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Frank Decimus DAVIS
Born 1860 in Guildford, Western Australia [15]
Son of John DAVIS and Eleanor Frances THOMSON [15]
Married Mary HILL in the Perth suburb of Guildford in 1898 [15]
Railway Ganger in Coorow 1903-1906 [50]
Railway Ganger in Wannamal 1910-1913 [50]
Railway Employee in Watheroo later in 1913 and 1914 [50]
Railway Fettler in Mingenew 1915-1917 [50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Midland [2]
Died 27 June 1916; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, GA, 603) [2]
David Elwin DAWSON
Born C.1884 [2]
Married "Rene" Florence Irene HEARN in 1912 [66]
Manager of the Coorow Hotel in Coorow from September 1935 to February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936] [19]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Himself and his wife left Coorow and shifted to Perth on Monday 24 February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [2]
Died 15 June 1971; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZU, 533) [2]
Mrs "Rene" Florence Irene DAWSON
Wife of David Elwin DAWSON; see "Rene" Florence Irene HEARN
Mrs Dorothy May DAY
Wife of Henry DAY; see Dorothy May PRINGLE
Henry DAY
Married Dorothy May PRINGLE in 1923 [66]
Clearing Contractor for Malcolm L. PATTON on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest in 1923 and 1924 [151: page 99]
While clearing himself and his wife resided in a tent on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
In late 1923 his wife gave birth to a daughter named Jessie on Donald MCDONALD's Waddy Waddy Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
Their daughter died at the age of 17 days on 12 January 1924 and was buried on Lot M1293 of Donald MCDONALD's farm [151]
She was buried in the north east corner of Lot M1293 and her grave originally contained a fence of bush timber with netting [151]
Stockman in Waddy Forest / Coorow 1925-1927 [19]
Jessie DAY
Born 26 December 1923 in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [151]
Daughter of Henry DAY and Dorothy May PRINGLE [151]
Born and died at the age of 17 days on Donald MCDONALD's Waddy Waddy Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
Died 12 January 1924; buried north east corner of Lot M1293 of Waddy Waddy Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
Joseph Deebrow DAY
Labourer in Coorow in 1911 [19]
Labourer on Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee 1912-1914 [19] [50]
Mary DEAN
Born C.1880 [2]
Married Donald MACQUEEN in Perth in 1911 [66]
In 1916 her husband was working as a Saddler and they were living on the Railway Estate in Geraldton [50]
In 1925 she was working as a domestic and living at 78 Railway Parade in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [50]
Resided of late in Bunjil [2]
Died 26 December 1941; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, MC, 95) [2]
William David DE BOER
Proprietor of the Service Station in Waddy Forest in 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933] [19]
Unless he satisfied a warrant beforehand all property at his service station was to be sold on Tuesday 11 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Dora May DEE
Born 1901 in Mingenew, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Thomas DEE and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
Grand-daughter of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Resided in Coorow for at least the years 1922-1950 [19]
For a number of years taught Sunday School in Coorow in the 1930s [P85] [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Belmont [2]
Died 23 September 1978; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Her ashes were buried by Vera LONG on 25 January 1980 at the Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row E, Plot 13) [14]
Irene Ellen DEE
Born 7 August 1898 in Mingenew, Western Australia [P17]
Daughter of Thomas DEE and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
Grand-daughter of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Prior to her marriage she had worked for Samuel B. RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow [P17]
Married "Ernie" Ernest Alfred LONG in Perth on 11 July 1917 [168]
Resided with husband on Jun Jun Farm and later Lonsdale Farm in Coorow 1918-1967 [P17]
She worked for many years helping on the farm, even shearing sheep with hand clippers [79: 23-Aug-1973]
Supplied the music at the Dance in aid of the local Christmas Tree at the school house in Coorow on 29 November 1919 [9: 5-Dec-1919]
Exhibited in every one of the Coorow-Waddy District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows which ran from 1932 to 1967 [79: 23-Aug-1973]
She enjoyed the activity around preparing exhibits and won prizes for almost every item she exhibited one year or another [79]
Exhibited items from homemade soap to preserved lemon peel and also later exhibited in the Carnamah Agricultural Show [79]
Won 2nd prize for Carnations in the Flower section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
At the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 she was awarded 2nd prize for Crochet Edged Supper Cloth [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Resided at 31 Station Street in the Coorow townsite 1967-1992 [P17]
Mother of Vera and Doris [14]
Passed away at the age of 93 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 28 July 1992 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 4) [1]
Mrs Louisa Jane DEE
Widow of Thomas DEE: see Louisa Jane LONG
"Bill" William Joseph DEE
Born 15 October 1906 in Strawberry, Western Australia [16]
Son of Thomas DEE and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
Grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Initially resided with his parents at Strawberry in the Mingenew district [84]
He was baptised by Methodist Minister J. E. STONE of Dongara on 26 November 1906 [84]
Farmhand in Coorow 1928-1950 [19]
For several years worked for George N. GREENWOOD on Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest [P141]
Resided in the old house on Maryland Farm and had his meals with the GREENWOOD family at their home [P141]
Gave a cup and saucer marked with 1929 (Centenary of WA) to his employer's youngest daughter, Dorothy M. GREENWOOD [P141]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 15-Nov-1930]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board on 16 August 1933 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 13-Dec-1935, 16-Oct-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936 and 1937 [5: 4-Sep-1936, 2-Jul-1937]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australian Army on 4 December 1940 [16]
Private WX9638 in the Australian Army's 2/28 Battalion during the Second World War [16]
In 1942 word was received that he was Prisoner of War [0: image 04163]
In June 1945 it was recorded that he was safe and well in England having been a Prisoner of War in Germany [0: image 04336]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 27 August 1945 and returned to Coorow [4] [16]
Resided in Coorow until at least 1950 [4: 2-Dec-1950]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Belmont [2]
Died 3 September 1979; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
His ashes were buried by his niece Vera P. LONG on 25 January 1980 at the Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row E, Plot 13) [14]
Margaret Victoria DEED
Born 30 June 1887 in Strathalbyn, South Australia [55]
Daughter of James DEED and Sarah Jane WOODFIT [55]
Married George Alfred MANNING on 27 April 1907 in South Australia [55]
In 1928 left South Australia and settled with her husband and children on farmland at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district [P84]
Resided with her husband and children on Hill View Farm in Waddy Forest [P84]
Paid a 5/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1936 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300: page 42]
Employed the services of Coorow builder E. Clive HUNTER to build her a house [P320]
Resided in the Coorow district until her death in 1982 [1]
Passed away at the age of 95 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Mother of Mavis, Alfred, Joan, Lorna and Guildford [14]
Died 3 July 1982 in Three Springs WA; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 1) [1]
Francis Gerald DELBRIDGE
Farmer in Gunyidi [19]
Farmed in Gunyidi partnership with Arthur D. HOLT as "Delbridge & Holt" [3]
Together they owned 1,566 acres of land in Gunyidi, which consisted of Victoria Locations 3482, 3483, 3484 and 3949 [3]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
William George DEVEREUX
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi and then Yandanooka in 1913 [50]
Railway Fettler in Irwin 1914-1916 [50]
Eleanor Mary DIXEY
Born 1895 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Alfred DIXEY and Mary HORRIGAN [15]
Married "Glynn" Glen James DROMEY in Perth in 1924 [66]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Gunyidi 1924-1940 [3] [19]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in February 1934 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Evelyn, Hazel, Patricia, Glynn, Molly and Elsie [P367]
Died 11 October 1975; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, PF, 163) [2]
Robert DIXON
Appointed by the Education Department to run two Regulation Four half-time schools in Coorow in 1913 [215]
Reopened the closed Coorow State School at Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow on 3 December 1913 [215]
Opened the new Turipa State School on A. Hamlet JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow on 8 December 1913 [215]
He taught half the time at the Coorow State School and the other half at the Turipa State School, and had boarding at both places [215]
Continued to teach at both schools in 1914, on an annual salary of £110 per annum plus an extra £12 for boarding [215]
He was instructed to close both schools due to low student numbers and there being a shortage of male teachers for small schools [215]
Closed the school at Turipa of five students on 16 September and the school of Coorow of four students on 18 September 1914 [215]
He applied for a transfer and it is almost a certainty that he left Coorow after closing the two schools in September 1914 [215]
Edward DOCHERTY
Born C.1869 [2]
Railway Labourer / Railway Ganger in Marchagee 1901-1908 [15] [19] [50]
His wife Adeline gave birth to their daughter Agnes in Marchagee in 1901 [15]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Highgate Hill [2]
Father of Agnes, Joseph and Richard [15]
Died 27 July 1940; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, HA, 870) [2]
Billy DOCKELL
One of the best players for Coorow in a football match played against Three Springs at Coorow in early July 1914 [10: 10-Jul-1914]
John DOLEY
Born 16 November 1937 [45]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1961 [19]
Married Alison Betty RUDDUCK in 1965 [P363]
Farmer of Koobabbie Farm in Waddy Forest [45]
Purchased Wandao Farm in Coorow from "Jim" Randolph H. B. HOGBIN in 1974 [P363]
Wandao, formerly known as El Cala Farm, had originally been owned by his grandfather-in-law and farmed with Koobabbie [P363]
Member of the Waddy Forest Land Conservation District Committee [45]
Member of the Coorow Heritage Group [45]
Died 26 January 2007; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
"Jim" James Horace DONEY
Born 17 February 1910 in Narrogin, Western Australia [16]
Married "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING in 1932 [66]
Proprietor of a mechanical garage and agency business in Commercial Street, Coorow [P84]
He also ran the Coorow Power Station up until the State Electricity Commission (S.E.C.) took over [P84]
Resided with his wife and children in Bristol Street, Coorow [P84]
Said to have been obsessively tidy - his yards and business premises were always swept clean [P84]
Agent in Coorow for International farm machinery and the owner of a school bus that serviced Coorow [P84]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Sergeant in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
During the 1952-53 financial year purchased from Mrs Gladys R. BIERMANN three vacant blocks in Caron Street, Carnamah [3]
The three adjacent blocks were 8, 10 and 12 Caron Street, Carnamah (Lots 43, 44 and 45 of Victoria Location 1936) [3]
He had a shed erected on his block at 10 Caron Street, Carnamah [3]
Sold his three blocks in Caron Street, Carnamah to the Carnamah District Road Board on 1 January 1961 [3]
During the 1953-54 financial year purchased two vacant blocks in Robertson Street, Carnamah from Thomas H. PERRY [3]
The two blocks, which were side by side, were 5 and 7 Robertson Street, Carnamah (Lots 24 and 25 of Victoria Location 1936) [3]
During the 1960-61 financial year sold 5 Robertson Street, Carnamah (Lot 24) to Edmund K. WELLS [3]
His son Vivian initially worked in his Coorow business and then moved to Moora to run their branch at 1 Padbury Street, Moora [P84]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1957 [13]
His son Ken worked and later took over his Coorow business, then running it under the name of "K. J. Doney & Co" [P84]
Later resided in Fremantle [2]
Father of Hazel, Win, Lindsay, Vivian, Joan, Ken, Barbara, Elizabeth and Colleen [45]
Died 26 February 2000; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
"Ken" Kenneth John DONEY
Son of "Jim" James Horace DONEY and "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING [P84]
Proprietor of Mechanical Garage and Agncy business at 10 Commercial Street, Coorow [P84]
Initially he worked in the business for his father, before taking over the business under the name of "K. J. Doney & Co" [P84]
Employed David SUMMERS (his step-daughter Pauline's husband) as a mechanic and Terry MCDONALD as salesman [P84]
Later left Coorow and shifted to Geraldton [45]
Husband of (1) Jane and of (2) Jean [P84]
Died 2 February 2006; cremated at the Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton WA [45]
Mrs "Vene" Lavinia Bertha DONEY
Wife of "Jim" James Horace DONEY; see "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING
"Viv" Vivian Horace DONEY
Son of "Jim" James Horace DONEY and "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING [P390]
Shifted to Coorow with his parents at the age of two years in 1940 [P390]
Student at the Coorow State School until the age of 14 when he began working his father's business in Coorow [P390]
Worked in his father's machinery business and helped set up and run the Coorow townsite's electricity supply [P390]
Took over his father's business when his Dad retired and moved to Perth in 1965 [P390]
Ran the business for five years in partnership with his younger brother Ken [P390]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club and the Coorow Golf Club [P390]
Built a house at Green Head - was the third person to buy a block there for which he paid $370 [P390]
Upon expanding the business to Moora in 1970 he shifted with his wife and three children to Moora [P390]
Along with his wife left Moora and retired to the southern coastal Perth suburb of Mandurah in 1987 [P390]
Husband of Colleen [P390]
Father of Craig, Peta and Susan [P390]
Violet Ann DORRIES
Born 1891 in Albany, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Henry DORRIES and Blanche Currie TOLL [15]
Married Walter ANDERSON in 1914 [66]
Resided in Gunyidi 1932-1935 [19]
In 1932 was the owner of a Chevrolet truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-31 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Resided of late in Mandurah [2]
Died 18 January 1974; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, GC, 78A) [2]
Jean DOUGLAS
Teacher of the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1925 and 1926 [73]
Received wages of £4/2/- per week in 1925 and £4/16/- in 1926 for fulfilling the duties of sole teacher of the school [73]
She wrote to the Education Department on 15 April 1926 to advise a tap on one of the school's tanks had completely broken [215]
The result was the tank emptied itself, and she wrote again advising she was unable to ascertain how the tap was broken [215]
Ada DOWNES
Housemaid on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow 1927-1939 [19]
Albyn DOWNES
Born 1895 in Dongara, Western Australia [15]
Son of Thomas DOWNES and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
His father died in 1897 and at Mingenew in 1901 his mother married Thomas DEE [15]
Grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Farmer of Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1916-1923 [44] [50]
During the 1922-23 financial year he paid rates for 209 acres in Coorow consisting of adjoining Victoria Locations 3061 and 3393 [44]
He appears to have sold his 209 acres to his brother-in-law Ernest A. LONG who made it part of Lonsdale Farm [44]
Farmhand for Samuel B. RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow 1923-1939 [5: 25-Aug-1939]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936 [5: 4-Sep-1936]
Steward in Charge of the Poultry section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
He paid for the funeral of Alfred Edward HILL of Coorow who died on 7 May 1939 and was buried at the Winchester Cemetery [53]
Overseer of Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1939 [5: 25-Aug-1939]
Died from a fractured spine on 18 August 1939 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row C, Plot 8) [1] [14]
His funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah, was paid for by his employer Samual B. RUDDUCK [53]
Newspaper clipping (name of paper unknown), Saturday 19 August 1939:
Fall From Ladder - Farm Labourer Killed
"When he fell from a ladder while working on the property of his employer, Mr. S. Rudduck, at Waddy Forest, yesterday afternoon, Albyn Downes (44), suffered injuries from which he died shortly after medical assistance arrived. Interviewed by telephone last night, Mr. Rudduck stated that Downes was engaged in repairing a private telephone line and was mounting a ladder carrying a soldering iron when he slipped and fell a distance of about 15ft. His back appeared to be injured. A doctor was summoned form Moora and shortly after the doctor arrived Downes collapsed and died."
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 25 August 1939:
Obituary - Late Mr. A. Downes
"Following a fall from a ladder, while attending to a telephone post, Mr. A. Downes passed away at "Koobabbie" on Friday evening, 18th inst. The deceased, who was overseer of Mr. S. B. Rudduck's "Koobabbie" estate, had been with Mr. Rudduck for approximately sixteen years. Of a quiet disposition deceased was well known and respected by all in Coorow and Waddy Forest, and the announcement of his death came as a shock to all his friends. A service was held in the Coorow hall on Sunday afternoon, and the remains were then conveyed to the Winchester cemetery, the Rev. C. A. Walsh conducting both the church and funeral service."
Mrs Eileen CASSERLY
Wife of "Tom" Thomas Clement DOWNES; see Eileen CASSERLY
"Tom" Thomas Clement DOWNES
Born 10 April 1897 in Strawberry, Western Australia [P393]
Son of Thomas DOWNES and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
His father had died from pneumonia in January 1897 after being trapped by flames while fighting a fire in Mingenew [P393]
In 1901 his widowed mother married Thomas DEE [15]
It is believed he may have attended the Strawberry State School at Strawberry in the Mingenew district [P391]
He was a grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Farmhand in Coorow by 1919 [19]
Worked in Irwin prior to shifting to Coorow to work for Samuel B. RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow [P391]
Met and courted Eileen CASSERLY who was a domestic employee working for Mrs RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm [P391]
At the time his elder brother was working at Koobabbie and it may have been through him that he learnt of Eileen's arrival [P393]
He was working for Baxter D. BOTHE on Inglewood Farm in Coorow and travelled the 20 miles to see her a few times a week [P393]
Charles W. DOWNES and Arthur DOWNES, brothers who farmed in Yandanooka, were his first cousins [P391]
Married Eileen CASSERLY on 11 November 1925 at Saint Patrick's Catholic Church in Fremantle [P393]
Farmhand and Wheat Lumper in Kununoppin 1925-1931 [P391]
Worked for a Mr O'NEILL on Bunning Farm in Kununoppin [P393]
His wife gave birth to a stillborn son Charles in 1928 which "nearly broke their hearts" and which he "never quite got over" [P393]
Along with his wife and their daughters Eileen and Verna left Kununoppin and shifted to Coorow in 1931 [P391]
Farmhand for Baxter D. BOTHE on Inglewood Farm in Coorow [P391]
They briefly resided on Inglewood Farm in Coorow and then in the Coorow townsite [P391]
In the townsite they initially resided in bough shed with gravel floor and tarpaulin roof while their house was being built [P391]
Their house in Coorow, at Lot 18 Long Street, was a two room cottage that was later extended [P391]
The two rooms were a kitchen and their bedroom while an end of the back verandah was enclosed for their children's room [P393]
While continuing to work for Baxter D. BOTHE he also did contract work for the Carnamah District Road Board [P391]
Such contracting included clearing scrub from a townsite street in Coorow, for which he was paid £1/15/- in August 1933 [300: page 54]
He did contract fencing for £11 per mile building fences for farmers in Coorow [P393]
Successfully tendered to contract fence the Coorow West Road in Coorow for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1936 [5: 24-Apr-1936]
He'd done 80 chains of netting fence, 167 chains of clearing and 170 chains of posts on the Coorow West Road by June 1936 [5]
At his request the Carnamah District Road Board paid him a £20 progressive payment for the work he had done [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Also at his request he received 10/- compensation for damage caused to his bike for a fire lit by the Road Board gang [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Farmhand for W. Gordon LAMBERT on Carrawidgy Farm in Coorow [P393]
One day while closing an iron gate on the farm lightening struck a fence and he was knocked unconscious [P393]
Later ceased working as a farmhand and worked full time for the Carnamah District Road Board as part of their gang in Coorow [P391]
Along with the gang he would load a truck with gravel by shovel and then spreading it out on roads by shovel [P393]
Sold a cow for £3/7/6 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 2 December 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
First Aid Man for the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 11-Jun-1937]
Steward of the Poultry section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
During the Second World War worked for the Allied Works Council making the bitumen road between Watheroo and Mingenew [P393]
He would work away all week and then catch the train back to Coorow for the weekends [P393]
After getting to know the train drivers they would stop at Coorow to pick him up on a Sunday night to return to work [P393]
In 1949 purchased a school bus and secured the Waddy Forest bus run which he conducted until 1961 [P391] [P393]
He drove and maintained the bus himself, picking up and dropping off children from farms in Waddy Forest each day [P393]
He was a great supporter of the Coorow Football Club while his sons Tom and Irwin were playing [P391]
He was made Patron of the Coorow Tennis Club as he was always present at matches to watch his children Tom, Irwin and Jetta [P391]
Along with his wife left Coorow in 1962 and retired to the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park [P393]
Resided in retirement in the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park from 1962 until his death in 1966 [P391]
Father of Eileen, Charles, Verna, Thomas, Loris, Irwin, Jetta, Kathleen and Ursula [P391]
Died 3 April 1966; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, Lawn 4, 163) [2]
"Tom" Thomas Kevin DOWNES
Born 31 August 1931 in Three Springs, Western Australia [P391]
Son of "Tom" Thomas Clement DOWNES and Eileen CASSERLY [P391]
Great Grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Resided with his parents in Coorow [P391]
With his sisters Eileen, Verna and Loris was baptised by Rev. Father Michael LYNCH of Three Springs on 24 December 1933 [91]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as a "Sailor" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
At the age of five years he was assistant fencing contractor to his father [P391]
Began his schooling at the Coorow State School in Coorow on 6 February 1937 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School until the day he turned 14, which included correspondence after grade seven [P391]
He and his brother Irwin milked cows, delivered milk, trapped and sold the skins of rabbits and foxes, collected and sold bottles [P391]
They looked after a cow belonging to Milton J. TILLY in their paddock west of the railway line in Coorow [P8]
Each day before school either himself or Irwin would take the milk from the cow to Mrs TILLY, and the evening milk they kept [P8]
During the Second World War they exchanged milk and biscuits for tins of bully beef when troop trains passed through [P391]
After leaving school he worked as a telephone operator in Waddy Forest, travelling the 10 miles each day by bicycle [P391]
By the age of 16 he was working as Postal Assistant at the Post Office in Coorow [P391]
He then worked as the Post Office in Dalwallinu and from 1951 was in Mingenew [P391]
Married Mingenew telephonist Rona Margaret MCDONALD in 1953 [P391]
Worked at post offices in Geraldton, Merredin and then Goomalling [P391]
He drove the ambulance in Merredin and Goomalling, and assisted the Presentation Sisters in Goomalling [P391]
Worked for Australia Post in the Perth suburbs of Belmont, Kalamunda, Cottesloe, Mount Lawley and Cloverdale [P391]
Retired in 1988, and passed away at the age of 78 years after a long battle with cancer [P391]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Rossmoyne [2]
Father of Pauline, Helen, Jillian, Susan, Michael and Anne-Marie [P391]
Died 29 December 2009; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Rossmoyne (General Lawn, Lawn T, 608) [2]
Amy Lillian DRAPER
Born 22 December 1896 in Beverley, Western Australia [P119]
Daughter of Alfred William DRAPER and Hannah Rebecca WOODLEY [15]
Married "Bert" Albert Edward Parker BATEMAN in Beverley in 1920 [P119]
Resided with her husband and children on Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest 1921-1926 [P120]
Mother of Gwenyth, Ronald and Rita [P119]
Died March 1926; buried Beverley Cemetery, Beverley WA [P119]
Ethel Blanche DRAPER
Born 17 November 1882 in York, Western Australia [209]
Daughter of Alfred William DRAPER and Alice Eliza BLAKISTON [15]
Her mother died at the age of 31 years in 1886, and in 1892 her father married Hannah Rebecca WOODLEY [15]
For a period following her mother's death she was cared for by one of her aunts, who possibly also home-schooled her [P120]
Married "Don" Donnell Edgar FOWLER in Beverley on 30 June 1908 [P120]
Resided with her husband and children on Jangelling Farm at Balkuling in the Beverley district [P120]
Her husband purchased 1,295 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest for £1457.11.7 (22/6 an acre) on 25 February 1921 [27]
On the same day her brother-in-law Albert E. P. BATEMAN purchased the adjacent block in Waddy Forest [27]
Her husband shifted to Waddy Forest and begin clearing the property and had a good weatherboard house built [P120]
In 1924 shifted from Beverley with her children to join her husband on the farm in Waddy Forest [P120]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Waddy Forest 1924-1948 [P120]
The farm became known as Glen Waddi when they purchased her brother-in-law's adjacent farm in 1929 [P120]
They also had a house in Forrest Street, South Perth where she resided while their children were attending nearby schools [P120]
Won 1st prize for male Black Orpington at the first annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 20-Oct-1933]
During January 1935 spent an extended holiday in Arrino staying with her daughter Mrs Irene A. McCANN [5: 11-Jan-1935, 8-Feb-1935]
Won 1st prize for Turnips in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Miss Nancy S. JOHNSON stayed with herself and her family in Waddy Forest in July, August and September of 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Spent a holiday with relatives in Beverley in mid September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
In late November 1935 she was spending a holiday with her daughter Mrs Irene A. McCANN in Arrino [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Returned to Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 December 1935 feeling much benefit from her stay in Arrino [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Accompanied by her children Vivian and Verna travelled to Perth on Tuesday 7 January 1936 en-route for Albany [5: 10-Jan-1936]
She may not have made it to Albany as it was reported on 7 February 1936 that she had been at a Perth hospital for a month [5]
By mid February 1936 she was still at a hospital in Perth, but was "showing marked improvement" [5: 7 & 14-Feb-1936]
After months in hospital in Perth she returned to her home in Waddy Forest on Thursday 21 May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
Herself, her husband and their daughter Adeline motored to Perth on Thursday morning 29 October 1936 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
During November 1936 she spent another holiday with her daughter Mrs Irene A. McCANN in Arrino [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Herself and her daughters spent the 1936-37 summer at a rented house in the Perth suburb of Como [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Her husband and her children Elsie, Dulcie, Vivian and Verna returned to Waddy Forest on Tuesday night 19 January 1937 [5]
She remained in Perth as she was receiving medical attention at Saint Ive's Hospital [5: 22-Jan-1937]
After considerable time in Perth for medical attention herself and her husband returned to Waddy on 19 May 1937 [5: 21-May-1937]
Following a visit by her daughter Irene she accompanied her daughter to her home in Arrino on Sunday 11 July 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Resided on Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest until 1948 when their three sons bought the farm off her husband [P120]
Left Waddy Forest in 1948 and shifted to their house in Forrest Street, South Perth where she resided until her death in 1950 [P120]
Mother of Irene, Adeline, Elsie, Edgar, Dulcie, Leslie, Vivian and Verna [209]Her
Died 29 May 1950; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WE, 666) [2]
Mrs Eleanor Mary DROMEY
Wife of "Glynn" Glen James DROMEY; see Eleanor Mary DIXEY
"Glynn" Glen James DROMEY
Born 16 November 1893 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Michael DROMEY and Euphemia MCKEAN [15]
