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Adelaide Charlotte HAMMER
Born 1 February 1925 in Tambellup, Western Australia [215]
Daughter of Harry HAMMER and Vera MCDONALD [215]
Resided with her parents in Coorow 1928-1934 [215] [5: 30-Mar-1934]
They resided in the closed Coorow State School building in Coorow 1928-1930 [215]
She was listed by her mother as a prospective student in applications to reopen the closed Coorow State School in January 1930 [215]
After vacating the school resided with her parents on the quarter acre Gov Lot 44 on the west side of the Coorow townsite [3] [215]
Student at the reopened Coorow State School in Coorow from 13 February 1930 to 9 March 1934 [215]
In March 1934 shifted with her parents from Coorow to Kalgoorlie, where she continued her schooling at a local convent [215]
Married Ronald James GRAHAM in 1946 [66]
Harry HAMMER
Born 1904 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [15]
Married Vera MCDONALD in 1924 [66]
Worked in Coorow during the wheat carting seasons in 1927 and 1928 [215]
Haulage Contractor of 287 Hampton Road in the Perth suburb of Beaconsfield in 1928 [215]
Contractor in Coorow 1931-1934 [5: 30-M ar-1934] [19] [50]
In 1932 he had a hired Fargo truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-6 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Member of the Coorow Football Club - was President in 1933 [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club - was Secretary in 1933-34 [5: 16-Mar-1934] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Resigned as secretary of the Coorow Tennis Club on 13 March 1934, owing to his intending departure from the district [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Along with his wife, brother and parents were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Resided in Coolgardie prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 23 October 1940 [16]
Private WX8718 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 29 November 1945; he had been a Prisoner of War [16]
Father of Adelaide Charlotte [215]
Leslie HAMMER
Born 1902 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [15]
Married Rebecca Isabel Alice MILBOURNE in 1925 [66]
Labourer in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Resided in the Perth suburb of South Fremantle in 1932 [2]
Died 18 April 1932; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Presbyterian, EE, 334) [2]
Mrs Martha Jane Adelaide HAMMER
Wife of Phillip Henry HAMMER; see Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN
Phillip Henry HAMMER
Born 1876 in Stawell, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Elizabeth Jane LUKE [54]
Married Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN in 1898 in Victoria, Australia [54]
Their first two sons were born in Ballarat East in Victoria in 1898 and 1900 [54]
They shifted from Victoria to Western Australia in 1900 or 1901 as their second son died in WA in 1901, aged 10 months [15]
Contractor in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Labourer in Coorow in 1933 [19]
Sanitary Contractor in Coorow and Caretaker of the Coorow Hall in 1933 and 1934 [5: 18-May-1934] [300: page 26]
Carted water in Coorow for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1933 and 1934, for which he was paid 5/- to 10/- a month [300: page 27]
After years left the Coorow district, along with his sons Harry and Stanley and daughter-in-law, in March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Prior to departure the five of them were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Father of Phillip Roy, Albert George, Leslie, Harry and Arthur Stanley [5: 30-Mar-1934] [15]
Died 1947 [15]
Mrs Rebecca Isabel Alice HAMMER
Wife of Leslie HAMMER; see Rebecca Isabel Alice MILBOURNE
"Stanley" Arthur Stanley HAMMER
Born 15 July 1913 in South Fremantle, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [5: 30-Mar-1934] [15]
Labourer in Coorow 1931-1934 [3]
He was the owner of the vacant quarter acre Gov Lot 35 on the west side of the Coorow townsite [3]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Attended the Carnamah Tennis Club's Flannel Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 3 February 1934 [5: 9-Feb-1934]
On the evening of Thursday 15 March 1934 attended the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Dance at the Carnamah Hall [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Left the Coorow district, along with his parents and brother and sister-in-law Harry and Vera HAMMER, in March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Prior to departure the five of them were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
After leaving Coorow he sold his quarter acre Gov Lot 35 in the Coorow townsite to Arthur E. TYLER [3]
Married Emily Victoria MAISEY in 1936 [66]
Labourer in Coolgardie 1936-1942 [16] [50]
Resided in Coolgardie until enlisting
Mrs Vera HAMMER
Wife of Harry HAMMER; see Vera MCDONALD
William Battle HAMMOND
Married Sarah Jane ASHWORTH in Perth in 1908 [66]
Labourer at Moondah Brook in Gingin in 1916 [50]
Labourer in Gunyidi in 1917 [50]
Labourer in Wannamal 1919-1921 [50]
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi in 1931 [50]
Leslie William HANN
Farmer in Coorow in 1931 [50]
John HANN
Farmhand in Marchagee 1914-1916 [19]
Mrs Martha HANNAH
Resided in Gunyidi 1913-1917 [19] [50]
Resided in Coomberdale in 1919 [50]
Resided in Moora in 1921 [50]
Richard HANNAH
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1913-1917 [19] [50]
Railway Employee in Coomberdale in 1919 [50]
Goods Porter in Moora in 1921 [50]
Ronald HANNAH
Born C.1932 [2]
Baker in Coorow 1964-1986 [19]
Resided in Coorow until his death in 1994 [2]
Died 6 February 1994; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium A, A, 179) [2]
Arthur Alfred HANSEN
Farmhand in Coorow in 1909 [50]
James Farmer HARLEY
Labourer in Coorow 1931-1933 [19] [50]
Repairer in Gunyidi 1941-1943 [19]
Richard John HARPER
Farmhand on the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee in 1922 [50]
Vera HARRY
Born 31 January 1900 in Cottesloe, Western Australia [15] [P335]
Daughter of William HARRY and Amelia BOASE [15]
Along with her brothers Sam and Bill and sisters Beth and Lyle she grew up in Perth suburb of Mosman Park [P335]
Educated at the Buckland Hill State School and then on a scholarship at Methodist Ladies College [P335]
After finishing her schooling she continued for two years as a School Monitor and was then passed as a School Teacher [P335]
Taught at State Schools in Meekatharra, Hutt, Coorow and then Miling [P335]
Following a temporary closure she re-opened the Coorow State School upon her arrival in Coorow in April 1921 [215]
School Teacher of the Coorow State School in Coorow 1921-1924, on an annual salary of £222 [73] [215]
During her time teaching in Coorow she boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY "for the modest sum of 15/- per week" [215]
She had a room to herself at Mrs BATTERSBY's, was driven to the school each morning, and walked home each afternoon [215]
During her time teaching the Coorow State School was initially in a makeshift hessian and iron room near the railway station [215]
On 29 May 1922 the school shifted after the Education Department moved a building to Coorow from Golden Ridge [215]
Married Coorow farmer George BATTERSBY in Perth in June 1925 [P335]
Resided with her husband and later children on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow 1925-1951 [P335]
Won 1st prizes for Embroidered Cushion and Half Dozen Photographs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Member of the Coorow Parents & Citizens Association [P335]
In 1940 a new house was built on Wattle Vale Farm by a builder and using bricks that had been made by her husband [P335]
Along with her husband and children Harry, Rae, Iris and Edna left Coorow in 1951 and shifted to the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [P335]
Their sons Jack and Donald remained farming in Coorow [P335]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe and later at the Rowethorpe Retirement Village the Perth suburb of Bentley [P8]
Mother of Jack, Harry, Donald, Rae, Iris and Edna [P335]
Died 24 April 1974; ashes scattered over the Rose Garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Gertrude HARVEY
Born 1873 in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [54]
Daughter of Christopher HARVEY and Jane WILLIAMS [54]
Married William Benjamin GEDGE in 1890 in Victoria, Australia [54]
Resided in Carnamah, Western Australia 1904-1906, where her husband worked on the Midland Railway line [6] [19] [50]
Resided in Coorow 1911-1914, where her husband was the local Railway Stationmaster [19] [50]
Postmistress in Coorow in 1911 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Mother of Vera May, Eva Perley and Sylvia Gertrude [54]
Died 6 September 1943; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WG, 165) [2]
Keith George William HARVEY
Born 20 April 1914 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of George Robert HARVEY and Ada Beatrice MILLER [81: 26-Apr-1914] [120: 1-May-1914]
Resided with his parents in Winchester in 1914 [19] [50] [81: 26-Apr-1914] [120: 1-May-1914]
Resided with his parents in Latham 1915-1919 and by 1921 they were living in Moora [50]
Farmhand in Coorow 1935-1938 [19]
During at least some of his time in Coorow he worked as a farmhand for A. Hamlet JONES on Turipa Farm [50]
Married Edna May WEEDON in Perth in 1941 [66]
Tractor Driver in Moora [50]
Resided in Moora prior to enlisting in the Australian Army in Gingin on 11 July 1942 [16]
Gunner WX28109 in the Australian Army's 3rd Field Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 8 January 1944 [16]
Railway Fettler in Picton Junction in 1949 [50]
Samuel Joseph HASLEMERE
Works Inspector in Coorow 1911-1914 [19]
Ellen HAYES
Married Arthur John THOMSON in 1898 [15]
Resided in Coorow in 1916 [50]
Violet Annie HAYES
Born C.1914 [2]
Married "Bill" William Harcles Patrick HOWARD in Perth in 1953 [66]
