Estate in Carnamah from Leo T. MORTON on 30 April 1943 [3]
     During the 1948-49 financial year purchased the 1,161 acre Lot M1475 of Victoria Location 1935 from Louis JOHANSEN [3]
     Sold the 1,161 acre Lot M1475 to Martin A. & Velma L. WELLINGTON of Carnamah during the 1968-69 financial year [3]
     During the 1973-74 financial year purchased 1,192 acres in Lots M995 and M996 of Victoria Location 2022 from John NIVEN [3]
     During the 1978-79 financial year purchased the 1,477 acre Lot 12 of the Inering Estate from his brother Frank C. G. LUCAS [3]
Member of the Inering Cricket Club 1939-1946 [0: images 03018, 04060, 04389]
Member of the Carnamah Tennis Club 1940-1946 [0: images 03948, 04374, 04389]
Corporal W20465 in Carnamah's Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Member of the Carnamah Miniature Rifle Club in 1944 [0: image 04261]
Member in 1945 and Committee Member 1947-1949 of the Carnamah Football Club [0: images 04339, 04466] [7: page 197]
Financial Member 1946-1971 and Committee Member 1952-1969 of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society [13] [58]
Committee Member of the Carnamah Football Club 1947-1949 [0: image 04466] [7: page 197]
Assistant Steward of the Sheep section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1947 and 1949 [13]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1956-57 - played for Carnamah Country [4: 5-Apr-1957]
Married Elma MITCHELL of Northampton [7: page 67]
Obtained the telephone in 1951 - was telephone number Carnamah-50R [60]
Member of the Carnamah Tennis Club - played for Carnamah Country in 1952-53 and Carnamah Blue in 1953-54 [0: images 04695, 04722]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Carnamah farmer Charles William John TURNER on 10 July 1956 at the Winchester Cemetery [4]
Committee Member of the Carnamah Pasture Improvement Group in 1957 [4: 5-Apr-1957]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club - was Captain in 1958, 1959 and 1963 [7: page 211] [4: 21-Mar-1958]
Men's Champion of the Carnamah Golf Club in 1959, President of the Club 1964-1967 and later a Life Member [7: pages 210, 211]
Member of the Carnamah Repertory Club in 1969 [7: page 234]
Attended the "Day of Pioneers" luncheon held at the Shire Council Chambers in Carnamah on 13 October 1982 [253]
In 1992 sold his Roystan Farm in Carnamah to Lindsay R. SMITH of Carnamah [P220]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Thornlie [2]
Died 15 May 2008; buried Guildford Cemetery, Perth suburb of Guildford (General, H, 418) [2]


"Tom" Thomas Alexander LUCAS
Born 29 September 1906 in Ayr, Scotland [16]
Resided in Carnamah, Western Australia from 1932 until 1939 [4] [5]
In October 1935 he was an employee of the Carnamah District Road Board [5: 18-Oct-1935]
He later worked in Carnamah as a Well Sinker and Labourer [4: 11-Jan-1936] [6] [22]
Competitor in the Carnamah Athletic Club's first ever boxing tournament in Carnamah in 1932 [4: 6-Feb-1932]
Played for the Bachelors in a 'Benedicts verses Bachelors' cricket match in Carnamah on Sunday 18 December 1932 [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1932-33 and 1934-35 [4: 4-Mar-1933,  22-Dec-1934]
Competitor in John A. KENNY's 2nd Billiard Tournament conducted within Mackie's Buildings in Carnamah in 1933 [5: 14-Jul-1933]
Paid £2/5/- in Vermin Bonuses by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1934 for killing three foxes and three dog pups [300: page 42]
Member of the Carnamah Football Club - Trainer with Sydney H. BLAY in 1934 and Sole Trainer in 1936 [5: 20-Apr-1934, 17-Apr-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club from 1934-35 to 1936-37 [5: 21-Dec-1934, 23-Oct-1936]
Played for the victorious latter in the Married verses Single men's cricket match in Carnamah on Sunday 3 February 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
Attended the Annual General Meeting of the Carnamah Cricket Club on Monday evening 23 September 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Following the creation of two teams within the Carnamah Cricket Club he played for "Carnamah Reds" in 1935-36 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
He was making satisfactory progress at the Carnamah Private Hospital in mid October 1935 with an injured elbow [5: 18-Oct-1935]
On 7 January 1936 at the Carnamah Police Court he was fined £1 and 3/- costs on the charge of disorderly conduct [5: 10-Jan-1936] [88]
Travelled to and from cricket in Coorow with his team-mates on the back of Charlie OLSEN's truck on 9 February 1936 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
     On their way back to Carnamah the truck hit a bank on the side of the road and they were all thrown off the back of the truck [5]
     Only one of his team-mates was slightly injured, and after repairing the truck they carried on with their journey home [5]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Premiership Dinner at the Carnamah Hotel on Sunday 6 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Came 2nd by a fraction of a wheel in the Carnamah Athletic Club's Hurry Scurry Bike Race of Sunday 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Member of Carnamah's Parkinson Tennis Club in 1936-37 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Won the Throwing Sack at the R.S.L. Easter Athletic Sports Meeting in Carnamah on Monday 29 March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
At 10.6 stone competed in the Boxing Tournament before a full house in Carnamah on Saturday evening 28 August 1937 [5: 3-Sep-1937]
     At the start of the fourth of five two-minute rounds against Edward LATHAM (9.9 stone) his competitor threw in the towel [5]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club in 1938 [4: 9-Jul-1938]
Member of the Carnamah Social Club in 1938 [0: image 03781]
Member of the Carnamah Athletic Club in 1939 [0: image 03790]
Resided in Carnamah until enlisting for service in the Australian Army in November 1939 [6] [0: image 02939]
     Private WX416 in the Australian Army's 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
     In December 1941 while serving in Syria received a Christmas present from the Carnamah Girls Club [0: image 04071]
     Discharged from the Australian Army on 17 October 1945 [16]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Innaloo [2]
Died 3 November 1972; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 28, 148) [2]


From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 13 February 1942:
"Letters from Abroad. The following letters have been received by the Carnamah Girls' Club in appreciation of the Christmas parcels which they forwarded to members of the forces serving overseas:- WX416 Cpl. T. A. Lucas, H. Q. Coy., 2/11th Bn., Abroad
I am writing to you hoping you will thank the Carnamah Girls' Club for me for the Christmas present which they sent to me. The boys and myself enjoyed it very much. I will try and give an idea what Syria is like. The weather is bitterly cold, and we have had two falls of snow so far, and a lot more to come by the look of the weather to-night. Damascus is a very nice place, quite a change from the Arab places in Palestine, Egypt and Libya. Of course most of the Arabs here are Christians and it seems to make all the difference. Beirut is half French and half Arab, as most places here are. The country is very much like Greece - mountains and plains. One will climb for an hour or more to get to the top of the mountains and then you can see the road winding and twisting for miles down to the plains. Please wish all the girls in the club a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year for me and once again thanking you all."


Edwin Leslie LUKIN
Born 1894 in Wilgoyne, Western Australia [15]
Son of George LUKIN and Ada Louise COOKE [15]
Pastoralist of Wandina Station in Mullewa [50]
His was a grand-nephew of Nathaniel W. COOKE who was the Farmer and Grazier of Arrino Station in Arrino 1864-1879 [15] [184]
Married Geraldine KENNY in Perth in 1923 [66]
While remaining in Mullewa began leasing Grianaig Farm in Carnamah from the Estate of the Late John LANG in 1936 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Grianaig Farm was 1,593 acres in size and consisted of adjoining Lots M945 and M1266 of Victoria Location 1934 [3]
The property was five miles north of Carnamah on The Midlands Road and adjoined the Prowaka Railway Siding [5: 9-Oct-1936]
In mid November 1936 purchased a consignment of ewes and lambs from Geraldton for his leased property in Carnamah [5: 20-Nov-1936]
The ewes and lambs were purchased through Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd and arrived in good order [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Died 19 June 1938 [29]


Florence Louie LUNDY
Born C.1911 [2]
Married William DUSCHKA in Perth in 1929 [66]
Resided with her husband in Three Springs in 1932 and 1933 [19] [24]
Gave birth to a still born child in Three Springs in early April 1932, who was buried at the Three Springs General Cemetery [24]
Resided with husband on the Inering Homestead in Carnamah 1933-1937 [5: 9-Feb-1934] [6] [19]
During January 1934 she was a patient at a hospital in Perth [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Herself and her child were admitted patients at the Carnamah Private Hospital on Saturday night 23 May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
She gave birth to a daughter at the Carnamah Private Hospital on Saturday 10 October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Mother of Shirley [276]
Died 11 March 1977; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 14A, 218) [2]


Elizabeth Ramsay LUMSDEN
Born 11 August 1881 in Kinnettles, Forfar, Scotland [28]
Daughter of George LUMSDEN and Elizabeth RAMSAY [28]
In 1907 she was working as a Domestic Servent and was living at 77 Bridgeton in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland [28]
Married David Steadman LOW on 28 June 1907 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland [28]
Witnesses to their marriage were Allan LOW and Agnes C. LUMSDEN [28]
Her husband left England on the Osterley and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 November 1911 [70]
Departed London, England with her three children on the Ajana and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 1 February 1913 [70]
In 1914 they were living at Culham in the Newcastle-Toodyay district [84]
Her son David was baptised at the Wesley-Methodist Chapel in Newcastle on 3 November 1914 [84]
Resided in Carnamah 1915-1921 [19] [50]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of East Fremantle [19]
Mother of Elizabeth, Findlay, Jane and David [70] [84]
Died 28 December 1970; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Presbyterian, EE, 417) [2]


Sidney Hungerford LUTTRELL
Said to have been the son of a racing identity in New Zealand [10: 8-Nov-1923]
On 2 November 1923 purchased 1,041 acres of virgin land  in Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 1041 acres was Lot M1211 of Victoria Location 1938 and cost £859, payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
On 23 February 1924 purchased another 435 acres of virgin land in Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 435 acres was Lot M1466 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £388, also payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
After purchasing the land in Carnamah he was reported as saying he was "amazed at the beautiful class of country" [10: 8-Nov-1923]
He also claimed that after improving the land it could be worth up to anything in the vicinity of £12 and £14 an acre [10: 8-Nov-1923]
Immediately settled on his land in Carnamah, began introducing livestock and effecting improvements [10: 8-Nov-1923]
Farmer in Carnamah in 1923 and 1924 [10: 8-Nov-1923] [27] [50]
A road adjoining his farm in Carnamah was known as Luttrell's Road in 1924 [9: 26-Sep-1924]
On 9 July 1924 sold his 1,476 acres in Carnamah to Benjamin S. FORREST, who later sold it to S. Darby O'GRADY [27]


Alfred Edward LUTZ
Born 20 June 1912 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Louis August Alfred LUTZ and Margaret Maud GREER [18] [66]
After being closed since 25 October 1935 he re-opened the Inering State School on Monday 3 February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936] [276]
School Teacher of the Inering State School on the Inering Estate in Carnamah 1936-1938 [73]
His annual salary as sole teacher of the Inering State School was £263 in 1936 and £271 in 1937 and 1938 [73]
He was unable to secure boarding accommodation with a nearby family so had to reside in the teacher's quarters at the school [276]
Wrote to the Education Department on 24 July 1936 requesting his quarters be equipped with a bath and stove, with they lacked [276]
Accompanied mechanic William TOOLE from Carnamah to test drive a De Soto six touring car on Sunday 15 March 1936 [5]
     The car had a habit of catching a light and had been at the Farm Service Station for the cause to be found and rectified [5]
     Near Bowman's Hill on the Carnamah-Perenjori Road a discharge noise was heard coming from the engine [5]
     They stopped and he opened the bonnet to discover the engine was in flames, after which the driver quickly got out of the car [5]
     Left out of control the car rolled backwards in flames for 50 yards, and was burnt to the ground [5: 20-Mar-1936] [88]
He visited Geraldton during the Easter holidays in 1936 [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Attended the Bridge Evening to bid farewell to Tom & Johanna BERRIGAN in Carnamah on Sunday 21 June 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social including three plays at the Carnamah Hall on Friday 2 October 1936 [5: 9-Oct-1936]
On 19 December 1936 at 1 p.m. he telephoned the Carnamah Police Station reporting a theft from the school premises at Inering [88]
     The items stolen were his bicycle with license plate CA-43 and his wallet [5: 24-Dec-1936] [88]
     Constable Maurice PLUNKETT left the Carnamah Police Station and on his way to Inering drove past the Carnamah Hotel [88]
     The Constable saw the bicycle on the back of a truck at the Carnamah Hotel and searched the owner where he found the wallet [88]
     On 21 December the man who had stolen his bicycle and wallet went before the Carnamah Police Court where he was fined [88]
A few days after the theft he travelled to Perth for Christmas [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Himself and Henry W. RUNCIMAN, of the Billeroo State School, returned to Carnamah on Monday 1 February 1937 [5: 5-Feb-1937]
Allowed his students to go home at 12:30 p.m. on 10 February 1939, as it was 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3°C) inside the school [276]
Married Melva Esther LEWIS in Perth in 1941 [66]
Resided in 21 Highbury Street in the Perth suburb of Floreat Park prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 16 February 1942 [16] [18]
Lance Bombardier WX16100 in the Australian Army's 3rd Field Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 20 October 1942 and enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 21 October 1942 [16]
Pilot Officer 429710 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 16th Operational Training Unit during the Second World War [16]
Killed in Action in a Flying Battle in England on 4 March 1945; buried Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Offordshire, England [17] [18]
His wife never remarried, and passed away at the age of 65 years on 31 July 1977 [2]