By 1911 himself and his father had each taken up a Conditional Purchase lease in Gunyidi [44]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1911-1916 [30] [44]
Resided in Gunyidi until enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 22 February 1916 [30: item 3522454]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighed 130 pounds and had grey eyes, light brown hair and a ruddy complexion [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill was appointed to the 17th Reinforcements of the 10th Light Horse Regiment on 11 April 1916 [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A52 Surada on 16 May 1916 [30]
Detached from the 10th Light Horse Brigade to the Imperial Corps on 10 August 1916 [30]
Private 2462 in the Australian Imperial Force's 3rd Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt during the First World War [30]
Wounded in Action in Egypt on 19 April 1917 and was briefly hospitalised for treatment of a shrapnel wound to his scalp [30]
Embarked on the H.T. Delta and disembarked in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 August 1919 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 10 October 1919; received the British War Medal and Victory Medal [30]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1919-1940 [3] [6] [19] [44]
Married Eleanor Mary DIXEY in Perth in 1924 [66]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Had a Fargo truck licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-123 in 1932 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
By 1932 he owned 7,912 acres with Victoria Locations 3478, 4376, 4377, 5820, 5821, 5863, 5875, 5876, 7302, 7303 and 7304 [3]
Resided in South Perth prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 7 October 1940 [16]
Private W27428 in the Australian Army's 29 Garrison Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 13 November 1944 [16]
Rates for his 7,912 acres of farmland in Gunyidi were care of the National Bank in Moora from 1940-41 until 1947-48 [3]
His farmland in Gunyidi was sold to E. J. NOONAN and R. J. HOCKING in April 1948 [3]
Resided at 30 Third Avenue in South from as early as 1942 until at least 1949 [6]
Later resided with his daughter Evelyn and son-in-law Harold at Marchamley Street in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [P367]
Father of Evelyn, Hazel, Patricia, Glynn, Molly and Elsie [P367]
Died 7 February 1980; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, PF, 163) [2]
Michael DROMEY
Born 1859 in Avoca, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of Nicholas DROMEY and Alice WALSH [15]
Married Euphemia MCKEAN in Perth in 1889 [15]
Their son Vivian died aged ten months on 29 February 1892, and their son Cyril died aged six months on 21 October 1892 [231]
Both their two infant sons were buried in the same plot at the East Perth Cemetery [231]
Butcher in partnership with his brother N. William DROMEY as "Dromey Bros" in William Street, Perth in 1893 [6]
Won 1st prize for Rough Coated Collie Bitch at the WA Poultry & Dog Society's Annual Show in Perth in 1893 [39: 17-Aug-1893]
Resided in Hay Street, Perth in 1893; in Howick Street, Perth in 1894; and in Lamb Street, Perth in 1895 [6]
Resided at 70 Hutt Street, Perth in 1897 and at 68 Moore Street, East Perth in 1899 [6]
Butcher at 152 Pier Street in Perth in 1900 [6]
Grazier in 1903 and Manager in 1904 of Ninghan Station at Field's Find in the Murchison [6] [50]
Selector in Gunyidi in 1910 [50]
By 1911 himself and his son had each taken up a Conditional Purchase lease in Gunyidi [44]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1911-1927 [19]
Himself and his son attended the monthly meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board on 13 September 1927 [4: 23-Sep-1927]
They requested the Board pay them for work they'd done on six miles of road worth 10/- per chain so they could pay their rates [4]
The Road Board had to inspect the road first but said nothing would be paid until they had paid all of their arrears [4]
Resided in the Perth suburb of East Perth in 1928 [2]
Father of Vivian Nicholas, Cyril Lima and Glen James [15]
Died 17 October 1928 in Perth; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, BA, 479) [2] [15]
George Matt DRUMMOND
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi in 1922 [50]
John DRUMMOND
Pumper at the 157½ mile railing siding in Coorow 1915-1917 [50]
George DUFFELL
Railway Employee in Latham in 1922 [50]
Mrs Sarah DUFFELL
Resided in Latham in 1922 [50]
Elizabeth DUMARESQ
Married Winter Lidstone ASPLEY [15] [54]
Herself and her husband arrived in Victoria, Australia on the ship Cephalonia in March 1883 [42]
Gave birth to their children in Richmond, Victoria, Australia between 1883 and 1892 [15] [54]
By 1911 they had left the Australian state of Victoria and shifted to Coorow in Western Australia [19]
Resided on Merriedale Farm in Latham 1911-1925 [19]
Mother of Alice, Lloyd, William, Bertram and Lucy [15] [54]
Richard James DUNSTAN
Labourer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1914 [50]
Clearer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1916 and 1917 [19]
EEE
John EDWARD
Farmhand in Latham in 1922 [50]
Charles EDWARDS
Labourer in Coorow 1929-1941 [19] [50]
George EDWARDS
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 21-Jun-1935, 16-Aug-1935]
Witness at a traffic regulations breach hearing at the Carnamah Police Court in Carnamah on Friday 22 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 10-Jan-1936]
Harry EDWARDS
Born C.1893 [2]
Himself and Myrtle EDWARDS purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1,820 acres of land in Coorow on 12 July 1922 [27]
The 1,820 acres was Lot M1377 of Victoria Location 2023, and cost £1,228/7/6, which was paid for over 17 years [27]
Farmer in Coorow 1927-1941 [19]
Committee Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 2-Aug-1935, 3-Jul-1936, 18-Jun01937]
In mid September 1935 sold 28 suckers for 10/1 per head and 13 suckers for 8/10 per head [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Hosted an evening in honour of Mr and Mrs BIRMINGHAM of West Perth at his home in Coorow on 27 June 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
Held a cocktail party at his home to show bush life by night to Elsie MARRIOTT and Ross MELROSE on 16 July 1936 [5: 24-Jul-1936]
Hosted a bucks party for Winchester farmers George A. RAFFAN and Eric J. BRADLEY on Wednesday evening 7 October 1936 [5]
The evening included songs, stories, seafood and coffee - the latter of which was reported to have been a masterpiece [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Sold 27 hoggets at 10/1, 19 suckers at 11/5 and 20 ewes at 9/8 per head through Dalgety & Co Ltd in November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended the R.S.L. Valedictory for Charles A. METTAM at the lounge of the Carnamah Hotel on 28 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
"H. & M. Edwards" sold 48 lambs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd in September 1937 - 13 at 18/7, 26 at 17/10, 9 at 17/9 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Married Marjorie Etta UNDERWOOD in Perth in 1941 [66]
Resided at 3 Malcolm Street in Perth while initially remaining the owner of his farm in Coorow [61]
In 1950 sold 1,180 acres of his farm to Milton J. TILLY and the remaining 640 acres to "Tim" Harold T. MELVIN [3]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of North Beach [2]
Died 16 June 1959; ashes scattered over the rose garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Memorialised along with his wife in the Garden of Remembrance at the Karrakatta Cemetery (Crematorium Rose Gardens, K, 306) [2]
Josiah EDWARDS
Born 1854 in Upper Swan, Western Australia [15]
Son of Samuel EDWARDS and Charlotte BROOM [15]
Married Mary Ann LAWLER in Newcastle in 1892 [15]
Farmer of Croydon Farm and then Calecono Farm in Marchagee 1914-1925 [19]
He was the owner of the 160 acres Victoria Location 6956 in Marchagee, and his son Vernon owned a further 2,291 acres [44]
In 1917 had 200 acres of wheat crop growing on his farm at Marchagee [10: 19-Jun-1917]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of West Perth [2]
Father of Florence Emeline, Mary Amy, Iva Lavinia and Vernon Hubert [15]
Died 16 April 1927; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LA, 580) [2]
Mrs Marjorie Etta EDWARDS
Wife of Harry EDWARDS; see Marjorie Etta UNDERWOOD
Mrs "Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza EDWARDS
Wife of Vernon Hubert EDWARDS; see "Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza JONES
Vernon Hubert EDWARDS
Born 1894 in Wongong, Western Australia [15]
Son of Josiah EDWARDS and Mary Ann LAWLER [15]
Farmer of Croydon Farm in Marchagee 1917-1922 [50]
Married "Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza JONES in Perth 1921 [66]
Farmer of Calecono Farm in Marchagee 1923-1931 [19] [50]
He was the owner of 2,291 acres of land in Marchagee consisting of Victoria Locations 4027 and 6955 [44]
His father owned a further 160 acres with the adjoining Victoria Location 6956 [44]
At the first wool sale of the season on Friday 4 November 1921 he sold four bales of wool for 15d. per pound [10: 11-Nov-1921]
Elected as Member for the South Ward of the Carnamah District Road Board at an election held in April 1925 [9: 1-May-1925]
Served on the Carnamah District Road Board representing the South Ward in 1925 [9: 1-May-1925]
At the time the South Ward of the Carnamah District Road Board consisted of Marchagee and Gunyidi [3]
In 1928 he also owned with a Mr BARRETT-LENNARD 13,500 acres on the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee [120: 20-Dec-1928]
On the 13,500 acres they grew 3,000 acres of crop mostly on sandplain, expected to yield 13-14 bushels, and ran 1,700 sheep [120]
By mid 1932 he had sold his 2,291 acres of farmland in Marchagee to Arthur L. RAINS [3] [19]
Later resided in West Perth [2]
Died 22 November 1958; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, H, 69) [2]
Geoffrey EGG
Farmhand in Marchagee 1914-1919 [50]
Bertram Frederick ELLIOTT
Born C.1894 [2]
Teamster on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1919 [50]
Farmhand on Minganooka Farm in Marchagee 1931-1938 [19] [50]
Won 1st prize for Snapdragons in the Flower section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Wattle Grove [2]
Died 8 August 1949; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Baptist, CA, 455) [2]
Frank ELLIS
Labourer on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee 1911-1916 [19]
Albert ELLISON
Farmer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Mrs "Irene" Annie Irene ELLISON
Wife of "Gilly" Gilbert Townsend ELLISON; see "Irene" Annie Irene SPICER
Frank Stewart ELLISON
Born 24 July 1883 in Glen Osmond, South Australia [55]
Son of James ELLISON and Georgina Sophia TOWNSEND [50]
Contractor in Gunyidi, Western Australia in 1910 [50]
Contractor at Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19] [50]
Contractor in Gunyidi prior to enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 20 April 1916 [30: item 3541397]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighed 146 pounds and had light blue eyes, sandy hair and a ruddy complexion [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill he was appointed on 28 September 1916 to the 4th Reinforcements of the 44th Infantry Battalion [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A39 Port Macquarie on 13 October 1916 [30]
Disembarked in Plymouth, England on 12 December 1916 and after further training proceeded to France on 4 February 1917 [30]
Private 2324 in the Australian Imperial Force's 44th Infantry Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
Promoted in France to Lance Corporal on 12 July 1917, to Temporary Corporal on 16 July 1917, to Corporal on 28 August 1917 [30]
Killed in Action in Belgium on 4 October 1917 [30]
Buried near the Ypres-Roulers Road one mile north-northeast of Zonnebeke and 1½ miles southwest of Passchendaele in Belgium [30]
Memorialised at the Menin Gate of the Ypres Memorial in Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium [17]
"Gilly" Gilbert Townsend ELLISON
Born 14 October 1881 in Glen Osmond, South Australia
Son of James ELLISON and Georgina Sophia TOWNSEND
Member of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society from the age of eleven years [30]
Contractor in Mitcham, South Australia in 1916 [18]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 14 August 1916 in Adelaide, South Australia [30: item 3541399]
At the time he was 5 feet 8¼ inches tall, weighed 176 pounds and had grey eyes, fair hair but going bald and a fair complexion [30]
Gave his next of kin as his mother whose address at the time was Arnold Street in Mitcham, South Australia [30]
Appointed to the 21st Reinforcements of the 10th Battalion on 18 October 1916 in Mitcham, South Australia [30]
Embarked from Adelaide, South Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A16 Port Melbourne on 23 October 1916 [30]
Disembarked in Devonport, England on 28 December 1916 and after further training proceeded to France on 5 April 1917 [30]
Private 6504 in the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
Ten days after arriving in France, on 15 April 1917 he was Wounded in Action receiving a serious wound to his left thigh [30]
The wound had been caused by an explosive bullet and was also gassed, and two days later it was going septic [30]
After an X-Ray the wound was operated on in France on 19 April 1917 with the medical officer considering it a bad case [30]
After a month of treatment in France he was repatriated by hospital ship to England where he received further treatment [30]
Embarked England on the A29 H.T. Suevic and disembarked in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 18 November 1917 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force due to being medically unfit for service on 4 December 1917 [30]
Received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Following his return he resided on Tutt Avenue in the Adelaide suburb of Kingswood [30]
From 5 December 1917 he received a fortnightly pension of 14/- for his mother [30]
He wrote to the Base Records Office of the A.I.F. on 7 March 1918 requesting help in acquiring further sick pay [30]
Wrote he'd "never drawn a penny for sick pay and no medicine blessed with good health right up to the time I got wounded" [30]
Received a fortnightly pension of 45/- from the A.I.F. and owing to having an incapacitated son his mother received one of 28/- [30]
His and his mother's respective fortnightly pensions were reduced from 45/- to 30/- and 28/- to 25/- on 4 July 1918 [30]
Married "Irene" Annie Irene SPICER in Western Australia in 1919 [66]
Contractor in Gunyidi in 1919 [50]
Farmer in Gunyidi, Western Australia 1920-1927 [19] [44]
Initially his farm was the 980 acre Victoria Location 5798 [44]
Took up more land increasing his farm to a total of about 1,723 acres - Victoria Locations 3473, 5798, 5825, 5871 [3] [44]
They later resided at 185 Beaufort Street in Perth and at 36 Brookman Street in North Perth [P361]
Served as a Peace Officer Guard during the Second World War [30: item 1765110]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Manning [2]
Father of Gladys, Dorothy, Allen, Constance, Nellie, Hilda and Joyce [P361]
Died 9 August 1962; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, FA, 131) [2]
Reginald ELPHICK
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1929-1938 [19]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in December 1933 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Mrs Amy Louise EMERY
Second wife of Arnold Arthur EMERY; see Amy Louise PRITCHARD
Arnold Arthur EMERY
Born 24 October 1853 in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20] [21] [33: Film 919713]
Son of metal dealer Alfred Holland EMERY and Eliza FREEMAN [20] [21]
He was one of six children with elder siblings Albert, Alice, Alfred and Samuel and a younger brothers Alexander [20]
Was living his parents at 76 Bath Street in Birmingham in 1861 and at Ivy House on Water Works Street in Aston in 1871 [20]
Married (1) Mary Ann WILLIAMSON on 3 August 1873 at Saint Jude in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England [33: Film 918918]
Their first four children were baptised in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England on 28 September 1879 [33: Film 154 5509]
By the birth of their daughter Elsie in 1884 they had left England and were in New Zealand [82]
Labourer of Wingfield Street in Wellington, North Island, New Zealand in 1896 [308]
He was working as a Labourer in 1900 and living with his wife in the Lower Hutt suburb of Alicetown in New Zealand [308]
In 1911 he was working as a Groom and living on Miro Miro Road in the Lower Hutt suburb of Normandale in New Zealand [308]
Later worked as a Saddler's Ironmonger and lived at 2 Bay Street in the Lower Hutt suburb of Petone in New Zealand [308]
Worked as a Stud Groom prior to serving as Trooper 12535 in the New Zealand Army during the First World War [307]
During his war service he gave his next of kin as his son Percy whose address was Lower Hutt in Wellington, New Zealand [307]
Departed from the Eastern States of Australia on the steamship Zealandia in 1918 [39: 21-Mar-1918]
Arrived on the steamship Zealandia in Fremantle, Western Australia on Wednesday afternoon 20 March 1918 [39: 21-Mar-1918]
Farm Manager in Marchagee, Western Australia in 1918 and 1919 [50]
He was a brother of Samuel Charles EMERY and uncle of Charles Holland EMERY [20] [82]
Presumably he managed the Marchagee Estate Farm owned by his brother and previously farmed by his nephew [44]
The farm was 4,727 acres in Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
Married (2) Amy Louise PRITCHARD in Perth in 1919 [66]
Resided in retirement in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills in New South Wales, Australia [50]
Lived at 55 High Holborn Street, 493 Crown Street and at 21 Tudor Street in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills [50]
Father of Alice Mabel, Gertrude Alexandra, Alfred Francis Holland and Elizabeth Maude born in England [33: Film 154 5509]
Father of Elsie May, Arnold Arthur and Percy Reginald born in New Zealand [82]
Died 10 May 1934 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [P405]
From The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, Tuesday 29 May 1934:
Coroner's Open Verdict
"The City Coroner (Mr. Farrington) yesterday returned an open verdict after an inquiry into the death of Arnold Arthur Emery, 81, a New Zealand war pensioner, who was found gassed in bed in a house in Tudor-street, Surry Hills, on May 11. Evidence was given that repairs to the gas mains had been taking place in Tudor-street on the two preceding days, and this had necessitated turning off the supply of gas. The coroner said it was possible that Emery was under the influence of liquor, and when he found, on turning on the gas, that only air came through the pipe, he went to bed in disgust, leaving the gas-tap turned on."
Charles Holland EMERY
Born 1882 in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20] [21]
Son of metal manufacturer Samuel Charles EMERY and Kate GREAYER [20] [21]
He was one of four children with elder sisters Alice and Ruby and a younger sister Muriel [20]
Resided with his parents and sisters at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England [20]
Married (1) Harriet Beatrice HOMER in 1905 in Warwickshire, England [21]
They had two children - a son Charles Neville born in 1906 and a daughter Beatrice Miriam born in 1909 [P405]
His marriage broke down and when partway through a messy divorce from his wife he fled England with their son [P405]
Himself and his young son departed London, England on the steamship Orsova on 25 June 1909 [203]
After a journey of just over a month they arrived on the Orsova in Fremantle, Western Australia on 29 July 1909 [39: 30-Jul-1909]
Farmer in Coomberdale, Western Australia in 1909 [19] and in Marchagee, Western Australia 1910-1912 [19] [44]
In late 1909 or early 1910 his father purchased two farms in Marchagee, Western Australia [39: 23-Nov-1909, 14-Jul-1910] [120: 4-Dec-1909]
The farms were the Marchagee Estate and the Mamboobie Estate and had both belonged to the late Henry C. ARMSTRONG [39]
They'd been sold at auction on 25 November 1909 with a report on the auction stating they'd been sold to John P. DOSCAS [39] [120]
His father may have purchased the farms off or through DOSCAS, or the sale to DOSCAS may have fallen through [39]
At the auction the 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate Farm sold for £2,900 and the 3,352 acre Mamboobie Estate Farm for £2,475 [120]
His father sold the Mamboobie Estate in August 1910 so they could concentrate their energies on the Marchagee Estate Farm [39]
Farmer & Grazier of the 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia 1910-1912 [19] [44]
The farm consisted of Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
The 4,727 acres were comprised within ten Conditional Purchase leases variously rated in the names of himself and his parents [44]
When he went onto the farm it was fenced into ten paddocks and about 600 of its acres had been cleared [81: 7-Nov-1909]
He was the Postal Vote Officer for Marchagee for the WA Legislative Council elections held on 13 May 1910 [9: 22-Apr-1910]
In 1910 and 1911, in addition to the 4,727 acres, he also had two pastoral leases in Marchagee totalling 27,000 acres [44] [81: 7-Nov-1909]
Offered a £2 reward in November 1910 for the return of two lost medium draught brown and black gelding horses [39: 17 & 18-Nov-1910]
In January 1911 he called for tenders for the clearing of 500 acres of Salmon Gum and York Gum country on the farm [39: 4-Jan-1911]
The 500 acres had been rung, or ringbarked, for three years and he would provide supplies to contractors at Perth prices [39]
Through the firm Elder Shenton & Co Ltd he privately sold 302 sheep in May 1911 [120: 27-May-1911] [39: 30-May-1911]
The farm was a "magnificent improved farming property" with "convenient homestead... outbuildings and sheds" [81: 23-Jun-1912]
In late 1911 he returned to England where he remained for five months before returning to Western Australia [203] [204]
Departed from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on the steamship Otranto and arrived in London, England on 7 January 1911 [204]
Spent at least some of the five months with his parents at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire [20]
Departed from Liverpool, England on the steamship Afric on 1 June 1911 bound for Albany, Western Australia [203]
On the Afric he imported to Western Australia six valuable horses "from some of the best blood in England" [39: 12-Jul-1911, 2-Aug-1911]
The horses comprised a four year old Draught Shire stallion named Shipton Spark, yearling Hackney colt Marchagee Prince, [39] [120]
six year old Draught Shire mare named Lancelyn Gipsy, five year old Draught Shire mare named Marchagee Ruby, [39] [120]
two year old Draught Shire mare Marchagee Princess, and four year old Hackney mare named Shinfield Elegance [39] [120: 12-Aug-1911]
Lancelyn Gipsy was "a big massive mare with the action of a pony and the possessor of good legs and feet" [39: 2-Aug-1911]
Shinfield Elegance "possesses plenty of style, is a nice mover, has good bone and would take beating in any show ring" [39: 2-Aug-1911]
Shinfield Elegance was the progeny of horses named Copper Prince and Wood Elegance [39: 7-Aug-1912]
The horses were offered for sale at both the Annual Horse Parade and the Royal Show in Perth in 1911 [81: 16, 23 & 30-Jul-1911, 8-Oct-1911]
By late July 1911 his horses were quartered at the Claremont Show Grounds in Perth and could be inspected at any time [39: 26-Jul-1911]
His imported horses took part in the Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Horse Parade in Perth in August 1911 [120: 5 & 12-Aug-1911]
At the Horse Parade won both 1st and 2nd for Draught mare or filly with Rancelyn Gipsy and Marchagee Princess [81: 6-Aug-1911]
Also won 1st for Hackney mare or filly with Shinfield Elegance and 2nd for Hackney stallion or colt with Marchagee Prince [81] [120]
The quality of his horses was emphasised by the fact that they weren't even at their best having not long arrived in WA [39: 2-Aug-1911]
A photograph of his horse Lanclelyn Gipsy was featured in The Sunday Times newspaper on 6 August 1911 [81: 6-Aug-1911]
The Western Mail newspaper of 12 August 1911 included four photographs showing all six of his imported horses [120: 12-Aug-1911]
The photographs of his horses had been one of the features in advertising for that edition The Western Mail newspaper [39: 11-Aug-1911]
Exhibited his imported horses at the Northam Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Northam on 26 September 1911 [39: 27-Sep-1911]
His horse Shipton Spark won 1st prize for Draught Shire stallion and Marchagee Princess won 2nd prize for Draught mare [39]
Together his horses Lancelyn Gipsy and Marchagee Ruby won 1st prize for Two Horse Team and were "a feature of the show" [39]
The judges remarked that the horses "were hardly likely to improve the horses of the State to the extent that might be expected" [39]
The remarks were made hoping not to discourage "men who are willing to invest money in the importation of English stock" [39]
Importing the horses may have been financially unsound and cost more money than it returned, if the remarks were accurate [39]
Two of the horses still weren't "perfectly sound" which was attributed to the voyage over some four months earlier [39]
In October 1911 he won two 1st prizes and one 2nd prize in the Horse section of the Royal Show in Perth [39: 11-Oct-1911] [81: 15-Oct-1911]
Won 1st for Hackney stallion, 1st for Hackney mare with Shinfield Elegance, and 2nd for Shire mare with Marchagee Ruby [81]
He "secured champion honours" in the horse section at the Moora Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Moora in 1911 [120: 14-Oct-1911]
Won 1st prize for Three Year Old Draught Filly in the horse section of the Wagin Agricultural Show in Wagin in 1911 [120: 4-Nov-1911]
New photographs of his Marchagee Ruby and Marchagee Princess appeared in The Western Mail on 4 November 1911 [120: 4-Nov-1911]
He returned to England by steamship in early 1912 and was followed six months later by his five year old son [204]
He departed from Albany, Western Australia on the steamship Suevic and arrived in London, England on 12 March 1912 [204]
His father arranged for the farm in Marchagee to be auctioned on a walk-in walk-out basis on 19 June 1912 [39: 17-Jun-1912] [81: 23-Jun-1912]
At the time the cleared acreage of the farm had increased to 800 acres with 600 acres planted in crop [81: 23-Jun-1912]
The farm didn't sell and his father instead made arrangements for its plant, livestock and sundries to be auctioned [39: 4, 8 & 11-Jul-1912]
The auction took place with no reserve prices on 11 July 1912 with the entirety of the items being offered first in one lot [39]
Livestock up for sale was the farm's riding horses, plough horses, pigs, poultry and turkeys [39: 11-Jul-1912]
The farming plant for sale included ploughs, harrows, drill, dray, harness, cart, buckboard and sundries [39: 11-Jul-1912]
Although he was in England he was issued with a receiving order of bankruptcy in Western Australia on 22 August 1912 [39: 31-Aug-1912]
His son departed from Fremantle, Western Australia on the steamship Orama and arrived in Plymouth, England in October 1912 [204]
By mid 1913 the farmland in Marchagee was only in the names of his parents and rates were sent care of J. H. NOBLE in Perth [44]
His uncle Arnold A. EMERY and cousin Percy R. EMERY were in Marchagee in 1918 and 1919, presumably running the farm [50]
He secured employment as a Clerk at his father's metal works on Aston Road in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England [306: 9-Oct-1914]
He initially resided his parents at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England [306: 9-Oct-1914]
By October 1914 he was lodging at 76 Minstead Road in Garvelly Hill, Warwickshire, England [306: 9-Oct-1914]
His former wife presented a bankruptcy petition against him via the County Court of Justice on 5 October 1914 [306: 9-Oct-1914, 15-Mar-1921]
The petition was sent care of his father, published in The London Gazette and in The Birmingham Daily Post newspaper [306]
He had to appear before the County Court of Justice in Birmingham at 12.30 on 4 November 1914 [306]
A receiving order was made against him but it was rescinded on 11 November 1914 when an order of adjudication was made [306]
The adjudication order was annulled on 1 March 1921 as it appeared that all debts, costs, charges and expenses had been paid [306]
He remarried in England and had a further four children - none of whom had knowledge of his daughter Beatrice [P405]
His son Charles Neville EMERY returned to Australia in 1928 [203] and was a Farmer in Perenjori, Western Australia 1930-1936 [50]
From The West Australian newspaper, Saturday 23 October 1909:
"The Marchagee Estate surrounds the Marchagee railway siding, and has a frontage to the railway line of over three miles, and has an elevation of 1069 feet [325.8 metres] above sea level, enjoying a regular rainfall of 16 inches [406.4 millimetres] per annum. The position is an excellent one for mixed farming, the proximity to the siding enabling produce to be loaded at a nominal cost to either Perth, Geraldton or the Cue goldfields, while Mingenew, the principal stock market of the State, is only 77 miles distant by rail, affording excellent opportunities for stock dealing and as a depot for holding stock. The soul is a fine rich chocolate, strong and deep, equal to the best in the State, and is timbered with York gum, jam and salmon gum. The improvements include 26 miles of sheep-proof fencing enclosing 4,727 acres in 10 paddocks. About 599 acres are cleared, of which 400 acres and now under crop and promising an exceptionally big return. The whole of the timber has been ringbarked for several years, and 200 acres are in process of clearing for cultivation next year. Ample provision has been made for water, there being three fine dams 2500, 1200 and 600 cubic yards respectively, also one well with an unlimited supply of pure water fitted with windmill, tanks and troughing. The buildings include comfortable residence of 8 rooms, large grain and machinery shed 150 x 60 feet [45.7 x 18.3], 6-stall stable and loose-boxes, men's quarters, harness-room, blacksmith's shop, etc. Adjoining the C.P. [Conditional Purchase] land is a pastoral lease of 28,000 acres of excellent sand plain, which is invaluable as a change for stock during portion of the summer months. This lease is will be given with the C.P. lands. The whole of the stock no won the estate are in magnificent condition, testifying to the excellent fattening properties of this fine piece of country. As a country home this property has many advantages. Its elevation of 1069 feet [325.8 metres] above sea level ensures cool nights throughout the summer and a perfect climate. Every Thursday a train leaves for Perth at 5.35 p.m., arriving at Marchagee at 1 a.m., while there are two trains a day on two days a week and one train a day each way on the other days."