Resided on farmland in Marchagee 1953-1959 [19]
Died 11 November 1959; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, M, 63) [2]
Alan Sharwood HEALES
Born 12 December 1898 in Fremantle, Western Australia [15] [16]
Son of Ernest Richard HEALES and Nellie WATKINS [15]
In 1916 was working as a Bank Clerk and was living at 70 King Street in Perth WA [94]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 16 December 1916 [30: item 4749403]
On enlistment he was noted as 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 127 lbs. with light blue eyes, fair hair and a fair complexion [30]
Gave his father as his next of kin, his address also being 70 King Street, Perth WA [30]
On 4 May 1916 embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the H.M.A.T. A17 Port Lincoln for active service abroad [30]
After further training in England proceeded to France on the S.S. Princess Henrietta on 8 January 1917 [30]
Gunner 15046 in the Australian Imperial Force's 14th Field Artillery Brigade in France during the First World War [30]
Hospitalised in England for influenza with complications in early February 1919, while on leave from France [30]
Arrived back in Western Australia on the Transport 85 Devanha on 15 June 1919 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 6 August 1919; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD in Perth in 1925 [66]
Resided in Toodyay in 1926 when his home flooded resulting in the loss of his A.I.F. discharge certificate [30]
In 1929 he was working as a Motor Engineer and residing at 31 Keightley Road in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [30]
Applied on 30 April 1920 for a copy of his discharge certificate to submit to the War Service Homes Commission [30]
Arrived in Carnamah on Monday 12 February 1934 [5: 16-Feb-1934]
Mechanical Engineer at Ivan JOHNSON's Farm Service Station in Carnamah in 1934 and 1935 [5: 16-Feb-1934] [6]
On arrival in Carnamah he had 20 years experience in mechanical engineering and was a certified R.A.C. foreman [5: 16-Feb-1934]
He was one of five staff at the Farm Service Station and oversaw the garage's mechanical department [5: 16-Feb-1934]
The Farm Service Station was situated on the north half of 17 Macpherson Street and was accessible from Robertson Street [--]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Committee Member in 1934 and Vice President in 1937 of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the Returned Solders League [5: 16-Mar-1934] [52]
Attended the Annual R.S.L. General Meeting and Smoke Social in Carnamah on Thursday 8 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Smoke Social held in Carnamah on Thursday 26 April 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
On Saturday 12 May 1934 attended the Carnamah Football Club's Grand Opening Ball at the Carnamah Hall [5: 18-May-1934]
Central Umpire for the North Midlands Football Association in 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
His mother returned to Perth by train on Monday 23 July 1934 after spending two weeks with him in Carnamah [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Shifted from Carnamah to Coorow, where he had his own mechanical garage until 1938 [88] [19]
Proprietor of the Coorow Garage, which was telephone number Coorow-18 [150]
Undertook repairs and overhauls to all classes of automobiles and tractors, and did oxywelding and all classes of engineering [150]
In July 1935 his garage in Coorow became a Royal Automobile Club (R.A.C.) service station [5: 12-Jul-1935]
He was the accredited R.A.C. servicemen for the Coorow, Waddy Forest and Watheroo districts [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1934-35 and 1936-37 [5: 21-Dec-1934, 15-Jan-1937]
Agent for and Installer of 20 Light Power Plants suitable for farmers in 1935, at a cost of £60 [5: 15-Mar-1935]
Represented the Coorow Football Club at meetings of the North Midlands Football Association in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1937, and Assistant Secretary in 1937 [5: 17-May-1935, 27-Mar-1936, 16-Apr-1937]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
On 26 August 1935 gave a witness statement to Constable FIEBIG of Carnamah in connection with a motor accident near Coorow [88]
Travelled to Perth on Monday 30 September 1935 to give evidence at the trial of the man charged over the accident [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1935-1937 [5: 13-Sep-1935, 12-Jun-1936]
Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Society in July 1936, and was again Assistant Secretary in 1937 [5: 17-Jul-1936] [150]
Himself and "Tom" Philip L. MORCOMBE had been Joint Secretaries for the first half of 1937 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Attended the Fourth Annual North Midlands R.S.L. Reunion Dinner held in Three Springs on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Had the top of his thumb taken off when a tractor he was repairing in Coorow backfired on Thursday 24 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Secretary of the committee who organised the Grand Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5]
The Sports & Dance was a joint initiative between the Waddy Forest Toc H and the Coorow Cricket Club [5: 8 & 15-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 25-Oct-1935, 23-Oct-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
During February 1936 himself, his wife and their children spent a prolonged holiday in Perth [5: 7, 14 & 21-Feb-1936]
Attended the Annual Meeting & Smoke Social of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the R.S.L. on Wednesday 11 March 1936 [5: 20-Mar-1936]
Conveyed an extensively damaged Marmon 8 car from two miles south of Coorow to the siding for it to be railed to Perth [5: 10-Apr-1936]
The car, belonging to Mr and Mrs DAVIES of Ashburton Downs, had been wrecked after crashing into a salmon gum tree [5]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Golf Club's 1936 season Opening Day at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 26 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
Warden of the Coorow Anglican Church in 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Attended the Coorow Tennis Club's Back to Childhood Ball at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 22 August 1936 dressed as "Nurse" [5]
He attended as the "Nurse" of David TODD and Harry F. C. KAU who attended together dressed as "Twins" [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Attended the social for Lord Archbishop of Perth Henry F. LE FANU in Carnamah on Saturday evening 19 September 1936 [5]
Himself and George ANTHONY of Arrino spoke about the activities and responsibilities of the Church and its members [5]
The following evening himself and his wife entertained the Lord Archbishop at dinner at their home in Coorow [5]
Also at their dinner were the members of the Coorow Vestry in local farmers Lionel R. GRONOW and Charles C. BOTHE, [5]
Mrs Margaret BOTHE, and North Midlands Anglican Minister Rev. Alfred J. TOOMEY of Three Springs [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Bucks Party for George A. RAFFAN and Eric J. BRADLEY of Winchester in Coorow on 7 October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Played for the Married Men who almost defeated the Single Men in a cricket match in Coorow on 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
In late 1936 complained to the Carnamah District Road Board about the damage caused by straying cattle in the Coorow townsite [5]
He informed them he had given public notice that in future he would destroy any straying cattle that caused damage [5]
The Road Board advised him to secure straying cattle and demand compensation before release [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Advertised in January 1937 that he had for sale a 2-ton Holt caterpillar tractor in good order [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Officer on the Coorow Tennis Club's H.M.S. Coorow Dance at the Coorow Hall on Saturday evening 23 January 1937 [5: 29-Jan-1937]
After a visit to Perth himself, his wife and their children returned to Coorow during the third week of February 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
Played for the again defeated Married Men in a cricket match against Single Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Gave "an interesting and instructive talk" on diesel engines at the Waddy Forest Toc H meeting on 18 May 1937 [5: 21-May-1937]
Took bookings for bridge tables for the Anglican Church's Bridge & Euchre Evening in Coorow on 20 May 1937 [5: 14-May-1937]
Presided over the R.S.L. Valedictory for Charles A. METTAM at the lounge of the Carnamah Hotel on 28 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-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]
Telephoned the Carnamah Police Station on 29 November 1937 to report he had seen in Coorow a person reported missing [88]
By 1942 he was living in the Perth suburb of Como; and later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2] [16]
Died 4 January 1983; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Mrs Edith Vera HEALES
Wife of Alan Sharwood HEALES; see Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD
"Vin" Vincent Sharwood HEALES
Born 26 September 1926 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Alan Sharwood HEALES and Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD [16]
Resided with his parents in Carnamah in 1934 and in Coorow 1935-1938 [5] [19]
Student at the Carnamah State School in 1934 [5: 13-Jul-1934]
Won a 3rd prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 6 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Student at the Coorow State School in 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as an "Indian Chief" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Won 1st prize for Best Model in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the inaugural Combined School Sports of the Carnamah Road Board district in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5]