"Edwin" Ernest Rudolph Edwin LUTZE
Born 6 November 1878 in Kilkerran, South Australia [55]
Son of Heinrich Christian Jullius LUTZE and Ernestine Wilhelmine HOFFRICHTER [55]
Married Eva ROGERS on 26 November 1908 in Perth, Western Australia [P216]
Farmer in Wagin 1909-1914 [6]
Contractor of Homebush Farm in Katanning [50]
Farmer of Avondale Farm in Wagin in 1916 and 1917 [6] [50]
In 1925 and 1926 he was working as an Agent and living at 21 Blencowe Street in the Perth suburb of West Leederville [6] [50]
At one time also worked as an Agent in Pingelly and lived with his family on Somerset Street in Pingelly [50]
Farm Manager in Perenjori 1927-1935 [19]
Farmer in Winchester with his son Wesley 1936-1952 [3] [P216]
     With his son farmed in Winchester on land that his son leased and later purchased from the Midland Railway Company [27] [34]
Exhibited in the Poultry and Vegetable sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 9 September 1937 [5]
     Awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for White Leghorn hen, 1st for Black Orpington hen and 2nd for Swedes [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Member of the local branch of the Farmers' Union [P216]
Farmer in Winchester until 1952 when himself, his wife and their son Wesley left the district and shifted to Geraldton [P216]
Father of Byril, Wesley, Iris, Beth and Collin [P216]
Died 20 July 1956; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA [26]


From The Irwin Index newspaper, Friday 27 July 1956:
"DEATH - LUTZE - On July 20th, 1956, at Geraldton, Edwin, late of Winchester, dearly beloved husband of Eva and father of Byril, Wes, Iris, Beth and Collin."


Mrs Eva LUTZE
Wife of "Edwin" Ernest Rudolph Edwin LUTZE; see Eva ROGERS


"Iris" Myrtle Iris LUTZE
Born 5 July 1914 in Wagin, Western Australia [P216]
Daughter of "Edwin" Ernest Rudolph Edwin LUTZE and Eva ROGERS [P216]
Educated at State Schools in Wagin, the Perth suburb of Leederville and at Perenjori [P216]
Attended the Carnamah Grand Ball at the Carnamah Town Hall on 28 July 1932 in a gown of mauve crepe-de-chine [5: 5-Aug-1932]
Shifted from Perenjori to Winchester with her parents in 1936 [P216]
Resided with her parents in Winchester for a few years before shifting to Geraldton [P216]
Cook at Christian Brothers College in Geraldton [P216]
Married Eric WANSBROUGH in 1942 [P216]
Resided with her husband in Carnamah after the war [19]
In Carnamah they first resided in Nind's Buildings on the north east corner of Niven Crescent and Macpherson Street [P216]
Later shifted to a residence in Robertson Street, Carnamah [P216]
Committee Member of the Carnamah R.S.L. Women's Auxiliary in 1948 [0: image 04506]
Member of the Carnamah Hockey Club [7: page 202]
Member of the Carnamah Tennis Club in 1950 [0: image 04538]
On leaving Carnamah shifted to Katanning [P216]
Resident in Katanning until her death in 1978 [2]
Mother of Nola [P216]
Died 19 September 1978; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lawn A, 161) [2]


"Wesley" Edwin Wesley LUTZE
Born 8 July 1912 in Wagin, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Edwin" Ernest Rudolph Edwin LUTZE and Eva ROGERS [P216]
Farmer with his father in Wagin and Perenjori before shifting to Winchester [P216]
Farmer in Winchester 1936-1952 [3] [P216]
In 1936 and 1937 he farmed 5,113 acres of farmland in Winchester, which he leased from the Midland Railway Company [34]
The 5,113 acres consisted of Lots M1077, M1215 and M1792 of Victoria Locations 1937 and 2023 [34]
Advertised under "Wanted" in April 1936 for a sharefarmer with own plant, presumably to crop part of his leasehold [5: 17 & 24-Apr-1936]
Sold 45 sheep through Dalgety & Co Ltd in two consignments to the Midland Market in September and November 1936 [5]
    The 45 sheep comprised 22 suckers at 17/1, 12 suckers at 9/4, 4 ewes at 7/10 and 7 lambs at 7/7 per head [5: 18-Sep-1936, 6-Nov-1936]
Advertised in March 1937 in The North Midland Times newspaper that he wanted a sharefarmer in Winchester [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Offered a reward in July 1937 for a Dorset Horn ram wearing a yoke which had strayed from his farm in Winchester [5: 2-Jul-1937]
From 1938 to 1945 he farmed 1,751 acres of farmland in Winchester leased from the Midland Railway (Lots M1077 and M1215) [34]
Leased the 1,751 acres until purchasing them from the Midland Railway Company for £2,189/7/8 (25/- per acre) on 17 April 1945 [27]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1937 and 1948 [13]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided and farmed in Winchester until 1952 when himself and his parents left the district and shifted to Geraldton [P216]
Retained his farmland in Winchester which was listed in rate books as 1,751 acres until 1958 but then as 1,738 acres from 1959 [3]
During the 1976-77 financial year sold his 1,738 acres in Winchester to Russell J., Marjorie D. and Danny R. BENTLEY [3]
Died 4 June 1979; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA [26]


Mrs Annie LYNCH
Wife of "Jack" Peter John LYNCH; see Annie RANKIN


Christina LYNCH
Resided in Carnamah in 1933 [19]


"Clarrie" Clarence LYNCH
Born 1891 in Creswick, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of John LYNCH and Christina DIAMOND [54]
Shifted to Western Australia with his parents in the early 1900s [P39]
Farmer in Trayning, Western Australia in 1915 [18]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 10 May 1915 at Blackboy Hill in the Perth hills [30: item 8207380
     At enlistment he was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighed 151 pounds and had grey eyes, black hair and a medium dark complexion [30]
     After training at Blackboy Hill he was appointed to the 8th Reinforcements of the 10th Light Horse Regiment on 1 June 1915 [30]
     Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A68 Anchises on 2 September 1915 [18]
     Private 1180 in the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Light Horse Regiment in Gallipoli and Egypt during the First World War [30]
     Discharged from the A.I.F. on 4 May 1919; received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married Hilda Mary BURROWS in Perth in 1919 [66]
After the war farmed Pine Hill Farm in South Trayning before shifting to Arrino and then Carnamah [P39] [50]
Labourer in Carnamah [6], and also worked locally as a Shearer and on the wheat bins [P7]
Resided in a house constructed of timber and iron at 26 Robertson Street in the Carnamah townsite [P39]
Clerk of Scales at the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Race Meetings from 1928 to 1932 [4: 31-Mar-1928,  21-Dec-1929, 12-Mar-1932]
Attended the local farewell for Jack and Annie LYNCH at the home of Mr and Mrs R. W. CLARK on 6 April 1929 [4: 13-Apr-1929]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Committee Member of the Carnamah Athletic Club and promoter of their first boxing match in 1932 [4: 6-Feb-1932]
In December 1932 he was working in Carnamah as a Wheat Lumper [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Played in a cricket match between the "Lumpers" and the Carnamah Cricket Club on Sunday 11 December 1932 [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Played for the Carnamah Hotel's team "Gentleman" against the "Ruffs" team at cricket in Carnamah on 5 March 1933 [5: 10-Mar-1933]
Competitor in John A. KENNY's Billiard Tournament conducted within Mackie's Buildings in Carnamah in 1933 [5: 26-May-1933]
In early October 1933 his dog died after an unknown person illegally poisoned dogs around Carnamah [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1933-34, 1934-35 and 1935-36 [4: 9-Dec-1933, 29-Dec-1934, 11-Oct-1935]
Committee Member of the Carnamah sub- branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1934 and 1936 [5: 16-Mar-1934, 20-Mar-1936]
Attended the Annual R.S.L. General Meeting and Smoke Social in Carnamah on Thursday 8 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Judge of the Perenjori Agricultural Society's Boxing Tournament in Perenjori on Saturday 10 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Played for the losing married in the Married verses Single men's cricket match in Carnamah on Sunday 3 February 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
In March 1935 himself and "Jack" John K. DIGBY, also of Carnamah, were operating a gold mine at Field's Find [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Attended the Fourth Annual North Midlands R.S.L. Reunion Dinner held in Three Springs on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Following the creation of two teams within the Carnamah Cricket Club he played for "Carnamah Blues" in 1935-36 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Member of John BOWMAN's XI who played against the Carnamah Cricket Club at the opening of the 1935-36 season [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the R.S.L. Social to farewell "Chitter" George F. BROWN at the Carnamah Hostel on Friday 24 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Ratepayers & Citizens Association in 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Athletic Club in 1936 [5: 19-Jun-1936]
With ticket A006 he won the raffle at the Coronation Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Wednesday evening 12 May 1937 [5: 14-May-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Boxing Tournament Committee in 1937 - Referee of the Tournament on 28 August 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Casket carrier at the funeral of Carnamah doctor Cecil Phillip ROSENTHAL on 8 April 1939 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Member of Carnamah's Miniature Rifle Club in 1941 and 1944 [0: images 02933 & 04287]
Resided in Carnamah until at least 1953 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Father of Jean, William, Kenneth, Terrence, Patricia, Peter and Pamela [P39]
Died 10 September 1958; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZE, 406) [2]


Harold James LYNCH
Born 1900 in Creswick, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of John LYNCH and Christina DIAMOND [54]
Shifted to Western Australia with his parents in the early 1900s [P39]
Labourer in Carnamah in 1933 and 1934 [6] [19]
Resided in Yarra Street, Carnamah in a house between COWDEROY's and REYNOLDS' stores [P39]
Shearing Contractor in Carnamah in 1934 [5: 29-Jun-1934]
In 1934 worked as a shearing contractor in partnership with Harry CHAPMAN, trading as "Messrs H. Lynch & Chapman" [5]
They advertised their services for shearing in The North Midland Times newspaper boasting "fast and clean shearing" [5: 29-Jun-1934]
Undertook shearing with a three stand Wolseley electric shearing plant purchased from Dalgety & Co [5: 27-Jul-1934]
The Wolseley shearing plant was 50 volt and was without the vibration received when using engine driven plants [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Paid £1 on 22 June 1934 for doing some fencing work at Centenary Park in Carnamah for the Carnamah District Road Board [300: page 44]
In later July 1934 was shearing Frank ROOKE's sheep on Kilburn Farm in Carnamah [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Himself and Harry CHAPMAN dissolved their shearing contracting partnership in early December 1934 [5: 7-Dec-1934]
Later returned to Victoria, Australia but eventually shifted back to Western Australia [P39]
In 1964 was living in the Perth suburb of Belmont [2]
Husband of Winifred Margaret [P39]
Father of Reg [P39]
Died 27 January 1964; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, HA, 584) [2]


Mrs Hilda Mary LYNCH
Wife of Clarence LYNCH; see Hilda Mary BURROWS


John LYNCH
Bricklayer in Carnamah in 1933 [19]