Percy Reginald EMERY
Born 1893 in New Zealand [82]
Son of Arnold Arthur EMERY and Mary Ann WILLIAMSON [21] [82]
Farmer in Marchagee, Western Australia in 1919 [50]
He was a nephew of Samuel Charles EMERY and first cousin of Charles Holland EMERY [20] [82]
Presumably he farmed on the Marchagee Estate Farm owned by his uncle and which had previously been farmed by his cousin [44]
The farm was 4,727 acres in Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
Labourer in Wilga northwest of Boyup Brook in Western Australia in 1925 [50]
Labourer of 9 Bennett Street in the Perth suburb of East Perth in Western Australia 1931 [50]
By 1957 he had returned to New Zealand and was living as a pensioner at 17 Martin Square, Wellington on the North Island [308]
He was living at 152 Taranaki Street in Wellington, North Island, New Zealand in 1963 [308]
Samuel Charles EMERY
Born 17 October 1850 in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20] [21] [33: Film 919713]
Son of metal dealer Alfred Holland EMERY and Eliza FREEMAN [20] [21]
He was one of six children with elder siblings Albert, Alice and Alfred and younger brothers Arnold and Alexander [20]
When the 1851 census was taken he was living with his parents and siblings on Lichfield Road in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20]
They were living at 76 Bath Street in Birmingham in 1861 and at Ivy House on Water Works Street in Aston in 1871 [20]
In 1871 himself and his brother Alfred were working as Metal Rollers, and by 1881 he was a Metal Manufacturer [20]
Married Kate GREAYER on 18 September 1878 at Saint James' Church in Hull, Yorkshire, England [33: Film 1657088]
In 1881 they were living at Chestnut Lodge on Slade Road in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20]
They later resided for over 20 years at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England [20]
In late 1909 or early 1910 he purchased two farms in Marchagee, Western Australia [39: 23-Nov-1909, 14-Jul-1910] [120: 4-Dec-1909]
He presumably purchased the farms for his son Charles Holland EMERY who had shifted to Western Australia [39: 30-Jul-1909] [203]
The farms were the late Henry C. ARMSTRONG's 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate and the 2,352 acre Mamboobie Estate [39]
They'd been sold at auction on 25 November 1909 with a report on the auction stating they'd been sold to John P. DOSCAS [39] [120]
He may have purchased the farms off or through DOSCAS, or the sale to DOSCAS may have fallen through [39]
Marchagee Estate comprised Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
Mamboobie Estate consisted of Victoria Locations 3190, 3219, 3220, 3221, 3222, 3223, 3224, 3225, 3226 and 2227 [44]
In August 1910 he had the Mamboobie Estate auctioned so they could concentrate their energies on the Marchagee Estate Farm [39]
The Mamboobie Estate appears to have been sold to Duncan W. PATERSON and Griffith G. JOHN of Paterson & Co Ltd [44]
His son was the farmer of their Marchagee Estate Farm in Marchagee from 1910 until returning to England in 1912 [19] [44] [204]
The farm was listed in rate books as belonging to him, then to his son and wife, and then as belonging to himself and his wife [44]
He employed the services of James GARDINER to auction the Marchagee Estate on a walk-in walk-out basis [39: 17-Jun-1912] [81: 23-Jun-1912]
The auction took place at 3 p.m. on 28 June 1912 within GARDINER's rooms in Harper's Buildings on Howard Street in Perth [81]
At the time 800 acres of the "magnificent and well-improved farm" had been cleared and it contained 600 acres of crop [81]
The farm was "in full working order" and had a "complete and carefully selected working plant sufficient for all requirements" [81]
The farm presumably didn't sell and he instead made arrangements for its plant, livestock and sundries to be auctioned [39: 4, 8 & 11-Jul-1912]
The farm's contents were owned by his son but he could sell them as he held a bill of sale from his son dated 21 February 1910 [39]
The auction took place with no reserves on 11 July 1912 with the entirety of the items being offered first in one lot [39]
Livestock up for sale was the farm's riding horses, plough horses, pigs, poultry and turkeys [39]
The farming plant for sale included ploughs, harrows, drill, dray, harness, cart, buckboard and sundries [39]
Absentee Farmer & Grazier of the 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia 1912-1921 [44]
The farm consisted of Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
His Marchagee Estate Farm was managed by Douglas W. SYMINGTON in 1917 [50]
400 acres of wheat crop was grown on his farm in Marchagee in 1917 [10: 19-Jun-1917]
The farm was likely managed by his brother Arnold A. EMERY in 1918 and 1919, as he was a Farm Manager in Marchagee [50]
His nephew, Percy R. EMERY, was listed as a Farmer in Marchagee in 1919, so may also have been working his farm [50]
Rates for his farmland in Marchagee were sent to 23 William Street in Perth, Western Australia care of J. H. NOBLE [44]
He appears to have become the owner of the pedigreed horses his son had imported from England in 1911 [39: 12-Jul-1911, 2-Aug-1911]
Exhibited horses in the Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Horse Parade in Perth in August 1912 [39: 7 & 8-Aug-1912] [120: 10-Aug-1912]
His Shinfield Elegance won 1st for Hackney Mare and Long Lawford Boy 3rd for Clydesdale or Heavy Draught Stallion [39] [120]
At the sales of the Annual Horse Parade in 1912 he put up for sale his Shire stallions Shipton Spark and Long Lawford Boy [39]
His horse Long Lawford Boy won 2nd prize for Draught Shire at the Royal Agricultural Show in Perth in October 1912 [39: 9-Oct-1912]
Long Lawford Boy was three years of age at the time, and was also awarded Reserve Champion for the Shire classes [120: 11-Oct-1912]
Along with his wife departed London, England on the steamship Orvieto on 6 March 1920 bound for Fremantle, Western Australia [203]
They travelled first class and arrived to D Shed at Fremantle on Thursday afternoon 9 April 1920 [39: 9-Apr-1920] [203]
He spent five months in Western Australia, during which time he presumably visited his farm in Marchagee [203] [204]
In April 1920 he advertised a vacancy for a farm and yardman for his farm in Marchagee at £2 per week [39: 24-Apr-1920]
Departed from Fremantle, Western Australia on the steamship Orontes and arrived in London, England on 28 September 1920 [204]
His wife departed from Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) on the steamship Narkunda and arrived in London on 16 October 1920 [204]
By October 1920 his Marchagee Estate in Marchagee was being farmed by Thomas A. REDDELL [39: 22-Oct-1920] [50]
The farm remained listed in his name for rates in 1921, but from 1922 it was in the name of "Reddell, Emery & Golding" [44]
Rates for the farm were sent to Thomas A. REDDELL [44] who by 1924 had become a part-owner of the farm [61]
It is unclear when he sold out his share in the farm in Marchagee but it was likely sometime before 1930 [81: 21-Sep-1930]
Resided of late at 56 High Street in Sutton Coldfield, Warwick, England [306: 11-Dec-1931]
Father of Alice Greayer, Ruby Freeman, Charles Holland and Muriel Kathleen [20] [21]
Died 21 June 1931 in England [21] [306: 11-Dec-1931]
George William EVERY
Born C.1910 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 30 April 1978; ashes dispersed Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
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Edna May FALCONER
Born C.1908 [2]
Resided on Barokee Farm in Coorow 1950-1967 [2] [19
Died 27 July 1967; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 8C, 13) [2]
Mrs Daisy Laura FARLEY
Wife of "Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY; see Daisy Laura WILLISON
"Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY
Born 24 September 1889 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England [30]
Son of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [30]
He was a Marine Engineer by trade and had undertaken a five year apprenticeship with Deny & Company in Scotland [30]
Farmer of Dartmouth Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1912-1917 [19] [215]
Member of the Coorow branch of the Farmers & Settlers' Association - was Secretary in 1912 [215]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australia Imperial Force in Perth on 1 January 1918 [30: item 3548005]
At enlistment he was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighed 144 pounds with brown eyes, light brown hair and a medium complexion [30]
On 2 January 1918 at Laverton he was appointed to the Australian Imperial Force's Australian Flying Corps [30]
Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia for active service abroad on the R.M.S. Osterley 8 May 1918 [18]
2nd Class Air Mechanic 3231 in the Australian Imperial Force's Australian Flying Corps during the First World War [30]
Granted leave with pay to attend McGibbons School of Marine Engineering in Scotland from 21 February 1919 to 17 July 1919 [30]
He was an excellent student, and successfully passed the 2nd Class Board of Trade's Examination of Marine Engineering [30]
Embarked from England on the steamship Aeneas and disembarked in Fremantle, Western Australia on 1 January 1920 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 25 January 1920; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married Daisy Laura SINFIELD nee WILLISON in Perth in 1920 [66]
Farmer of Dartmouth Farm in Coorow 1920-1928 [6] [19]
Returned to Coorow in August 1920 [215]
By 1920 was farming in Coorow in partnership with his father and brother James as "Philip Farley & Sons" [44]
Repayments to the Midland Railway Company for his father's initial 630 acres in Lots M947 and M961 were completed in 1920 [34]
On completion of the repayments the land became freehold and was transferred into his name on 24 April 1920 [34]
Wrote to the Education Department on 12 March 1921 requesting a teacher to consistently run the Coorow State School [215]
Despite expenses his stepdaughter Pearl hadn't received five weeks running of education since she had been in Coorow [215]
Signatory to a letter sent to the Director of Education by Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY of Coorow on 14 March 1921 [215]
The letter complained about the sporadic nature, including too many closed days, in which the Coorow State School was run [215]
His wife purchased the 701 acre Lot M1121 of Victoria Location 2023 in Coorow from Alexander GRANT on 12 June 1925 [27]
Lot M1121 still had instalments owing to the Midland Railway Company, which they completed paying [27]
In late 1927 sold his and his wife's 1,331 acres of farmland to Mrs Daisy H. WIGGIN and T. Reginald SIZER [39: 8-Nov-1927, 31-Jan-1928]
Elder Smith & Co Ltd conducted a clearing sale for him on his farm 1½ miles from Coorow on Friday 20 January 1928 [39: 6-Jan-1928]
Plant and machinery sold included an almost band new 2-ton Holt tractor that had only been used for 600 acres of fallowing, [39]
12-disc Shearer plough, 10-foot Sunshine harvester, 21-disc Mitchell drill, 30-tyne MacKay spring type cultivator, [39]
6-foot Sunshine binder, 6-foot Sunshine harvester, 13-disc Farmer's Favourite drill, chaff cutter and engine, [39]
5-furrow mouldboard plough, 8-disc Shearer plough, Robinson grader, wheat grinder, sulky and harness, dray and harness, [39]
spring cart and harness, separator, two cream cans, two coils of barb wire, 8-foot by 10-foot tent, quantity of oil drums, [39]
bellows and anvil, quantity of tools, Lowdour pump, quantity of jam strainer posts, piping, plough chains, three Cyclone beds, [39]
cooler, sewing machine, dozen plough shears and a host of sundries; plus nine medium draught horses and two milking cows [39]
Resided at 35 Martin Avenue in the Perth suburb of Nedlands 1929-1946 [6]
By the end of the 1931-32 financial year he was somehow once again the owner of his and his wife's 1,331 acres in Coorow [3]
The 1,331 acres in Coorow consisted of Lots M947 and M961 and M1121 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Leased his 1,331 acre farm in Coorow to neighbouring farmer Charles C. BOTHE of Glenfield Farm [P147]
He wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in August 1935 requesting they reduce the money he owed them [5: 23-Aug-1935]
The Carnamah District Road Board resolved that they "could not sanction" such a reduction [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Hume pipes were installed over the crossing to his property in Coorow by the Main Road Board in October 1936 [5: 6-Nov-1936]
By the end of the 1938-39 financial year he had sold his 1,331 acre farm in Coorow to Charles C. BOTHE [3]
Resided at 35 Martin Avenue in the Perth suburb of Nedlands until his death in 1946 [2]
Died 17 December 1946; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, Niche Wall, W1, 105) [2]
He was registered at birth under the name of Philip Daniel FARLEY [21]
Ellen Sarah FARLEY
Born 17 January 1891 [33]
Daughter of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [33] [215]
Baptised on 18 July 1891 at Kidderpore in Calcutta, West Bengal, India [33]
Departed Calcutta, India with her parents on the steamship Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Later in 1911 she was living at Eden Hill in the Perth suburb of Guildford [215]
She wrote to the Education Department on 7 September 1911 wanting particulars about the school monitor's examination [215]
Her father was intending to take up land in Coorow, and she was hoping to get a post at the proposed Coorow State School [215]
A school was to be established as with her sister Phyllis and brother James there was the required ten local children of school age [215]
Arrived in Coorow in December 1911 and after delays finding premises opened the Coorow State School on 5 February 1912 [215]
School Teacher of the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1912 [215]
The school at Coorow was a Regulation Four School which meant it was conducted from a private and not state supplied building [215]
She taught the school from a bush shed on George J. T. BATTERSBY's Wattle Vale Farm from February 1912 to October 1912 [215]
In June 1912 she was conducting the school from her father's home on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow [215]
The bush shed on Wattle Vale became unavailable after 15 October 1912 and the school then had no home for six weeks [215]
It appears that she may have conducted the school from her father's home on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow during its homelessness [215]
The school moved to two rooms freely provided by James MCGILL at Coorow House and reopened on 2 December 1912 [215]
Mrs Eva Harriett FARLEY
Wife of Capt. Philip FARLEY; see Eva Harriett BROWN
"Jim" James FARLEY
Born 11 October 1900 in Calcutta, Bengal, India [16]
Son of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [30]
Baptised at the Seamens Church at Hastings in Calcutta, Bengal, India on 13 November 1900 [272]
Departed Calcutta, India with his parents on the steamship Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Resided with his parents on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1912-1916 [19] [30] [215]
His name was listed as a prospective student in applications for an assisted State School to be established in Coorow in 1911 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in 1912, which was a bush shed on Wattle Vale Farm and run by his sister Ellen [215]
By September 1913 he was boarding in Three Springs and attending the Three Springs State School [215]
Student at the Coorow State School at Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1914 [215]
Farmhand in Coorow prior to enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Geraldton on 14 July 1916 [30: item 3548039]
He was noted as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 144 lbs. and with blue-grey eyes, brown hair and a medium complexion [30]
After brief training at Blackboy Hill he was on 1 November 1916 appointed to the 17th Reinforcements of the 28th Battalion [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916 [18]
Private 6075 in the Australian Imperial Force's 28th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
His mother wrote to the Australian Headquarters of the A.I.F. on 24 December 1917 informing them he was underage [30]
A month later an investigation was begun to ascertain his true age, and it was revealed with his admission that he was underage [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 14 January 1919; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
On his return from the war he was tendered a Welcome Home at his parents' home in Coorow on Thursday 10 July 1919 [10: 18-Jul-1919]
The evening was organised by his mother, who with some assistance decorated the room with the colours of his battalion [10]
His Welcome Home was reported to have been "the best and brightest function yet head in that old established place Coorow" [10]
A large crowd from Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs attended, many of whom travelled boggy roads to be present [10]
Farmer in Coorow 1920-1928 [6] [19] [27]
Purchased with cash 517 acres of virgin land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company on 16 June 1920 [27]
The 517 acres was Lot M1231 of Victoria Location 2023, and cost £439/13/7 (17/- per acre), less a 20% cash discount [27]
Initially farmed his own land and his father's in partnership with his father and brother Daniel as "Philip Farley & Sons" [44]
By 1924 was farming on his own, and had also become the owner of the 753 acre Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023 [44]
Lot M1046 had previously been owned by his father, who had purchased it as virgin land in 1915 for £428/14/- [27]
By 1932 his 1,270 acre farm in Coorow (Lots M1046 and M1231) was owned by Charles C. BOTHE of Coorow [3]
Married Lily BROWN in 1921 [66]
Labourer in Perenjori 1929-1935 [19]
Farmer in Bowgada 1938-1942 [19]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 9 April 1942 [16]
Private W64281 in the Australian Army's 5 Garrison Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 19 April 1943 [16]
Farmer in Perenjori 1948-1958 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [2]
Died 29 June 1981; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Mrs Lily FARLEY
Wife of James FARLEY; see Lily BROWN
Pearl Frances FARLEY
Stepdaughter of "Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY; see Pearl Frances SINFIELD
Capt. Philip FARLEY
Born C.1858 [2]
Master Mariner in India [70]
Married Eva Harriett BROWN in 1887 in Bengal, India [171]
Departed Calcutta, India with his wife and children on the Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
By September 1911 he had plans to take up land in Coorow [215]
Ahead of them moving to Coorow his daughter Ellen applied to become the teacher of the proposed school in Coorow [215]
He guaranteed to contribute to the teacher's salary if the attendance fell below ten at the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
Farmer of Dartmouth Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1912-1925 [19] [27] [215]
On 28 April 1913 signed the contract to purchase from the Midland Railway Company 630 acres of farmland in Coorow [27]
The 630 acres consisted of Lots M947 and M961 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £2992/10/-, payable by instalments [27]
The land was part of the Midland Railway Company's Improved Farm Scheme and was the first farm sold through the scheme [27]
Like others in the Improved Farm Scheme it came with a house in addition to being partly cleared and fenced [34]
M947 and M961 both adjoin the railway line and are on the north and south sides of South Waddy Road respectively [62]
Took out assistance under the Industries Assistance Board while establishing his farm [34]
Signatory to financial guarantees to the Education Department issued on 10 August 1912 and 3 December 1912 [215]
The guarantee was to pay the financial shortfall if attendance at the Coorow State School fell below ten students [215]
By September 1913 his son James was boarding in Three Springs and attending the Three Springs State School [215]
His wheat crops averaged 25 bushels an acre in 1912 and 23 bushels an acre in 1913 [81: 1-Feb-1914]
In March 1915 applied to purchase from the Midland Railway Company an adjoining 750 acres for between 8/- and 25/- per acre [34]
Application successful: on 29 June 1915 purchased 753 acres of adjoining virgin land from the Midland Railway Coy for £428 [27]
753 acres was Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023 and was adjacent to M947 on the north side of South Waddy Road [27] [62]
During the First World War his sons Daniel and James served in the Australian Imperial Force [30: items 3548039, 3548005]
Sold 331 bags of wheat from his 1915 harvest (108 bags for 4/- and 223 bags for 3/- per bushel) and kept 170 bags for seed wheat [34]
In April 1916 A. J. BARBER, General Manager of the Midland Railway Company in London, England remarked in a letter: [34]
"Captain Farley…has been a good hard worker from all accounts, and was…the first settler who came to our farms" [34]
Seeded 300 acres of crop on his farm in 1916 [34] and had 350 acres of wheat crop in 1917 [10: 19-Jun-1917]
In August 1916 signed a petition which was sent to the Midland Railway Company requesting the price of their farms be reduced [34]
Member of the Winchester-Carnamah branch of the Farmers & Settlers' Association 1917 [34]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
By 1920 was farming and trading in partnership with his sons Daniel and James as "Philip Farley & Sons" [44]
Repayments to the Midland Railway Company for his initial 630 acres in Lots M947 and M961 in Coorow were completed in 1920 [34]
On completion of the repayments the land became freehold and was transferred into his son Daniel's name on 24 April 1920 [34]
Himself, his son James and Carl G. B. JENSEN took out a contract to purchase 669 acres in Coorow on 15 September 1922 [27]
The 669 acres was Lot M1387 of Victoria Location 2023 and was being purchased from the Midland Railway Company [27]
Lot M1387 cost £217/13/5 (6/6 per acre) which was payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
On 15 January 1925 they assigned the block to his wife Eva, and on 28 September 1927 sold it to Alfred G. WALLIS [27]
Appears to have left Coorow in 1925, with his Lots M947 and M961 going to his son Daniel and M1046 to his son James [3] [19] [44]
Resided in Mandurah in 1929 and 1930 [6]
Resided at 21 Douglas Avenue, South Perth in 1934 and at 15 Yeovil Crescent in the Perth suburb of Bicton in 1935 and 1936 [6]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [2]
Father of Daniel, Ellen, James and Phyllis [34] [70]
Died 19 September 1936; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Anglican, A5, 205) [2]
His wife Eva died two months later on 14 November 1936, aged 66 years and was also buried at the Fremantle Cemetery [2]
Phyllis Eva FARLEY
Daughter of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [70]
Departed Calcutta, India with her parents on the steamship Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Resided with her parents on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow 1912-1923 [19] [34] [215]
Her name was listed as a prospective student in applications for an assisted State School to be established in Coorow in 1911 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in 1912, which was run by her sister Ellen S. FARLEY [215]
Came 3rd in the "Belle of the Ball" competition at the Three Springs Day held in Three Springs on 26 September 1918 [10: 4-Oct-1918]
Attended May BERRIGAN's 21st Birthday in Three Springs on 12 September 1919 [9: 19-Sep-1919]
Entrant in the Carnamah Popular Girl Competition conducted by the Carnamah Hall Committee in 1920 and 1921 [10: 1-Apr-1921]
In 1925 she was working as a Nurse and living at 697 Beaufort Street in what was then the Perth suburb of Highgate Hill [50]
Nurse in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1930 [50]
Resided with a Mrs TRAVERS on Charlton Avenue in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill [50]
Resided at The Maisonette Flats on Challis Avenue in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst [50]
Following her father's death in 1936 herself and her mother were living at 73 Marine Terrace in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [50]
William Arthur FARLEY
Farmhand for Baxter D. BOTHE on Inglewood Farm in Coorow in 1929 and 1930 [19]
Mary Jane FARRELL
Married Charles Frederick STARTLING in Geraldton in 1911 [66]
They resided in Coomberdale in 1914, in Coorow in 1917, and in Carnamah in Carnamah in 1919 and 1920 [6] [19]
Resided in Arrino in 1921 [19]
Came fourth with 5,753 votes in the Ugly Woman Competition conducted in Three Springs for the Y.M.C.A. in May 1917 [9]
Her candidiature in the competition contributed to the raising of £208/17/6 for the war efforts of the Y.M.C.A. [9: 25-May-1917]
Resided in Dongara in 1923 [19]
Resided on Victoria Street in Mingenew in 1929 and 1930 [19]
In early 1932 she was living in Walkaway and in later 1932 and in 1933 she was living in Mullewa [19]
Matthew FARRELL
Contractor in Marchagee in 1909 and 1910 [50]
John FARRELLY
Fettler in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Mrs Winifred Mary FARRELLY
Resided in Latham in 1922 [50]
George Robert Charles FELTON
Farmer in Gunyidi 1929-1933 [19]
Kevin Ringol FENNELL
Born 7 July 1936 [45]
Son of Walter George FENNELL and Alice Christina BRYANT [14]
Married Jetta Margaret DOWNES in 1957 in Victoria, Australia [P391]
Farmhand in Marchagee [19]
Worked on the farms of Peter W. THOMSON and then John M. STACY in Marchagee [P327]
Continued to live in a house on John M. STACY's farm in Marchagee while he established a local contracting business [P327]
Contract Carrier and Superphosphate Spreader in and around Marchagee [P327]
During the off-season of his business he did all of the maintaining of his trucks, spreaders and equipment [P327]
Later shifted to a house in the Marchagee townsite [P327]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [45]
During his time at Marchagee he had a beach shack at Green Head [45]
Purchased his father's original 1,400 farm from his brother W. Frank FENNELL in the 1960s or 1970s [P327]
His sons James and Bernard later took over his contracting business based at Marchagee [P392]
Later resided in Geraldton [45]
Passed away at the age of 70 years at the Saint John of God Hospital in Geraldton [45]
His Funeral Mass was held at Saint Lawrence's Catholic Church in the Geraldton suburb of Bluff Point [45]
Father of Kerry, Peter, Maria, Sharyn, and twins James and Bernard [P391]
Died 12 January 2006; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA on 17 January 2006 [45]
"Frank" Walter Frank FENNELL
Born 1927 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Son of Walter George FENNELL and Alice Christina BRYANT [14]
Resided with his parents on farmland in Marchagee [19]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were Walter G. FENNELL, Frank R. BRYANT and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
Purchased the 1,778 acre Victoria Location 9493 in Marchagee from Frank R. BRYANT in January 1950 [3]
Farmer in Marchagee 1950-1980 [19]
Fisherman of Lot 101 Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite in 1986 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Armadale [2]
Died 15 May 1995; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Walter George FENNELL
Born 4 April 1908 in Busselton, Western Australia [16]
Farmer in Marchagee 1923-1955 [1] [14] [19]
His farm was 1,544 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 3255, 3256 and 5866 [3]
Married Alice Christina BRYANT in Perth in 1926 [14] [66]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The other members of the party were his son W. Frank FENNELL, Frank R. BRYANT and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
Private W83520 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
On 15 December 1943 was fined £2 at the Carnamah Police Court for drinking at the Coorow Hotel at an hour outside its license [22]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
Father of Frank, Kevin, Barry and Graham [14]
Died 27 February 1955; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 2) [1]
Jeanett Paton FERGUSON
Born 4 December 1899 in Moonta, South Australia [55]
Daughter of John Paton FERGUSON and Frances Amelia MORRIS [55]
Married Milton Jabez TILLY on 28 July 1927 in Weetulta, South Australia [55]
In 1936 shifted with her husband from South Australia to Coorow, Western Australia [P8]
Resided in Coorow from 1936 until 1995 [P8]
Resided in the house on Lot 1142, which her husband leased, on the north side of the Coorow-Latham Road 1936-1940 [P8]
Resided on her husband's Touchna Farm, Lot M1617, between the Midlands Road and Touche Road 1940-1946 [P8]
Purchased the former billiard saloon at Lot 47 Commercial Street in the Coorow townsite from Lloyd WILLIAMS [3]
Resided in the galvanised iron house (former billiard saloon) at Lot 47 Commercial Street, Coorow 1946 onwards [P8]
In July 1946 purchased the vacant and adjacent Lot 48 Commercial Street in Coorow from Mrs Frances E. SCHNEIDER [3]
Later had a new house built which straddled both Lots 47 and 48 Commercial Street, Coorow [P8]
Used both the new and old houses for a number of years and then had the old house pulled down and added to the new one [P8]
Won 1st prize for Fancy Cakes at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Exhibited in the Confectionary and Vegetable sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st prizes for Plain Scones and for Fancy Cakes, and 2nd prize for Carrots [5]
At the Show Ball held in the evening following the Show she received the V. W. Broun Trophy for the best Fancy Cakes [5]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 and 1947 [150]
Steward of the Cookery section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Later a member of the North Midlands Agricultural Society [P8]
Member of Coorow's branches of the Red Cross Society, Country Women's Association and R.S.L. Ladies' Auxiliary [P8]
Member of the North Midlands Methodist Church / North Midlands Uniting Church [P8]