Came 2nd in the 10 years Boys Running Race (aged 9), and also came 2nd in the 8 and 9 years Boys Sack Race [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Won a 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Awarded a 1st prize for Cane & Raffia Work in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Competed at the Coorow-Waddy Progress Association's Annual Children's Sports in Coorow on 12 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Won the Up to 10 Years Boys Running Race and the Boys 9 Years & Over Sack Race [5]
Along with Rodney G. CROFT came 2nd in the Boys Siamese Race [5]
Came 3rd in the 9 Years & Over Obstacle Race, and at four feet came 4th in the High Jump [5]
Received 2nd prizes for Writing and the Novelty Competition at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy at Fremantle on 26 September 1944 and was discharged on 26 November 1946 [16]
Stoker F5505 on the Royal Australian Navy's H.M.A.S. Leeuwin during the latter part of the Second World War [16]
Later resided in the coastal town of Green Head [2]
Died 10 April 1985; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
"Nellie" Ellen HEALY
Born C.1890 [2]
Married George Edward GUPPY in Perth in 1920 [66]
Her husband, late of Maddington, passed away at the age of 49 years on 13 February 1932 [2]
Arrived in Waddy Forest in February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
School Teacher of the Waddy Well State School in Waddy Forest in 1936 and 1937 [73]
As the sole teacher of the Waddy Well State School she received an annual salary of £221/17/- in 1936 and £229 in 1937 [73]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth, where she spent the school holidays, on Friday 8 May 1936 [5: 15-May-1936]
Herself and Miss Charlotte RIDLEY of the Waddy Forest State School spent the 1936 Christmas holidays in Perth [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Died 11 April 1982; ashes buried in the grave of her husband at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, GC, 243) [2]
"Rene" Florence Irene HEARN
Born C.1892 [2]
Married David Elwin DAWSON in 1912 [66]
Resided in Coorow from September 1935 until February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936] [19]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
After six months in Coorow herself and her husband left and shifted to Perth on Monday 24 February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [2]
Died 24 October 1993; ashes dispersed Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD
Born 1898 in Fremantle, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Charles Edmund HEAZLEWOOD and Edith Mary SHEPHERD [15]
Married Alan Sharwood HEALES in Perth in 1925 [66]
Resided with her husband in Carnamah in 1934 and 1935 [6]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Grand Opening Ball on 12 May 1934 in a shell pink crepe de chine dress [5: 18-May-1934]
Her mother returned to Perth by train on Monday 23 July 1934 after spending a holiday staying with her in Carnamah [5: 27-Jul-1934]
During the year 1935 herself, her husband and their children shifted from Carnamah to Coorow [5]
Along with her children spent several weeks holiday in Perth during July and August 1935 [5: 16-Aug-1935]
Herself, her husband and their children spent the Easter holiday in 1936 at Dongara [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Her mother, of Perth, and her mother-in-law, of Melbourne, both stayed with them in Coorow during May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on 3 September 1936 dressed in flame georgette [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Costume Judge at the Anglican Church's Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Three Springs on Friday 27 November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Herself and her children spent a holiday in Perth during early December 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 11-Jun-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Ardross [2]
Died 28 October 1973; ashes dispersed at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Hugh HENRY
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi in 1912 and 1913 [50]
Arthur James HERDSMAN
Miner in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1914-1917 [50]
George Norman HERLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi 1930-1953 [19] [279]
In 1937 he was the Gunyidi distributor of the Carnamah District Road, Health & Vermin Board's vermin poison [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Gerald Lyel HERLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi 1931-1938 [19] [50]
Mrs Margaret HERLEY
Resided in Gunyidi 1931-1949 [19] [50]
Monica Eileen HERLEY
Born 1908 [15]
Daughter of William George HERLEY and "Maggie" Margaret Maud TROY [15]
She was a qualified school teacher when she shifted to farmland in Gunyidi with her mother and brothers in 1930 [279]
Officially Opened the Gunyidi State School in Gunyidi on Monday 8 September 1930 [279]
School Teacher of the Gunyidi State School in Gunyidi 1930-1935 [279]
For the duties of sole teacher received an annual salary of £222 in 1931, £208/14/- in 1932 and 1933, £231/17/- in 1934 and 1935 [279]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [2]
Died 21 April 1962; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZE, 471) [2]
Margaret Elizabeth Bryant HEWITT
Resided on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [19] [50]
Bernice Louise HIGGS
Born 1905 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Franklin HIGGS and Ellen MARTIN [15]
Married Owen Penrhyn RANDELL in Perth in 1932 [66]
Resided on Meelyah Farm and Chiarcona Farm in Gunyidi [19]
Exhibited in the Confectionary section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5]
Received 1st prizes for both Sponge Sandwich and Decorated Cake, and was awarded 2nd prize for Brown Bread [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Won 1st prize for Jams in the Preserves section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bassendean [2]
Died 31 March 1988; memorised at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury WA (Cassia Court, Niche Wall, W15, 30) [2]
Frank Robert HIGGINS
Born C.1874 [2]
Labourer in Bamboo Creek northeast of Marble Bar in 1903 [50]
Labourer on Muccan Station near Marble Bar in 1906 [50]
Farm Manager in Moora 1908-1910 [9: 2-Oct-1908] [19]
His eye needed four stitches after a horse he was riding took him against a wire clothesline in Moora in September 1908 [9: 2-Oct-1908]
Himself and other bachelors organised a picnic attended by 80 on the Walebing Road in Moora on 11 October 1908 [9: 16-Oct-1908]
Contractor in Moora in 1912 and 1913 [50]
Contractor in Perenjori in 1914 [19] [50]
Contractor in Coorow in 1915 [6]
Contractor in Marchagee in 1919 [19]
Sunk a well and did other work in Coorow for Robert W. OWEN-DAINTREY in 1920 [10: 17-Sep-1920]
Contactor in Coorow in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Contractor in Winchester 1932-1937 [4: 12-Nov-1932] [50]
In 1932 had a hired Ford truck licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board, with license plate CA-16 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Paid £1/1/- by the Carnamah District Road Board in November 1933 for effecting repairs to a water soak in Winchester [300: page 49]
The Road Board paid him £6/6/6 on 11 May 1934 and £2/12/4 on 5 June 1934 for work done on roads in Winchester [300: page 62, 66]
Corresponded with the Carnamah District Road Board regarding truck registrations in April 1936 [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son [53]
Died 3 August 1937; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, FA, 199) [2]
The effects of his estate were sold by auction at the Carnamah Police Station at 2 p.m. on 12 March 1938 [88]
John HIGLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi 1916-1923 [19]
"Alf" Alfred Edward HILL
Born 1889 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of Charles HILL and Anne WILLEY [15]
Farmhand in Coorow 1919-1939 [19] [50]
On 17 June 1923 purchased Lot 89 of the Coorow townsite from the Midland Railway Company for £10 [27]
He was struck on the head by a handle while adjusting the elevator of a haystack in Coorow during December 1930 [4: 20-Dec-1930]
After receiving the strike to his head he required medical attention, and was seen to by Coorow doctor W. SHANAHAN [4]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1934, and Runner-Up B Grade Champion in 1937 [5: 5-Jan-1934, 2-Jul-1937]
Steward of the Sheaf Tossing at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Stewards of the Sheep section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Resided in Coorow until his death at the age of 49 years from atheroma of coronary artery [1] [0: image 03791]
Died 7 May 1939 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row C, Plot 8) [1]
Rev. C. A. WALSH of Three Springs officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
Albyn DOWNES of Coorow paid the £25 for his funeral [53]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 12 May 1939:
Obituary - Late Mr. A. E. Hill
"It is with extreme regret that we record the death of Mr. Alfred Edward Hill, who passed away suddenly at Coorow last Saturday evening. The late Mr. Hill was a well-known figure in Coorow, and the news of his death came as a great shock to all who had known him. The deceased gentleman appeared to be in the best of health and spirits right up to the time of his death. Death was due to heart failure. He was still a comparatively young man being 49 years of age. During his sojourn in the Coorow district he had taken a keen interest in the Coorow Rifle Club and was a popular marksman among his fellow members. Four brothers, two at Gingin and one at Narrogin and another at Victoria Park, and a sister residing at West Perth, are left to mourn their loss. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon, the place of interment being the Winchester cemetery."