"Bill" John William LYNCH
Born 27 November 1919 in Guildford, Western Australia [15] [16]
Son of Clarence LYNCH and Hilda Mary BURROWS [P39]
Arrived in Carnamah with parents in the later 1920s [P39]
Student at the Carnamah State School 1927-1934 [5: 9-Mar-1934] [97]
Attended the Carnamah Children's Fancy Dress Ball as a "Sandman" on Saturday 15 October 1927 [9: 21-Oct-1927]
Came equal 2nd in the Running Race for 8-9 year old boys at the Carnamah Show & Sports Carnival on 4 October 1928 [4: 13-Oct-1928]
Came 2nd in the Boys Sack Race at the Sports Day and Picnic held at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 9 October 1930 [4: 18-Oct-1930]
Member of the Carnamah Boy Scouts in 1932 [5: 8-Jul-1932]
Attended the first ever District Rally of Scouts and Cubs held at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Saturday 2 July 1932 [5: 8-Jul-1932]
At the end of 1933 received the prize for the most hardworking student in Grade V at the Carnamah State School [5: 22-Dec-1933]
Fought and won his match at the Perenjori Agricultural Society's Boxing Tournament in Perenjori on 10 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Member of Carnamah's Parkinson Tennis Club in 1934-35 [4: 22-Dec-1934]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 15-Feb-1935, 11-Oct-1935, 5-Feb-1937]
Accompanied his father and Jack DIGBY to their small gold mine at Field's Find on Thursday 28 March 1935 [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Following the creation of two teams within the Carnamah Cricket Club he played for "Carnamah Blues" in 1935-36 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Member of John BOWMAN's XI who played against the Carnamah Cricket Club at the opening of the 1935-36 season [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Resided in Donnybrook prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 17 June 1942 [16]
Trooper W28212 in the Australian Army's 2/9 Australian Command Squadron during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 14 January 1947 [16]
After the war worked in Perth and later in Melbourne in Victoria, Australia [P39]
Died in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [P39]


"Pam" Pamela Ruth LYNCH
Born 1932 [15]
Daughter of Clarence LYNCH and Hilda Mary BURROWS [P39]
Resided with her parents in a timber and iron home at 26 Robertson Street in the Carnamah townsite [P39]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 27 October 1934 as "Cupid" [4: 3-Nov-1934]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Carnamah in 1935 as a "Butterfly" and in 1936 as a "Rose" [5: 8-Nov-1935, 20-Nov-1936]
Student at the Carnamah State School [97]
Junior Member of the Carnamah Social Club in 1941 [5: 21-Nov-1941]
Married Arthur Colin DAVIES in 1950 [66]
In 1954 they were living at 28 Felspar Street in Narrogin, where her husband was a Railway Employee [50]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Ashfield [2]
Died 4 January 2006; ashes interred Guildford Cemetery, Perth suburb of Guildford (Hazelmere Gardens, 2, 33) [2]


"Jack" Peter John LYNCH
Born 9 February 1884 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia [30: item 8207397]
Son of John LYNCH and Christina DIAMOND [15]
Shifted to Western Australia with his parents in the early 1900s [P39]
Married Annie WATERHOUSE nee RANKIN in 1909 [66]
In 1914 worked as a Labourer / Stockman and was living in Glyde Street in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe Beach [18] [30: item 8207397]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 17 October 1914 in Guildford, Western Australia [30: item 8207397]
     On enlistment was noted as 5 feet 10¼ inches tall, weighing 12 stone 5 lbs with brown eyes, black hair and a fresh complexion [30]
     Following his enlistment was appointed a Trooper in the Australian Army's 10th Light Horse Regiment, regimental number 297 [30]
     Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the Transport A47 Mashobra on 8 February 1915 [30]
     Served with the 10th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt, Gallipoli and again in Egypt [30]
     Promoted from Trooper to Lance Corporal on 18 March 1915, to Corporal on 1 August 1915 and to Sergeant 23 August 1918 [30]
     Received a shell wound to his thigh on 12 August 1915; after treatment in England returned to service in Egypt in June 1916 [30]
     Returned to Australia on the Delta, arriving in Perth, Western Australia on 26 February 1919 [30]
     Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 6 July 1919; received the 1914/15 Star, the British War and Victory Medals [30]
Farmer in Carnamah 1920-1929 [6] [19]
     Arrived in Carnamah in February 1920 [4: 6-Apr-1929]
     Obtained a 1672 acre farm on the Yarra Yarra Estate in Carnamah through the Soldier Settlement Scheme [P39]
     The farm consisted of Victoria Location 6920 and 7461 situated just north of Carnamah on the west side of the railway line [44] [62]
In May 1920 purchased three horses, one mare and harnesses from the Midland Railway Company in Carnamah for £120 [34]
Member of the Carnamah Race Club 1922-1928 [10: 27-Jan-1922]
     Vice President and Club Steward in 1927, and Handicapper in 1928 of the Carnamah Race Club [9: 8-Apr-1927] [4: 31-Mar-1928]
Signed the petition in February 1923 for the Irwin Licensing Court to grant a hotel license for Carnamah [10: 9-Mar-1923]
Received a gold watch for his horse winning the R.S.L. Handicap at a Picnic Race Meeting in Carnamah in January 1924 [10: 17-Apr-1924]
His horse Rewolf came 3rd in the Third Class Plate at the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Race Meeting on 10 April 1924 [10: 17-Apr-1924]
Injured his knee while riding over hurdles in the sports portion of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 9 October 1924 [9: 17-Oct-1924]
Steward at the Picnic Race Meetings held in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day 17 March 1925 and 17 March 1928 [124]
Member of the Carnamah Progress Association - was Vice President in 1925 [9: 9-Oct-1925]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son from at least 1925 until 1929 [53]
Obtained the telephone in 1926 - was telephone number Carnamah-7 [60]
Costume Judge at the Fancy Dress Ball conducted by the Carnamah Girls Club at the Carnamah Hall on 21 August 1926 [39: 7-Sep-1926]
Requested in November 1927 to move his sheep from the main road and cease watering his sheep at the government well [9: 25-Nov-1927]
Member of the Carnamah Football Club in 1927 [4: 20-Aug-1927]
Committee Member of the Carnamah Agricultural Society in 1927 [9: 21-Oct-1927]
In 1928 represented the Carnamah Football Club at meetings of the North Midlands Football Association [4: 21-Apr-1928]
Had left his car in reverse and after cranking his car near the Carnamah School it suddenly took off backwards [4: 17-Nov-1928]
     The car travelled in a circle at a speed of 15 miles per hour and crossed the railway line about eight times [4: 17-Nov-1928]
     Local school teacher Albert E. HAYES managed to catch up to the car, jump aboard and bring it to a stop [4: 17-Nov-1928]
Attended the wedding of Alexander J. F. BROWN and Clara V. BERRIGAN at the Carnamah Hall on 28 August 1928 [4: 8-Sep-1928]
Appears to have sold his farm in Carnamah to Cornelius SHEAHAN in early 1929 [--]
Prior to selling his farm he had been Chairman of the Committee of the Carnamah Race Club [4: 6-Apr-1929]
At the Carnamah Races in March 1929 he was publicly thanked and sadness expressed over his departure from the district [4: 6-Apr-1929]
During his nine years in Carnamah he only missed one race meeting of the Carnamah Race Club [4: 6-Apr-1929]
On 6 April 1929 was bid farewell by a number of friends at the home of Roger and Margaret CLARK in Carnamah [4: 13-Apr-1929]
Along with his wife left Carnamah in April 1929 [4: 13-Apr-1929]
Himself and his wife passed through Carnamah on 2 November 1933 on their way to Winchester [5: 10-Nov-1933]
Resident of Mount Hawthorn WA in 1958 [2]
Died 16 March 1958; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, OC, 173) [2]


Violet Agnes LYNCH
Born C. 1907 [2]
Married Ernest Theodore FELS in Perth in 1930 [66]
Herself and her husband resided in Carnamah in 1954 [--]
In early September 1954 her husband took extended sick leave and a few days later, on 10 September 1954, he died [2] [0: image 04742]
Following her husband's death she appears to have continued to reside in Carnamah until at least mid 1955 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [2]
Died 14 July 1966; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, OC, 182) [2]


Mrs Winifred Margaret LYNCH
Wife of Harold James LYNCH [P39]
Resided with her husband in Carnamah in 1933 and 1934 [6] [19]
Resided in Yarra Street, Carnamah in a house between COWDEROY's and REYNOLDS' stores [P39]
Owing to medical reasons she was taken to the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs on 23 April 1934 [5: 27-Apr-1934]
Mother of Reg [P39]


MMM

Alice May MACDONALD
Born C.1876 in Nhill, Victoria, Australia [P145]
Grew up in Nhill, Victoria and later worked as a nurse in Victoria [P145]
May have been Matron of the hospital in Horsham, Victoria, Australia [P145]
Married George Ernest SEWELL in 1906 in Victoria, Australia [54]
In 1914 her husband was a Justice of the Peace for the Victoria District of Western Australia [6]
Her husband died at the age of 68 years on 8 November 1935 and was buried at the Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton [26]
Resided in Carnamah with Eric and Betty GURR for a considerable portion of 1942 [0: image 04147]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Red Cross Society in 1942 [0: image 04129]
Returned to Geraldton on 1 September 1942 [0: image 04147]
Spent a holiday in Carnamah with her son-in-law and daughter Eric and Betty GURR in August 1945 [0: image 04354]
Spent another holiday in Carnamah with her daughter Betty and son-in-law in September 1946 [0: image 04400]
Mother of Mrs "Betty" Elizabeth Sutherland GURR and Mrs Edna OLIVIER [P145]
Died 28 July 1960; buried at the Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton WA [26]


Malcolm MACKELLAR
Farmhand for William J. PETHICK on Petan Farm in Winchester in 1933 [5: 27-Jan-1933]
In January 1933 while working a harvester on Petan Farm the middle finger of his left hand got caught in the beaters [5: 27-Jan-1933]
He was treated at the Carnamah Private Hospital for a lacerated hand where the nail of the finger was removed [5: 27-Jan-1933]


"Alick" / "Alex" Alexander MACLEAN
Born 3 April 1889 in Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland [18] [28]
Son of shepherd Donald MACLEAN and "Betsy" Elizabeth MACPHERSON [21] [28]
Resided with his parents and siblings at the shepherd's cottage at Allnacaorach in Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland [P375]
     Allnacaorach is Gaelic for 'stream of the sheep' as allna means burn which is Scottish for stream, and caorach is sheep [P375]
     He was one of ten children with nine siblings - John, Peter, Donald, David, Kemp, Thomas, Kate, William and Jane [21]
     With his siblings walked to Lairg village on Mondays to attend school, lodged in the village, and walked home on Fridays [P375]
     He later received further education at Dingwall Academy in Dingwell, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland [177]
     In 1901 he was living with his parents and some of his siblings on Back Street in Rosskeen, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland [21]
     When his father retired the family moved to Drumlea in Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, Scotland [P375]
     It is believed, like his parents and sisters, that he would have been a fluent speaker of Gaelic [P375]
Departed London, England on the steamship Kaipara on 1 December 1911 bound for Fremantle, Western Australia [203]
     Travelled out on the Kaipara with his brother William Montague MACLEAN, who was a year younger than himself [203]
     Their elder brother Thomas Munsey MACLEAN was already in Western Australia, having immigrated in about 1908 [18]
     In 1913 he joined the Education Department of Western Australia, and gave satisfactory test lessons on 8 April 1913 [41]
     He joined the Department with secondary education, teaching experience in Scotland and after passing the entrance exam [41]
Head Teacher on Probation of the Carnamah State School in Carnamah from 29 April 1913 until August 1914 [41]
     He was the second teacher to take charge of the one-teacher Carnamah State School which had opened the previous year [73]
     Boarded, except for sleeping, with Henry and Mary J. McCLYMANS and their children in Carnamah in 1913 [39: 13, 14, & 15-Aug-1913]
     In September 1913 an Education Department inspector reported "Inexperienced but eager to improve. A Good Teacher." [41]
     Received an annual salary of £110 in 1913 and 1914, plus an extra £12 per annum as the school had no living quarters [41] [73]
     In 1914 sat for his Education Department C Exam of 15 parts - passing nine, receiving an interim for four and failing two parts [41]
     In his C Exam he passed in reading, recitation, spelling, arithmetic, drawing, geography, geometry, music and French [41]
     Of the other six parts he received an interim for writing, English, history and drill; and failed in education and algebra [41]
     The Education Department granted him leave on 27 August 1914 to go to war with the expeditionary forces [41]
     While on leave he was appointed Head Teacher off probation of the Carnamah State School from 1 January 1915 [41]
     Henry HORSEY was transferred to Carnamah to fulfil his duties while he was on leave and at war [73]
     The Education Department, who didn't learn of his death, again appointed him Head Teacher on leave for Carnamah in 1916 [41]
Passed as fit and accepted for active service in the Australian Imperial Force on 31 August 1914 [30: item 1952502]
     Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Blackboy Hill in the Perth hills on 14 September 1914 [30]
     He had previous experience from three years of military training camp in Scotland [30]
     Upon enlistment he was 6 feet ¾ inches tall, weighed 164 pounds with blue-grey eyes, light brown hair and a fair complexion [30]
     Gave his next of kin as his eldest brother Lieut. John MACLEAN of the Partick Constabulary in Glasgow, Scotland [30] [P375]
     On 6 October 1914 at Blackboy Hill he was appointed to the Australian Imperial Force's 12th Infantry Battalion [30]
     Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. Medic on 2 November 1914 [30]
     Private 848 in the Australian Imperial Force's 12th Infantry Battalion in Egypt and Gallipoli during the First World War [30]
     Embarked Alexandria, Egypt on the H.M.T. Devanha on 2 March 1915 to join the Australian Imperial Forces at Gallipoli [30]
     On 2 May 1915 it was reported that he had been missing since the landing at Gallipoli on Sunday 25 April 1915 [30]
     One of his comrades reported he had received a gunshot wound, possibly to the arm, on 25 April 1915 and headed for the beach [18]
     After that date he was never seen again and his body was never found [30]
     A Board of Inquiry declared on 5 June 1915 that he been Killed in Action at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April 1915 [30]
Killed in Action on 25 April 1915; memorialised at the Lone Pine Memorial at Victoria Gully in Turkey [17] [18]
His name appears on the Carnamah War Memorial and the Carnamah Honour Roll [35]
     The Carnamah War Memorial is situated near the intersection of Macpherson and Yarra Streets in the Carnamah townsite [35]
     The Carnamah Honour Roll is located within the Sporting Complex at Niven Park in the Carnamah townsite [35]
His name also appears on the War Memorials in Lairg and Bonar Bridge and on the Dornoch Cathedral Honour Roll in Scotland [P375]
His brother William enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey and in Egypt [30: item 1964236]
Their brother Thomas enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and was Killed in Action in Belgium on 24 June 1917 [30: item 1964224]
Their elder brother Kemp MACLEAN served with the Royal Scots and was Killed in Action in France on 28 March 1918 [17]