Resided on Lots 47 and 48 Commercial Street, Coorow until 1995 when she moved to the Lady Brand Lodge in Three Springs [P8]
Mother of Jill [P8]
Died 7 March 2003; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth (VC Section, Niche Wall, W5, 41) [2]
Mrs Ivy Evelyn FIEBIG
Wife of Alan Oscar FIEBIG; see Ivy Evelyn ANGEL
Frank FINNISS
Railway Fettler in Latham in 1916 and 1917 [50]
Frederick Ulick Evelyn FIRMSTONE
Born C.1893 [2]
Farmer of Kenilworth Farm in Coomberdale in 1931 [50]
Farmer of Monomeath Farm in Coorow 1932-1935 [4] [5] [19]
Himself and Clement M. WARREN farmed the property in partnership as "Warren & Firmstone" [5: 2-Mar-1934] [19]
The farm was the 1,477 acre Lot M1142 of Victoria Location 2023, which was leased from Dennis J. NOLAN [3] [5: 22-Mar-1935] [19]
In 1932 they had a Dodge Runabout car licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-67 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
It was reported in the local newspaper on 6 October 1933 that he had been an inmate of the Moora Hospital for some time [5: 6-Oct-1933]
"Warren & Firmstone" purchased three Border Leicester rams from LEISHMAN Bros of Winchester in February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Following the expiration of their lease they held a clearing sale on the property at 1:30 p.m. on Friday 29 March 1935 [5: 22-Mar-1935]
They employed Carnamah agent W. B. SHERIDAN to conduct the sale, at which they sold their livestock and machinery [5]
Their livestock comprised of 600 sheep (mainly Border Leicester), 70 pigs, three cows, eight ducks, 30 fowls and 17 turkeys [5]
Machinery and Plant included 6 foot Shearer M.B. plough, 8 foot McKay header, 20 hoe McKay combine, 14 disc Sundercut, [5]
35 tyne McKay cultivator, drill, harros, Dodge runabout, fumigator, Rumley tractor, vice, drilling machine, tools and sundries [5]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Armadale [2]
Died 31 October 1985; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (DA Section, Ground Niche, A, 83) [2]
John FITZPATRICK
Fencer in Coorow 1911-1913 [19] [50]
William FLETCHER
Clearing Contractor in Three Springs 1910-1914 [6] [19] [50]
Farmhand on Carl G. B. JENSEN's Sandringham Farm in Coorow 1914-1916 [19]
Labourer in Coorow in 1917 [50]
Mrs "Fay" Faith Reta FOLLAND
Wife of Gilbert Ridgway FOLLAND; see "Fay" Faith Reta NICHOLLS
Gilbert Ridgway FOLLAND
Born 2 January 1911 in Enfield, South Australia [55]
Son of Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND and Susanna Kate MORCOMBE [55]
Farmer of Enfield Park Farm in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [110]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club 1928-1930 [4: 10-Nov-1928, 11-Oct-1930]
Attended the Euchre Party and Dance held in Winchester on Saturday 14 September 1929 [4: 21-Sep-1929]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1932 [5: 29-Jul-1932]
Came 2nd in the Coat, Hat and Cigarette Race in the Horse Events at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club 1933-1951 [4: 2-Dec-1933, 23-Oct-1936, 7-Apr-1951]
Came 1st in the Flag Race and the Swerving Race in the Horse Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Master of Ceremonies at the send-off to Tom MORCOMBE at the Waddy Forest Hall on Saturday 13 January 1934 [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H in 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
Received £2 in Vermin Bonuses from the Carnamah District Road Board in February 1934 for killing four foxes [300: page 42]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]fCHAVE
Married "Fay" Faith Reta NICHOLLS at the Central Baptist Church in Perth on 17 March 1934 [5: 23-Mar-1934, 6-Apr-1934]
His best man was his cousin Keith MORCOMBE, while groomsman was Fay's brother Max NICHOLLS [5]
Following their wedding himself and his wife arrived to their home Thornborough in Waddy Forest on Saturday 31 March 1934 [5]
Received a small presentation in recognition of his marriage at a meeting of the Waddy Forest Toc H on 25 April 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
Himself and his father travelled to Perth on Sunday 29 July 1934 to attend a horse sale early the next week [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Won the Melon Race in the Ring Events section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Master of Ceremonies during the later portion of the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935 and 1936, and was B Grade Champion in 1937 [5: 1-Nov-1935, 31-Jul-1936, 16-Jul-1937]
Attended the Coorow Rifle Club's Grand Ball held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 26 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Represented Waddy at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 6-Sep-1935, 18-Sep-1936]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday Party for his sister Nance at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth for the Perth Royal Show in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Competitor in the Parkinson Tennis Club's Tennis Tournament held in Carnamah on New Year's Day 1 January 1937 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Played for the defeated Married Men in a cricket match against Single Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Master of Ceremonies at the Waddy Forest Tennis Club's Presentation Dance in Waddy Forest in June 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
Attended the Kitchen Tea for Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD at the Waddy Forest Hall on 31 July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 21 September 1945 [96]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 [150]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1952 [0: image 04668]
In 1957 was the owner of a motor vehicle with licence plate CA-52 [22]
In 1963 was the owner of a Vauxhall sedan car with licence plate CW-224 and a trailer with licence plate CW-32 [22]
Later resided at 45 Beckenham Place in the Perth suburb of Beckenham [2]
Passed away at the age of 74 years from respiratory failure and emphysema at the Mount Henry Hospital in Como [90]
Father of Kath, Ruth and Maxine [14]
Died 22 January 1985 in the Perth suburb of Como; ashes interred Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Niche Wall) [1] [2]
"Stan" Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND
Born 11 July 1883 in Enfield, South Australia [55]
Son of Charles French FOLLAND and Annie Maria WILLIAMS [55]
Married "Susie" Susanna Kate MORCOMBE on 25 May 1909 in Enfield, South Australia [55]
Settled on prospective farmland at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district of Western Australia in 1924 [P164]
On 27 October 1924 he had purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1,136 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest [27]
The 1,136 acres of virgin land was Lot M1505 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £994/8/9 or 17/6 per acre [27]
The purchase was payable by instalments over 15 years and after extending the repayments to 1944 he completed the purchase [27]
Farmer of Enfield Park Farm in Waddy Forest 1924-1941 [5: 27-Jul-1934] [19] [P164]
In 1928 he grew 630 acres of Nabawa and Gluyas varieties of wheat on his farm in Waddy Forest [120: 20-Dec-1928]
Hail struck his wheat crops in 1928, and the damage done was estimated to have been seven bushels per acre [120: 20-Dec-1928]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club in 1928-29 [4: 10-Nov-1928]
Competed in the nationwide Bateman Centenary Wheat Growers' Competition in 1929 [4: 17-May-1930]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club 1929-1932 [4: 24-Aug-1929, 22-Aug-1931] [5: 22-Jul-1932]
Attended and spoke at the Welcome Home held in Coorow for Dr. W. P. SHANAHAN on 13 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Represented the Carnamah Rifle Club at the National Rifle Association Prize meeting in 1932 [5: 2-Sep-1932]
In 1932 was the owner of a Hillman car and a Chevrolet truck with license plates CA-185 and CA-204 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
At one stage had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanic Henry Parkin & Son [53]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1932-1936 [4: 9-Apr-1932] [5: 13-Mar-1936] [150]
Attended, exhibited and competed at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held in Maley Park, Coorow on 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 1st prize for a Male White Leghorn in the Poultry section and came 2nd in the Flag Race of the Horse Events [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 2nd prize for female Black Orpington in the Poultry section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
In 1933 purchased two bags of seed wheat of the sought after Comeback wheat and reaped 62 bags from ten acres [5: 23-Feb-1934]
In November 1933 himself and Ivor B. ROBERTS proposed a Rifle Club be formed at Coorow [5: 24-Nov-1933]
Founding Member, Chairman and Captain of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1934 [5: 5-Jan-1934] [P15]
Along with Charles BOTHE, Baxter BOTHE and Ivor ROBERTS built the Coorow Rifle Range in July 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934]
He was once more Captain of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935-36, 1936-37 and 1937-38 [5: 1-Nov-1935, 31-Jul-1936, 16-Jul-1937, 30-Jul-1937]
Donated trophies to the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935 which were won by John S. READ and F. Keith MORCOMBE [5: 1-Nov-1935]
He presented the trophies at the Coorow Rifle Club's Annual Ball at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 28 November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Himself and his brother-in-law William G. MORCOMBE used to shoot rabbits in Waddy Forest - up to 100 in a day [P32]
Building of a new cement brick house on his farm in Waddy Forest commenced in February 1934 [5: 9-Feb-1934]
Along with Phil, Stella and Keith MORCOMBE travelled to Perth by car on 16 March 1934 to attend his son's wedding [5: 23-Mar-1934]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association in 1934 [5: 8-Jun-1934]
Had a wireless set (radio) installed at his home on Enfield Park in Waddy Forest towards the end of July 1934 [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Himself, his son Gilbert, daughter-in-law Fay and the NICHOLLS boys travelled to Perth by car on Sunday 29 July 1934 [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Over the first weekend in August 1934 Sister FOLLAND of the Dalwallinu Hospital stayed with them in Waddy Forest [5: 10-Aug-1934]
Exhibited in four sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Received 1st prize for Yearly Draught Colt or Filly and 2nd for a Draught Stallion in the Horse section [5]
Won 1st prize for male and 2nd for female Black Orpingtons in the Poultry section; and 2nd prizes for Lemons and White Eggs [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Rifle Club's Rifle Range on Saturday 8 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
A sample of his outstanding wheat was part of the Coastal District Display at the Perth Royal Show in 1934 [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Himself and his brother-in-law Phil MORCOMBE received horses imported form South Australia on 21 November 1934 [5: 23-Nov-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1934-35 [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Owner of the registered four year old draught stallion named Penryn Leader in 1934-35 [5: 25-Jan-1935]
During early July 1935 he was an inmate of the Moora Hospital, during which time his condition "improved favourably" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
After being an inmate of the Moora Hospital for some time he returned to his home in Waddy Forest on 20 July 1935 [5: 26-Jul-1935]
Won 1st prize for Australian Strong White Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13 & 20-Sep-1935]
A week later repeated his success by winning 1st for Australian Strong White Wheat at the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5]
During the second half of September 1935 he was an inmate of the Carnamah Private Hospital and was "improving" [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Left the Carnamah Private Hospital on 12 October 1935 and returned to Waddy Forest well on the road to recovery [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Won 3rd prize for "any other variety of Premier Strong wheat" for Zone 2 at the Royal Show in Perth in 1935 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Monday 21 October 1935 to embark on a health tour and visit relatives [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Departed Fremantle, Western Australia on the Duntroon en route for a holiday in South Australia on 24 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Arrived back to his home in Waddy Forest on Monday night 17 February 1936 "looking very well and fit" [5: 21-Feb-1936]
Competed at the Official Opening of the Three Springs Rifle Club's rifle range in Three Springs on Thursday 23 July 1936 [5: 31-Jul-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
He won the majority of the awards in the Horse section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 3 September 1936 [5]
He was awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for Draught Mare and for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness; [5]
1st for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness bred by exhibitor; 2nd for Brood Mare visibly in or with foal and Draught Stallion [5]
As the most successful exhibitor of the Horse section he won the Hugh Fischer Trophy [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936]
Received prize money through competing at the meeting of the National Rifle Association of WA in Swanbourne in 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Convened the Social Evening held at the Waddy Forest Hall on Tuesday evening 15 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
At the Social Evening a collection was taken to help provide Christmas cheer for the Victoria Park Methodist Children's Home [5]
Most successful exhibitor and winner of the President's Trophy at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st and 2nd for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness and for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness bred by exhibitor [5]
Also won 1st and 2nd for 2-year Gelding and Brood Mare; and 2nd prizes for Draught Mare and Draught Gelding [5]
In the Vegetable section won 1st prizes for Lettuce and Onions and 2nd for Collection of Vegetables [5]
In Grain & Fodder received 1st and 2nd for Wheaten Chaff, 1st for Green Oats for Hay and 2nd for Comeback Wheat [5]
Resided in Waddy Forest until his death in 1941 [6] [19]
Father of Gilbert and Nance [14]
Died 23 August 1941 in Moora; buried Moora Cemetery, Moora [4: 30-Aug-1941]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 30 August 1941:
Obituary - Death of Waddy Forest Resident - Late Mr. S. L. Folland
"The death occurred at Moora on Saturday night last of a well-known resident of Waddy Forest in the person of Mr. S. L. Folland, who has for some years past been an extremely popular figure in the district. The deceased gentleman was keenly interested in public affairs generally, but he was particularly active in rifle shooting, having fulfilled the duties of captain of the Coorow Club since its inception. He was an excellent marksman and was always ready and willing to give other members the benefit of his wide experience. The late Mr. Folland is survived by a widow, one son (Gilbert) and one daughter (Nancy). The funeral took place at Moora on Monday last and was largely attended by friends and relatives, the chief mourners at the graveside being Mrs. S. L. Folland (wife), Miss N. Folland (daughter) and Mr and Mrs G. R. Folland. Members of the Coorow Rifle Club formed a guard of honour at the cemetery and representatives of the Coorow unit of the Home Guard acted as pall-bearers. Amongst those noticed at the graveside were Mr and Mrs P. W. Hunt, Mr and Mrs C. C. Bothe, Mr and Mrs B. D. Bothe, Mr and Mrs B. Lampard, Miss A. Peters, Messrs P. T. Morcombe, W. G. Morcombe, T. Morcombe, A. C. Broun, V. W. Broun, C. M. Broun, G. J. Underwood, E. W. Fowler, T. Read, G. E. Peters, A. Rudduck, A. C. Bierman, J. H. Doney, I. B. Roberts, W. Davies, S. R. Tomkins, J. Hogbin, D. J. McCann, C. H. Gronow, M. L. Gronow, H. T. Melvin, F. Bingham, W. S. Mitchell, G. Lambert, W. J. Gaunt, J. Read, D. E. Fowler, R. Wallace, M. G. Greenwood, E. Chapman and R. Clark."
Mrs "Susie" Susanna Kate FOLLAND
Wife of "Stan" Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND; see "Susie" Susanna Kate MORCOMBE
Eileen Veronica FORD
Born C.1918 [1]
Resided of late in Coorow [1]
Passed away at the age of 40 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 8 March 1958 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row G, Plot 14) [1]
"Add" Adeline Blanche FOWLER
Born 1 June 1912 [209]
Daughter of Donnell Edgar FOWLER and Ethel Blanche DRAPER [209]
Resided with her parents in Beverley 1912-1924 and then on farmland in Waddy Forest 1924-1936 [19] [209]
Won 1st prize for White Bread at the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Awarded 1st prize for Fruit Cake the second annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
One of the suppliers of music at the Coorow Cricket Club's Dance held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 13 April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Won the C. S. Baty & Coy trophy, which was a cake dish, at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the Show Ball after the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 12 September 1935 in a gown of dark red marocain [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Attended the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social Evening & Play Presentation at the Carnamah Hall on 17 June 1936 [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Won the Bushells Ltd Trophy for 1st prize for Coffee Sponge Sandwich at the 1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Herself and her father accompanied by Miss Mary ROBERTS travelled to Perth by car on Thursday 1 October 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
After attending the Perth Royal Show herself and her father returned to Waddy Forest [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Attended the Kitchen Tea for Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD at the Waddy Forest Hall on 31 July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
The guests of honour were presented with kitchen utensils she had purchased with donations collected by herself and her sisters [5]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Motored from Waddy Forest to Perth with her father on Tuesday 7 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st prize for Woollen Knitted Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
On leaving Waddy Forest she shifted to Perth where she re-met Lox MORAN, who she'd gone to school with in Beverley [P120]
Married "Lox" James Loxley MORAN in Perth on 15 February 1938 [66] [210]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Donnell and Trevor [209]
Died 3 May 2002; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, PD, 678) [2]
"Viv" Donald Vivian FOWLER
Born 23 August 1922 in Beverley, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Don" Donnell Edgar FOWLER and Ethel Blanche DRAPER [P120]
Resided with his parents in Beverley 1922-1924 and then on farmland in Waddy Forest 1924 onwards [P120]
Educated at the Waddy Forest State School in Waddy Forest [5: 10-May-1935] [P120]
Won a 2nd prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Himself and Norman J. M. PATTON were going home from school bareback on the same horse on 8 May 1935 [5: 10-May-1935]
Suffered slight concussion and fractured his collar bone after they stopped the horse too suddenly and were flung to the ground [5]
Later in the evening he was taken to the Carnamah Private Hospital for attention from Dr. Cecil P. ROSENTHAL [5: 10 & 24-May-1935]
After a few days at the Carnamah Private Hospital he returned to his parents' home in Waddy Forest on Saturday 18 May 1935 [5]
Won a box of sweets at a Dance held at the Waddy Hall in Waddy Forest on Saturday 22 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as "Oberon" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Himself and his twin sister Verna celebrated their 13th birthday at Glen Waddi Farm on Saturday 24 August 1935 [5: 30-Aug-1935]
Came 3rd in the 13 years Boys Running Race at the Combined School Sports in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Won 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Shows 1936 and 1937 [5: 11-Sep-1936, 10-Sep-1937]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Attended the Coorow-Waddy Progress Association's Annual Children's Sports in Coorow on Thursday 12 August 1937 [5]
Won the 14 Years Boys & Girls Race, the Boys Over 9 Years Obstacle Race and the High Jump with a height of 4 feet 2 inches [5]
Came 3rd in the Boys 9 to 12 Years Obstacle Race [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 19 July 1942 [16]
Private WX25384 in the Australian Army's 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
During the war he served initially in New Guinea and then in Borneo [P120]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 17 June 1946 [16]
Returned to Waddy Forest and farmed with his brothers Edgar and Leslie as "Fowler Bros" 1946-1952 [P120]
Farmer in Waddy Forest in partnership with just his brother Edgar as "Fowler Bros" 1952-1979 [P120]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [P120]
Killed in an accident while on the farm when during stubble chaining the tractor he was driving was pulled over and crushed him [P120]
Died 30 March 1979; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row U, Plot 19) [1]
"Don" Donnell Edgar FOWLER
Born 18 October 1882 in Craneford Flaxmans Valley, South Australia [55]
Son of George FOWLER and Sarah Ann KICK [55]
Resided with his parents in Craneford, Pint Cut Creek and then Truro in South Australia [210]
Along with two of his brothers left South Australia and shifted to Western Australia in the early 1900s [P120]
Worked as a timber cutter in Jarrahdale and then began share-farming [P120]
Married Ethel Blanche DRAPER on 3 June 1908 in Beverley, Western Australia [P120]
Farmer of Jangelling Farm at Balkuling in the Beverley district [P120]
Also farmed a property in Beverley which he leased from his brother-in-law Lewis DRAPER [P120]
His parents later left South Australia and lived with himself and his wife in Beverley [P120]
On 25 February 1921 purchased 1,295 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 1,295 acres was Lot M1300 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1457/11/7 (22/6 an acre), payable by instalments [27]
A while later shifted to the property in Waddy Forest, began clearing the land and had a good weatherboard house built [P120]
After the house was built his wife and children joined him on the farm in Waddy Forest [P120]
Farmer in Waddy Forest 1924-1948 [P120]
They also had a house in Forrest Street, South Perth where his wife stayed while their children attended nearby schools [P120]
In 1932 he was the owner of a Dodge car registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-51 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1932-1934 & 1936 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 10-Nov-1933, 13-Mar-1936]
Won 2nd prize for a Border Leicester Ram in the Sheep section of the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Returned to his home in Waddy Forest on 5 March 1934 after an extended holiday visiting relatives in the Eastern States [5: 9-Mar-1934]
Himself and his son Edgar travelled to Perth early in the morning on Sunday 24 June 1934 [5: 29-Jun-1934]
On 8 July 1934 he received at Waddy Forest the sad news that his mother had passed away in York the previous day [5: 13-Jul-1934]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Friday 27 July 1934 to receive medical attention for his arm [5: 3-Aug-1934]
In July 1934 he purchased a new Dodge truck, which his son Edgar travelled to Perth to collect [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Exhibited in the Horse, Sheep and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Draught Brood Mare, 2 year old Gelding or Filly bred by Exhibitor and Three Fat Lambs in the Wool [5]
Received 1st prize for Green Oats for Hay and both 1st and 2nd prizes for Cured Wheaten Hay [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Purchased three young horses in Perth, and took delivery of them at Coorow on Saturday 3 November 1934 [5: 9-Nov-1934]
Along with his daughter Addie returned to Coorow on Thursday 24 January 1935 after a trip to Perth [5: 25-Jan-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
Between August and October 1935 sold 446 sheep suckers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market [5]
The 446 suckers consisted of 114 at 17/10, 68 at 17/6, 75 at 16/10, 58 at 15/4, 25 at 15/-, 30 at 13/10, and 76 at 7/7 per head [5]
On 23 October 1935 sold a bull for £9/17/6 and a steer for £7/2/6 [5: 16 & 23-Aug-1935; 13-Sep-1935; 4 & 25-Oct-1935]
Donated a sheep for the Weight Guessing Competition at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
In September 1935 purchased a new McCormick-Deering T20 Caterpillar tractor from local agent W. G. MULLIGAN [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Donated trophies to the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, which were played for in a stroke competition on 8 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Travelled from Waddy to Perth during the second week of October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Sold 17 bales of wool in 1935 - 11 bales at 13d. per pound, four at 12½d. per pound, and two bales at 13¾d. per pound [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Sold 418 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with five consignments to the Midland Market between May and September 1936 [5]
The 418 sheep comprised 178 lambs (28 at 24/4, 35 at 23/10, 23 at 22/4, 41 at 20/7, 15 at 19/1, 14 at 18/1, 22 at 16/7), [5]
170 suckers (41 at 21/7, 33 at 20/4, 80 at 18/10, 10 at 17/7, 6 at 15/10), 39 ewes (20 at 29/7, 19 at 26/1), [5]
and 31 wethers (28 at 27/7, 1 at 18/-, 2 at 15/- per head) [5: 29-May-1936, 3-Jul-1936, 17-Jul-1936, 11 & 18-Sep-1936]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth for the Perth Royal Show in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Sold eight bales of wool through Elder Smith & Co Ltd in October 1936 - 4 bales at 14d. and 4 bales at 12½d. per pound [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
After an extended holiday in the Perth suburb of Como returned to Waddy with four of his children on 19 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Sold 386 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with consignments to the Midland Market in January and February 1937 [5: 29-Jan-1937]
The sheep consisted of 235 lambs (42 lambs at 19/4, 94 lambs at 19/1, 74 lambs at 18/7, 25 at 17/7), 2 hoggets at 17/10, [5]
110 ewes (8 at 16/1, 40 at 40/7, 39 at 14/4, 23 at 11/1), 39 wethers (12 at 20/-, 20 at 19/7, 1 at 19/4, 6 at 17/4) [5: 5-Feb-1937]
Motored to Perth accompanied by his daughters Adeline and Dulcie on 4 July 1937 and returned to Waddy a few days later [5: 9-Jul-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Attended the meeting in Coorow to discuss constructing a direct road from Coorow to the coast on 11 September 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
In 1948 his three sons bought him out of Glen Waddi Farm, and himself and his wife retired to their house in South Perth [P120]
Following the death of his wife in 1950 he rented out the house in South Perth and shifted back to Waddy Forest [P120]
After a while in Waddy Forest he went to live with one of his daughters in Perth, where he died of a heart attack [P120]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Father of Irene, Adeline, Elsie, Edgar, Dulcie, Leslie, Vivian and Verna [209]
Died 10 May 1958; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WE, 666) [2]
Born 1860 in Guildford, Western Australia [15]
Son of John DAVIS and Eleanor Frances THOMSON [15]
Married Mary HILL in the Perth suburb of Guildford in 1898 [15]
Railway Ganger in Coorow 1903-1906 [50]
Railway Ganger in Wannamal 1910-1913 [50]
Railway Employee in Watheroo later in 1913 and 1914 [50]
Railway Fettler in Mingenew 1915-1917 [50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Midland [2]
Died 27 June 1916; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, GA, 603) [2]
David Elwin DAWSON
Born C.1884 [2]
Married "Rene" Florence Irene HEARN in 1912 [66]
Manager of the Coorow Hotel in Coorow from September 1935 to February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936] [19]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Himself and his wife left Coorow and shifted to Perth on Monday 24 February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [2]
Died 15 June 1971; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZU, 533) [2]
Mrs "Rene" Florence Irene DAWSON
Wife of David Elwin DAWSON; see "Rene" Florence Irene HEARN
Mrs Dorothy May DAY
Wife of Henry DAY; see Dorothy May PRINGLE
Henry DAY
Married Dorothy May PRINGLE in 1923 [66]
Clearing Contractor for Malcolm L. PATTON on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest in 1923 and 1924 [151: page 99]
While clearing himself and his wife resided in a tent on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
In late 1923 his wife gave birth to a daughter named Jessie on Donald MCDONALD's Waddy Waddy Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
Their daughter died at the age of 17 days on 12 January 1924 and was buried on Lot M1293 of Donald MCDONALD's farm [151]
She was buried in the north east corner of Lot M1293 and her grave originally contained a fence of bush timber with netting [151]