Sydney William May HILLMAN
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19] [50]
Andrew Gerald HIRST
Born 21 May 1958 [14]
Son of Arnold Gerald Creswell HIRST and "Maisie" Mary Lochhead MCGILP [14]
Resided with his parents in a house on the Midlands Road in Coorow town [P12]
Died 31 December 1960 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row H, Plot 14) [1]
Arnold Gerald Creswell HIRST
Born 12 October 1917 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [16]
Son of Eric Arnold HIRST and Ella HICKS [P12]
Resided in Serpentine prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 30 April 1941 [16]
Married (1) "Joy" Joyce Amelia TIDY in 1942 [66]
Corporal 38528 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 79 Operational Base Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 December 1945 [16]
Resided in Carnamah in 1946 and early 1947 [0: images 04431 & 04389] [52]
Mechanic for Eric H. GURR at the garage at 4 Macpherson Street in Carnamah [P4]
During their time in Carnamah himself and his wife Joy lived at 15 Yarra Street in the Carnamah townsite [P4]
Member of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1946 [52]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1946 [0: image 04389]
Along with his wife left Carnamah in January 1947 and shifted to Perth [0: image 04431]
By April 1947 he had moved to Coorow where he ran his own business "Hirst's Garage and Agency" [0: image 04477]
Worked in Coorow as an Automotive Engineer including Oxywelding and all Motor Repairs [150]
In 1947 was also an agent in Coorow for Wigmores Limited, Caterpillar Tractors and Shearer Farm Machines [150]
Sub-agent in 1947 for Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co (Accident, Fire, Motor Cars) and Independent Oil Industries (Purr Starr) [150]
In 1947 also sold all makes of tyres and was a sub-agent for Ford cars, trucks and tractors [0: image 04477]
Initially had a garage in Commercial Street, Coorow and later on Poynton Parade in Coorow [P8]
Member of the Winchester Cricket Club in 1947 [0: image 04492]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1948-1958 [0: image 04509] [4: 11-Jul-1958]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Coorow farmer George HUTCHCRAFT on 28 January 1949 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1951 [4: 21-Apr-1951]
Married (2) "Maisie" Mary Lochhead MCGILP on 12 July 1952 at Saint Andrew's Church in Perth WA [0: image 04640]
At his second wedding his best man was Coorow farmer Milton J. TILLY and his groomsman R. FARMER [0: image 04640]
Employed the services of E. Clive HUNTER [P320] to build a house next to his garage on the Midlands Road in Coorow [P12]
When they returned after their wedding the house wasn't quite ready so they had to stay at the Coorow Hotel for a week [P12]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1952 [0: image 04685]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1953 [0: image 04707]
As an agent for Wigmores was a seller of the John Deere automatic pick-up hay baler in 1954 [4: 24-Jul-1954]
In 1955 was the authorised Ford Dealer for Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs and Perenjori [4: 1-Oct-1955]
Performed general repairs to cars and trucks in addition to selling petrol, oils, greases, tyres and tubes [4: 1-Oct-1955]
In 1956 was an agent for Coldsbrough Mort & Co (Farm Requisites), [4: 1-Oct-1955]
Wigmore's Ltd (Farm Machinery), G-Well Loaders, and the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd [4: 1-Oct-1955]
His garage was telephone number Coorow-21 [4: 1-Oct-1955]
Member of the Coorow Bowling Club [P8]
Sold his garage on Poynton Parade in Coorow to Eric J. BRADLEY in 1962 or 1963 [60]
After giving up his garage he went share-farming in Coorow - on Thomas NIVEN's Caringi and also for H. Edward JONES [P12]
While share-farming in Coorow continued to reside with his family in their house on Poynton Parade in the Coorow townsite [P12]
Resided in their house on Poynton Parade in the Coorow townsite until shifting with his wife and children to Winchester C.1964 [P12]
From C.1964 to the early 1970s share-farmed and resided on J. P. STRATTON's farm in Winchester [P12]
In the early 1970s shifted to a farm in Perenjori and continued farming [P12]
Member of the Perenjori Bowling Club [P8]
In 1995 was a retired farmer and was living at 15 Russell Street in the Perenjori townsite [90]
Father of Nicol, Christopher, Andrew and Jeffery [P12]
Died 13 March 1995 in Morawa; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row H, Plot 15) [1]
"Jim" Randolph Hanscombe Belper HOGBIN
Born 11 May 1907 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Sidney Robert HOGBIN and Mabel HARRISON [15]
Farmer of the 961 acre Lot M1271 in Waddy Forest 1931- [3] [50]
His father had purchased the farm from William A. T. and Marianne GODWIN on 20 October 1925 [27] [34]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club from 1933-34 to 1936-37 [5: 20-Apr-1934, 19-Apr-1935, 23-Oct-1936]
In early 1934 he had a new cement brick house built for himself at Waddy Forest [5: 9-Feb-1934]
After a trip to Perth he returned to Waddy Forest on Monday 23 July 1934 [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth in early October 1934 to attend the Perth Royal Show [5: 5-Oct-1934]
Married Wylie Melissa BELL in Perth in 1934 [66]
Along with his wife arrived in Coorow by train on 1 December 1934 and received a warm reception at the station [5: 14-Dec-1934]
Himself and his wife returned to Waddy on 23 February 1935 after spending a holiday at the beach in Perth [5: 15-Feb-1935, 1-Mar-1935]
Played the piano for the adult dancing which followed the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
In July 1935 purchased a new McKay-Sunshine 14 disc Sundercut plough [5: 26-Jul-1935]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth for a short visit on Saturday morning 24 August 1935 [5: 30-Aug-1935]
In his father's name sold 43 suckers for 12/10 per head through Westralian Farmers on 4 September 1935 [5: 6-Sep-1935]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth in October 1935 to attend the Perth Royal Show [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Represented Waddy at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 6-Sep-1935, 29-Jan-1937]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Thursday 16 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
His father was carting water for him from William G. MORCOMBE's Wynmara Farm in Waddy Forest on 29 January 1936 [5]
On the way back the steering gear broke and his truck driven by his father left the road and careered through a fence [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Returned to Waddy Forest on Thursday 6 February 1936 after spending a few weeks in Perth [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday Party for Nance FOLLAND at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-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]
Himself, his wife and their daughter returned to Waddy on 22 February 1937 after a number of weeks at the beach [5: 26-Feb-1937]
"S. R. Hogbin & Son" sold 12 sheep at 25/9 per head through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on 7 July 1937 [5: 9-Jul-1937]
Returned from Perth with a new Chrysler Plymouth car during the last week of July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Won 2nd prize for early season Medium Strong White Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-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]
Private W27068 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Sold his 961 acre farm in Waddy Forest, Lot M1271, to Gilbert R. FOLLAND [3]