C. MACON
Member of the Carnamah Football Club in 1927 [4: 11-Jun-1927]


Aeneas MACPHERSON
Born 22 October 1845 in Alvie, Inverness, Scotland [138]
Son of Duncan MACPHERSON and Mary WILSON [138]
Arrived with his parents in Port Adelaide, South Australia on the Isabella Watson on 15 May 1846 [119]
In 1848 left South Australia with his parents for Western Australia on the Titania, his brother Lachlan being born on board [119]
Resided with his parents at The Byeen in the Newcastle-Toodyay district of Western Australia 1849-1866 [127: pages 86, 182]
Died 11 July 1866 in Toodyay; buried Culham Cemetery, Toodyay WA [138]
His headstone was erected by his uncle Donald MACPHERSON [138]


From The Inquirer newspaper, 1 August 1866:
"At Byeen, Toodyay, on Wednesday 11th July, after a short and painful illness, Aneas, eldest son of Mr Duncan McPherson; deeply regretted by his surviving relatives and a large circle of friends. Aged 20 years and 9 months."


"Alex" Alexander MACPHERSON
Born C.1860 [119]
Son of Duncan MACPHERSON and Mary WILSON [119]
Resided with his parents at The Byeen in the Newcastle-Toodyay district C.1860-1867 [127: pages 86, 182]
Arrived in what is now the Carnamah district with his parents in 1868 [120: 9-Jan-1930]
Initially resided with his parents in a three roomed stone cottage near the Yarra Yarra Lakes in Carnamah [P10]
Later resided with his parents in the large Carnamah House, situated on Victoria Location 1172 of his father's Carnamah Station [P10]
Grazier and Farmer of Carnamah Station with his father and brothers Donald and George [--]
Resided on Carnamah Station until at least 1898, when he gave his address as Carnamah when he registered his father's death [40]
He appears to have left Carnamah shortly after his father's death in 1898 and shifted to Murgoo in the Murchison [6]
Station Manager in Murgoo 1898-1907 [6]
Manager of Billabalong Station at Murgoo in the Murchison 1901-1907 [6] [19] [38]
Died 5 November 1907 at Billabalong Station; buried Culham Cemetery, Toodyay WA [119]
He died intestate, his estate being inherited or administrated by his brother Lachlan on 16 March 1908 [38]


From The Western Mail newspaper, Monday 11 November 1907:
"DEATHS. Macpherson - On the 5th instant, at Billabalong Station, Murchison, Alexander, sixth son of the late Duncan Macpherson, of Carnamah, Upper Irwin."


Donald MACPHERSON
Born 23 June 1815 at Dunachton Farm near Alvie, Inverness, Scotland [220]
Son of Aeneas MACPHERSON and Margaret MACKINTOSH [119]
Departed Liverpool, England on the Hindoo, arriving in Western Australia on 20 April 1839 [220]
Shepherd and Flock-master in Toodyay and the Victoria Plains in the 1840s [220]
Said to have worked for five years as a shepherd for Capt. James SCULLY and received new-born lambs instead of wages [252: page 61]
Farmer and Grazier in the Victoria Plains from 1845 until his death in 1887 [220]
In February 1845 successfully applied for a lease of 12,000 acres of land in the Victoria Plains [220]
The lease was the first to be taken out in the Victoria Plains district and included the localities Murra Murra and Badji Badji [220]
Initially resided at Badji Badji and later at Murra Murra; in the early 1860s the property became known as Glentromie [220]
By May 1848 himself, his brother John and their cousin Ewan MACKINTOSH had leases totalling 20,000 acres [220]
Married (1) Jessie MACKNOE on 24 April 1853 at Baylup WA [220]
On 21 May 1853 purchased his first freehold piece of land, a block of 30 acres at Badji Badji in the Victoria Plains [220]
On 28 December 1853 obtained a lease of 12,000 acres in Wannamal - the first lease to be taken out in Wannamal [114: page 11]
In 1855 his station was about 100,000 acres in size, with 4,000 sheep, a herd of cattle, a few horses and 100 acres of wheat crop [220]
Member of the Northam, Toodyay and Victoria Plains Agricultural Society 1857-1869 [220]
Over the years 1858 to 1884 he employed 26 Ticket of Leave convicts and in later years also employed a number of Chinese men [220]
By the 1860s had purchased over 30 more freehold blocks of land in the Victoria Plains [220]
In August 1862 signed a petition presented to the Governor requesting that convict John MCDONALD not be hung [220]
Erected a headstone on the grave of his nephew Aeneas MACPHERSON, who died in 1866, at the Culham Cemetery [138]
His wife Jessie died from an abscess on her liver in Perth on 27 August 1869 and was buried at the East Perth Cemetery [220]
At the time of Jessie's death their youngest child Flora was aged only five months [220]
Judge of the Cattle and Sheep sections at the Toodyay, Northam & Victoria Plains Agricultural Society's Show in 1869 [39: 15-Oct-1869]
Married (2) Selina Emma EARNSHAW in Perth on 28 January 1871 [220]
Foundation Member and Inaugural Chairman of the Victoria Plains Road Board on its formation on 1 March 1871 [5: 22-Jun-1934]
     Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Victoria Plains Road Board 1872-1876 [220]
     Until 1876 meetings of the Victoria Plains Road Board had been held at his home on Glentromie Station [220]
     Retired from his positions on the  Victoria Plains Road Board in 1876, however remained a member of the Board until 1886 [220]
During his Fifth Expedition in 1876 the explorer Ernest GILES visited him at Glentromie Station [159]
      In his journal GILES described him as "a fine, hospitable old Scotchman, who has a most valuable and excellent property" [159]
In 1877 was said to be one the largest flock-masters in the Swan River Colony in addition to possessing a fine strain of cattle [220]
The second Victoria Plains races in 1879 were held at his Glentromie where he also staged a banquet and ball [220]
In the 1870s and 1880s bred horses which were then herded overland to be shipped to India and the Far East [220]
On 24 October 1872 the Inquirer newspaper reported that the 1040 ton Astracan embarked Fremantle for Calcutta "with the finest [220]
     batch of colonial-bred horses that has ever been exported from WA. The larger part of the shipment, some 170, are from the [220]
     well-known stud of D McPherson of Glentromie Victoria Plains, and are accompanied by his son Aeneas McPherson." [220]
     It was said to have taken 20 horseman to get the horses to Fremantle and nine grooms travelled on the ship [220]
     His sons Aeneas and John variously travelled with the horses on ships to India a number of times in the 1870s and 1880s [220]
His home on Glentromie was said to have been an eleven room brick home with verandahs along the front and ends [220]
     Also near the house was a detached cottage of another nine rooms including a large cellar [220]
     His stable, also of brick, was 30 metre longs with walls six metres tall and with a loft capable of storing 50 tons of hay [220]
     Adjacent to the 27 horse stall stable was a cart shed, harness room, chaff house, shearing shed and blacksmith's workshop [220]
     Also near the stable was a large cattle yard, sheds for milking purposes and two workmen's cottages [220]
Although he never resided in Carnamah he aided its settlement through financial and other contributions to his brother Duncan [127] [134]
     Assisted Duncan with £200 following his eviction from The Byeen in Toodyay and the sale of all his assets in late 1867 [127: page 182]
     Also gave his brother Duncan horses, a dray and farming implements [134: page 156]
     On 13 February 1879 purchased jointly with his brother Duncan the title deed to Victoria Location 1172 [122]
     Victoria Location 1172 was 100 acres of land surrounding Carnamah Spring and Duncan's homestead Carnamah House [122]
By 1887 Glentromie consisted of about 5,500 acres of freehold land and about 60,000 acres of leasehold land [220]
     In 1887 he ran around 5,000 sheep on Glentromie, most of which were tendered to by shepherds [220]
     Wool from the many sheep was carted to Perth with a six horse wagon drawn by Glentromie bred horses [220]
     In 1887 he also ran about 250 horses on his property, in addition to 150 head of cattle and 100 pigs [220]
Father of Aeneas, Jessie, William, John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Edward and Flora [220]
Died 4 August 1887 in Victoria Plains; buried East Perth Cemetery in the Perth suburb of East Perth [220]
On 27 February 1888 Glentromie was sold by public auction to Walter PADBURY for £11,200 [220]