Stockman in Waddy Forest / Coorow 1925-1927 [19]
Jessie DAY
Born 26 December 1923 in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [151]
Daughter of Henry DAY and Dorothy May PRINGLE [151]
Born and died at the age of 17 days on Donald MCDONALD's Waddy Waddy Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
Died 12 January 1924; buried north east corner of Lot M1293 of Waddy Waddy Farm in Waddy Forest [151]
Joseph Deebrow DAY
Labourer in Coorow in 1911 [19]
Labourer on Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee 1912-1914 [19] [50]
Mary DEAN
Born C.1880 [2]
Married Donald MACQUEEN in Perth in 1911 [66]
In 1916 her husband was working as a Saddler and they were living on the Railway Estate in Geraldton [50]
In 1925 she was working as a domestic and living at 78 Railway Parade in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [50]
Resided of late in Bunjil [2]
Died 26 December 1941; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, MC, 95) [2]
William David DE BOER
Proprietor of the Service Station in Waddy Forest in 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933] [19]
Unless he satisfied a warrant beforehand all property at his service station was to be sold on Tuesday 11 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Dora May DEE
Born 1901 in Mingenew, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Thomas DEE and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
Grand-daughter of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Resided in Coorow for at least the years 1922-1950 [19]
For a number of years taught Sunday School in Coorow in the 1930s [P85] [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Belmont [2]
Died 23 September 1978; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Her ashes were buried by Vera LONG on 25 January 1980 at the Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row E, Plot 13) [14]
Irene Ellen DEE
Born 7 August 1898 in Mingenew, Western Australia [P17]
Daughter of Thomas DEE and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
Grand-daughter of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Prior to her marriage she had worked for Samuel B. RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow [P17]
Married "Ernie" Ernest Alfred LONG in Perth on 11 July 1917 [168]
Resided with husband on Jun Jun Farm and later Lonsdale Farm in Coorow 1918-1967 [P17]
She worked for many years helping on the farm, even shearing sheep with hand clippers [79: 23-Aug-1973]
Supplied the music at the Dance in aid of the local Christmas Tree at the school house in Coorow on 29 November 1919 [9: 5-Dec-1919]
Exhibited in every one of the Coorow-Waddy District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows which ran from 1932 to 1967 [79: 23-Aug-1973]
She enjoyed the activity around preparing exhibits and won prizes for almost every item she exhibited one year or another [79]
Exhibited items from homemade soap to preserved lemon peel and also later exhibited in the Carnamah Agricultural Show [79]
Won 2nd prize for Carnations in the Flower section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
At the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 she was awarded 2nd prize for Crochet Edged Supper Cloth [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Resided at 31 Station Street in the Coorow townsite 1967-1992 [P17]
Mother of Vera and Doris [14]
Passed away at the age of 93 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 28 July 1992 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 4) [1]
Mrs Louisa Jane DEE
Widow of Thomas DEE: see Louisa Jane LONG
"Bill" William Joseph DEE
Born 15 October 1906 in Strawberry, Western Australia [16]
Son of Thomas DEE and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
Grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Initially resided with his parents at Strawberry in the Mingenew district [84]
He was baptised by Methodist Minister J. E. STONE of Dongara on 26 November 1906 [84]
Farmhand in Coorow 1928-1950 [19]
For several years worked for George N. GREENWOOD on Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest [P141]
Resided in the old house on Maryland Farm and had his meals with the GREENWOOD family at their home [P141]
Gave a cup and saucer marked with 1929 (Centenary of WA) to his employer's youngest daughter, Dorothy M. GREENWOOD [P141]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 15-Nov-1930]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board on 16 August 1933 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 13-Dec-1935, 16-Oct-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936 and 1937 [5: 4-Sep-1936, 2-Jul-1937]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australian Army on 4 December 1940 [16]
Private WX9638 in the Australian Army's 2/28 Battalion during the Second World War [16]
In 1942 word was received that he was Prisoner of War [0: image 04163]
In June 1945 it was recorded that he was safe and well in England having been a Prisoner of War in Germany [0: image 04336]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 27 August 1945 and returned to Coorow [4] [16]
Resided in Coorow until at least 1950 [4: 2-Dec-1950]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Belmont [2]
Died 3 September 1979; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
His ashes were buried by his niece Vera P. LONG on 25 January 1980 at the Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row E, Plot 13) [14]
Margaret Victoria DEED
Born 30 June 1887 in Strathalbyn, South Australia [55]
Daughter of James DEED and Sarah Jane WOODFIT [55]
Married George Alfred MANNING on 27 April 1907 in South Australia [55]
In 1928 left South Australia and settled with her husband and children on farmland at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district [P84]
Resided with her husband and children on Hill View Farm in Waddy Forest [P84]
Paid a 5/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1936 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300: page 42]
Employed the services of Coorow builder E. Clive HUNTER to build her a house [P320]
Resided in the Coorow district until her death in 1982 [1]
Passed away at the age of 95 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Mother of Mavis, Alfred, Joan, Lorna and Guildford [14]
Died 3 July 1982 in Three Springs WA; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 1) [1]
Francis Gerald DELBRIDGE
Farmer in Gunyidi [19]
Farmed in Gunyidi partnership with Arthur D. HOLT as "Delbridge & Holt" [3]
Together they owned 1,566 acres of land in Gunyidi, which consisted of Victoria Locations 3482, 3483, 3484 and 3949 [3]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
William George DEVEREUX
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi and then Yandanooka in 1913 [50]
Railway Fettler in Irwin 1914-1916 [50]
Eleanor Mary DIXEY
Born 1895 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Alfred DIXEY and Mary HORRIGAN [15]
Married "Glynn" Glen James DROMEY in Perth in 1924 [66]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Gunyidi 1924-1940 [3] [19]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in February 1934 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Evelyn, Hazel, Patricia, Glynn, Molly and Elsie [P367]
Died 11 October 1975; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, PF, 163) [2]
Robert DIXON
Appointed by the Education Department to run two Regulation Four half-time schools in Coorow in 1913 [215]
Reopened the closed Coorow State School at Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow on 3 December 1913 [215]
Opened the new Turipa State School on A. Hamlet JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow on 8 December 1913 [215]
He taught half the time at the Coorow State School and the other half at the Turipa State School, and had boarding at both places [215]
Continued to teach at both schools in 1914, on an annual salary of £110 per annum plus an extra £12 for boarding [215]
He was instructed to close both schools due to low student numbers and there being a shortage of male teachers for small schools [215]
Closed the school at Turipa of five students on 16 September and the school of Coorow of four students on 18 September 1914 [215]
He applied for a transfer and it is almost a certainty that he left Coorow after closing the two schools in September 1914 [215]
Edward DOCHERTY
Born C.1869 [2]
Railway Labourer / Railway Ganger in Marchagee 1901-1908 [15] [19] [50]
His wife Adeline gave birth to their daughter Agnes in Marchagee in 1901 [15]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Highgate Hill [2]
Father of Agnes, Joseph and Richard [15]
Died 27 July 1940; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, HA, 870) [2]
Billy DOCKELL
One of the best players for Coorow in a football match played against Three Springs at Coorow in early July 1914 [10: 10-Jul-1914]
John DOLEY
Born 16 November 1937 [45]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1961 [19]
Married Alison Betty RUDDUCK in 1965 [P363]
Farmer of Koobabbie Farm in Waddy Forest [45]
Purchased Wandao Farm in Coorow from "Jim" Randolph H. B. HOGBIN in 1974 [P363]
Wandao, formerly known as El Cala Farm, had originally been owned by his grandfather-in-law and farmed with Koobabbie [P363]
Member of the Waddy Forest Land Conservation District Committee [45]
Member of the Coorow Heritage Group [45]
Died 26 January 2007; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
"Jim" James Horace DONEY
Born 17 February 1910 in Narrogin, Western Australia [16]
Married "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING in 1932 [66]
Proprietor of a mechanical garage and agency business in Commercial Street, Coorow [P84]
He also ran the Coorow Power Station up until the State Electricity Commission (S.E.C.) took over [P84]
Resided with his wife and children in Bristol Street, Coorow [P84]
Said to have been obsessively tidy - his yards and business premises were always swept clean [P84]
Agent in Coorow for International farm machinery and the owner of a school bus that serviced Coorow [P84]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Sergeant in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
During the 1952-53 financial year purchased from Mrs Gladys R. BIERMANN three vacant blocks in Caron Street, Carnamah [3]
The three adjacent blocks were 8, 10 and 12 Caron Street, Carnamah (Lots 43, 44 and 45 of Victoria Location 1936) [3]
He had a shed erected on his block at 10 Caron Street, Carnamah [3]
Sold his three blocks in Caron Street, Carnamah to the Carnamah District Road Board on 1 January 1961 [3]
During the 1953-54 financial year purchased two vacant blocks in Robertson Street, Carnamah from Thomas H. PERRY [3]
The two blocks, which were side by side, were 5 and 7 Robertson Street, Carnamah (Lots 24 and 25 of Victoria Location 1936) [3]
During the 1960-61 financial year sold 5 Robertson Street, Carnamah (Lot 24) to Edmund K. WELLS [3]
His son Vivian initially worked in his Coorow business and then moved to Moora to run their branch at 1 Padbury Street, Moora [P84]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1957 [13]
His son Ken worked and later took over his Coorow business, then running it under the name of "K. J. Doney & Co" [P84]
Later resided in Fremantle [2]
Father of Hazel, Win, Lindsay, Vivian, Joan, Ken, Barbara, Elizabeth and Colleen [45]
Died 26 February 2000; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
"Ken" Kenneth John DONEY
Son of "Jim" James Horace DONEY and "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING [P84]
Proprietor of Mechanical Garage and Agncy business at 10 Commercial Street, Coorow [P84]
Initially he worked in the business for his father, before taking over the business under the name of "K. J. Doney & Co" [P84]
Employed David SUMMERS (his step-daughter Pauline's husband) as a mechanic and Terry MCDONALD as salesman [P84]
Later left Coorow and shifted to Geraldton [45]
Husband of (1) Jane and of (2) Jean [P84]
Died 2 February 2006; cremated at the Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton WA [45]
Mrs "Vene" Lavinia Bertha DONEY
Wife of "Jim" James Horace DONEY; see "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING
"Viv" Vivian Horace DONEY
Son of "Jim" James Horace DONEY and "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING [P390]
Shifted to Coorow with his parents at the age of two years in 1940 [P390]
Student at the Coorow State School until the age of 14 when he began working his father's business in Coorow [P390]
Worked in his father's machinery business and helped set up and run the Coorow townsite's electricity supply [P390]
Took over his father's business when his Dad retired and moved to Perth in 1965 [P390]
Ran the business for five years in partnership with his younger brother Ken [P390]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club and the Coorow Golf Club [P390]
Built a house at Green Head - was the third person to buy a block there for which he paid $370 [P390]
Upon expanding the business to Moora in 1970 he shifted with his wife and three children to Moora [P390]
Along with his wife left Moora and retired to the southern coastal Perth suburb of Mandurah in 1987 [P390]
Husband of Colleen [P390]
Father of Craig, Peta and Susan [P390]
Violet Ann DORRIES
Born 1891 in Albany, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Henry DORRIES and Blanche Currie TOLL [15]
Married Walter ANDERSON in 1914 [66]
Resided in Gunyidi 1932-1935 [19]
In 1932 was the owner of a Chevrolet truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-31 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Resided of late in Mandurah [2]
Died 18 January 1974; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, GC, 78A) [2]
Jean DOUGLAS
Teacher of the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1925 and 1926 [73]
Received wages of £4/2/- per week in 1925 and £4/16/- in 1926 for fulfilling the duties of sole teacher of the school [73]
She wrote to the Education Department on 15 April 1926 to advise a tap on one of the school's tanks had completely broken [215]
The result was the tank emptied itself, and she wrote again advising she was unable to ascertain how the tap was broken [215]
Ada DOWNES
Housemaid on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow 1927-1939 [19]
Albyn DOWNES
Born 1895 in Dongara, Western Australia [15]
Son of Thomas DOWNES and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
His father died in 1897 and at Mingenew in 1901 his mother married Thomas DEE [15]
Grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Farmer of Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1916-1923 [44] [50]
During the 1922-23 financial year he paid rates for 209 acres in Coorow consisting of adjoining Victoria Locations 3061 and 3393 [44]
He appears to have sold his 209 acres to his brother-in-law Ernest A. LONG who made it part of Lonsdale Farm [44]
Farmhand for Samuel B. RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow 1923-1939 [5: 25-Aug-1939]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936 [5: 4-Sep-1936]
Steward in Charge of the Poultry section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
He paid for the funeral of Alfred Edward HILL of Coorow who died on 7 May 1939 and was buried at the Winchester Cemetery [53]
Overseer of Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1939 [5: 25-Aug-1939]
Died from a fractured spine on 18 August 1939 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row C, Plot 8) [1] [14]
His funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah, was paid for by his employer Samual B. RUDDUCK [53]
Newspaper clipping (name of paper unknown), Saturday 19 August 1939:
Fall From Ladder - Farm Labourer Killed
"When he fell from a ladder while working on the property of his employer, Mr. S. Rudduck, at Waddy Forest, yesterday afternoon, Albyn Downes (44), suffered injuries from which he died shortly after medical assistance arrived. Interviewed by telephone last night, Mr. Rudduck stated that Downes was engaged in repairing a private telephone line and was mounting a ladder carrying a soldering iron when he slipped and fell a distance of about 15ft. His back appeared to be injured. A doctor was summoned form Moora and shortly after the doctor arrived Downes collapsed and died."
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 25 August 1939:
Obituary - Late Mr. A. Downes
"Following a fall from a ladder, while attending to a telephone post, Mr. A. Downes passed away at "Koobabbie" on Friday evening, 18th inst. The deceased, who was overseer of Mr. S. B. Rudduck's "Koobabbie" estate, had been with Mr. Rudduck for approximately sixteen years. Of a quiet disposition deceased was well known and respected by all in Coorow and Waddy Forest, and the announcement of his death came as a shock to all his friends. A service was held in the Coorow hall on Sunday afternoon, and the remains were then conveyed to the Winchester cemetery, the Rev. C. A. Walsh conducting both the church and funeral service."
Mrs Eileen CASSERLY
Wife of "Tom" Thomas Clement DOWNES; see Eileen CASSERLY
"Tom" Thomas Clement DOWNES
Born 10 April 1897 in Strawberry, Western Australia [P393]
Son of Thomas DOWNES and Louisa Jane LONG [15]
His father had died from pneumonia in January 1897 after being trapped by flames while fighting a fire in Mingenew [P393]
In 1901 his widowed mother married Thomas DEE [15]
It is believed he may have attended the Strawberry State School at Strawberry in the Mingenew district [P391]
He was a grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Farmhand in Coorow by 1919 [19]
Worked in Irwin prior to shifting to Coorow to work for Samuel B. RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow [P391]
Met and courted Eileen CASSERLY who was a domestic employee working for Mrs RUDDUCK on Koobabbie Farm [P391]
At the time his elder brother was working at Koobabbie and it may have been through him that he learnt of Eileen's arrival [P393]
He was working for Baxter D. BOTHE on Inglewood Farm in Coorow and travelled the 20 miles to see her a few times a week [P393]
Charles W. DOWNES and Arthur DOWNES, brothers who farmed in Yandanooka, were his first cousins [P391]
Married Eileen CASSERLY on 11 November 1925 at Saint Patrick's Catholic Church in Fremantle [P393]
Farmhand and Wheat Lumper in Kununoppin 1925-1931 [P391]
Worked for a Mr O'NEILL on Bunning Farm in Kununoppin [P393]
His wife gave birth to a stillborn son Charles in 1928 which "nearly broke their hearts" and which he "never quite got over" [P393]
Along with his wife and their daughters Eileen and Verna left Kununoppin and shifted to Coorow in 1931 [P391]
Farmhand for Baxter D. BOTHE on Inglewood Farm in Coorow [P391]
They briefly resided on Inglewood Farm in Coorow and then in the Coorow townsite [P391]
In the townsite they initially resided in bough shed with gravel floor and tarpaulin roof while their house was being built [P391]
Their house in Coorow, at Lot 18 Long Street, was a two room cottage that was later extended [P391]
The two rooms were a kitchen and their bedroom while an end of the back verandah was enclosed for their children's room [P393]
While continuing to work for Baxter D. BOTHE he also did contract work for the Carnamah District Road Board [P391]
Such contracting included clearing scrub from a townsite street in Coorow, for which he was paid £1/15/- in August 1933 [300: page 54]
He did contract fencing for £11 per mile building fences for farmers in Coorow [P393]
Successfully tendered to contract fence the Coorow West Road in Coorow for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1936 [5: 24-Apr-1936]
He'd done 80 chains of netting fence, 167 chains of clearing and 170 chains of posts on the Coorow West Road by June 1936 [5]
At his request the Carnamah District Road Board paid him a £20 progressive payment for the work he had done [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Also at his request he received 10/- compensation for damage caused to his bike for a fire lit by the Road Board gang [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Farmhand for W. Gordon LAMBERT on Carrawidgy Farm in Coorow [P393]
One day while closing an iron gate on the farm lightening struck a fence and he was knocked unconscious [P393]
Later ceased working as a farmhand and worked full time for the Carnamah District Road Board as part of their gang in Coorow [P391]
Along with the gang he would load a truck with gravel by shovel and then spreading it out on roads by shovel [P393]
Sold a cow for £3/7/6 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 2 December 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
First Aid Man for the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 11-Jun-1937]
Steward of the Poultry section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
During the Second World War worked for the Allied Works Council making the bitumen road between Watheroo and Mingenew [P393]
He would work away all week and then catch the train back to Coorow for the weekends [P393]
After getting to know the train drivers they would stop at Coorow to pick him up on a Sunday night to return to work [P393]
In 1949 purchased a school bus and secured the Waddy Forest bus run which he conducted until 1961 [P391] [P393]
He drove and maintained the bus himself, picking up and dropping off children from farms in Waddy Forest each day [P393]
He was a great supporter of the Coorow Football Club while his sons Tom and Irwin were playing [P391]
He was made Patron of the Coorow Tennis Club as he was always present at matches to watch his children Tom, Irwin and Jetta [P391]
Along with his wife left Coorow in 1962 and retired to the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park [P393]
Resided in retirement in the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park from 1962 until his death in 1966 [P391]
Father of Eileen, Charles, Verna, Thomas, Loris, Irwin, Jetta, Kathleen and Ursula [P391]
Died 3 April 1966; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, Lawn 4, 163) [2]
"Tom" Thomas Kevin DOWNES
Born 31 August 1931 in Three Springs, Western Australia [P391]
Son of "Tom" Thomas Clement DOWNES and Eileen CASSERLY [P391]
Great Grandson of William LONG and Sarah GREEN who were the first non-indigenous settlers in Coorow in 1862 [P17]
Resided with his parents in Coorow [P391]
With his sisters Eileen, Verna and Loris was baptised by Rev. Father Michael LYNCH of Three Springs on 24 December 1933 [91]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as a "Sailor" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
At the age of five years he was assistant fencing contractor to his father [P391]
Began his schooling at the Coorow State School in Coorow on 6 February 1937 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School until the day he turned 14, which included correspondence after grade seven [P391]
He and his brother Irwin milked cows, delivered milk, trapped and sold the skins of rabbits and foxes, collected and sold bottles [P391]
They looked after a cow belonging to Milton J. TILLY in their paddock west of the railway line in Coorow [P8]
Each day before school either himself or Irwin would take the milk from the cow to Mrs TILLY, and the evening milk they kept [P8]
During the Second World War they exchanged milk and biscuits for tins of bully beef when troop trains passed through [P391]
After leaving school he worked as a telephone operator in Waddy Forest, travelling the 10 miles each day by bicycle [P391]
By the age of 16 he was working as Postal Assistant at the Post Office in Coorow [P391]
He then worked as the Post Office in Dalwallinu and from 1951 was in Mingenew [P391]
Married Mingenew telephonist Rona Margaret MCDONALD in 1953 [P391]
Worked at post offices in Geraldton, Merredin and then Goomalling [P391]
He drove the ambulance in Merredin and Goomalling, and assisted the Presentation Sisters in Goomalling [P391]
Worked for Australia Post in the Perth suburbs of Belmont, Kalamunda, Cottesloe, Mount Lawley and Cloverdale [P391]
Retired in 1988, and passed away at the age of 78 years after a long battle with cancer [P391]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Rossmoyne [2]
Father of Pauline, Helen, Jillian, Susan, Michael and Anne-Marie [P391]
Died 29 December 2009; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Rossmoyne (General Lawn, Lawn T, 608) [2]
Amy Lillian DRAPER
Born 22 December 1896 in Beverley, Western Australia [P119]
Daughter of Alfred William DRAPER and Hannah Rebecca WOODLEY [15]
Married "Bert" Albert Edward Parker BATEMAN in Beverley in 1920 [P119]
Resided with her husband and children on Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest 1921-1926 [P120]
Mother of Gwenyth, Ronald and Rita [P119]
Died March 1926; buried Beverley Cemetery, Beverley WA [P119]
Ethel Blanche DRAPER
Born 17 November 1882 in York, Western Australia [209]
Daughter of Alfred William DRAPER and Alice Eliza BLAKISTON [15]
Her mother died at the age of 31 years in 1886, and in 1892 her father married Hannah Rebecca WOODLEY [15]
For a period following her mother's death she was cared for by one of her aunts, who possibly also home-schooled her [P120]
Married "Don" Donnell Edgar FOWLER in Beverley on 30 June 1908 [P120]
Resided with her husband and children on Jangelling Farm at Balkuling in the Beverley district [P120]
Her husband purchased 1,295 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest for £1457.11.7 (22/6 an acre) on 25 February 1921 [27]
On the same day her brother-in-law Albert E. P. BATEMAN purchased the adjacent block in Waddy Forest [27]
Her husband shifted to Waddy Forest and begin clearing the property and had a good weatherboard house built [P120]
In 1924 shifted from Beverley with her children to join her husband on the farm in Waddy Forest [P120]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Waddy Forest 1924-1948 [P120]
The farm became known as Glen Waddi when they purchased her brother-in-law's adjacent farm in 1929 [P120]
They also had a house in Forrest Street, South Perth where she resided while their children were attending nearby schools [P120]
Won 1st prize for male Black Orpington at the first annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 20-Oct-1933]
During January 1935 spent an extended holiday in Arrino staying with her daughter Mrs Irene A. McCANN [5: 11-Jan-1935, 8-Feb-1935]
Won 1st prize for Turnips in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Miss Nancy S. JOHNSON stayed with herself and her family in Waddy Forest in July, August and September of 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Spent a holiday with relatives in Beverley in mid September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
In late November 1935 she was spending a holiday with her daughter Mrs Irene A. McCANN in Arrino [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Returned to Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 December 1935 feeling much benefit from her stay in Arrino [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Accompanied by her children Vivian and Verna travelled to Perth on Tuesday 7 January 1936 en-route for Albany [5: 10-Jan-1936]
She may not have made it to Albany as it was reported on 7 February 1936 that she had been at a Perth hospital for a month [5]
By mid February 1936 she was still at a hospital in Perth, but was "showing marked improvement" [5: 7 & 14-Feb-1936]
After months in hospital in Perth she returned to her home in Waddy Forest on Thursday 21 May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
Herself, her husband and their daughter Adeline motored to Perth on Thursday morning 29 October 1936 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
During November 1936 she spent another holiday with her daughter Mrs Irene A. McCANN in Arrino [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Herself and her daughters spent the 1936-37 summer at a rented house in the Perth suburb of Como [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Her husband and her children Elsie, Dulcie, Vivian and Verna returned to Waddy Forest on Tuesday night 19 January 1937 [5]
She remained in Perth as she was receiving medical attention at Saint Ive's Hospital [5: 22-Jan-1937]
After considerable time in Perth for medical attention herself and her husband returned to Waddy on 19 May 1937 [5: 21-May-1937]
Following a visit by her daughter Irene she accompanied her daughter to her home in Arrino on Sunday 11 July 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Resided on Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest until 1948 when their three sons bought the farm off her husband [P120]
Left Waddy Forest in 1948 and shifted to their house in Forrest Street, South Perth where she resided until her death in 1950 [P120]
Mother of Irene, Adeline, Elsie, Edgar, Dulcie, Leslie, Vivian and Verna [209]Her
Died 29 May 1950; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WE, 666) [2]
Mrs Eleanor Mary DROMEY
Wife of "Glynn" Glen James DROMEY; see Eleanor Mary DIXEY
"Glynn" Glen James DROMEY
Born 16 November 1893 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Michael DROMEY and Euphemia MCKEAN [15]
By 1911 himself and his father had each taken up a Conditional Purchase lease in Gunyidi [44]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1911-1916 [30] [44]
Resided in Gunyidi until enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 22 February 1916 [30: item 3522454]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighed 130 pounds and had grey eyes, light brown hair and a ruddy complexion [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill was appointed to the 17th Reinforcements of the 10th Light Horse Regiment on 11 April 1916 [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A52 Surada on 16 May 1916 [30]
Detached from the 10th Light Horse Brigade to the Imperial Corps on 10 August 1916 [30]
Private 2462 in the Australian Imperial Force's 3rd Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt during the First World War [30]
Wounded in Action in Egypt on 19 April 1917 and was briefly hospitalised for treatment of a shrapnel wound to his scalp [30]