In 1948 purchased El Cala Farm in Coorow from S. Arnold RUDDUCK and renamed the property Wandao [P363]
The farm was 2,697 acres and consisted of Victoria Locations 3019, 3175, 3177, portion 3178, 3228, 3229, 3261 and 3429 [3]
Sold his Wandao Farm in Coorow to John DOLEY in 1974 [P363]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Father of Cynthia and Geoff [P8]
Died 14 May 1995; memorised at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 9O, 106) [2]
Mrs Wylie Melissa HOGBIN
Wife of "Jim" Randolph Hanscombe Belper HOGBIN; see Wylie Melissa BELL
Linda Helen HOGG
Born 30 July 1879 in Mitcham, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Lewis Richard HOGG and Helen PAGE [55]
Married Gordon Caleb GURR on 19 January 1910 at Saint Michael's Church in Mitcham, South Australia [55]
Their first three children were born in 1911, 1913 and 1915 at Mitcham and North Adelaide in South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in Western Australia 1914-1916 [19]
Their final four children were born in 1918, 1920, 1922 and 1925 in Loxton, Unley Park and Prospect in South Australia [55]
Mother of Helen, David, Margaret, Eustace, Gwenda, Natalie and Alesa [55]
Charles Augustus HOLBERG
Teamster and Carpenter on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1916 and 1917 [19] [50]
Station-hand on Kadji Kadji Station in Morawa in 1919 [50]
Handyman in Walebing in 1922 [50]
Alma Caroline HOLDEN
Born 5 December 1889 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England [P328]
Daughter of Frederick Charles HOLDEN and Dolly BEADLE [P328]
She was in the house of her groomsman uncle Edward H. BEADLE in Croydon, Surrey at the time of the 1891 British Census [20]
In 1901 was living with her maternal grandmother Emma BEADLE at Wattenden Cottages in Coulsdon, Surrey, England [20]
Departed London, England on the Otranto and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 21 February 1911 [70]
Following her arrival she proceeded to Mornington Mills where she worked as an upstairs maid servant [P328]
Married (1) James Herbert THOMAS in 1912 [66]
After breaking up with her husband he took their daughter Dolly and she took their daughter "Violet" Alma Violet THOMAS [P328]
Met (2) "Augie" Augustus Frederick Leopold CROFT in the Perth suburb of Subiaco in 1916 [P328]
Resided with Augie on Osnabruck Farm in Moora 1919-1922 [50]
Later resided with her partner Augustus and later also their children on Wattle Dell Farm in Moora [P328]
In 1930 they left Moora and shifted to the Coorow townsite [P328]
They initially resided in a makeshift house called The Haven on land in Coorow belonging to the Midland Railway Company [P328]
On 20 September 1935 she purchased two quarter acre blocks in the Coorow townsite (Lots 12 and 33 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
She purchased the two blocks from the Midland Railway Company for £30, payable by instalments over 12 months [27]
Her partner constructed a house which they named Mornington on her Lot 12, which was on Poynton Parade in Coorow [P328]
Resided at Mornington on Poynton Parade in the Coorow townsite 1936-1941 [P328]
Then resided with her partner and their children in a humpy on farmland at Lake Eganu west of Coorow 1941-1945 [3] [P328]
During their time at Lake Eganu she taught her three younger children by correspondence schooling [P328]
On leaving the farm they returned to their home Mornington in the Coorow townsite [P328]
In the mid 1950s they left Coorow and shifted to Latham, and in the later 1950s shifted to Mingenew [P328]
Resided in the Mingenew townsite for at least the years 1958-1970 [P328]
Herself and her partner later resided with their daughter Dolly at 77 Carson Terrace in Geraldton [P328]
Following Augustus' death in 1974 she continued living with her daughter Dolly until her own death in 1981 [P328]
Mother of Frederick, Leo, Lloyd, Dolly, Joyce, Olga, Rodney, Max, Benjamin and April CROFT [P328]
Died 13 May 1981; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton [26]
Bruce HOLDEN
Born C.1901 [2]
Married Edith Louisa ARCHER in Perth in 1926 [66]
Garage Proprietor in Coorow in 1928 and 1929, and Storekeeper in Marchagee 1930-1932 [19]
Paid £22/17/9 by the Carnamah District Road Board for undertaking mechanical repairs over the 1933-34 financial year [300: page 19]
Attended the Annual Meeting of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Football Club on Saturday 14 April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1934 [5: 25-May-1934]
While helping with chaff cutting on Thursday 26 July 1934 he got his right index finger caught in the cogs of the feeder [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Received treatment at the Carnamah Private Hospital, where it was found necessary to have the first joint of the finger removed [5]
Returned to his home in Waddy Forest on Saturday 28 July 1934 however was unable to use his injured hand for some time [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Left Waddy Forest on Thursday 14 February 1935 after obtaining a job with the firm Wigmore's in Perth [5: 15-Feb-1935]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [2]
Died 3 July 1968; ashes scattered over the rose garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Charlotte HOLMES
Married Frank Ringol BRYANT in 1906 [66]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Marchagee [50]
Won 1st prize for Knitted Woollen Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Awarded 1st prize for Knitted or Crochet Article and 2nd for Baby Set at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Arthur Delbridge HOLT
Born 25 February 1908 in Fremantle, Western Australia [16]
Farmer in Gunyidi [19]
Farmed in Gunyidi partnership with Francis C. DELBRIDGE 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]
Resided in Narembeen prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 9 April 1941 [16]
Corporal WX11499 in the Australian Army's 2/1 Headquarters Guard Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 22 December 1944 [16]
Reginald John HONEYMAN
Born C.1934 [1]
Farm Labourer in Coorow in 1978 [90]
Passed away at the age of 43 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [90]
Died 9 January 1978 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row U, Plot 5) [1]
Ivan Meredith HOPE
Farmer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1913-1922 [50]
Arthur HORTON
Farmhand on Ytinchie Farm in Marchagee 1915-1919 [50]
James HORTON
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
At the Picnic & Sports Meeting he won both the Pole Vaulting and Hop Step & Jump [39: 12-Oct-1911]
"Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING
Born 1911 [15]
Married "Jim" James Horace DONEY in 1932 [66]
Resided with her husband and children in Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite [P84]
During the first week of December 1956 herself and her husband spent a few days in Perth [4: 7-Dec-1956]
Later resided in South Perth [45] and the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Hazel, Win, Lindsay, Vivian, Joan, Ken, Barbara, Elizabeth and Colleen [45]
Died 15 June 2006; cremated at the Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]
Edith Agnes HOUSE
Resided in Coorow in 1909 [50]
Mrs Violet Annie HOWARD
Wife of "Bill" William Harcles Patrick HOWARD; see Violet Annie HAYES
Gilbert Lindsay HUGHES
Farmhand in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [19] [50]
Joseph HUGHES
Farmhand in Waddy Forest 1923-1933 [19]
Mrs Kathleen Edith HUGHES
Resided in Waddy Forest 1931-1933 [50]
William Cyril Ernest HUGHES
Teamster in Waddy Forest 1931-1933 [19] [50]
In 1931 he was working for Kenneth E. JONES on Berkley Farm in Waddy Forest [50]