"Don" / "Mac" Donald MACPHERSON
Born 5 July 1858 at The Byeen in Toodyay, Western Australia [40]
Son of Duncan MACPHERSON and Mary WILSON [40]
Resided with his parents at The Byeen in the Newcastle-Toodyay district 1858-1867 [127: pages 86, 182]
Arrived in what is now the Carnamah district with his parents in 1868 [8: page 5 - was 9 when they came] [120: 9-Jan-1930]
     Initially resided with his parents in a three roomed stone cottage near the Yarra Yarra Lakes in Carnamah [119]
     Later resided with his parents at Carnamah House, situated on Victoria Location 1172 of his father's Carnamah Station [119]
Breeder and Grazier of sheep, cattle and horses in Carnamah [4: 15-Aug-1931]
     Ran Carnamah Station with his father and brothers, and following his father's death ran the station with his brother George [8: page 8]
     Donald and George inherited their father's leasehold and freehold land in Carnamah [8: page 8]
     This land was Carnamah Station and Yarra Yarra Farm (also known as Yarie Yarie, situated along the Yarra Yarra Lakes) [P93]
     Carted wool produced on the station from Carnamah to Guildford, the return trip taking two weeks [120: 9-Jan-1930]
     Employed local Aboriginal men as shepherds for the sheep, including Carnamah Tommy and "Dido" Joachim DIDO [P300]
Had a woolshed with a screw-press wool-press in scrub southwest of their homestead Carnamah House [P399]
     The press was surrounded by a platform that Aboriginal employees walked around, pressing the wool down into the bale [P399]
     The screw pulled over the flap of the wool-bale, and they then sewed down the flap [P399]
In the early years at Carnamah they bred horses that were shipped to Singapore after herding them overland to Perth [12: 20-Aug-1931]
Also bred thoroughbred racehorses at Carnamah, many of which won prizes in races at Perth and on the goldfields [12: 20-Aug-1931]
     One of his best racehorses was named "Carnamah" and won many races [12: 20-Aug-1931]
     His racehorse named Carnamah born in about 1905, the child of racehorses Gossaire and Sunbeam [81: 23-Jan-1912]
     In 1917 "The celebrated blood sire Carnamah" stood for the season at Glenholm, Moora for a fee of £13/3/- [10: 31-Aug-1917, 7-Sep-1917]
     Carnamah also stood at Glenholm, Moora in 1918 and was a "sure foal-getter," at the same stud fee of £13/3- [10: 9-Aug-1918]
     His horse named Carnamah was remarked as "the well known blood horse" and "winner of numerous races" [10: 11-Oct-1918]
     He imported the English stallion Grenelle, "a commanding looking chestnut, splendidly timbered and truly an aristocrat" [9]
     Grenelle was the Champion horse and best Thoroughbred Stallion exhibited at the Perth Royal Show in 1910 [9: 16-Sep-1910, 4-Nov-1910]
     His thoroughbred stallion Grenelle stood the 1910 season on his property in Carnamah, for a fee of £10/10/- per mare [9: 7-Oct-1910]
     In 1919 Grenelle won blue ribbons at both the Perth Royal Show and the Moora Agricultural Show [4: 15-Aug-1931]
Himself and his brother George transported wagons full of supplies and machinery from Perth to Rothsay Mine [12: 20-Aug-1931]
      They also gathered timber which they carted and sold to the Great Fingal Mine in Cue [12: 20-Aug-1931]
They had ringbarked 500 acres of their Conditional Purchase land about one mile east of the Yarra Yarra Lakes in 1900 [39: 13-Nov-1900]
     The land was Salmon Gum country, and in 1900 they had 50 acres of it under crop, expected to yield two tonnes to the acre [39]
     An inspector reporting to the Minister of Lands reported that it was the best crop he had seen in the locality [39]
     The inspector reported that their land gave "a splendid illustration of what the salmon gum land will produce" [39]
Following George's tragic death in 1904 Donald carried on alone with the management of Carnamah Station [P10]
     Along with his sisters Maggie and Bessie continued to reside in the family homestead, Carnamah House, on Carnamah Station [119]
     They had a number of peacocks which roamed freely around the family homestead [7: page 14]
Appointed in 1887 under the provisions of the Aborigines' Protection Act 1886 to witness contracts of Aboriginal People [39: 26-Aug-1887]
Justice of the Peace for the Victoria Magisterial District from 1897 until his death in 1931 [4: 16-Feb-1929] [120: 9-Jan-1930]
Family members state that by 1905 he was producing 30 bushels of wheat per acre without the aid of superphosphate [119]
     Entered into grain growing, and in 1917 he had 400 acres of wheat crop on his Carnamah land [10: 19-Jun-1917]
In 1908 was the farmer and grazier of 59,655 acres in Carnamah (made up of freehold land, pastoral leases and grazing leases) [44]
     He may have had more than 59,655 acres as he had a 40,300 acre pastoral lease from the Midland Railway Company [34] [44]
     This pastoral lease appears in rate books only as 38,000 acres, so in total he may have had 61,955 acres in 1908 [34] [44]
     Although in lesser amounts, he continued leasing land in Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company until at least 1915 [34]
In 1908 a visitor remarked that he was "a farmer and grazier, postmaster and Heaven alone knows how many other things" [81: 11-Oct-1908]
     The visitor commented on the "post and telegraph office in full swing" at their homestead and called Carnamah an ancient place [81]
Exhibited in the Horse and Cattle sections of the Irwin Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Dongara in 1908 [9: 9-Oct-1908]
     Won 1st prize for Blood Stallion with his Homeward Bound, 1st for Cow for Beef, 1st for Fat Cow and 2nd for Shorthorn Bull [9]
Attended the Midland Railway Company's 9th Subdivision Sale at the Builders & Contractors' Exchange in Perth on 18 June 1909 [39]
     The sale was the Company's first of agricultural blocks of virgin bush and townsite blocks in Three Springs [39: 19-Jun-1909]
     He was the successful bidder of the first agricultural block of 10,617 acres for £3715/19/-, payable by instalments over 15 years [39]
     The block was adjusted to 10,660 acres for £3,731 (7/- per acre), for which he paid a cash deposit of £371/10/- [27]
     The repayments were then set out with a first instalment of £223/10/10 followed by 14 annual instalments of £224 [27]
     The land was mainly in Three Springs but partly in Carnamah and was Lot M765 of Victoria Locations 1934, 2020 and 2022 [27]
In 1910 his well known station was said to have been "one of the best appointed stations to be seen in the Midland district" [9: 16-Sep-1910]
His horse named Carnamah won the £50 Farewell Welter at the Helena Vale Races on Saturday 30 October 1909 [81: 31-Oct-1909]
     Three months later Carnamah won the £50 Welter Handicap at the Canning Park Races on Saturday 22 January 1910 [81: 23-Jan-1910]
Served and represented Carnamah on the Upper Irwin Road Board administered at Mingenew 1910-1917 [101: page 152]
     Attended his first meeting as a member of the Upper Irwin Road Board in Mingenew on 15 April 1910 [9: 29-Apr-1910]
     He wrote apologising for his absence at the Board's meeting in August 1910, due to being ill with influenza [9: 26-Aug-1910, 2-Sep-1910]
     In August 1916 took Upper Irwin Road Board chairman "Pat" Charles W. O'HALLORAN on a tour of the Carnamah district [10]
     It was believed that he "drove into every hole and boulder about the district" to get money allotted to Carnamah roads [10: 18-Aug-1916]
     Served and represented Carnamah on the Mingenew Road Board (previously the Upper Irwin Road Board) 1921-1923 [101: page 152]
     Attended a meeting in Three Springs on 24 August 1922 about the possible division of the Mingenew Road Board [9: 8-Sep-1922]
     The meeting decided the expense was too great, and agreed to remain under the governance of the Mingenew Road Board [9]
     Founding Member of the Carnamah District Road Board in 1923, and served on the Board in 1923-24 [7: page 111]
Exhibited in the Horse and Cattle sections at the Irwin Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Dongara on 28 September 1910 [9]
     Won 1st prizes for Clydesdale or Heavy Draught Stallion, WA bred Clydesdale, Blood Stallion, Blood Mare and Lady's Hack [9]
     Received both 1st and 2nd for Fat Cow, and 1st prizes for Shorthorn Bull, Shorthorn Cow and Cow for Beef [9]
     Among his prize winning exhibits were the Champion Stallion, Champion Mare, Champion Bull and Champion Cow [9: 7-Oct-1910]
Attended a meeting about forming a race club at the Commercial Hotel in Three Springs on Saturday 10 December 1910 [31]
     Founding Member and Inaugural President of the Three Springs Race Club in 1910 [9: 23-Dec-1910] [31: 19-Dec-1910]
     At the formation of the club he offered the use of his land in Three Springs for the site of their race track, and donated £10 [9]
     Vice President of the Three Springs Race Club in 1929 [4: 23-Feb-1929]
His horses Sunsplit, Black Kitty and Carnamah ran in the Three Springs Race Club's Inaugural Races on 9 March 1911 [9: 17-Mar-1911]
     Sunsplit won the Trial Stakes while Black Kitty and Carnamah came 2nd in the Carnamah Plate and Three Springs Handicap [9]
His hose named Carnamah won the Moora Cup and the Midland Handicap at the Moora Races on Wednesday 29 March 1911 [9]
     In addition Black Kitty came 2nd in the District Handicap and Sunsplit came 2nd in the Flying Handicap [9: 24 & 31-Mar-1911]
His horses Sunsplit and Dandy ran at the Upper Irwin District Race Club's Inaugural Race Meeting in Mingenew on 28 April 1911 [9]
     Sunsplit won the Flying Handicap of five furlongs (winning £15) and the Farewell Handicap of seven furlongs (£8) [9: 5-May-1911]
His Grenelle won 2nd for Thoroughbred Stallion at the Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Horse Parade in Perth in 1912 [39: 7-Aug-1912]
His racehorse named Carnamah was returned to him in July 1913 after being leased to Tom TIGHE [81: 27-Jul-1913]
     Carnamah hadn't performed well during the leasing on account of an injury and had broken down during a race in July [81]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1914-15 and 1915-16 [10: 27-Oct-1915, 19-Nov-1915]
     During the winter of 1914 he transported local cricketers to Three Springs for Carnamah vs Three Springs matches [10: 30-Jun-1914]
     Three Springs also travelled to Carnamah, however it was claimed his team aimed to hit the ball into rabbit burrows [10: 17-Jul-1914]
     Took his team of Carnamah cricketers to Three Springs for the opening of the 1914-15 season on 25 October 1914 [10: 27-Oct-1914]
     In October 1914 he had his sheep shorn by shearers from New Norcia, who during their brief sojourn added to his cricket team [10]
Moved a vote of confidence in Country Party candidate James GARDINER at his address in Carnamah on 8 October 1914 [10: 9-Oct-14]
Attended the Saint Patrick's Day Sports Meeting held at the recreation ground in Three Springs on 17 March 1915 [10: 26-Mar-1915]
     He took with him a number of people from Carnamah, and during the day's events his horse Dandy came 2nd in the Mile Trot [10]
His horse Yorkey came 2nd in the Hack Race at the Annual Sports Meeting in Arrino on Easter Monday 1 April 1915 [10: 15-Apr-1915]
In 1915 he was President of the Three Springs Day, a fete that was held annually in Three Springs [10: 24-Sep-1915]
Won the Gents Prize at the Euchre Part & Dance held in Three Springs on Friday 8 October 1915 [10: 12-Oct-1915]
Founding Member and Inaugural President of the Three Springs Rifle Club in 1915 [10: 29-Oct-1915]
In 1915, during the First World War, he donated a fat sheep which raised £5/4/- through raffling for the Red Cross Society [39: 9-Nov-1915]
He was among the first to play tennis in Carnamah after local subscriptions purchased the materials in February 1916 [9: 3-Mar-1916]
His horse Waster came 3rd in the Carnamah Handicap at the Sports Meeting in Carnamah on Thursday 4 May 1916 [10: 16-May-1916]
In May 1916 himself and Theodore T. DAVIESON convened a meeting to form a Racing Club in Carnamah [10: 16-May-1916]
     Donated land near the Carnamah townsite to the Carnamah Race Club for their first racecourse [10: 1-Apr-1921]
     Handicapper "to the satisfaction of all" at the Carnamah Race Club's Picnic Races on Easter Monday in 1918 [10: 12-Apr-1918]
     President and Committee Member of the Carnamah Race Club 1919-1924 [9: 7-Mar-1919] [10: 13-Feb-1920, 27-Jan-1922, 17-Apr-1924]
     The land he donated for the racecourse was known as "Macpherson Park" in 1924 [10: 3-Apr-1924]
     In 1927 donated 46 acres of his land to the Carnamah Race Club for them to construct a new racecourse [9: 21-Oct-1927]
Attended the "Three Springs Day" event at Casuarina Park in Three Springs on Wednesday 4 October 1916 [10: 6-Oct-1916]
     His horse Dandy won the trotting race at the "Day" and another of his horses won him £50 for winning the hack race [10]
During the 1910s travelled by horse and buggy with his two sisters to dances held at the Railway Goods Shed in Carnamah [7]
     The buggy had two square lights lit by candles and was said, at the time, to have been very modern [7: page 151]
     In the 1910s he often gave the PARKIN and JAQUES children a ride to school in his buggy and pair of horses [P10]
While travelling on the Perth bound train on Christmas Day 25 December 1916 he received news of a disastrous fire in Winchester [10]
     He was alarmed, as his property extended as far as Winchester, however it turned out the fire was nonexistent [10: 2-Jan-1917]
Vice President of the Three Springs Saint Patrick's Day Committee's Sports Meeting on Saint Patrick's Day 17 March 1917 [124]
     President of the Three Springs Saint Patrick's Day Committee's Sports Meetings on 16 March 1918 and 17 March 1919 [124]
     Donated £1 in 1919, £2/2/- in 1920 and 10/- in 1925 to the Three Springs Saint Patrick's Day Committee [124]
     Patron and Official Measurer of the Committee's Picnic Race Meetings in Three Springs in 1920 and 1921 [9: 5-Mar-1920, 11-Mar-1921]
     Patron in 1922 and Vice President in 1925 and 1928 of the Picnic Race Meetings in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day [124]
His horses Rosie and Canary competed in the races at the Saint Patrick's Day Sport Meeting in Three Springs on 16 March 1918 [10]
     Rosie won the Forced Handicap and came 2nd in the St Patrick's Handicap; and Canary was 2nd in the Maiden Plate [10: 22-Mar-1918]
His horse Rosie ran in the Carnamah Races on 9 April 1917 and won the main race of the day, the Carnamah Handicap [9: 27-Apr-1917]
He proposed the vote of thanks to the Y.M.C.A. General Secretary who gave an address in Carnamah in May 1917 [9: 18-May-1917]
Won the High Jump in the ring events at the Three Springs Day held in Three Springs on 26 September 1917 [10: 5-Oct-1917]
Gave evidence for the Midland Railway Company to a Royal Commission on Agricultural Industries in Carnamah in 1917 [34]
     He had good relations with the Company, in one letter Robert L. GILBERT addressed him as "My Dear Macpherson" [34]
     Some claimed the Company allowed him free grazing and the use of water on their unsold ready-made farms in Carnamah [34]
     It appears that in return the Company took prospective purchasers of their land to hear his views on Carnamah's merits [34]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Purchased some of his general supplies from general store "The Supply Stores" in Yarra Street, Carnamah in 1917 and 1918 [92]
Handicapper of the horse races at the Picnic Races held in Carnamah on Easter Monday 1 April 1918 [10: 12-Apr-1918]
     His horses Wooraling and Rosie competed in the day's racing, with Woorlaling winning the Pony Race [10]
In 1918 donated a horse to be raffled to increase the funds being raised in Three Springs for the Red Cross Society [10: 21-Jun-1918]
     He was also an entrant in the Lazy Man Competition being conducted by the Three Springs branch of the Red Cross [10: 10-May-1918]
     He came 3rd in the Competition with 8,208 votes, his involvement helping to raise £131 for the Red Cross Society [10: 31-May-1918]
Attended the Three Springs Day held on Mrs Minnie M. WATSON's Moonlight Farm in Three Springs on 26 September 1918 [10]
     Won both prizes for the Trotting Handicap, his horse Charcoal winning and his horse Dandy coming second [10: 4-Oct-1918]
Competed in the Ring Events at the Moora Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Moora on Friday 4 October 1918 [10: 11-Oct-1918]
     He was awarded 1st prize for all five trotting matches (1½ mile, 15 Hands of Under, Open for Pace Style & Action and 1 Mile) [10]
Member of the Carnamah Peace Celebrations Committee in 1919 [10: 11-Jul-1919]
Member of the Carnamah Hall Committee - was Treasurer in 1919 [10: 29-Aug-1919, 25-Feb-1921] [9: 4-Feb-1921]
     For the opening of the Carnamah Hall issued a challenge to John BOWMAN to play a cricket match of married v. single men [9]
     They fielded their respective teams however BOWMAN's team of married men, after much training, won by a narrow margin [9]
     He officially opened the first Carnamah Hall at 8 p.m. on Thursday 17 February 1921 [9: 4-Feb-1921] [10: 11-Feb-1921, 4-Mar-1921]
     At the opening of the hall the Carnamah Hall Committee presented him with a inscribed silver key as a souvenir of the day [10]
     The key's inscription reads "Presented to Donald Macpherson Esq. at the opening of Carnamah Hall 17 Feby. 1921" [119]
     The land title for the Carnamah Hall was jointly in the names of himself, John LANG and W. Henry WATSON [34]
His horses Home Again, Wildjo, Coomalgabba and Wooraling ran at the Sports Meeting in Three Springs on 17 March 1919 [124]