Embarked on the H.T. Delta and disembarked in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 August 1919 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 10 October 1919; received the British War Medal and Victory Medal [30]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1919-1940 [3] [6] [19] [44]
Married Eleanor Mary DIXEY in Perth in 1924 [66]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Had a Fargo truck licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-123 in 1932 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
By 1932 he owned 7,912 acres with Victoria Locations 3478, 4376, 4377, 5820, 5821, 5863, 5875, 5876, 7302, 7303 and 7304 [3]
Resided in South Perth prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 7 October 1940 [16]
Private W27428 in the Australian Army's 29 Garrison Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 13 November 1944 [16]
Rates for his 7,912 acres of farmland in Gunyidi were care of the National Bank in Moora from 1940-41 until 1947-48 [3]
His farmland in Gunyidi was sold to E. J. NOONAN and R. J. HOCKING in April 1948 [3]
Resided at 30 Third Avenue in South from as early as 1942 until at least 1949 [6]
Later resided with his daughter Evelyn and son-in-law Harold at Marchamley Street in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [P367]
Father of Evelyn, Hazel, Patricia, Glynn, Molly and Elsie [P367]
Died 7 February 1980; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, PF, 163) [2]
Michael DROMEY
Born 1859 in Avoca, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of Nicholas DROMEY and Alice WALSH [15]
Married Euphemia MCKEAN in Perth in 1889 [15]
Their son Vivian died aged ten months on 29 February 1892, and their son Cyril died aged six months on 21 October 1892 [231]
Both their two infant sons were buried in the same plot at the East Perth Cemetery [231]
Butcher in partnership with his brother N. William DROMEY as "Dromey Bros" in William Street, Perth in 1893 [6]
Won 1st prize for Rough Coated Collie Bitch at the WA Poultry & Dog Society's Annual Show in Perth in 1893 [39: 17-Aug-1893]
Resided in Hay Street, Perth in 1893; in Howick Street, Perth in 1894; and in Lamb Street, Perth in 1895 [6]
Resided at 70 Hutt Street, Perth in 1897 and at 68 Moore Street, East Perth in 1899 [6]
Butcher at 152 Pier Street in Perth in 1900 [6]
Grazier in 1903 and Manager in 1904 of Ninghan Station at Field's Find in the Murchison [6] [50]
Selector in Gunyidi in 1910 [50]
By 1911 himself and his son had each taken up a Conditional Purchase lease in Gunyidi [44]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1911-1927 [19]
Himself and his son attended the monthly meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board on 13 September 1927 [4: 23-Sep-1927]
They requested the Board pay them for work they'd done on six miles of road worth 10/- per chain so they could pay their rates [4]
The Road Board had to inspect the road first but said nothing would be paid until they had paid all of their arrears [4]
Resided in the Perth suburb of East Perth in 1928 [2]
Father of Vivian Nicholas, Cyril Lima and Glen James [15]
Died 17 October 1928 in Perth; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, BA, 479) [2] [15]
George Matt DRUMMOND
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi in 1922 [50]
John DRUMMOND
Pumper at the 157½ mile railing siding in Coorow 1915-1917 [50]
George DUFFELL
Railway Employee in Latham in 1922 [50]
Mrs Sarah DUFFELL
Resided in Latham in 1922 [50]
Elizabeth DUMARESQ
Married Winter Lidstone ASPLEY [15] [54]
Herself and her husband arrived in Victoria, Australia on the ship Cephalonia in March 1883 [42]
Gave birth to their children in Richmond, Victoria, Australia between 1883 and 1892 [15] [54]
By 1911 they had left the Australian state of Victoria and shifted to Coorow in Western Australia [19]
Resided on Merriedale Farm in Latham 1911-1925 [19]
Mother of Alice, Lloyd, William, Bertram and Lucy [15] [54]
Richard James DUNSTAN
Labourer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1914 [50]
Clearer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1916 and 1917 [19]
EEE
John EDWARD
Farmhand in Latham in 1922 [50]
Charles EDWARDS
Labourer in Coorow 1929-1941 [19] [50]
George EDWARDS
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 21-Jun-1935, 16-Aug-1935]
Witness at a traffic regulations breach hearing at the Carnamah Police Court in Carnamah on Friday 22 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 10-Jan-1936]
Harry EDWARDS
Born C.1893 [2]
Himself and Myrtle EDWARDS purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1,820 acres of land in Coorow on 12 July 1922 [27]
The 1,820 acres was Lot M1377 of Victoria Location 2023, and cost £1,228/7/6, which was paid for over 17 years [27]
Farmer in Coorow 1927-1941 [19]
Committee Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 2-Aug-1935, 3-Jul-1936, 18-Jun01937]
In mid September 1935 sold 28 suckers for 10/1 per head and 13 suckers for 8/10 per head [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Hosted an evening in honour of Mr and Mrs BIRMINGHAM of West Perth at his home in Coorow on 27 June 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
Held a cocktail party at his home to show bush life by night to Elsie MARRIOTT and Ross MELROSE on 16 July 1936 [5: 24-Jul-1936]
Hosted a bucks party for Winchester farmers George A. RAFFAN and Eric J. BRADLEY on Wednesday evening 7 October 1936 [5]
The evening included songs, stories, seafood and coffee - the latter of which was reported to have been a masterpiece [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Sold 27 hoggets at 10/1, 19 suckers at 11/5 and 20 ewes at 9/8 per head through Dalgety & Co Ltd in November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended the R.S.L. Valedictory for Charles A. METTAM at the lounge of the Carnamah Hotel on 28 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
"H. & M. Edwards" sold 48 lambs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd in September 1937 - 13 at 18/7, 26 at 17/10, 9 at 17/9 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Married Marjorie Etta UNDERWOOD in Perth in 1941 [66]
Resided at 3 Malcolm Street in Perth while initially remaining the owner of his farm in Coorow [61]
In 1950 sold 1,180 acres of his farm to Milton J. TILLY and the remaining 640 acres to "Tim" Harold T. MELVIN [3]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of North Beach [2]
Died 16 June 1959; ashes scattered over the rose garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Memorialised along with his wife in the Garden of Remembrance at the Karrakatta Cemetery (Crematorium Rose Gardens, K, 306) [2]
Josiah EDWARDS
Born 1854 in Upper Swan, Western Australia [15]
Son of Samuel EDWARDS and Charlotte BROOM [15]
Married Mary Ann LAWLER in Newcastle in 1892 [15]
Farmer of Croydon Farm and then Calecono Farm in Marchagee 1914-1925 [19]
He was the owner of the 160 acres Victoria Location 6956 in Marchagee, and his son Vernon owned a further 2,291 acres [44]
In 1917 had 200 acres of wheat crop growing on his farm at Marchagee [10: 19-Jun-1917]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of West Perth [2]
Father of Florence Emeline, Mary Amy, Iva Lavinia and Vernon Hubert [15]
Died 16 April 1927; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LA, 580) [2]
Mrs Marjorie Etta EDWARDS
Wife of Harry EDWARDS; see Marjorie Etta UNDERWOOD
Mrs "Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza EDWARDS
Wife of Vernon Hubert EDWARDS; see "Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza JONES
Vernon Hubert EDWARDS
Born 1894 in Wongong, Western Australia [15]
Son of Josiah EDWARDS and Mary Ann LAWLER [15]
Farmer of Croydon Farm in Marchagee 1917-1922 [50]
Married "Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza JONES in Perth 1921 [66]
Farmer of Calecono Farm in Marchagee 1923-1931 [19] [50]
He was the owner of 2,291 acres of land in Marchagee consisting of Victoria Locations 4027 and 6955 [44]
His father owned a further 160 acres with the adjoining Victoria Location 6956 [44]
At the first wool sale of the season on Friday 4 November 1921 he sold four bales of wool for 15d. per pound [10: 11-Nov-1921]
Elected as Member for the South Ward of the Carnamah District Road Board at an election held in April 1925 [9: 1-May-1925]
Served on the Carnamah District Road Board representing the South Ward in 1925 [9: 1-May-1925]
At the time the South Ward of the Carnamah District Road Board consisted of Marchagee and Gunyidi [3]
In 1928 he also owned with a Mr BARRETT-LENNARD 13,500 acres on the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee [120: 20-Dec-1928]
On the 13,500 acres they grew 3,000 acres of crop mostly on sandplain, expected to yield 13-14 bushels, and ran 1,700 sheep [120]
By mid 1932 he had sold his 2,291 acres of farmland in Marchagee to Arthur L. RAINS [3] [19]
Later resided in West Perth [2]
Died 22 November 1958; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, H, 69) [2]
Geoffrey EGG
Farmhand in Marchagee 1914-1919 [50]
Bertram Frederick ELLIOTT
Born C.1894 [2]
Teamster on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1919 [50]
Farmhand on Minganooka Farm in Marchagee 1931-1938 [19] [50]
Won 1st prize for Snapdragons in the Flower section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Wattle Grove [2]
Died 8 August 1949; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Baptist, CA, 455) [2]
Frank ELLIS
Labourer on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee 1911-1916 [19]
Albert ELLISON
Farmer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Mrs "Irene" Annie Irene ELLISON
Wife of "Gilly" Gilbert Townsend ELLISON; see "Irene" Annie Irene SPICER
Frank Stewart ELLISON
Born 24 July 1883 in Glen Osmond, South Australia [55]
Son of James ELLISON and Georgina Sophia TOWNSEND [50]
Contractor in Gunyidi, Western Australia in 1910 [50]
Contractor at Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19] [50]
Contractor in Gunyidi prior to enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 20 April 1916 [30: item 3541397]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighed 146 pounds and had light blue eyes, sandy hair and a ruddy complexion [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill he was appointed on 28 September 1916 to the 4th Reinforcements of the 44th Infantry Battalion [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A39 Port Macquarie on 13 October 1916 [30]
Disembarked in Plymouth, England on 12 December 1916 and after further training proceeded to France on 4 February 1917 [30]
Private 2324 in the Australian Imperial Force's 44th Infantry Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
Promoted in France to Lance Corporal on 12 July 1917, to Temporary Corporal on 16 July 1917, to Corporal on 28 August 1917 [30]
Killed in Action in Belgium on 4 October 1917 [30]
Buried near the Ypres-Roulers Road one mile north-northeast of Zonnebeke and 1½ miles southwest of Passchendaele in Belgium [30]
Memorialised at the Menin Gate of the Ypres Memorial in Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium [17]
"Gilly" Gilbert Townsend ELLISON
Born 14 October 1881 in Glen Osmond, South Australia
Son of James ELLISON and Georgina Sophia TOWNSEND
Member of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society from the age of eleven years [30]
Contractor in Mitcham, South Australia in 1916 [18]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 14 August 1916 in Adelaide, South Australia [30: item 3541399]
At the time he was 5 feet 8¼ inches tall, weighed 176 pounds and had grey eyes, fair hair but going bald and a fair complexion [30]
Gave his next of kin as his mother whose address at the time was Arnold Street in Mitcham, South Australia [30]
Appointed to the 21st Reinforcements of the 10th Battalion on 18 October 1916 in Mitcham, South Australia [30]
Embarked from Adelaide, South Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A16 Port Melbourne on 23 October 1916 [30]
Disembarked in Devonport, England on 28 December 1916 and after further training proceeded to France on 5 April 1917 [30]
Private 6504 in the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
Ten days after arriving in France, on 15 April 1917 he was Wounded in Action receiving a serious wound to his left thigh [30]
The wound had been caused by an explosive bullet and was also gassed, and two days later it was going septic [30]
After an X-Ray the wound was operated on in France on 19 April 1917 with the medical officer considering it a bad case [30]
After a month of treatment in France he was repatriated by hospital ship to England where he received further treatment [30]
Embarked England on the A29 H.T. Suevic and disembarked in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 18 November 1917 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force due to being medically unfit for service on 4 December 1917 [30]
Received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Following his return he resided on Tutt Avenue in the Adelaide suburb of Kingswood [30]
From 5 December 1917 he received a fortnightly pension of 14/- for his mother [30]
He wrote to the Base Records Office of the A.I.F. on 7 March 1918 requesting help in acquiring further sick pay [30]
Wrote he'd "never drawn a penny for sick pay and no medicine blessed with good health right up to the time I got wounded" [30]
Received a fortnightly pension of 45/- from the A.I.F. and owing to having an incapacitated son his mother received one of 28/- [30]
His and his mother's respective fortnightly pensions were reduced from 45/- to 30/- and 28/- to 25/- on 4 July 1918 [30]
Married "Irene" Annie Irene SPICER in Western Australia in 1919 [66]
Contractor in Gunyidi in 1919 [50]
Farmer in Gunyidi, Western Australia 1920-1927 [19] [44]
Initially his farm was the 980 acre Victoria Location 5798 [44]
Took up more land increasing his farm to a total of about 1,723 acres - Victoria Locations 3473, 5798, 5825, 5871 [3] [44]
They later resided at 185 Beaufort Street in Perth and at 36 Brookman Street in North Perth [P361]
Served as a Peace Officer Guard during the Second World War [30: item 1765110]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Manning [2]
Father of Gladys, Dorothy, Allen, Constance, Nellie, Hilda and Joyce [P361]
Died 9 August 1962; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, FA, 131) [2]
Reginald ELPHICK
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1929-1938 [19]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in December 1933 for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Mrs Amy Louise EMERY
Second wife of Arnold Arthur EMERY; see Amy Louise PRITCHARD
Arnold Arthur EMERY
Born 24 October 1853 in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20] [21] [33: Film 919713]
Son of metal dealer Alfred Holland EMERY and Eliza FREEMAN [20] [21]
He was one of six children with elder siblings Albert, Alice, Alfred and Samuel and a younger brothers Alexander [20]
Was living his parents at 76 Bath Street in Birmingham in 1861 and at Ivy House on Water Works Street in Aston in 1871 [20]
Married (1) Mary Ann WILLIAMSON on 3 August 1873 at Saint Jude in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England [33: Film 918918]
Their first four children were baptised in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England on 28 September 1879 [33: Film 154 5509]
By the birth of their daughter Elsie in 1884 they had left England and were in New Zealand [82]
Labourer of Wingfield Street in Wellington, North Island, New Zealand in 1896 [308]
He was working as a Labourer in 1900 and living with his wife in the Lower Hutt suburb of Alicetown in New Zealand [308]
In 1911 he was working as a Groom and living on Miro Miro Road in the Lower Hutt suburb of Normandale in New Zealand [308]
Later worked as a Saddler's Ironmonger and lived at 2 Bay Street in the Lower Hutt suburb of Petone in New Zealand [308]
Worked as a Stud Groom prior to serving as Trooper 12535 in the New Zealand Army during the First World War [307]
During his war service he gave his next of kin as his son Percy whose address was Lower Hutt in Wellington, New Zealand [307]
Departed from the Eastern States of Australia on the steamship Zealandia in 1918 [39: 21-Mar-1918]
Arrived on the steamship Zealandia in Fremantle, Western Australia on Wednesday afternoon 20 March 1918 [39: 21-Mar-1918]
Farm Manager in Marchagee, Western Australia in 1918 and 1919 [50]
He was a brother of Samuel Charles EMERY and uncle of Charles Holland EMERY [20] [82]
Presumably he managed the Marchagee Estate Farm owned by his brother and previously farmed by his nephew [44]
The farm was 4,727 acres in Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
Married (2) Amy Louise PRITCHARD in Perth in 1919 [66]
Resided in retirement in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills in New South Wales, Australia [50]
Lived at 55 High Holborn Street, 493 Crown Street and at 21 Tudor Street in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills [50]
Father of Alice Mabel, Gertrude Alexandra, Alfred Francis Holland and Elizabeth Maude born in England [33: Film 154 5509]
Father of Elsie May, Arnold Arthur and Percy Reginald born in New Zealand [82]
Died 10 May 1934 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [P405]
From The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, Tuesday 29 May 1934:
Coroner's Open Verdict
"The City Coroner (Mr. Farrington) yesterday returned an open verdict after an inquiry into the death of Arnold Arthur Emery, 81, a New Zealand war pensioner, who was found gassed in bed in a house in Tudor-street, Surry Hills, on May 11. Evidence was given that repairs to the gas mains had been taking place in Tudor-street on the two preceding days, and this had necessitated turning off the supply of gas. The coroner said it was possible that Emery was under the influence of liquor, and when he found, on turning on the gas, that only air came through the pipe, he went to bed in disgust, leaving the gas-tap turned on."
Charles Holland EMERY
Born 1882 in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20] [21]
Son of metal manufacturer Samuel Charles EMERY and Kate GREAYER [20] [21]
He was one of four children with elder sisters Alice and Ruby and a younger sister Muriel [20]
Resided with his parents and sisters at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England [20]
Married (1) Harriet Beatrice HOMER in 1905 in Warwickshire, England [21]
They had two children - a son Charles Neville born in 1906 and a daughter Beatrice Miriam born in 1909 [P405]
His marriage broke down and when partway through a messy divorce from his wife he fled England with their son [P405]
Himself and his young son departed London, England on the steamship Orsova on 25 June 1909 [203]
After a journey of just over a month they arrived on the Orsova in Fremantle, Western Australia on 29 July 1909 [39: 30-Jul-1909]
Farmer in Coomberdale, Western Australia in 1909 [19] and in Marchagee, Western Australia 1910-1912 [19] [44]
In late 1909 or early 1910 his father purchased two farms in Marchagee, Western Australia [39: 23-Nov-1909, 14-Jul-1910] [120: 4-Dec-1909]
The farms were the Marchagee Estate and the Mamboobie Estate and had both belonged to the late Henry C. ARMSTRONG [39]
They'd been sold at auction on 25 November 1909 with a report on the auction stating they'd been sold to John P. DOSCAS [39] [120]
His father may have purchased the farms off or through DOSCAS, or the sale to DOSCAS may have fallen through [39]
At the auction the 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate Farm sold for £2,900 and the 3,352 acre Mamboobie Estate Farm for £2,475 [120]
His father sold the Mamboobie Estate in August 1910 so they could concentrate their energies on the Marchagee Estate Farm [39]
Farmer & Grazier of the 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia 1910-1912 [19] [44]
The farm consisted of Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
The 4,727 acres were comprised within ten Conditional Purchase leases variously rated in the names of himself and his parents [44]
When he went onto the farm it was fenced into ten paddocks and about 600 of its acres had been cleared [81: 7-Nov-1909]
He was the Postal Vote Officer for Marchagee for the WA Legislative Council elections held on 13 May 1910 [9: 22-Apr-1910]
In 1910 and 1911, in addition to the 4,727 acres, he also had two pastoral leases in Marchagee totalling 27,000 acres [44] [81: 7-Nov-1909]
Offered a £2 reward in November 1910 for the return of two lost medium draught brown and black gelding horses [39: 17 & 18-Nov-1910]
In January 1911 he called for tenders for the clearing of 500 acres of Salmon Gum and York Gum country on the farm [39: 4-Jan-1911]
The 500 acres had been rung, or ringbarked, for three years and he would provide supplies to contractors at Perth prices [39]
Through the firm Elder Shenton & Co Ltd he privately sold 302 sheep in May 1911 [120: 27-May-1911] [39: 30-May-1911]
The farm was a "magnificent improved farming property" with "convenient homestead... outbuildings and sheds" [81: 23-Jun-1912]
In late 1911 he returned to England where he remained for five months before returning to Western Australia [203] [204]
Departed from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on the steamship Otranto and arrived in London, England on 7 January 1911 [204]
Spent at least some of the five months with his parents at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire [20]
Departed from Liverpool, England on the steamship Afric on 1 June 1911 bound for Albany, Western Australia [203]
On the Afric he imported to Western Australia six valuable horses "from some of the best blood in England" [39: 12-Jul-1911, 2-Aug-1911]
The horses comprised a four year old Draught Shire stallion named Shipton Spark, yearling Hackney colt Marchagee Prince, [39] [120]
six year old Draught Shire mare named Lancelyn Gipsy, five year old Draught Shire mare named Marchagee Ruby, [39] [120]
two year old Draught Shire mare Marchagee Princess, and four year old Hackney mare named Shinfield Elegance [39] [120: 12-Aug-1911]
Lancelyn Gipsy was "a big massive mare with the action of a pony and the possessor of good legs and feet" [39: 2-Aug-1911]
Shinfield Elegance "possesses plenty of style, is a nice mover, has good bone and would take beating in any show ring" [39: 2-Aug-1911]
Shinfield Elegance was the progeny of horses named Copper Prince and Wood Elegance [39: 7-Aug-1912]
The horses were offered for sale at both the Annual Horse Parade and the Royal Show in Perth in 1911 [81: 16, 23 & 30-Jul-1911, 8-Oct-1911]
By late July 1911 his horses were quartered at the Claremont Show Grounds in Perth and could be inspected at any time [39: 26-Jul-1911]
His imported horses took part in the Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Horse Parade in Perth in August 1911 [120: 5 & 12-Aug-1911]
At the Horse Parade won both 1st and 2nd for Draught mare or filly with Rancelyn Gipsy and Marchagee Princess [81: 6-Aug-1911]
Also won 1st for Hackney mare or filly with Shinfield Elegance and 2nd for Hackney stallion or colt with Marchagee Prince [81] [120]
The quality of his horses was emphasised by the fact that they weren't even at their best having not long arrived in WA [39: 2-Aug-1911]
A photograph of his horse Lanclelyn Gipsy was featured in The Sunday Times newspaper on 6 August 1911 [81: 6-Aug-1911]
The Western Mail newspaper of 12 August 1911 included four photographs showing all six of his imported horses [120: 12-Aug-1911]
The photographs of his horses had been one of the features in advertising for that edition The Western Mail newspaper [39: 11-Aug-1911]
Exhibited his imported horses at the Northam Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Northam on 26 September 1911 [39: 27-Sep-1911]
His horse Shipton Spark won 1st prize for Draught Shire stallion and Marchagee Princess won 2nd prize for Draught mare [39]
Together his horses Lancelyn Gipsy and Marchagee Ruby won 1st prize for Two Horse Team and were "a feature of the show" [39]
The judges remarked that the horses "were hardly likely to improve the horses of the State to the extent that might be expected" [39]
The remarks were made hoping not to discourage "men who are willing to invest money in the importation of English stock" [39]
Importing the horses may have been financially unsound and cost more money than it returned, if the remarks were accurate [39]
Two of the horses still weren't "perfectly sound" which was attributed to the voyage over some four months earlier [39]
In October 1911 he won two 1st prizes and one 2nd prize in the Horse section of the Royal Show in Perth [39: 11-Oct-1911] [81: 15-Oct-1911]
Won 1st for Hackney stallion, 1st for Hackney mare with Shinfield Elegance, and 2nd for Shire mare with Marchagee Ruby [81]
He "secured champion honours" in the horse section at the Moora Agricultural Society's Annual Show in Moora in 1911 [120: 14-Oct-1911]
Won 1st prize for Three Year Old Draught Filly in the horse section of the Wagin Agricultural Show in Wagin in 1911 [120: 4-Nov-1911]
New photographs of his Marchagee Ruby and Marchagee Princess appeared in The Western Mail on 4 November 1911 [120: 4-Nov-1911]
He returned to England by steamship in early 1912 and was followed six months later by his five year old son [204]
He departed from Albany, Western Australia on the steamship Suevic and arrived in London, England on 12 March 1912 [204]
His father arranged for the farm in Marchagee to be auctioned on a walk-in walk-out basis on 19 June 1912 [39: 17-Jun-1912] [81: 23-Jun-1912]
At the time the cleared acreage of the farm had increased to 800 acres with 600 acres planted in crop [81: 23-Jun-1912]
The farm didn't sell and his father instead made arrangements for its plant, livestock and sundries to be auctioned [39: 4, 8 & 11-Jul-1912]
The auction took place with no reserve prices on 11 July 1912 with the entirety of the items being offered first in one lot [39]
Livestock up for sale was the farm's riding horses, plough horses, pigs, poultry and turkeys [39: 11-Jul-1912]
The farming plant for sale included ploughs, harrows, drill, dray, harness, cart, buckboard and sundries [39: 11-Jul-1912]
Although he was in England he was issued with a receiving order of bankruptcy in Western Australia on 22 August 1912 [39: 31-Aug-1912]
His son departed from Fremantle, Western Australia on the steamship Orama and arrived in Plymouth, England in October 1912 [204]
By mid 1913 the farmland in Marchagee was only in the names of his parents and rates were sent care of J. H. NOBLE in Perth [44]
His uncle Arnold A. EMERY and cousin Percy R. EMERY were in Marchagee in 1918 and 1919, presumably running the farm [50]
He secured employment as a Clerk at his father's metal works on Aston Road in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England [306: 9-Oct-1914]
He initially resided his parents at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England [306: 9-Oct-1914]
By October 1914 he was lodging at 76 Minstead Road in Garvelly Hill, Warwickshire, England [306: 9-Oct-1914]
His former wife presented a bankruptcy petition against him via the County Court of Justice on 5 October 1914 [306: 9-Oct-1914, 15-Mar-1921]
The petition was sent care of his father, published in The London Gazette and in The Birmingham Daily Post newspaper [306]
He had to appear before the County Court of Justice in Birmingham at 12.30 on 4 November 1914 [306]
A receiving order was made against him but it was rescinded on 11 November 1914 when an order of adjudication was made [306]
The adjudication order was annulled on 1 March 1921 as it appeared that all debts, costs, charges and expenses had been paid [306]
He remarried in England and had a further four children - none of whom had knowledge of his daughter Beatrice [P405]
His son Charles Neville EMERY returned to Australia in 1928 [203] and was a Farmer in Perenjori, Western Australia 1930-1936 [50]
From The West Australian newspaper, Saturday 23 October 1909:
"The Marchagee Estate surrounds the Marchagee railway siding, and has a frontage to the railway line of over three miles, and has an elevation of 1069 feet [325.8 metres] above sea level, enjoying a regular rainfall of 16 inches [406.4 millimetres] per annum. The position is an excellent one for mixed farming, the proximity to the siding enabling produce to be loaded at a nominal cost to either Perth, Geraldton or the Cue goldfields, while Mingenew, the principal stock market of the State, is only 77 miles distant by rail, affording excellent opportunities for stock dealing and as a depot for holding stock. The soul is a fine rich chocolate, strong and deep, equal to the best in the State, and is timbered with York gum, jam and salmon gum. The improvements include 26 miles of sheep-proof fencing enclosing 4,727 acres in 10 paddocks. About 599 acres are cleared, of which 400 acres and now under crop and promising an exceptionally big return. The whole of the timber has been ringbarked for several years, and 200 acres are in process of clearing for cultivation next year. Ample provision has been made for water, there being three fine dams 2500, 1200 and 600 cubic yards respectively, also one well with an unlimited supply of pure water fitted with windmill, tanks and troughing. The buildings include comfortable residence of 8 rooms, large grain and machinery shed 150 x 60 feet [45.7 x 18.3], 6-stall stable and loose-boxes, men's quarters, harness-room, blacksmith's shop, etc. Adjoining the C.P. [Conditional Purchase] land is a pastoral lease of 28,000 acres of excellent sand plain, which is invaluable as a change for stock during portion of the summer months. This lease is will be given with the C.P. lands. The whole of the stock no won the estate are in magnificent condition, testifying to the excellent fattening properties of this fine piece of country. As a country home this property has many advantages. Its elevation of 1069 feet [325.8 metres] above sea level ensures cool nights throughout the summer and a perfect climate. Every Thursday a train leaves for Perth at 5.35 p.m., arriving at Marchagee at 1 a.m., while there are two trains a day on two days a week and one train a day each way on the other days."