John Benson Parker HULL
Farmhand in Latham in 1916 [50]
Farmhand for Herbert T. FOX in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Mrs Phoebe Elizabeth HUNT
Wife of Price Willis HUNT; see Phoebe Elizabeth MORCOMBE
Price Willis HUNT
Born 8 June 1891 in Minlaton, South Australia [55]
Son of Thomas HUNT and Elizabeth MARTIN [55]
Married Phoebe Elizabeth MORCOMBE on 27 August 1921 in Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Farmer in Ceduna, South Australia until shifting to Western Australia in 1927 [0: image 04398]
On 28 May 1927 purchased 1,248 acres of farmland in Waddy Forest, Western Australia (Lot M1282 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
The land had previously been owned by Donnell E. FOWLER, and had originally been taken up in 1925 by NEWMAN & SMITH [27]
Farmer of Kilby Farm in Waddy Forest 1927-1946 [0: image 04398] [5: 8-Jun-1934]
His farm was said to have been situated fourteen miles from Coorow and fourteen miles from Latham [4: 8-Feb-1947]
In August 1930 his wife's garden was described as "exceptionally attractive" in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 23-Aug-1930]
In 1932 was the owner of an Oakland car and a Chevrolet truck with license plates CA-106 and CA-221 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1932-1946 [4: 9-Apr-1932, 1-Jun-1935] [150]
Won 1st for a Draught Blood Mare and 2nd for Three Sheaves of Green Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Purchased a new Horwood Bagshaw combine in April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
In 1934 installed a Gilco electric lighting plant at his homestead on Kilby Farm [5: 8-Jun-1934]
Along with his wife and children left for Perth on Monday 9 July 1934 en route to Adelaide to see his seriously ill mother [5: 13-Jul-1934]
After travelling each way and two weeks in Adelaide they arrived back in Waddy Forest on Saturday 4 August 1934 [5: 17-Aug-1934]
Received 2nd prize for a Yearling Draught Colt or Filly at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
On Saturday 1 September 1934 he took delivery two draught horses imported from South Australia [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Travelled to Perth by car, accompanied by his nieces Eileen MORCOMBE and Nance FOLLAND, on 1 October 1934 [5: 5-Oct-1934]
Around October 1934 purchased a Hallstrom semi-automatic refrigerator from Carnamah agent S. L. HIDDEN [5: 2-Nov-1934]
Advertised in The North Midland Times newspaper in January 1934 that he had seed barley for sale [5: 4-Jan-1935]
Had for sale Californian Six Row Barley for £1 per bag or five or more bags at 15/- per bag [5]
Proyors Malting Barley for 9/- per bag, Cape Barley for 7/6 per bag; and also feed oats for 6/- per bag [5]
He had the telephone connected to his home on Kilby Farm - was telephone number Waddy Forest-16 [5: 4-Jan-1935]
After spending a holiday at the beach himself and his family returned to Waddy Forest in late February 1935 [5: 1-Mar-1935]
Sold 313 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at six Midland Markets in 1935: [5: 16 & 23-Aug-1935, 7 & 20-Sep-1935, 4 & 11-Oct-1935]
161 suckers (81 at 18/4, 33 at 17/7, 45 at 16/4, 2 stained at 15/-) and 152 ewes (72 at 9/7, 44 shorn at 7/10, 36 shorn at 5/7) [5]
Won 1st prize for 2 year old Draught Filly bred by exhibitor and 2nd for Brood Mare at the Coorow-Waddy Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 12¼d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Delivered the first load of wheat in Coorow for the 1935-36 harvest on Saturday 2 November 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of William B. SHERIDAN of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Proposed the toast at his niece Nance FOLLAND's 21st Birthday at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Won 1st prize for 2-year old Filly bred by exhibitor in the Horse section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Sold 131 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at three Midland Markets in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936, 23-Oct-1936, 6-Nov-1936]
They comprised 110 suckers (23 at 20/4, 44 at 18/7, 23 at 18/-, 12 at 13/7, 8 at 8/10), 10 ewes at 13/7 and 11 hoggets at 10/- [5]
Advertised a large light oak oval table for sale in The North Midland Times newspaper in November 1936 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
In late May 1937 he took delivery of a new John Deere tractor In June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Won 1st prize for Green Oats for Grain at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Underwent an operation on his elbow at the Carnamah Private Hospital in September 1938 [0: image 03747]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Eliza Wilhelmina BOTHE at the Winchester Cemetery on 24 August 1942 [0]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04318]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Mary Louisa GRONOW on 24 August 1942 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
Father of Reata, Kevin, June and Marion [14]
Died 10 September 1946 at the Morawa Hospital, Morawa; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 9) [1]
Rev. Percy CLARK officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
During the 1946-47 financial year his farm in Waddy Forest was sold to James Leslie ADAMS of Winchester [3]
On 20 February 1947 livestock, farm machinery, produce and sundries from his estate were sold by public auction [4]
His livestock included fourteen horses, six cows and 650 sheep (mainly Border Leicester cross ewes) [4]
Machinery sold at the sale included a 2-ton Holt tractor, 14-disc Shearer twin plough, 16-row rigid tyne H.B. combine, [4]
24-disc Shearer drill, 10-foot A.L. harvester, 10-foot McKay harvester, 6-foot Massey Harris binder, 6-furrow M.B. plough, [4]
hay rake, 35-tyne cultivator, corn-crusher, 8-leaf Shearer harrow with trailer, Federation dam sinking plough, Federation scoop, [4]
Gilchrist pickler, McKay chaffcutter, 12-foot elevator, Bishop grader and pickler and a 1½-horsepower Ronaldson-Tippet engine [4]
Other items sold at the sale were a Buzzacott fumigator, rabbit poisoning cart and numerous sundries and supplies [4: 8-Feb-1947]
Before leaving Coorow his wife Phoebe was publicly farewelled at the Coorow Hall on 26 March 1947 [0: image 04451]
Phoebe died on 21 August 1970, aged 88 years and was buried at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in Perth WA [2]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, September 1946:
"Obituary - Late Price William Hunt. A gloom was cast over the whole district on Tuesday, September 10 when it was learnt that an old and highly respected resident of Waddy Forest in the person of Price William Hunt, had passed away at the Morawa Hospital at the age of 56 years. Deceased who is survived by a widow, three daughters and one son, was born in Ceduna, South Australia, where he was conducing farming operations. His parents were one of the oldest families who pioneered farming settlements at Ceduna. The late Mr. Hunt came to W.A. in 1927, and took up a property at Waddy Forest, which he occupied until his demise. The funeral which was conducted by the Rev. Percy Clark, and was very largely attended, took place at the Winchester Cemetery on Wednesday, September 11. The chief mourners were Mrs. P. W. Hunt (widow), daughters, June and Marion, son Kevin, sisters, Mrs. Dunne and Mrs. Bowel, sister-in-law Mrs. S. K. Folland, and brothers-in-law W. G., P. T., A. E. and E. Y. Morcombe. The pall bearers were Messrs G. Gronow, E. Chapman, A. McGilp, C. C. Bothe, F. Bingham and G. Greenwood."