     Home Again won both the Parakalia Handicap and the Forced Handicap races, and Coomalgabba came 2nd in the Hack Race [124]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mingenew grazier Charles W. O'HALLORAN at the Mingenew Cemetery on 30 March 1919 [9: 4-Apr-1919]
In April / May of 1919 sold most of his freehold land in Carnamah to the Government's Repatriation Department [10: 9-May-1919, 6-Jun-1919]
     He sold to the Repatriation Department almost all of the land he owned between the Yarra Yarra Lakes and the railway line [44]
     The land, known as the Yarra Yarra Estate, was subdivided and allocated to ex-servicemen from the First World War [120: 5-Oct-1933]
     In or around 1919 he also sold 996 acres of his freehold land (Victoria Location 3330) to Gerald A. NEWMAN of Carnamah [44]
Retained ownership of his 10,660 acre Lot M965 in Three Springs and partly in Carnamah, the 125 acre Victoria Location 1768, [3] [7]
     the 40 acre Victoria Location 1321 and the 100 acre Victoria Location 1172 (which contained his family's homestead) [3] [7: page 22]
On 17 June 1919 purchased 3,401 acres of land near his homestead in Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company [27]
     The 3401 acres, which cost £2211.10.4 (13/- per acre), was Lots M1071, M1072 and M1073 of Victoria Location 1936 [27]
     He continued farming in Carnamah and in later years used his land principally for the fattening of livestock [120: 5-Oct-1933]
In 1919 donated the use of his land in Three Springs to the Three Springs Race Club for the purpose of their race course [9: 12-Sep-1919]
     The Three Springs Race Club accepted his generous offer and constructed an ideal course situated about two miles out of [9]
     Three Springs town, easy to get to, with plenty of shade and a course comparable with any between Perth and Geraldton [9]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company two vacant blocks in the Carnamah townsite for £30 cash on 9 May 1919 [27]
     The two blocks were 10 and 12 Macpherson Street, Carnamah (Lots 50 and 51 of Victoria Location 1936) [27]
     In March 1926 he applied for a special Certificate of Title for the two blocks as he'd lost the original [81: 28-Mar-1926]
     Believed to have sold the two blocks to Carl F. W. KROSCHEL, who had a tearooms built at 10 Macpherson Street in 1926 [P1]
     Carl F. W. KROSCHEL is said to have later sold 12 Macpherson Street, which became the site of the Carnamah Post Office [P9]
His horses Home Again, Wooraling, Home Rose and Corrie ran in the Three Springs Races on Thursday 6 March 1919 [9: 14-Mar-1919]
     Home Again and Wooraling came 1st and 3rd  in the Trial Stakes; Home Rose came 2nd in the Carnamah Plate; [10: 21-Mar-1919]
     Corrie came 2nd in the Three Springs Handicap and the Arrino Handicap; and Wooraling also came 3rd in the Arrino Handicap [9]
He objected to the request to the Upper Irwin Road Board for a new road being formed through his property in March 1919 [9]
     The request came from GREEN Bros of Carnamah and his objection was "fatal" resulting in the road not going ahead [9: 28-Mar-1919]
His horses Coomalgabba, Wildjo, Lenelle, Home Again and Wooraling ran in the Carnamah Races on Thursday 27 March 1919 [10]
     Coomalgabba and Wildjo came 1st and 2nd in the Maiden Plate; Wooraling came 2nd in the Pony Race; [10: 11-Apr-1919]
     Lennelle and Home Again came 1st and 2nd in the Flying Handicap; Home Again came 1st in the Carnamah Handicap [10]
His horses Wildjo, Home Again and Wooraling ran at the Picnic Race Meeting held in Arrino on Thursday 3 April 1919 [10]
     Wildjo came 2nd in the Maiden Hack Race while Home Again won both the Flying Handicap and the Arrino Handicap [10]
     Wooraling won the Pony Race and came 2nd in the Forced Handicap [10: 18-Apr-1919]
During May or June of 1919 he was compelled to kill some of his lambs due to not having enough feed for them [10: 6-Jun-1919]
Attended the Peace Day Celebrations held in Carnamah on Saturday 19 July 1919 [10: 25-Jul-1919]
     His horses Wildjo, Younga, La Carnamah and Charcoal were starters in the racing events held during the day [10]
     Charcoal won the Novelty Race and Wildjo won the Hack Race, while Donald himself won the Old Buffers Running Race [10]
     At the time of Peace Day Celebrations his horse Dandy was leased to Daniel S. FITZSIMONS, and won the Trotting Handicap [10]
His horses Dandy and Charcoal won 1st and 2nd in the Trotting Match at the Three Springs Day on 25 September 1919 [10: 3-Oct-1919]
Dandy performed in the ring events section of the Moora Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1919, and won four 1st prizes [9]
     "At the Moora Show an old favourite in "Dandy," nominated by Mr. D. Macpherson, of Carnamah, was seen [9]
     in the ring, being successful in all events competed for and was ridden by Mr T. W. Burns on each occasion" [9: 10-Oct-1919]
At the Three Springs Races on Thursday 4 March 1920 his horse Wooraling won the Pony Race of four furlongs [9: 12-Mar-1920]
     Home Again also ran at Three Springs, winning the Three Springs Handicap and coming second in the F. J. Morgan Plate [9]
His horse Home Again won the Local Handicap and the Carnamah Stakes at the Carnamah Races on 11 March 1920 [9: 19-Mar-1920]
     Lenelle came 2nd in the Flying Handicap and 3rd in the Welter Handicap; and his Wooraling won the Pony race [10: 19-Mar-1920]
Three of his horses competed at the Picnic Race Meeting in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day Wednesday 17 March 1920 [124]
     Wildjo won the Maiden Plate, Wooraling won the Pony Handicap and Home Again won the Saint Pats Handicap [124]
His horses Home Again and La Carnamah ran in the Moora Races held in Moora on Friday 19 March 1920 [9: 26-Mar-1920]
     Home Again came 2nd in the Midland Handicap and the District Handicap, and La Carnamah came 3rd in the District Handicap [9]
Best man at the wedding of Angus A. N. MCGILP and Janet M. LANG at Grianaig Farm, Carnamah on 7 April 1920 [10: 16-Apr-1920]
The Peeps at People column of The Sunday Times newspaper reported that he was in Perth in mid May 1920 [81: 16-May-1920]
Attended the Euchre Party, Basket Social & Dance held at the State School in Carnamah on Thursday 24 June 1920 [10: 16-Jul-1920]
     Himself and young Francis ROOKE tied for 2nd at euchre, however he gave up his claim and allowed Francis to win the prize [10]
Seven of his horses ran in the Carnamah Race Club's Picnic Race Meeting in Carnamah on Thursday 16 September 1920 [10: 1-Oct-1920]
     The seven horses were Youngar, Wallajeny, Mardoo, Home Rose, Wildjo, Wooraling and Coomalgabba [10]
     Won 1st and 3rd places in the Maiden Hack Race, with Youngar winning, and Wallajeny coming third [10]
     Home Rose came 2nd in the Picnic Handicap; while Mardoo came 2nd in the Flying Handicap and 3rd in the Ladies Bracelet [10]
At the Carnamah Races on 16 September 1920 his horses Youngar and Wallajeny came 1st and 3rd in the Maiden Hack Race; [10]
     while his horse Mardoo and Home Rose came second in the Flying Handicap and Picnic Handicap respectively [10: 1-Oct-1920]
Held a horse sale at his homestead in Carnamah at 2 p.m. sharp on Friday 24 September 1920 to sell over 30 horses [10]
     Employed the services of Three Springs agent and auctioneer Thomas J. BERRIGAN to conduct the horse sale [10]
     Among the horses for sale were thoroughbreds that were the progeny of his well known sires Carnamah and Grenelle [10]
     Also included were good classes of hack, farm and sulky Brood Mares "at very reasonable prices" [10: 10-Sep-1920]
On 15 November 1920 purchased 28 acres from the Midland Railway Company for £125 (Lot M1123 of Victoria Location 1936) [27]
     Lot M1123 was a rectangular shaped block at the eastern end of the Carnamah townsite, and later became part of the townsite [--]
     During the 1920s sold 23 acres of Lot M1123 to Robert PALFREYMAN, and three acres to the Carnamah Hotel [3]
     Retained two acres of Lot M1123, which he owned until selling it to Elder Smith & Co a short time before his death [3]
     Allowed the public to draw water from his well on Lot M1123 during Carnamah town's water shortage in early 1927 [4: 19-Feb-1927]
     In 1929 erected stock sale yards behind the Carnamah Hotel, on his retained portion of Lot M1123  [4: 17-Aug-1929]
     The yards were known as "Mr D. Macpherson's yards" and were used by Westralian Farmers for livestock sales [4: 12-Jul-1930]
The Sunday Times newspaper reported him among the noteworthy attendees at the Perth Cup on 1 January 1921 [81: 2-Jan-1921]
His horses Grenelle, Home Rose and Coomalgabba ran in the Carnamah Races on Easter Monday 28 March 1921 [10: 1-Apr-1921]
Won the gent's prize in a raffle at a Euchre Party & Dance held to raise funds for the Carnamah Football Club on 9 July 1921 [9]
     On winning the prize he generously donated it back to the Carnamah Football Club so it could be raffled again [9: 15-Jul-1921]
Attended the Picnic Race Meeting & Agricultural Show in Carnamah on Thursday 22 September 1921 [9: 30-Sep-1921]
     His horse Mardoo successfully competed by winning the Flying Handicap and coming 2nd in the Carnamah Handicap [9]
President of the Carnamah Football Club in 1921, and Patron in 1926 [7: page 195] [9: 2-Apr-1926]
     Vice President of the Carnamah Football Club in 1930 and 1931 [4: 15-Mar-1930, 18-Apr-1931]
Motored from Carnamah to Moora to attend the Moora Race Club's Race Meeting on Tuesday 14 March 1922 [10: 17-Mar-1922]
     He was accompanied by Arthur S. MORTIMER of Three Springs and Carnamah farmer Anstruther P. TUCKER [10]
Attended and financially subscribed to the Three Springs Picnic Races held on Saint Patrick's Day Friday 17 March 1922 [9: 24-Mar-1922]
     The day's celebrations were reported to include "the happy face of everybody's well met friend Donald Mac" [9]
     It was also reported that "punting certainly was his main reason for attending" the day's celebrations in Three Springs [9]
Using a buggy and two of his racehorses he would fly through the Carnamah townsite to collect his mail when he heard the train [P10]
     It was said that he could travel from Carnamah to Three Springs in 20 minutes with his buggy and two racehorses [P10]
     Miss Daisy BOWMAN of Carnamah often challenged him to a race with her horse and buggy however she always lost [P10]
In January 1922 purchased a new model Hupmobile car to replace his existing Hupmobile car [81: 15-Jan-1922]
     "...his regret at parting with the old car is only surpassed by his pride and satisfaction in his new model. She is a beauty" [81]
     In October 1924 he purchased his third Hupmobile car [81: 19-Oct-1924]
     His Hupmobile car was said to have been as "familiar in and around Carnamah as the Town hall clock is in Perth" [81: 19-Oct-1924]
     His third Hupmobile car was said to have been a beautiful car and contained license plate CA-4 [7: page 151]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd agent Thomas J. BERRIGAN of Three Springs he held a stock sale on Thursday 9 February 1922 [39]
     The sale began at 2 p.m. at his homestead and was to sell surplus livestock consisting of 600 sheep, 20 cattle and 20 horses [39]
     The sheep were "mostly wethers, right ages and in good forward to fat condition" while the cattle were "in forward to fat order" [39]
     The horses were "well-bred, good conditioned, active medium draughts and light sorts, broken and unbroken" [39: 4-Feb-1922]
Donated a sovereign to be raffled at the Hospital Ball in the Agricultural Hall in Three Springs on Thursday 5 April 1923 [9: 27-Apr-1923]
Inaugural Vice President of the Irwin District Race Club in 1923 and 1924 [10: 13-Dec-1923]
During October 1924 sold his 10,660 acre Lot M765 in Three Springs and partly in Carnamah to Edward and Harold NAIRN [7: page 22]
     Also sold the two NAIRN brothers his 125 acre Victoria Location 1768, which adjoined the Carnamah portion of Lot M765 [3] [44]
     Harold NAIRN was one of his good friends and himself and his sister are said to have often visited Harold and his wife Eva [P10]
From 1924 onwards he owned the 3,401 acres he'd purchased in 1919 and another 140 acres in Victoria Locations 1172 and 1321 [3]
His horses Mardoo, Shellgrit and Marnby ran at the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Race Meeting held on Thursday 10 April 1924 [10]
     Mardoo, who was the child of his horses Carnamah and Sunsplit, came 2nd in the Second Class Plate (winning him £3/10/-) [10]
     His horse Shellgrit was the child of Cambrian and Eggshell, and his horse Marnby was the child of Carnamah and Brown Edith [10]
     In the Local Handicap race his horse Shellgrit "ran off the course and took no part in the race" [10: 3 & 17-Apr-1924]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Carnamah resident John Hudson DAVIES at the Three Springs Cemetery on 20 February 1925 [9: 20-Feb-1925]
His horse Mardoo was 3rd in the Parakalia Handicap at the Picnic Race Meeting in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day in 1925 [124]
Master of the annual Carnamah kangaroo hunt of September 1925, with John BOWMAN assisting him as Deputy Master [9]
     The party met at his homestead, Carnamah House, and then proceeded to the Yarrie Sandplain where the hunt took place [9]
     Among the party were locals and visitors, including his nephew Percy C. MACPHERSON who had charge of the hunt [9]
     The hunt successfully caught 25 kangaroos and stopped twice, for a picnic lunch and later for afternoon tea [9]
     During the hunt he rode his well known horse named Home Again [9: 18-Sep-1925]
     He usually organised local kangaroo hunts and would kindly provide a horse for those who didn't have one [P79]
In 1925 helped collect donations for the improvement of the road over the sandplain between Carnamah and Watheroo [9: 17-Apr-1925]
Owing to illness spent a portion of January 1926 in Moora under the care of Dr. MYLES before returning to Carnamah [9:  22-Jan-1926]
Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society - was President in 1927 and 1928 [9: 21-Oct-1927] [4: 22-Sep-1928]
     Patron of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1930 and 1931 [4: 2-Nov-1929, 25-Apr-1931]     
Donated the "Macpherson Trophy" to the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1927 and 1929 [9: 19-Aug-1927] [4: 30-Mar-1929]
Won 1st prizes for Fat Wethers and Merino Wethers in the Sheep section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1927 [9: 21-Oct-1927]
     Won 2nd for Fine Wool in the Wool section, and won the Hunter's High Jump and Hunters Over Hurdles in the Ring Events [9]
Patron of the Carnamah Tennis Club in 1927-28 [39: 25-Oct-1927]
Inaugural Vice President of the Three Springs Agricultural Society in 1928 [4: 29-Sep-1928]
His horse Nardoo won the High Jump at the Carnamah Show and Sports Carnival held in Carnamah on Thursday 4 October 1928 [4]
     Also exhibited in the Sheep section of the Show, where he received 1st prize for a Merino Hogget [4: 13-Oct-1928]
In 1929 he was the longest serving Justice of the Peace in the Victoria District, having been a JP since 1897 [4: 16-Feb-1929]
Attended the Three Springs Race Club's Annual Race Meeting held in Three Springs on Thursday 11 April 1929 [4: 13-Apr-1929]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son in the 1920s and 1930s [53]
Won the Gent's Hack and came 2nd in the Gent's Hunter Over Hurdles in the Ring Events at the Carnamah Show in 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
     Also at the Carnamah Show in 1930 he won 1st prize for a Jersey Cow and 2nd for a "Merino Ram bred in the North Midlands" [4]
His horses Pilbarite and Rocket ran the Carnamah Races held at Centenary Park, Carnamah on Thursday 2 October 1930 [4: 4-Oct-1930]
     Pilbarite won the Flying Handicap and the Midland Handicap; Rocket won the Open Hack Race and Local Open Hack Race [4]
Patron of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 4-Oct-1930]
His horses Rocket and Tangrit ran in the Carnamah Race Club's Races at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 26 March 1931 [4: 28-Mar-1931]
     Rocket won the Local Hack Race of five furlongs, and Tangrit came 2nd in the Maiden Local Hack Race of four furlongs [4]
Travelled from Carnamah to Perth in July 1931 to see a medical specialist [4: 27-Jun-1931]
Died 12 August 1931 in Carnamah; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row A, Plot 12) [1]
His estate was valued at £5,131/15/6 [39: 8-Sep-1931]
     In his will he left £100 to nurse Mrs Susan DURACK of Arrino [38] who had assisted him at his homestead prior to his death [P139]
     The remainder of his estate was left equally between his sister Bessie and his nephew Percy Campbell MACPHERSON [38]
On Friday 23 October 1931 a sale was held to sell his remaining farmland, farm machinery and livestock [4: 10-Oct-1931] [117]
Items sold at the sale included a McKay harvester, 5 horsepower McKay engine, 6 furrow M.B. plough, McCormick-Derring drill, [4]
     15/30 McCormick-Deering tractor, chaffcutter, spring tooth chaffcutter, 14 disc Sundercut, grader, four cows, 180 hoggets, [4]
     five farm horses, mares, geldings, and the well known racehorses Mardoo, Home Again, Rocket, Pilbarite and Fiducia [4]
His Carnamah farmland was partly sold to Mrs Beatrice M. BENTLEY and partly leased and later sold to George S. FERGUSON [3]
     Beatrice M. BENTLEY purchased 2505 acres - Lots M1071 and M1072, portion 5 of Lot M1073, and Victoria Location 1321 [3]
     George S. FERGUSON leased and later purchased 946 acres - the remaining portions of Lot M1073 [3]
The only land retained following his death was the 100 acre Victoria Location 1172 which contained the family homestead [117]
His sister Bessie continued to reside at the family homestead, Carnamah House, until her death in 1939 [119]