Percy Reginald EMERY
Born 1893 in New Zealand [82]
Son of Arnold Arthur EMERY and Mary Ann WILLIAMSON [21] [82]
Farmer in Marchagee, Western Australia in 1919 [50]
He was a nephew of Samuel Charles EMERY and first cousin of Charles Holland EMERY [20] [82]
Presumably he farmed on the Marchagee Estate Farm owned by his uncle and which had previously been farmed by his cousin [44]
The farm was 4,727 acres in Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
Labourer in Wilga northwest of Boyup Brook in Western Australia in 1925 [50]
Labourer of 9 Bennett Street in the Perth suburb of East Perth in Western Australia 1931 [50]
By 1957 he had returned to New Zealand and was living as a pensioner at 17 Martin Square, Wellington on the North Island [308]
He was living at 152 Taranaki Street in Wellington, North Island, New Zealand in 1963 [308]
Samuel Charles EMERY
Born 17 October 1850 in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20] [21] [33: Film 919713]
Son of metal dealer Alfred Holland EMERY and Eliza FREEMAN [20] [21]
He was one of six children with elder siblings Albert, Alice and Alfred and younger brothers Arnold and Alexander [20]
When the 1851 census was taken he was living with his parents and siblings on Lichfield Road in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20]
They were living at 76 Bath Street in Birmingham in 1861 and at Ivy House on Water Works Street in Aston in 1871 [20]
In 1871 himself and his brother Alfred were working as Metal Rollers, and by 1881 he was a Metal Manufacturer [20]
Married Kate GREAYER on 18 September 1878 at Saint James' Church in Hull, Yorkshire, England [33: Film 1657088]
In 1881 they were living at Chestnut Lodge on Slade Road in Aston, Warwickshire, England [20]
They later resided for over 20 years at Hermon House on Lichfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England [20]
In late 1909 or early 1910 he purchased two farms in Marchagee, Western Australia [39: 23-Nov-1909, 14-Jul-1910] [120: 4-Dec-1909]
He presumably purchased the farms for his son Charles Holland EMERY who had shifted to Western Australia [39: 30-Jul-1909] [203]
The farms were the late Henry C. ARMSTRONG's 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate and the 2,352 acre Mamboobie Estate [39]
They'd been sold at auction on 25 November 1909 with a report on the auction stating they'd been sold to John P. DOSCAS [39] [120]
He may have purchased the farms off or through DOSCAS, or the sale to DOSCAS may have fallen through [39]
Marchagee Estate comprised Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
Mamboobie Estate consisted of Victoria Locations 3190, 3219, 3220, 3221, 3222, 3223, 3224, 3225, 3226 and 2227 [44]
In August 1910 he had the Mamboobie Estate auctioned so they could concentrate their energies on the Marchagee Estate Farm [39]
The Mamboobie Estate appears to have been sold to Duncan W. PATERSON and Griffith G. JOHN of Paterson & Co Ltd [44]
His son was the farmer of their Marchagee Estate Farm in Marchagee from 1910 until returning to England in 1912 [19] [44] [204]
The farm was listed in rate books as belonging to him, then to his son and wife, and then as belonging to himself and his wife [44]
He employed the services of James GARDINER to auction the Marchagee Estate on a walk-in walk-out basis [39: 17-Jun-1912] [81: 23-Jun-1912]
The auction took place at 3 p.m. on 28 June 1912 within GARDINER's rooms in Harper's Buildings on Howard Street in Perth [81]
At the time 800 acres of the "magnificent and well-improved farm" had been cleared and it contained 600 acres of crop [81]
The farm was "in full working order" and had a "complete and carefully selected working plant sufficient for all requirements" [81]
The farm presumably didn't sell and he instead made arrangements for its plant, livestock and sundries to be auctioned [39: 4, 8 & 11-Jul-1912]
The farm's contents were owned by his son but he could sell them as he held a bill of sale from his son dated 21 February 1910 [39]
The auction took place with no reserves on 11 July 1912 with the entirety of the items being offered first in one lot [39]
Livestock up for sale was the farm's riding horses, plough horses, pigs, poultry and turkeys [39]
The farming plant for sale included ploughs, harrows, drill, dray, harness, cart, buckboard and sundries [39]
Absentee Farmer & Grazier of the 4,727 acre Marchagee Estate Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia 1912-1921 [44]
The farm consisted of Victoria Locations 3121, 3122, 3123, 3124, 3125, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3734, 3735, 3186 and 3187 [44]
His Marchagee Estate Farm was managed by Douglas W. SYMINGTON in 1917 [50]
400 acres of wheat crop was grown on his farm in Marchagee in 1917 [10: 19-Jun-1917]
The farm was likely managed by his brother Arnold A. EMERY in 1918 and 1919, as he was a Farm Manager in Marchagee [50]
His nephew, Percy R. EMERY, was listed as a Farmer in Marchagee in 1919, so may also have been working his farm [50]
Rates for his farmland in Marchagee were sent to 23 William Street in Perth, Western Australia care of J. H. NOBLE [44]
He appears to have become the owner of the pedigreed horses his son had imported from England in 1911 [39: 12-Jul-1911, 2-Aug-1911]
Exhibited horses in the Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Horse Parade in Perth in August 1912 [39: 7 & 8-Aug-1912] [120: 10-Aug-1912]
His Shinfield Elegance won 1st for Hackney Mare and Long Lawford Boy 3rd for Clydesdale or Heavy Draught Stallion [39] [120]
At the sales of the Annual Horse Parade in 1912 he put up for sale his Shire stallions Shipton Spark and Long Lawford Boy [39]
His horse Long Lawford Boy won 2nd prize for Draught Shire at the Royal Agricultural Show in Perth in October 1912 [39: 9-Oct-1912]
Long Lawford Boy was three years of age at the time, and was also awarded Reserve Champion for the Shire classes [120: 11-Oct-1912]
Along with his wife departed London, England on the steamship Orvieto on 6 March 1920 bound for Fremantle, Western Australia [203]
They travelled first class and arrived to D Shed at Fremantle on Thursday afternoon 9 April 1920 [39: 9-Apr-1920] [203]
He spent five months in Western Australia, during which time he presumably visited his farm in Marchagee [203] [204]
In April 1920 he advertised a vacancy for a farm and yardman for his farm in Marchagee at £2 per week [39: 24-Apr-1920]
Departed from Fremantle, Western Australia on the steamship Orontes and arrived in London, England on 28 September 1920 [204]
His wife departed from Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) on the steamship Narkunda and arrived in London on 16 October 1920 [204]
By October 1920 his Marchagee Estate in Marchagee was being farmed by Thomas A. REDDELL [39: 22-Oct-1920] [50]
The farm remained listed in his name for rates in 1921, but from 1922 it was in the name of "Reddell, Emery & Golding" [44]
Rates for the farm were sent to Thomas A. REDDELL [44] who by 1924 had become a part-owner of the farm [61]
It is unclear when he sold out his share in the farm in Marchagee but it was likely sometime before 1930 [81: 21-Sep-1930]
Resided of late at 56 High Street in Sutton Coldfield, Warwick, England [306: 11-Dec-1931]
Father of Alice Greayer, Ruby Freeman, Charles Holland and Muriel Kathleen [20] [21]
Died 21 June 1931 in England [21] [306: 11-Dec-1931]
George William EVERY
Born C.1910 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 30 April 1978; ashes dispersed Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
FFF
Edna May FALCONER
Born C.1908 [2]
Resided on Barokee Farm in Coorow 1950-1967 [2] [19
Died 27 July 1967; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 8C, 13) [2]
Mrs Daisy Laura FARLEY
Wife of "Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY; see Daisy Laura WILLISON
"Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY
Born 24 September 1889 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England [30]
Son of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [30]
He was a Marine Engineer by trade and had undertaken a five year apprenticeship with Deny & Company in Scotland [30]
Farmer of Dartmouth Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1912-1917 [19] [215]
Member of the Coorow branch of the Farmers & Settlers' Association - was Secretary in 1912 [215]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australia Imperial Force in Perth on 1 January 1918 [30: item 3548005]
At enlistment he was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighed 144 pounds with brown eyes, light brown hair and a medium complexion [30]
On 2 January 1918 at Laverton he was appointed to the Australian Imperial Force's Australian Flying Corps [30]
Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia for active service abroad on the R.M.S. Osterley 8 May 1918 [18]
2nd Class Air Mechanic 3231 in the Australian Imperial Force's Australian Flying Corps during the First World War [30]
Granted leave with pay to attend McGibbons School of Marine Engineering in Scotland from 21 February 1919 to 17 July 1919 [30]
He was an excellent student, and successfully passed the 2nd Class Board of Trade's Examination of Marine Engineering [30]
Embarked from England on the steamship Aeneas and disembarked in Fremantle, Western Australia on 1 January 1920 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 25 January 1920; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married Daisy Laura SINFIELD nee WILLISON in Perth in 1920 [66]
Farmer of Dartmouth Farm in Coorow 1920-1928 [6] [19]
Returned to Coorow in August 1920 [215]
By 1920 was farming in Coorow in partnership with his father and brother James as "Philip Farley & Sons" [44]
Repayments to the Midland Railway Company for his father's initial 630 acres in Lots M947 and M961 were completed in 1920 [34]
On completion of the repayments the land became freehold and was transferred into his name on 24 April 1920 [34]
Wrote to the Education Department on 12 March 1921 requesting a teacher to consistently run the Coorow State School [215]
Despite expenses his stepdaughter Pearl hadn't received five weeks running of education since she had been in Coorow [215]
Signatory to a letter sent to the Director of Education by Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY of Coorow on 14 March 1921 [215]
The letter complained about the sporadic nature, including too many closed days, in which the Coorow State School was run [215]
His wife purchased the 701 acre Lot M1121 of Victoria Location 2023 in Coorow from Alexander GRANT on 12 June 1925 [27]
Lot M1121 still had instalments owing to the Midland Railway Company, which they completed paying [27]
In late 1927 sold his and his wife's 1,331 acres of farmland to Mrs Daisy H. WIGGIN and T. Reginald SIZER [39: 8-Nov-1927, 31-Jan-1928]
Elder Smith & Co Ltd conducted a clearing sale for him on his farm 1½ miles from Coorow on Friday 20 January 1928 [39: 6-Jan-1928]
Plant and machinery sold included an almost band new 2-ton Holt tractor that had only been used for 600 acres of fallowing, [39]
12-disc Shearer plough, 10-foot Sunshine harvester, 21-disc Mitchell drill, 30-tyne MacKay spring type cultivator, [39]
6-foot Sunshine binder, 6-foot Sunshine harvester, 13-disc Farmer's Favourite drill, chaff cutter and engine, [39]
5-furrow mouldboard plough, 8-disc Shearer plough, Robinson grader, wheat grinder, sulky and harness, dray and harness, [39]
spring cart and harness, separator, two cream cans, two coils of barb wire, 8-foot by 10-foot tent, quantity of oil drums, [39]
bellows and anvil, quantity of tools, Lowdour pump, quantity of jam strainer posts, piping, plough chains, three Cyclone beds, [39]
cooler, sewing machine, dozen plough shears and a host of sundries; plus nine medium draught horses and two milking cows [39]
Resided at 35 Martin Avenue in the Perth suburb of Nedlands 1929-1946 [6]
By the end of the 1931-32 financial year he was somehow once again the owner of his and his wife's 1,331 acres in Coorow [3]
The 1,331 acres in Coorow consisted of Lots M947 and M961 and M1121 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Leased his 1,331 acre farm in Coorow to neighbouring farmer Charles C. BOTHE of Glenfield Farm [P147]
He wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in August 1935 requesting they reduce the money he owed them [5: 23-Aug-1935]
The Carnamah District Road Board resolved that they "could not sanction" such a reduction [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Hume pipes were installed over the crossing to his property in Coorow by the Main Road Board in October 1936 [5: 6-Nov-1936]
By the end of the 1938-39 financial year he had sold his 1,331 acre farm in Coorow to Charles C. BOTHE [3]
Resided at 35 Martin Avenue in the Perth suburb of Nedlands until his death in 1946 [2]
Died 17 December 1946; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, Niche Wall, W1, 105) [2]
He was registered at birth under the name of Philip Daniel FARLEY [21]
Ellen Sarah FARLEY
Born 17 January 1891 [33]
Daughter of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [33] [215]
Baptised on 18 July 1891 at Kidderpore in Calcutta, West Bengal, India [33]
Departed Calcutta, India with her parents on the steamship Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Later in 1911 she was living at Eden Hill in the Perth suburb of Guildford [215]
She wrote to the Education Department on 7 September 1911 wanting particulars about the school monitor's examination [215]
Her father was intending to take up land in Coorow, and she was hoping to get a post at the proposed Coorow State School [215]
A school was to be established as with her sister Phyllis and brother James there was the required ten local children of school age [215]
Arrived in Coorow in December 1911 and after delays finding premises opened the Coorow State School on 5 February 1912 [215]
School Teacher of the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1912 [215]
The school at Coorow was a Regulation Four School which meant it was conducted from a private and not state supplied building [215]
She taught the school from a bush shed on George J. T. BATTERSBY's Wattle Vale Farm from February 1912 to October 1912 [215]
In June 1912 she was conducting the school from her father's home on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow [215]
The bush shed on Wattle Vale became unavailable after 15 October 1912 and the school then had no home for six weeks [215]
It appears that she may have conducted the school from her father's home on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow during its homelessness [215]
The school moved to two rooms freely provided by James MCGILL at Coorow House and reopened on 2 December 1912 [215]
Mrs Eva Harriett FARLEY
Wife of Capt. Philip FARLEY; see Eva Harriett BROWN
"Jim" James FARLEY
Born 11 October 1900 in Calcutta, Bengal, India [16]
Son of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [30]
Baptised at the Seamens Church at Hastings in Calcutta, Bengal, India on 13 November 1900 [272]
Departed Calcutta, India with his parents on the steamship Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Resided with his parents on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1912-1916 [19] [30] [215]
His name was listed as a prospective student in applications for an assisted State School to be established in Coorow in 1911 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in 1912, which was a bush shed on Wattle Vale Farm and run by his sister Ellen [215]
By September 1913 he was boarding in Three Springs and attending the Three Springs State School [215]
Student at the Coorow State School at Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1914 [215]
Farmhand in Coorow prior to enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Geraldton on 14 July 1916 [30: item 3548039]
He was noted as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 144 lbs. and with blue-grey eyes, brown hair and a medium complexion [30]
After brief training at Blackboy Hill he was on 1 November 1916 appointed to the 17th Reinforcements of the 28th Battalion [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916 [18]
Private 6075 in the Australian Imperial Force's 28th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
His mother wrote to the Australian Headquarters of the A.I.F. on 24 December 1917 informing them he was underage [30]
A month later an investigation was begun to ascertain his true age, and it was revealed with his admission that he was underage [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 14 January 1919; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
On his return from the war he was tendered a Welcome Home at his parents' home in Coorow on Thursday 10 July 1919 [10: 18-Jul-1919]
The evening was organised by his mother, who with some assistance decorated the room with the colours of his battalion [10]
His Welcome Home was reported to have been "the best and brightest function yet head in that old established place Coorow" [10]
A large crowd from Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs attended, many of whom travelled boggy roads to be present [10]
Farmer in Coorow 1920-1928 [6] [19] [27]
Purchased with cash 517 acres of virgin land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company on 16 June 1920 [27]
The 517 acres was Lot M1231 of Victoria Location 2023, and cost £439/13/7 (17/- per acre), less a 20% cash discount [27]
Initially farmed his own land and his father's in partnership with his father and brother Daniel as "Philip Farley & Sons" [44]
By 1924 was farming on his own, and had also become the owner of the 753 acre Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023 [44]
Lot M1046 had previously been owned by his father, who had purchased it as virgin land in 1915 for £428/14/- [27]
By 1932 his 1,270 acre farm in Coorow (Lots M1046 and M1231) was owned by Charles C. BOTHE of Coorow [3]
Married Lily BROWN in 1921 [66]
Labourer in Perenjori 1929-1935 [19]
Farmer in Bowgada 1938-1942 [19]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 9 April 1942 [16]
Private W64281 in the Australian Army's 5 Garrison Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 19 April 1943 [16]
Farmer in Perenjori 1948-1958 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [2]
Died 29 June 1981; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Mrs Lily FARLEY
Wife of James FARLEY; see Lily BROWN
Pearl Frances FARLEY
Stepdaughter of "Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY; see Pearl Frances SINFIELD
Capt. Philip FARLEY
Born C.1858 [2]
Master Mariner in India [70]
Married Eva Harriett BROWN in 1887 in Bengal, India [171]
Departed Calcutta, India with his wife and children on the Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
By September 1911 he had plans to take up land in Coorow [215]
Ahead of them moving to Coorow his daughter Ellen applied to become the teacher of the proposed school in Coorow [215]
He guaranteed to contribute to the teacher's salary if the attendance fell below ten at the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
Farmer of Dartmouth Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1912-1925 [19] [27] [215]
On 28 April 1913 signed the contract to purchase from the Midland Railway Company 630 acres of farmland in Coorow [27]
The 630 acres consisted of Lots M947 and M961 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £2992/10/-, payable by instalments [27]
The land was part of the Midland Railway Company's Improved Farm Scheme and was the first farm sold through the scheme [27]
Like others in the Improved Farm Scheme it came with a house in addition to being partly cleared and fenced [34]
M947 and M961 both adjoin the railway line and are on the north and south sides of South Waddy Road respectively [62]
Took out assistance under the Industries Assistance Board while establishing his farm [34]
Signatory to financial guarantees to the Education Department issued on 10 August 1912 and 3 December 1912 [215]
The guarantee was to pay the financial shortfall if attendance at the Coorow State School fell below ten students [215]
By September 1913 his son James was boarding in Three Springs and attending the Three Springs State School [215]
His wheat crops averaged 25 bushels an acre in 1912 and 23 bushels an acre in 1913 [81: 1-Feb-1914]
In March 1915 applied to purchase from the Midland Railway Company an adjoining 750 acres for between 8/- and 25/- per acre [34]
Application successful: on 29 June 1915 purchased 753 acres of adjoining virgin land from the Midland Railway Coy for £428 [27]
753 acres was Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023 and was adjacent to M947 on the north side of South Waddy Road [27] [62]
During the First World War his sons Daniel and James served in the Australian Imperial Force [30: items 3548039, 3548005]
Sold 331 bags of wheat from his 1915 harvest (108 bags for 4/- and 223 bags for 3/- per bushel) and kept 170 bags for seed wheat [34]
In April 1916 A. J. BARBER, General Manager of the Midland Railway Company in London, England remarked in a letter: [34]
"Captain Farley…has been a good hard worker from all accounts, and was…the first settler who came to our farms" [34]
Seeded 300 acres of crop on his farm in 1916 [34] and had 350 acres of wheat crop in 1917 [10: 19-Jun-1917]
In August 1916 signed a petition which was sent to the Midland Railway Company requesting the price of their farms be reduced [34]
Member of the Winchester-Carnamah branch of the Farmers & Settlers' Association 1917 [34]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
By 1920 was farming and trading in partnership with his sons Daniel and James as "Philip Farley & Sons" [44]
Repayments to the Midland Railway Company for his initial 630 acres in Lots M947 and M961 in Coorow were completed in 1920 [34]
On completion of the repayments the land became freehold and was transferred into his son Daniel's name on 24 April 1920 [34]
Himself, his son James and Carl G. B. JENSEN took out a contract to purchase 669 acres in Coorow on 15 September 1922 [27]
The 669 acres was Lot M1387 of Victoria Location 2023 and was being purchased from the Midland Railway Company [27]
Lot M1387 cost £217/13/5 (6/6 per acre) which was payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
On 15 January 1925 they assigned the block to his wife Eva, and on 28 September 1927 sold it to Alfred G. WALLIS [27]
Appears to have left Coorow in 1925, with his Lots M947 and M961 going to his son Daniel and M1046 to his son James [3] [19] [44]
Resided in Mandurah in 1929 and 1930 [6]
Resided at 21 Douglas Avenue, South Perth in 1934 and at 15 Yeovil Crescent in the Perth suburb of Bicton in 1935 and 1936 [6]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [2]
Father of Daniel, Ellen, James and Phyllis [34] [70]
Died 19 September 1936; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Anglican, A5, 205) [2]
His wife Eva died two months later on 14 November 1936, aged 66 years and was also buried at the Fremantle Cemetery [2]
Phyllis Eva FARLEY
Daughter of Philip FARLEY and Eva Harriett BROWN [70]
Departed Calcutta, India with her parents on the steamship Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Resided with her parents on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow 1912-1923 [19] [34] [215]
Her name was listed as a prospective student in applications for an assisted State School to be established in Coorow in 1911 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in 1912, which was run by her sister Ellen S. FARLEY [215]
Came 3rd in the "Belle of the Ball" competition at the Three Springs Day held in Three Springs on 26 September 1918 [10: 4-Oct-1918]
Attended May BERRIGAN's 21st Birthday in Three Springs on 12 September 1919 [9: 19-Sep-1919]
Entrant in the Carnamah Popular Girl Competition conducted by the Carnamah Hall Committee in 1920 and 1921 [10: 1-Apr-1921]
In 1925 she was working as a Nurse and living at 697 Beaufort Street in what was then the Perth suburb of Highgate Hill [50]
Nurse in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1930 [50]
Resided with a Mrs TRAVERS on Charlton Avenue in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill [50]
Resided at The Maisonette Flats on Challis Avenue in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst [50]
Following her father's death in 1936 herself and her mother were living at 73 Marine Terrace in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [50]
William Arthur FARLEY
Farmhand for Baxter D. BOTHE on Inglewood Farm in Coorow in 1929 and 1930 [19]
Mary Jane FARRELL
Married Charles Frederick STARTLING in Geraldton in 1911 [66]
They resided in Coomberdale in 1914, in Coorow in 1917, and in Carnamah in Carnamah in 1919 and 1920 [6] [19]
Resided in Arrino in 1921 [19]
Came fourth with 5,753 votes in the Ugly Woman Competition conducted in Three Springs for the Y.M.C.A. in May 1917 [9]
Her candidiature in the competition contributed to the raising of £208/17/6 for the war efforts of the Y.M.C.A. [9: 25-May-1917]
Resided in Dongara in 1923 [19]
Resided on Victoria Street in Mingenew in 1929 and 1930 [19]
In early 1932 she was living in Walkaway and in later 1932 and in 1933 she was living in Mullewa [19]
Matthew FARRELL
Contractor in Marchagee in 1909 and 1910 [50]
John FARRELLY
Fettler in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Mrs Winifred Mary FARRELLY
Resided in Latham in 1922 [50]
George Robert Charles FELTON
Farmer in Gunyidi 1929-1933 [19]
Kevin Ringol FENNELL
Born 7 July 1936 [45]
Son of Walter George FENNELL and Alice Christina BRYANT [14]
Married Jetta Margaret DOWNES in 1957 in Victoria, Australia [P391]
Farmhand in Marchagee [19]
Worked on the farms of Peter W. THOMSON and then John M. STACY in Marchagee [P327]
Continued to live in a house on John M. STACY's farm in Marchagee while he established a local contracting business [P327]
Contract Carrier and Superphosphate Spreader in and around Marchagee [P327]
During the off-season of his business he did all of the maintaining of his trucks, spreaders and equipment [P327]
Later shifted to a house in the Marchagee townsite [P327]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [45]
During his time at Marchagee he had a beach shack at Green Head [45]
Purchased his father's original 1,400 farm from his brother W. Frank FENNELL in the 1960s or 1970s [P327]
His sons James and Bernard later took over his contracting business based at Marchagee [P392]
Later resided in Geraldton [45]
Passed away at the age of 70 years at the Saint John of God Hospital in Geraldton [45]
His Funeral Mass was held at Saint Lawrence's Catholic Church in the Geraldton suburb of Bluff Point [45]
Father of Kerry, Peter, Maria, Sharyn, and twins James and Bernard [P391]
Died 12 January 2006; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA on 17 January 2006 [45]
"Frank" Walter Frank FENNELL
Born 1927 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Son of Walter George FENNELL and Alice Christina BRYANT [14]
Resided with his parents on farmland in Marchagee [19]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were Walter G. FENNELL, Frank R. BRYANT and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
Purchased the 1,778 acre Victoria Location 9493 in Marchagee from Frank R. BRYANT in January 1950 [3]
Farmer in Marchagee 1950-1980 [19]
Fisherman of Lot 101 Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite in 1986 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Armadale [2]
Died 15 May 1995; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Walter George FENNELL
Born 4 April 1908 in Busselton, Western Australia [16]
Farmer in Marchagee 1923-1955 [1] [14] [19]
His farm was 1,544 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 3255, 3256 and 5866 [3]
Married Alice Christina BRYANT in Perth in 1926 [14] [66]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The other members of the party were his son W. Frank FENNELL, Frank R. BRYANT and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
Private W83520 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
On 15 December 1943 was fined £2 at the Carnamah Police Court for drinking at the Coorow Hotel at an hour outside its license [22]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
Father of Frank, Kevin, Barry and Graham [14]
Died 27 February 1955; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 2) [1]
Jeanett Paton FERGUSON
Born 4 December 1899 in Moonta, South Australia [55]
Daughter of John Paton FERGUSON and Frances Amelia MORRIS [55]
Married Milton Jabez TILLY on 28 July 1927 in Weetulta, South Australia [55]
In 1936 shifted with her husband from South Australia to Coorow, Western Australia [P8]
Resided in Coorow from 1936 until 1995 [P8]
Resided in the house on Lot 1142, which her husband leased, on the north side of the Coorow-Latham Road 1936-1940 [P8]
Resided on her husband's Touchna Farm, Lot M1617, between the Midlands Road and Touche Road 1940-1946 [P8]
Purchased the former billiard saloon at Lot 47 Commercial Street in the Coorow townsite from Lloyd WILLIAMS [3]
Resided in the galvanised iron house (former billiard saloon) at Lot 47 Commercial Street, Coorow 1946 onwards [P8]
In July 1946 purchased the vacant and adjacent Lot 48 Commercial Street in Coorow from Mrs Frances E. SCHNEIDER [3]