Mrs Yvonne Jessie HUNT
Born C.1920 [2]
Resided in Three Springs in 1947 and on Kendrick Farm in Bowgada in 1948 and 1940 [19]
Resided on Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee 1950-1973 [19]
Resided in Coorow in 1976 [2]
Died 5 November 1976; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (EC Section, Garden of Remembrance, 13, 61) [2]
"Clive" Edwin Clive HUNTER
Born 24 March 1907 in Swanbourne, Western Australia [P320]
Son of Walter Sydney HUNTER and Charlotte Kelk WATERLAND [P320]
His father was a stonemason and later builder who had come from the Parramatta district of New South Wales [P320]
Grew up in the Perth suburbs of Swanbourne and Victoria Park, and was educated at the Victoria Park State School [P320]
Worked as a builder with his father in suburban Perth, and built houses in Tincurrin and Kalamunda [P320]
Married Dulcie Elizabeth YULE on 9 July 1932 at the Anglican Christ Church in the Perth suburb of Claremont [P320]
In 1932 he began working as a builder on his own [P320]
Resided with his wife and later children in a house he built in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [P320]
Had a boat shed at Marmion Beach, and built boats which had sails his wife made out of sewed together Ajax bags [P320]
Builder in the Coorow district [P320]
Himself and his wife lived with Ernest and Mora CHAPMAN in Waddy Forest while he built a house for them in Coorow [P320]
Their children continued to live in their home in Victoria Park, where they were cared for by relatives living in the house [P320]
He built many houses from in the Coorow district from ground level to final completion, in addition to extending existing homes [P320]
During the brick shortage after the Second World War he created wooden moulds and made concrete bricks [P320]
Many of the homes he built in and around Coorow were made with his concrete bricks, and some were timber framed homes [P320]
Built houses for locals G. Ernest R. A. D. CHAPMAN, Ronald L. PETERS, Mrs Janet M. JONES, Roy M. PATTON, [P320]
Norman J. M. PATTON, Graham N. HYDE, Albert C. BOTHE, Geoffrey T. TREMLETT, Benjamin E. CROFT, [P320]
Arnold G. C. HIRST, Miles Y. MORCOMBE, Mrs Janet M. MCGILP, Colin E. HYDE, David I. DAVIES, [P320]
Bevan M. O'CALLAGHAN, Harry C. GREENWOOD, Maxwell J. BARKER, and Mrs Margaret V. MANNING [P320]
Extended Charles H. GRONOW's house in Coorow, and built the Coorow Bowling Club and the Coorow R.S.L. Hall [P320]
Also built houses in Green Head for fisherman Douglas I. MORPHETT and Ross D. MORPHETT [P320]
Himself and his wife also ran a hardware business in Coorow, which had evolved out of people needing building supplies [P320]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 19 March 1948 [96]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [P320]
Member of the Coorow Masonic Lodge - donated the land for the Lodge, and was the contractor who built the Lodge [P320]
Member of the Coorow Bowling Club [P320]
While living at Coorow he regularly travelled to Jurien and later Green Head to go fishing [P320]
At Billy Goat Bay in Green Head he built seven boat sheds, one of which was for himself [P320]
Built another two boats, one which he used himself and the other for Coorow farmer David I. DAVIES [P320]
In about 1972 built a house at Green Head, after which himself and his wife left Coorow [P320]
Resided in the coastal town of Green Head from about 1972 until his death in 1984 [P320]
Father of Phyllis, Margaret, Pauline and Elizabeth [14]
Died 13 May 1984 in Green Head; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 12) [1]
Mrs Dulcie Elizabeth HUNTER
Wife of "Clive" Edwin Clive HUNTER; see Dulcie Elizabeth YULE
James HUNTER
Farmer in Latham 1919-1922 [50]
Percy Herman HUNTER
Farmer in Latham 1917-1922 [50]
Mrs Ada HUTCHCRAFT
Wife of George HUTCHCRAFT; see Ada PRIOR
Cyril HUTCHCRAFT
Born 25 May 1922 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England [16]
Son of George HURCHCRAFT and Ada PRIOR [14]
Resided with his parents on Sandringham Farm in Coorow, Western Australia [19]
Awarded 2nd prize for Sealing Wax Work in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Won 2nd prizes for Handwork and a Crayon Drawing at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held in Coorow in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1951 [5: 12-Jul-1935, 7-Aug-1936] [4: 11-Jul-1958]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 14-Feb-1936, 19-Mar-1937]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 25 May 1943 [16]
Gunner WX39786 in the Australian Army's 2/8 Australian Field Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 9 May 1946 [16]
Farmer of 1000 acres in Coorow, being Lot M1069 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Resided in Coorow until at least 1970, and later resided in Green Head [1] [19]
Husband of Barbara [14]
Father of Carlene and John [14]
Died 18 November 1980 at the Leeman Nursing Post, Leeman; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row J, Plot 14) [1]
George HUTCHCRAFT
Born 13 September 1884 in Ramsey, Huntingdon, England [16]
Son of "Tom" Thomas HUTCHCRAFT and Sarah Ann WYLES [20] [21]
Grew up in Ramsey, Huntingdon, England where his father and later himself worked as an Agricultural Labourer [20]
In 1901 was living with his parents and siblings John, William, Ellen, Martha, Edith, Ada, Ethel and Jack in High Street, Ramsey [20]
Married Ada PRIOR in 1904 in London, England [21]
Departed London, England with wife and son on the Osterley and arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 27 January 1910 [70]
On 23 July 1924 purchased Carl G. B. JENSEN's 1305 acre Sandringham Farm in Coorow, Western Australia [27]
The 1305 acres consisted of Lots M965, M1233 and M1457 and still had instalments owing to the Midland Railway Company [27]
Farmer of Sandringham Farm in Coorow 1924-1949 [19] [27]
In September 1928 purchased a new Chev truck from Carnamah dealer L. Scott WYLIE [4: 22-Sep-1928]
In 1932 his Chevrolet truck was registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-346 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Purchased for cash Robert J. MCDONALD's 1,000 acre farm in Coorow on a walk in walk out basis [5: 30-Jun-1933]
The farm, which he purchased for his son Reg, was Lot M1069; and 700 of its 1000 acres were First Class land [3] [5]
The local paper stated "Mr. Hutchcraft, who prides himself on his skill in poisoning rabbits, is a careful and successful farmer [5]
In October 1933 sold seven bales of wool through Westralian Farmers Ltd at 14½d. per pound [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Requested with the Carnamah Road Board in March 1934 for a road adjoining his farm to be closed [5: 23-Mar-1934]
In November 1934 purchased a new Leeuwin No. 4 chaffcutter through Carnamah agent Stanley L. HIDDEN [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Around the same time he also purchased a new Big E harvester [5: 23-Nov-1934]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1934-35 [4: 22-Dec-1934]
In August 1935 advised the Carnamah District Road Board of farmers who hadn't done compulsory rabbit extermination [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Sold a consignment of 63 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 2 October 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Sold 21 of the sheep consisting of 15 shorn wethers, 3 shorn ewes, 1 shorn lamb and 2 suckers for 11/- per head [5]
The remainder were 1 stained lamb at 10/7, 3 shorn rams at 8/-, 14 shorn ewes at 5/7, and 24 shorn ewes at 4/7 per head [5]
Sold another 35 sheep at 8/- per head through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on 21 October 1936 [5: 23-Oct-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on Friday 18 September 1936 [5]
Purchased three Merino rams, two at 6¾ guineas and 1 at 6 guineas, from the Carnamah based Wongyarra Stud [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Sold 117 ewes through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market in 1937 - 27 at 12/10, 57 at 10/10 and 33 at 5/1 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
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 Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah; [5]
Frank R. BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL, W. Frank FENNELL and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; Baxter D. BOTHE, [5]
William J. GAUNT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM and John S. READ of Coorow [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]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937, 6-Aug-1937]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Australian Defence League in 1940 [0: image 03947]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Thomas BONHAM on 10 August 1945 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [0: 24-Aug-1945]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 [150]
In December 1948 he sold his original 1305 acres of farmland to Lloyd D. BOTHE of Coorow [3]
Father of Reginald and Cyril [14]
Died 27 January 1949 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 4) [1]
Rev. P. C. DANGER of Moora officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by H. KNIGHT of Three Springs [1]
Following his death his estate was valued for probate at £27,304/0/9 [4: 3-Sep-1949] [39: 27-Aug-1949]
His remaining 1000 acres of land, Lot M1609, originally purchased for his son Reg, appears to have been inherited by his son Cyril [3]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Thursday 3 February 1949:
"Sudden Death of Mr. G. Hutchcraft. On Thursday last, January 27, a well known and respected farmer of Coorow, Mr. George Hutchraft collapsed whilst in Coorow, and passed away shortly after the arrival of Dr. Mayrhofer who had been summoned from Three Springs. Death was due to heart failure. The late Mr. Hutchcraft was 64 years of age and was born at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, England, and is survived by his widow and two sons, Reginald and Cyril. Deceased has been conducting farming operations in Coorow for many years and his loss will be felt by many local organisations, especially the Coorow Golf Club of which he was hon. Secretary. The funeral took place at the Winchester Cemetery on Friday, January 28 and was attended by a large number of relatives and friends. The Rev. P. C. Danger, of Moora conducted the burial service at the graveside. The chief mourners were:- deceased's widow and two sons Reg. and Cyril and two daughters-in-law. The carriers and pall bearers were Messrs. George Raffan, A. Hirst, N. M. James, K. Ball, A. C. Bierman, C. J. Dallimore, G. Battersby, H. Greenwood, P. W. Thomson, E. Casey and C. Chapman."