From The Midlands Advertiser newspaper, Friday 25 October 1907:
"Carnamah Notes - Shearing is going on full swing at Mr. Donald Macpherson's, and things around the homestead have a very busy appearance. This last few years Mr. Macpherson's homestead has made rapid progress, and there is some exceptionally fine stock on the farm."


From The Moora Herald and Midland Districts Advocate newspaper, Friday 28 May 1915:
"Three Springs Notes - Donald Macpherson is saying rude things just now. A new chum from a country where they only breed bald faced sheep devoid of horns, has been putting in a few weeks with Mac, and being anxious to pot a raging kangaroo, or murder a man-eating bungarra, Mac, after giving him full instructions as to the warding off any attack by these deadly animals, gave the new chum a Winchester [rifle], and sent him off with a grin. In a couple of hours the sportsman returned glowing all over with pride. "Mr Macpherson," he said, "just as I got into your paddock, I saw some wild beast chasing the sheep about, and as I feared he would kill some of them, I shot him." "What kind of an animal was it," asked Mac. "Oh, he answered, "a big thing with thick curly horns and stuff growing all over his face." Full of forebodings Mac put [his horse] "Dandy" in the sulky, and drove out to find the wild, woolly and horned beast was his fifty guinea ram."


From the Progress Report of the Royal Commission on the
               Agricultural Industries of Western Australia on the Wheat-Growing Portion of the South-West Division of the State:
Wednesday 6 June 1917 at Carnamah
"DONALD MACPHERSON, Grazier, Carnamah, sworn and examined: I have been here 48 years. I hold 5,000 acres of Government land and 10,000 acres of Midland [Railway Company] land. I am following pastoral pursuits and doing a little farming also. Farming conditions here are good. I crop about 300 acres. I do a bit on the share system also. The average yield of the district is 20 bushels. Cropping costs approximately 30s. The average land is worth £3 [per acre]. The [annual] rainfall is about 14 inches. The conditions imposed by the Midland [Railway] Company are a little harsh, and the price a bit high. The man on Government land has an advantage. We have a good class of men on the land in this district. I do not think they labour under any special difficulties except in regard to the price the Midland settlers have to pay for their land. The right man on good land can make a good living in this district. There have not been any failures in this district; no farms are changing hands. I do not think the Company's settlers have sufficiently large areas. A man should have 1,000 acres so that he might work the three years system. This is very good horse country. No dairying is done here; the district is too dry in summer for dairying. It is good country for sheep. The railway freights are reasonable. We rely on dams for our water. The subterranean water is mostly salt. My holding is nearly all natural grass country."


From The Moora Herald and Midland Districts Advocate newspaper, Friday 9 May 1919:
"Carnamah Notes - Mr. Donald Macpherson has sold out his property to the Repatriation Board. Now that Don has sold out his place we are curious to know what he intends to do with his horses. Will he make a point of lowering his speed record to Three Springs? Or will he buy a motor car? As a lover of horses flesh Don has no equal in the State. But now he is "a man of affluence" he should buy a car - if only for the pleasure of his poorer neighbours who would revel in a joy ride (naturally full of hair raising incidents) with Don at the wheel."


From The Western Mail newspaper, Friday 20 December 1928:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah-Coorow - Rapid Development - Leading Residents - Oldest Inhabitant
"The earliest settler still in the district is Mr Donald Macpherson, who resides about a mile from town. He entered the locality with his father sixty years ago, as a lad, and has been there practically ever since. His homestead, which was originally associated with the telegraph line is at least sixty years old. Being of stone it is still quite substantial. The settlement of the property was begun with a few sheep and cattle, which led to cropping for fodder. For years, in the face of loneliness, life was eked out in this way, with wheat crops added as time went on, carting having to be done by horses the two hundred miles to Perth. The coming of the railway introduced a few settlers, but it was not until the last ten years or so that, with the re-purchasing of estates for soldier settlement and the cutting up of the Midland Company's property, the number of farms began to multiply. The last two or three years have seen the greatest advancement, particularly in the town, though the soldier settlement of Inering, established soon after the war, made a palpable difference. Mr Macpherson is a well-known figure in the town, having served for some years on the road board, and contributed with land and in other ways to the progress of the town."


From The Western Mail newspaper, Thursday 9 January 1930:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah's Advancement
"It was way back in 1868 that Mr. Donald Macpherson's parents migrated from Toodyay, bringing their goods and farming implements, and no doubt themselves, in horse and bullock waggons. They came to a pleasant fertile neighbourhood and took up a larger area of country, most of it on conditional purchase. The years have rolled by and to-day the primeval country which the Macpherson's pioneered is the highly prosperous district of Carnamah. Just a few minutes drive from the township stands Mr. Macpherson's hospitable homestead, significantly named Carnamah. It was built of stone quarried on the property and it has an irresistible allurement for each large stone seems to be impregnated with memories of the historical past. Mr. Macpherson was born at Toodyay in 1858 and has lived at Carnamah since his parents brought him there as a lad. His property now embraces about 3000 acres. It is chiefly used for fattening stock. Mr. Macpherson was living in the district for many years before any other settlers arrived. In those early days he carted wool from Carnamah to Guildford, the return trip occupying a fortnight. And what the residents of the modern Carnamah township say if they had a mail only once a month, which was brought from Perth by horseback? Mr. Macpherson, despite his advancing years, leads an active life. He has been a justice of the peace for 40 years."