Later had a new house built which straddled both Lots 47 and 48 Commercial Street, Coorow [P8]
Used both the new and old houses for a number of years and then had the old house pulled down and added to the new one [P8]
Won 1st prize for Fancy Cakes at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Exhibited in the Confectionary and Vegetable sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st prizes for Plain Scones and for Fancy Cakes, and 2nd prize for Carrots [5]
At the Show Ball held in the evening following the Show she received the V. W. Broun Trophy for the best Fancy Cakes [5]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 and 1947 [150]
Steward of the Cookery section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Later a member of the North Midlands Agricultural Society [P8]
Member of Coorow's branches of the Red Cross Society, Country Women's Association and R.S.L. Ladies' Auxiliary [P8]
Member of the North Midlands Methodist Church / North Midlands Uniting Church [P8]
Resided on Lots 47 and 48 Commercial Street, Coorow until 1995 when she moved to the Lady Brand Lodge in Three Springs [P8]
Mother of Jill [P8]
Died 7 March 2003; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth (VC Section, Niche Wall, W5, 41) [2]
Mrs Ivy Evelyn FIEBIG
Wife of Alan Oscar FIEBIG; see Ivy Evelyn ANGEL
Frank FINNISS
Railway Fettler in Latham in 1916 and 1917 [50]
Frederick Ulick Evelyn FIRMSTONE
Born C.1893 [2]
Farmer of Kenilworth Farm in Coomberdale in 1931 [50]
Farmer of Monomeath Farm in Coorow 1932-1935 [4] [5] [19]
Himself and Clement M. WARREN farmed the property in partnership as "Warren & Firmstone" [5: 2-Mar-1934] [19]
The farm was the 1,477 acre Lot M1142 of Victoria Location 2023, which was leased from Dennis J. NOLAN [3] [5: 22-Mar-1935] [19]
In 1932 they had a Dodge Runabout car licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-67 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
It was reported in the local newspaper on 6 October 1933 that he had been an inmate of the Moora Hospital for some time [5: 6-Oct-1933]
"Warren & Firmstone" purchased three Border Leicester rams from LEISHMAN Bros of Winchester in February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Following the expiration of their lease they held a clearing sale on the property at 1:30 p.m. on Friday 29 March 1935 [5: 22-Mar-1935]
They employed Carnamah agent W. B. SHERIDAN to conduct the sale, at which they sold their livestock and machinery [5]
Their livestock comprised of 600 sheep (mainly Border Leicester), 70 pigs, three cows, eight ducks, 30 fowls and 17 turkeys [5]
Machinery and Plant included 6 foot Shearer M.B. plough, 8 foot McKay header, 20 hoe McKay combine, 14 disc Sundercut, [5]
35 tyne McKay cultivator, drill, harros, Dodge runabout, fumigator, Rumley tractor, vice, drilling machine, tools and sundries [5]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Armadale [2]
Died 31 October 1985; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (DA Section, Ground Niche, A, 83) [2]
John FITZPATRICK
Fencer in Coorow 1911-1913 [19] [50]
William FLETCHER
Clearing Contractor in Three Springs 1910-1914 [6] [19] [50]
Farmhand on Carl G. B. JENSEN's Sandringham Farm in Coorow 1914-1916 [19]
Labourer in Coorow in 1917 [50]
Mrs "Fay" Faith Reta FOLLAND
Wife of Gilbert Ridgway FOLLAND; see "Fay" Faith Reta NICHOLLS
Gilbert Ridgway FOLLAND
Born 2 January 1911 in Enfield, South Australia [55]
Son of Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND and Susanna Kate MORCOMBE [55]
Farmer of Enfield Park Farm in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [110]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club 1928-1930 [4: 10-Nov-1928, 11-Oct-1930]
Attended the Euchre Party and Dance held in Winchester on Saturday 14 September 1929 [4: 21-Sep-1929]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1932 [5: 29-Jul-1932]
Came 2nd in the Coat, Hat and Cigarette Race in the Horse Events at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club 1933-1951 [4: 2-Dec-1933, 23-Oct-1936, 7-Apr-1951]
Came 1st in the Flag Race and the Swerving Race in the Horse Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Master of Ceremonies at the send-off to Tom MORCOMBE at the Waddy Forest Hall on Saturday 13 January 1934 [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H in 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
Received £2 in Vermin Bonuses from the Carnamah District Road Board in February 1934 for killing four foxes [300: page 42]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]fCHAVE
Married "Fay" Faith Reta NICHOLLS at the Central Baptist Church in Perth on 17 March 1934 [5: 23-Mar-1934, 6-Apr-1934]
His best man was his cousin Keith MORCOMBE, while groomsman was Fay's brother Max NICHOLLS [5]
Following their wedding himself and his wife arrived to their home Thornborough in Waddy Forest on Saturday 31 March 1934 [5]
Received a small presentation in recognition of his marriage at a meeting of the Waddy Forest Toc H on 25 April 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
Himself and his father travelled to Perth on Sunday 29 July 1934 to attend a horse sale early the next week [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Won the Melon Race in the Ring Events section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Master of Ceremonies during the later portion of the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935 and 1936, and was B Grade Champion in 1937 [5: 1-Nov-1935, 31-Jul-1936, 16-Jul-1937]
Attended the Coorow Rifle Club's Grand Ball held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 26 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Represented Waddy at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 6-Sep-1935, 18-Sep-1936]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday Party for his sister Nance at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth for the Perth Royal Show in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Competitor in the Parkinson Tennis Club's Tennis Tournament held in Carnamah on New Year's Day 1 January 1937 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Played for the defeated Married Men in a cricket match against Single Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Master of Ceremonies at the Waddy Forest Tennis Club's Presentation Dance in Waddy Forest in June 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
Attended the Kitchen Tea for Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD at the Waddy Forest Hall on 31 July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 21 September 1945 [96]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 [150]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1952 [0: image 04668]
In 1957 was the owner of a motor vehicle with licence plate CA-52 [22]
In 1963 was the owner of a Vauxhall sedan car with licence plate CW-224 and a trailer with licence plate CW-32 [22]
Later resided at 45 Beckenham Place in the Perth suburb of Beckenham [2]
Passed away at the age of 74 years from respiratory failure and emphysema at the Mount Henry Hospital in Como [90]
Father of Kath, Ruth and Maxine [14]
Died 22 January 1985 in the Perth suburb of Como; ashes interred Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Niche Wall) [1] [2]
"Stan" Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND
Born 11 July 1883 in Enfield, South Australia [55]
Son of Charles French FOLLAND and Annie Maria WILLIAMS [55]
Married "Susie" Susanna Kate MORCOMBE on 25 May 1909 in Enfield, South Australia [55]
Settled on prospective farmland at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district of Western Australia in 1924 [P164]
On 27 October 1924 he had purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1,136 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest [27]
The 1,136 acres of virgin land was Lot M1505 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £994/8/9 or 17/6 per acre [27]
The purchase was payable by instalments over 15 years and after extending the repayments to 1944 he completed the purchase [27]
Farmer of Enfield Park Farm in Waddy Forest 1924-1941 [5: 27-Jul-1934] [19] [P164]
In 1928 he grew 630 acres of Nabawa and Gluyas varieties of wheat on his farm in Waddy Forest [120: 20-Dec-1928]
Hail struck his wheat crops in 1928, and the damage done was estimated to have been seven bushels per acre [120: 20-Dec-1928]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club in 1928-29 [4: 10-Nov-1928]
Competed in the nationwide Bateman Centenary Wheat Growers' Competition in 1929 [4: 17-May-1930]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club 1929-1932 [4: 24-Aug-1929, 22-Aug-1931] [5: 22-Jul-1932]
Attended and spoke at the Welcome Home held in Coorow for Dr. W. P. SHANAHAN on 13 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Represented the Carnamah Rifle Club at the National Rifle Association Prize meeting in 1932 [5: 2-Sep-1932]
In 1932 was the owner of a Hillman car and a Chevrolet truck with license plates CA-185 and CA-204 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
At one stage had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanic Henry Parkin & Son [53]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1932-1936 [4: 9-Apr-1932] [5: 13-Mar-1936] [150]
Attended, exhibited and competed at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held in Maley Park, Coorow on 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 1st prize for a Male White Leghorn in the Poultry section and came 2nd in the Flag Race of the Horse Events [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 2nd prize for female Black Orpington in the Poultry section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
In 1933 purchased two bags of seed wheat of the sought after Comeback wheat and reaped 62 bags from ten acres [5: 23-Feb-1934]
In November 1933 himself and Ivor B. ROBERTS proposed a Rifle Club be formed at Coorow [5: 24-Nov-1933]
Founding Member, Chairman and Captain of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1934 [5: 5-Jan-1934] [P15]
Along with Charles BOTHE, Baxter BOTHE and Ivor ROBERTS built the Coorow Rifle Range in July 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934]
He was once more Captain of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935-36, 1936-37 and 1937-38 [5: 1-Nov-1935, 31-Jul-1936, 16-Jul-1937, 30-Jul-1937]
Donated trophies to the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935 which were won by John S. READ and F. Keith MORCOMBE [5: 1-Nov-1935]
He presented the trophies at the Coorow Rifle Club's Annual Ball at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 28 November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Himself and his brother-in-law William G. MORCOMBE used to shoot rabbits in Waddy Forest - up to 100 in a day [P32]
Building of a new cement brick house on his farm in Waddy Forest commenced in February 1934 [5: 9-Feb-1934]
Along with Phil, Stella and Keith MORCOMBE travelled to Perth by car on 16 March 1934 to attend his son's wedding [5: 23-Mar-1934]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association in 1934 [5: 8-Jun-1934]
Had a wireless set (radio) installed at his home on Enfield Park in Waddy Forest towards the end of July 1934 [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Himself, his son Gilbert, daughter-in-law Fay and the NICHOLLS boys travelled to Perth by car on Sunday 29 July 1934 [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Over the first weekend in August 1934 Sister FOLLAND of the Dalwallinu Hospital stayed with them in Waddy Forest [5: 10-Aug-1934]
Exhibited in four sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Received 1st prize for Yearly Draught Colt or Filly and 2nd for a Draught Stallion in the Horse section [5]
Won 1st prize for male and 2nd for female Black Orpingtons in the Poultry section; and 2nd prizes for Lemons and White Eggs [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Rifle Club's Rifle Range on Saturday 8 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
A sample of his outstanding wheat was part of the Coastal District Display at the Perth Royal Show in 1934 [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Himself and his brother-in-law Phil MORCOMBE received horses imported form South Australia on 21 November 1934 [5: 23-Nov-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1934-35 [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Owner of the registered four year old draught stallion named Penryn Leader in 1934-35 [5: 25-Jan-1935]
During early July 1935 he was an inmate of the Moora Hospital, during which time his condition "improved favourably" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
After being an inmate of the Moora Hospital for some time he returned to his home in Waddy Forest on 20 July 1935 [5: 26-Jul-1935]
Won 1st prize for Australian Strong White Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13 & 20-Sep-1935]
A week later repeated his success by winning 1st for Australian Strong White Wheat at the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5]
During the second half of September 1935 he was an inmate of the Carnamah Private Hospital and was "improving" [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Left the Carnamah Private Hospital on 12 October 1935 and returned to Waddy Forest well on the road to recovery [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Won 3rd prize for "any other variety of Premier Strong wheat" for Zone 2 at the Royal Show in Perth in 1935 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Monday 21 October 1935 to embark on a health tour and visit relatives [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Departed Fremantle, Western Australia on the Duntroon en route for a holiday in South Australia on 24 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Arrived back to his home in Waddy Forest on Monday night 17 February 1936 "looking very well and fit" [5: 21-Feb-1936]
Competed at the Official Opening of the Three Springs Rifle Club's rifle range in Three Springs on Thursday 23 July 1936 [5: 31-Jul-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
He won the majority of the awards in the Horse section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 3 September 1936 [5]
He was awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for Draught Mare and for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness; [5]
1st for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness bred by exhibitor; 2nd for Brood Mare visibly in or with foal and Draught Stallion [5]
As the most successful exhibitor of the Horse section he won the Hugh Fischer Trophy [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936]
Received prize money through competing at the meeting of the National Rifle Association of WA in Swanbourne in 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Convened the Social Evening held at the Waddy Forest Hall on Tuesday evening 15 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
At the Social Evening a collection was taken to help provide Christmas cheer for the Victoria Park Methodist Children's Home [5]
Most successful exhibitor and winner of the President's Trophy at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st and 2nd for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness and for Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness bred by exhibitor [5]
Also won 1st and 2nd for 2-year Gelding and Brood Mare; and 2nd prizes for Draught Mare and Draught Gelding [5]
In the Vegetable section won 1st prizes for Lettuce and Onions and 2nd for Collection of Vegetables [5]
In Grain & Fodder received 1st and 2nd for Wheaten Chaff, 1st for Green Oats for Hay and 2nd for Comeback Wheat [5]
Resided in Waddy Forest until his death in 1941 [6] [19]
Father of Gilbert and Nance [14]
Died 23 August 1941 in Moora; buried Moora Cemetery, Moora [4: 30-Aug-1941]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 30 August 1941:
Obituary - Death of Waddy Forest Resident - Late Mr. S. L. Folland
"The death occurred at Moora on Saturday night last of a well-known resident of Waddy Forest in the person of Mr. S. L. Folland, who has for some years past been an extremely popular figure in the district. The deceased gentleman was keenly interested in public affairs generally, but he was particularly active in rifle shooting, having fulfilled the duties of captain of the Coorow Club since its inception. He was an excellent marksman and was always ready and willing to give other members the benefit of his wide experience. The late Mr. Folland is survived by a widow, one son (Gilbert) and one daughter (Nancy). The funeral took place at Moora on Monday last and was largely attended by friends and relatives, the chief mourners at the graveside being Mrs. S. L. Folland (wife), Miss N. Folland (daughter) and Mr and Mrs G. R. Folland. Members of the Coorow Rifle Club formed a guard of honour at the cemetery and representatives of the Coorow unit of the Home Guard acted as pall-bearers. Amongst those noticed at the graveside were Mr and Mrs P. W. Hunt, Mr and Mrs C. C. Bothe, Mr and Mrs B. D. Bothe, Mr and Mrs B. Lampard, Miss A. Peters, Messrs P. T. Morcombe, W. G. Morcombe, T. Morcombe, A. C. Broun, V. W. Broun, C. M. Broun, G. J. Underwood, E. W. Fowler, T. Read, G. E. Peters, A. Rudduck, A. C. Bierman, J. H. Doney, I. B. Roberts, W. Davies, S. R. Tomkins, J. Hogbin, D. J. McCann, C. H. Gronow, M. L. Gronow, H. T. Melvin, F. Bingham, W. S. Mitchell, G. Lambert, W. J. Gaunt, J. Read, D. E. Fowler, R. Wallace, M. G. Greenwood, E. Chapman and R. Clark."
Mrs "Susie" Susanna Kate FOLLAND
Wife of "Stan" Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND; see "Susie" Susanna Kate MORCOMBE
Eileen Veronica FORD
Born C.1918 [1]
Resided of late in Coorow [1]
Passed away at the age of 40 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 8 March 1958 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row G, Plot 14) [1]
"Add" Adeline Blanche FOWLER
Born 1 June 1912 [209]
Daughter of Donnell Edgar FOWLER and Ethel Blanche DRAPER [209]
Resided with her parents in Beverley 1912-1924 and then on farmland in Waddy Forest 1924-1936 [19] [209]
Won 1st prize for White Bread at the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Awarded 1st prize for Fruit Cake the second annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
One of the suppliers of music at the Coorow Cricket Club's Dance held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 13 April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Won the C. S. Baty & Coy trophy, which was a cake dish, at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the Show Ball after the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 12 September 1935 in a gown of dark red marocain [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Attended the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social Evening & Play Presentation at the Carnamah Hall on 17 June 1936 [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Won the Bushells Ltd Trophy for 1st prize for Coffee Sponge Sandwich at the 1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Herself and her father accompanied by Miss Mary ROBERTS travelled to Perth by car on Thursday 1 October 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
After attending the Perth Royal Show herself and her father returned to Waddy Forest [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Attended the Kitchen Tea for Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD at the Waddy Forest Hall on 31 July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
The guests of honour were presented with kitchen utensils she had purchased with donations collected by herself and her sisters [5]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Motored from Waddy Forest to Perth with her father on Tuesday 7 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st prize for Woollen Knitted Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
On leaving Waddy Forest she shifted to Perth where she re-met Lox MORAN, who she'd gone to school with in Beverley [P120]
Married "Lox" James Loxley MORAN in Perth on 15 February 1938 [66] [210]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Donnell and Trevor [209]
Died 3 May 2002; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, PD, 678) [2]
"Viv" Donald Vivian FOWLER
Born 23 August 1922 in Beverley, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Don" Donnell Edgar FOWLER and Ethel Blanche DRAPER [P120]
Resided with his parents in Beverley 1922-1924 and then on farmland in Waddy Forest 1924 onwards [P120]
Educated at the Waddy Forest State School in Waddy Forest [5: 10-May-1935] [P120]
Won a 2nd prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Himself and Norman J. M. PATTON were going home from school bareback on the same horse on 8 May 1935 [5: 10-May-1935]
Suffered slight concussion and fractured his collar bone after they stopped the horse too suddenly and were flung to the ground [5]
Later in the evening he was taken to the Carnamah Private Hospital for attention from Dr. Cecil P. ROSENTHAL [5: 10 & 24-May-1935]
After a few days at the Carnamah Private Hospital he returned to his parents' home in Waddy Forest on Saturday 18 May 1935 [5]
Won a box of sweets at a Dance held at the Waddy Hall in Waddy Forest on Saturday 22 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as "Oberon" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Himself and his twin sister Verna celebrated their 13th birthday at Glen Waddi Farm on Saturday 24 August 1935 [5: 30-Aug-1935]
Came 3rd in the 13 years Boys Running Race at the Combined School Sports in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Won 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Shows 1936 and 1937 [5: 11-Sep-1936, 10-Sep-1937]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Attended the Coorow-Waddy Progress Association's Annual Children's Sports in Coorow on Thursday 12 August 1937 [5]
Won the 14 Years Boys & Girls Race, the Boys Over 9 Years Obstacle Race and the High Jump with a height of 4 feet 2 inches [5]
Came 3rd in the Boys 9 to 12 Years Obstacle Race [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 19 July 1942 [16]
Private WX25384 in the Australian Army's 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
During the war he served initially in New Guinea and then in Borneo [P120]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 17 June 1946 [16]
Returned to Waddy Forest and farmed with his brothers Edgar and Leslie as "Fowler Bros" 1946-1952 [P120]
Farmer in Waddy Forest in partnership with just his brother Edgar as "Fowler Bros" 1952-1979 [P120]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [P120]
Killed in an accident while on the farm when during stubble chaining the tractor he was driving was pulled over and crushed him [P120]
Died 30 March 1979; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row U, Plot 19) [1]
"Don" Donnell Edgar FOWLER
Born 18 October 1882 in Craneford Flaxmans Valley, South Australia [55]
Son of George FOWLER and Sarah Ann KICK [55]
Resided with his parents in Craneford, Pint Cut Creek and then Truro in South Australia [210]
Along with two of his brothers left South Australia and shifted to Western Australia in the early 1900s [P120]
Worked as a timber cutter in Jarrahdale and then began share-farming [P120]
Married Ethel Blanche DRAPER on 3 June 1908 in Beverley, Western Australia [P120]
Farmer of Jangelling Farm at Balkuling in the Beverley district [P120]
Also farmed a property in Beverley which he leased from his brother-in-law Lewis DRAPER [P120]
His parents later left South Australia and lived with himself and his wife in Beverley [P120]
On 25 February 1921 purchased 1,295 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 1,295 acres was Lot M1300 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1457/11/7 (22/6 an acre), payable by instalments [27]
A while later shifted to the property in Waddy Forest, began clearing the land and had a good weatherboard house built [P120]
After the house was built his wife and children joined him on the farm in Waddy Forest [P120]
Farmer in Waddy Forest 1924-1948 [P120]
They also had a house in Forrest Street, South Perth where his wife stayed while their children attended nearby schools [P120]
In 1932 he was the owner of a Dodge car registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-51 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1932-1934 & 1936 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 10-Nov-1933, 13-Mar-1936]
Won 2nd prize for a Border Leicester Ram in the Sheep section of the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Returned to his home in Waddy Forest on 5 March 1934 after an extended holiday visiting relatives in the Eastern States [5: 9-Mar-1934]
Himself and his son Edgar travelled to Perth early in the morning on Sunday 24 June 1934 [5: 29-Jun-1934]
On 8 July 1934 he received at Waddy Forest the sad news that his mother had passed away in York the previous day [5: 13-Jul-1934]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Friday 27 July 1934 to receive medical attention for his arm [5: 3-Aug-1934]
In July 1934 he purchased a new Dodge truck, which his son Edgar travelled to Perth to collect [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Exhibited in the Horse, Sheep and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Draught Brood Mare, 2 year old Gelding or Filly bred by Exhibitor and Three Fat Lambs in the Wool [5]
Received 1st prize for Green Oats for Hay and both 1st and 2nd prizes for Cured Wheaten Hay [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Purchased three young horses in Perth, and took delivery of them at Coorow on Saturday 3 November 1934 [5: 9-Nov-1934]
Along with his daughter Addie returned to Coorow on Thursday 24 January 1935 after a trip to Perth [5: 25-Jan-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
Between August and October 1935 sold 446 sheep suckers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market [5]
The 446 suckers consisted of 114 at 17/10, 68 at 17/6, 75 at 16/10, 58 at 15/4, 25 at 15/-, 30 at 13/10, and 76 at 7/7 per head [5]
On 23 October 1935 sold a bull for £9/17/6 and a steer for £7/2/6 [5: 16 & 23-Aug-1935; 13-Sep-1935; 4 & 25-Oct-1935]
Donated a sheep for the Weight Guessing Competition at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
In September 1935 purchased a new McCormick-Deering T20 Caterpillar tractor from local agent W. G. MULLIGAN [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Donated trophies to the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, which were played for in a stroke competition on 8 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Travelled from Waddy to Perth during the second week of October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Sold 17 bales of wool in 1935 - 11 bales at 13d. per pound, four at 12½d. per pound, and two bales at 13¾d. per pound [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Sold 418 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with five consignments to the Midland Market between May and September 1936 [5]
The 418 sheep comprised 178 lambs (28 at 24/4, 35 at 23/10, 23 at 22/4, 41 at 20/7, 15 at 19/1, 14 at 18/1, 22 at 16/7), [5]
170 suckers (41 at 21/7, 33 at 20/4, 80 at 18/10, 10 at 17/7, 6 at 15/10), 39 ewes (20 at 29/7, 19 at 26/1), [5]
and 31 wethers (28 at 27/7, 1 at 18/-, 2 at 15/- per head) [5: 29-May-1936, 3-Jul-1936, 17-Jul-1936, 11 & 18-Sep-1936]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth for the Perth Royal Show in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Sold eight bales of wool through Elder Smith & Co Ltd in October 1936 - 4 bales at 14d. and 4 bales at 12½d. per pound [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
After an extended holiday in the Perth suburb of Como returned to Waddy with four of his children on 19 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Sold 386 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with consignments to the Midland Market in January and February 1937 [5: 29-Jan-1937]
The sheep consisted of 235 lambs (42 lambs at 19/4, 94 lambs at 19/1, 74 lambs at 18/7, 25 at 17/7), 2 hoggets at 17/10, [5]
110 ewes (8 at 16/1, 40 at 40/7, 39 at 14/4, 23 at 11/1), 39 wethers (12 at 20/-, 20 at 19/7, 1 at 19/4, 6 at 17/4) [5: 5-Feb-1937]
Motored to Perth accompanied by his daughters Adeline and Dulcie on 4 July 1937 and returned to Waddy a few days later [5: 9-Jul-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Attended the meeting in Coorow to discuss constructing a direct road from Coorow to the coast on 11 September 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
In 1948 his three sons bought him out of Glen Waddi Farm, and himself and his wife retired to their house in South Perth [P120]
Following the death of his wife in 1950 he rented out the house in South Perth and shifted back to Waddy Forest [P120]
After a while in Waddy Forest he went to live with one of his daughters in Perth, where he died of a heart attack [P120]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Father of Irene, Adeline, Elsie, Edgar, Dulcie, Leslie, Vivian and Verna [209]
Died 10 May 1958; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WE, 666) [2]