From The West Australian newspaper, Thursday 13 August 1931:
"Personal - Mr Donald Macpherson, one of the earliest settlers in the Midland districts, died yesterday morning at Carnamah at the age of 73 years after a long illness. The deceased was born at Toodyay in 1858 and went to Carnamah in 1869. Mr Macpherson was well-known in sporting and pastoral circles, and took a keen interest in public affairs throughout the district. The town of Carnamah takes its names from the old Macpherson station of that name. The deceased is survived by an elder brother and a sister."


From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 15 August 1931:
"One of the earliest pioneers of the Midlands districts in the person of Mr. Donald Macpherson passed away at his residence at Carnamah on Wednesday morning. Mr. Macpherson who was born in Toodyay in 1858, being therefore 73 years of age, had resided at Carnamah since 1869. He had witnessed the growth and progress of the district from its earliest days. Before the Midland Railway was constructed Mr. Macpherson was extensively engaged in cattle and sheep breeding, and after the railway was put through he was able to considerably extend his farming operations at his Carnamah Station, from which the town of Carnamah was named. He took an active interest in the affairs of the district, and was held in the highest of esteem by a very wide circle of friends. He was a great lover of horses, and was a keen supporter of the district race meetings, and also at one time raced horses in the metropolitan area. He devoted considerable attention to breeding horses and some years ago imported an English stallion, Grenelle, for his stud. Of late years he had, on account of increasing years, been less active in his many interests. He leaves a brother and a sister and Mr. Leslie Macpherson, who is manager of Meeberie Station, on the Murchison, is a nephew. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at Winchester."


From The Sunday Times newspaper, Sunday 16 August 1931:
"Gone to his last furrow, Donald Macpherson, of Carnamah. Seventy-three years of age, he was born at Toodyay of farming parents, and has all his life devoted his time and energy to the pursuit. The little settlement beside the sleepy Avon, proving too hilly, too stony or too something else for his parents, he and his people removed to where is now Carnamah when Don was 11 years of age, he then being almost as experienced a farmer as any grown man. Growing up there, he became not only a practical man in old-time farming methods, but a keen reader and student of all literature tending to improve his mind and to give him knowledge of more up-to-date methods. A Scot of the Scots, he was an active member of all Caledonian societies within reach, and was a devoted lover of the Hielan pipes and all appertaining thereto. A real sportsman, he was a champion kangaroo hunter, and when foxes first appeared in the Carnamah, district he was the first after them on-horseback, and he did all he could to foster all sorts of manly games in his district. He left a farm that has few superiors in Western Australia."


From The Midlands Advocate newspaper, Thursday 20 August 1931:
"Mr. Donald Macpherson, one of the earliest settlers in the Midlands districts, died at Carnamah on Wednesday, August 12th, at the age of 73 years, after a long illness. Mr. Macpherson was born at Toodyay in 1858 and went to Carnamah in 1869. The Macpherson family was the second to arrive at Carnamah, and the town takes its name from the old Macpherson station of that name. In the early days he bred and shipped many horses to Singapore driving them overland from Carnamah to Perth, and later, with his brother George, he piled five or six wagons between Perth and Rothsay Mine, about 120 miles from Carnamah, with stores and all the machinery used at the time. They also carted timber to the Great Fingal Mine at Cue. Up to a few years ago he took an active part in racing and the breeding of thoroughbreds and was a great supporter of racing in the Midlands. The Carnamah Club owes much to him for its present position. One of his best racehorses was "Carnamah" and with this horse he won many races in the Metropolitan area and on the goldfields. Sires that did stud duty at Carnamah at different times were "Sunbeam", placed in the Perth Cup and a winner of the Geraldton Cup with 11 stone up. "Homeward Bound" and imported "Grenelle" - a beautiful horse that won championship prizes at the Perth Royal Show and a first at the Sydney Royal Show. The funeral took place at Carnamah on Friday, August the 14th, and was largely attended, over sixty cars comprising the cortege, and there were about 300 people at the gravesite. The chief mourners were Messrs. Percy and Malcolm Macpherson, nephews, and Mrs. Edith Mulbery, niece. Messrs John Lang, Harold Nairn, L. Parker, Fred Parrick, Neil Graham and George Roberts acted as pall bearers, while the coffin was borne to the gravesite by Messrs. P. Macpherson, M. Macpherson, Bert Mortimer, A. Mortimer, A. McGilp and A. Tucker. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Donald J. Chipper & Sons, of Perth, in conjunction with Hy. Parkin & Son, of Carnamah. The Rev. Curtis, of Coorow officiated. The passing of Donald Macpherson removes one of the pioneers of the State, and a man who saw that great belt of country known as the Midlands, emerge from virgin bush to prosperous farms and towns. Honest and upright in all his dealings, the Midlands has lost one of its best known personalities, and the State a good citizen. We are poorer for his passing."


From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday, 22 August 1931:
A Pioneer's Funeral - The Late Mr. Donald Macpherson - High Tribute to the "Father of Carnamah"
Sadly to rest from his labours, they laid him
Old Pioneer whom they'll never forget
Great was the tribute of respect that they paid him
No tongue nor pen could express their regret
    "The whole town and district of Carnamah were in mourning on Friday of last week, when all that was mortal of the late Mr. Donald Macpherson - one of the earliest pioneers, and known as the "Father of Carnamah" -  was borne slowly through the streets of the town he had practically founded and loved so well, on its journey of about ten miles to the local cemetery. There was a long cortege of over forty motor vehicles containing representatives of almost every family in Carnamah, together with other from most of the districts of the Midland line within a radius of a hundred miles. Other vehicles met the procession at the cemetery, and it was estimated that the attendance of the funeral numbered approximately two hundred. All the business places in Carnamah were closed as a further mark of respect to the deceased gentleman.
     The late Mr. Macpherson was born at Toodyay in 1858, and was therefore 73 years of age, having resided in Carnamah since 1869. He had witnessed the growth and progress of the district from its earliest days. Before the Midland Railway was constructed Mr. Macpherson was extensively engaged in cattle and sheep breeding, and after the railway was put through, he was able to considerably extend his farming operations, at his Carnamah Station, from which the town of Carnamah was named. He took an active interest in the affairs of the district, having been a member of the Mingenew Road Board for about four years, this being at the time when the jurisdiction of that body embraced the Carnamah district. The late Mr. Macpherson was a well known identity throughout the length and breadth of the North Midlands, and was held in the highest esteem by a very wide circle of friends. He was a great lover of horses, and was a keen supporter of the district race meetings, and also at one time raced horses in the metropolitan area. He devoted considerable attention to breeding horses, and some years ago, imported an English stallion (Grenelle), for his stud. Of late years he had, on account of increasing years, been less active in his many interests. He leaves a brother and a sister, and Mr. Leslie Macpherson, manager of Meeberrie Station, on the Murchison, is a nephew.
     The remains of the late Mr. Macpherson were laid to rest in the Anglican portion of the cemetery, the Rev. A. W. Curtis officiating at the graveside. The casket was of polished jarrah, and from the entrance of the cemetery to the grave it was borne by relatives and intimate friends comprising Messrs P. Macpherson, Malcolm Macpherson, A. J. Mortimer, A. A. McGilp, A. P. Tucker and Arthur Mortimer. The pall-bearers were Messrs G. Roberts, J. Lang, sen., H. Nairn, N. Graham, L. Parker and F. Parrick.
     Others present at the funeral included Messrs R. Robertson (Carnamah Road Board), R. F. Hope (Mingenew Road Board), G. K. Ryder (Bank of Australasia), A. V. Clark (Bank of New South Wales), W. H. G. Howard (Geraldton Newspaper Limited), A. C. Bierman ("Irwin Index" and Carnamah Race Club), A. J. Harris (Mingenew Race Club), A. H. Cousins and C. Dodd (Arrino Race Club), T. J. Berrigan (Dalgety & Co.), A. D. Walker (Shell Oil Co.), J. S. Rooke (Carnamah Agricultural Society), R. Laffan (Elder Smith & Co.), W. Sheridan (Associated Farmers, Ltd.), W. Gaunt (North Midlands Co-operative Coy.), I. Johnson (representing Mr. J. Bowman), Messrs N. W. Reynolds, C. Robertson, B. D. Bothe, A. Smart, H. W. Bothe, C. C. Bothe, N. Somers, A. Farquhar, J. Tully, L. Ferguson, J. K. Forrester, P. Teede, G. F. Brown, J. McIntosh, F. Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Clark, Messrs J. Adams, H. Zuegg, J. Lang, jun., J. Burns, C. Taylor, H. Fowler, R. Barnhart (Three Springs), S. O'Grady, R. Niven, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Turner, Mrs. Colpitts, Messrs J. Niven, S. Blay, W. H. Watson, J. Allen, J. Frame, A. Cumming, N. Bell, H. Dunning, C. J. Brewer, C. Kroschel, W. A. T. Sargent, A. B. Gloster, J. Armstrong, M. Clune, J. Lawson, W. Chapman, J. Kenny, S. L. Hidden, G. Ferguson, J. Dixon, S. Gooch, C. and H. Lynch, F. Badrick, Mr. and Mrs. C. Sheahan, Messrs Phil Lynch, R. A. Caldow (Three Springs), Buckingham, Mulligan, F. Andons, Dr. Mayrhofer, Mr. and Mrs. D. Todd (Three Springs), Andrews, R. Palfreyman, C. W. Smith (Yandanooka), H. H. Rhodes (Mingenew), C. M. Caldow (Mingenew), R. Newton (Mingenew), M. Baker, Sheppard (Dudawa), A. Stokes (Three Springs).
     Included in the large number of floral tributes were those from the following:- Midland Railway Employees' Union, Percy [Macpherson] and Family, Mrs C. and E. Dodd, Mr. and Mrs. H. Parkin and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Woods and daughter, Valda Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parkin and Mrs Piesing, Mr. and Mrs. H. Bothe, Mr. and Mrs. Watson and family, Brother and Sister, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. Haig, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bothe, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, Household, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mortimer, Mr. and Mrs. H. Nairn, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sheppard, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cousins and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Somers and Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. L. Ferguson, Mrs. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hellewell, Mr. and Mrs. A. McGilp, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Berrigan, Mr. and Mrs. L. Parker and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lang, Mr. and Mrs. C. Kroschel, Mr. and Mrs. H. Zuegg, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. C. Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth, Nieces Edie, Darkie and Rennie, Paddy Yappo, Mrs. Chatter and Mrs Yappo, Mrs Wala and Mrs. Edwards, Eva Whyatt, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ryder and Mr. and Mrs. H. Whyatt, Joe Jackaman and Tommy, Dido, Jessie and Mary, Carnamah Football Club, Carnamah Rifle Club, Carnamah Racing Club, Carnamah Cricket Club.
     The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs D. Chipper and Co., Perth, in conjunction with Messrs Henry Parkin and Son, of Carnamah."

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Letter from Carnamah solicitor Neil M. GRAHAM to the Carnamah District Road Board:

Neil Maxwell Graham                                                                           Carnamah,
   Barrister & Solicitor                                                                                       Western Australia
    Commissioner for Affidavits
                                                                                                                            8th January 1933.
The Secretary
       Carnamah Road Board
                Carnamah

Dear Sir,
                      I have to advise that I have effected the following disposal of the lands standing in the
name of the Estate of  the late Donald Macpherson deceased.

                      Lot 5 of portion of Lot M1073, Lots M1071 and M1072 of portions of Victoria Location
1936 and Victoria Location 1321 containing the aggregate 2505 acres 2 roods 9 perches to Mrs. Beatrice
May Bentley of Carnamah Farmer at a price of 18/9 per acre on a freehold basis free from encumbrances.

                      The balance of Lot M1073 and balance of Lot 2 on diagram 6396 of portion of Victoria
Location 1936 containing 946 acres leased to George Ferguson of Carnamah Farmer for a term of three
years from the last day of January 1933 with an option of purchase at the end of that time at 22/6 per acre.

                      The part of Lot 2 above referred to is one square chain containing the well the balance
having been sold by Mr. Macpherson during his life to Elder Smith & Co. Ltd.

                      The Estate retains the house block containing 100 acres.

                      In future the rates are payable by the above mentioned parties and I should be glad if you
would make the necessary alternations in your rate books.

Your faithfully,
           Neil M. Graham
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