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 5 February 1949:
"Sudden Death at Coorow - With somewhat tragic suddenness, the death occurred at Coorow on Friday of last week of Mr. George Hutchcraft, of Sandringham Farm, the deceased gentleman being a very old and highly respected resident of the Coorow district. The funeral took place in the Winchester Cemetery on Saturday last and was largely attended by residents from all parts of the district."
Reginald George HUTCHRCFAT
Born 12 September 1938 [84]
Son of Reginald Percy George HURCHCRAFT and Gladys Irene KNAPP [84]
Resided with his parents in Coorow [84]
He was baptised in S. John G. ASPLIN of the North Midlands Methodist Mission on 11 December 1938 [84]
Later resided with his parents in Three Springs and Carnamah [19] [84]
Died 8 June 2007 [29]
"Reg" Reginald Percy George HUTCHCRAFT
Born 22 March 1905 in London, England [14] [21]
Son of George HUTCHCRAFT and Ada PRIOR [14]
Departed London, England with his parents on the Osterley and arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 27 January 1910 [70]
Presumably settled with his parents on Sandingham Farm in Coorow, Western Australia in 1924 [--]
Farmer and Farmhand in Coorow 1927-1941 [19] [84]
Married Gladys Irene KNAPP in 1937 [66]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club from 1928-29 to 1936-37 [4: 3-Nov-1928, 13-Dec-1930, 15-Jan-1937]
On Sunday 28 October 1928 played in the first ever cricket match of the Coorow and Districts Cricket Association [4: 3-Nov-1928]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Delegate for the Coorow Cricket Club at meetings of the Carnamah District Cricket Association in 1935-36 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Represented the Carnamah District Cricket Association in a match against the North Midlands on 1 December 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Played for the Carnamah District Cricket Association at Country Week Cricket in Perth during February 1936 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Played for the defeated "The Rest" in a cricket match against Carnamah in Coorow on Sunday 22 March 1936 [5: 27-Mar-1936]
Attended the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
He was one of the first on the scene of a head on car collision between Coorow and Winchester on New Year's Eve in 1936 [5]
He rushed the most seriously injured from the collision to the Carnamah Private Hospital in Carnamah [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1936-37 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Carrier in Three Springs in 1940 [84], and Labourer in Three Springs in 1943 [19]
Resided in Carnamah from 1947 to 1956, where he initially also worked as a Labourer [19]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club in 1948 [0: image 04509]
Conducted a tearooms in Macpherson Street, Carnamah in 1950 and 1951 [60]
Builder in Carnamah 1951-1956 [60]
From 1951 to 1956 resided in Yarra Street, Carnamah and was telephone number Carnamah-33 [60]
Received electricity at his home from Carnamah firm Henry Parkin & Son; in 1952 paid a flat monthly rate of 17/6 for electricity [53]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1952 [13]
Resided in Carnamah until 1964 and in 1965 was a Fisherman in Green Head [19]
Resided of late at Little Anchorage in Green Head [1]
Father of Reginald and Richard [84]
Died 15 June 1966 in Green Head; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 1) [1]
Annie Mary HUTCHINS
Born 6 July 1872 in Clare, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Benjamin HUTCHINS and Elizabeth ROSCROW [55]
Married George John Thomas BATTERSBY on 9 September 1889 in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia [P335]
In Victoria gave birth to a daughter Olive Jane at Omeo on 21 June 1891, who died on 4 April 1892 in Cassilis [P335]
They shifted to Western Australia and lived in Boulder, Mount Magnet and Cue where he husband worked as a Miner [P335]
Resided with her husband and children on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1908-1925 [P335]
Despite having no children of school age she led the local campaign to have the closed Coorow State School reopened in 1919 [215]
After five months of written correspondence with the Education Department the school reopened on 19 August 1919 [215]
She was one of four locals who signed a guarantee to supplement the teacher's wage if the enrolment fell below eight students [215]
In 1919 and 1920 several children from Latham boarded with her in Coorow so they could attend the Coorow State School [215]
Wrote to the Education Department numerous times to ensure the school stayed opened and to get an official school building [215]
The school's teachers Mercia C. BARLOW in 1921 and Vera HARRY 1921-1924 boarded at her home on Wattle Vale Farm [215]
After unfulfilled promises of an official school building she wrote to and recruited the help of Charles C. MALEY, M.L.A. [215]
Her persistence paid off with the Education Department moving a school building from Golden Ridge to Coorow in May 1922 [215]
The school had previously been at two rooms of the uninhabited Coorow House and then in a makeshift hessian and iron room [215]
Sometime after her son George's marriage in 1925 she shifted into the Coorow townsite where she ran a boarding house [P335]
In 1930 her boarding house in Coorow was known as the "Coorow Hostel" and was telephone number Coorow-14 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Her hostel provided home-like accommodation for boarders and boasted every modern convenience [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Requested in March 1936 for the Carnamah District Road Board to remove the trees in front of her hostel in Coorow [5: 20-Mar-1936]
At their monthly meeting on Wednesday 22 April 1936 the Carnamah District Road Board decided to remove the trees [5: 17-Apr-1936]
After vacating her boarding house its first class furniture and effects were sold at a clearing sale on Saturday 20 March 1937 [5]
The sale had been organised by her son George and was conducted by auctioneer Alexander R. G. BARR of Three Springs [5]
Everything from the boarding house was sold without reserve and included three single wooden bedsteads; six iron bedsteads; [5]
two double wooden bedsteads and matrasses; 14 matrasses, pillows, quilts and blankets; two dressing tables with mirrors; [5]
two wardrobes with mirrors; linos for eight rooms, four 6x20 linos; three cane chairs; three cane armchairs; 14 bentwood chairs; [5]
three small tables; two Aladdin hanging lambs and fittings; curtains and fitting from all rooms; two armchairs; 18 oak chairs; [5]
three 5x3 oak tables; three kitchen tables; one leather lounge; six glass bread crocks; one oak sideboard; four table lamps; [5]
six hurricane lanterns; seven pairs of white blankets; eight pairs of grey blankets; large boiler; large safe; large mirror and stand; [5]
cement bath; six verandah blinds and fittings; 40 fowls; and a large quantity of crockery, cut glass, kitchen utensils, glassware, [5]
cutlery, towels, sheets, pillow slips, cushions, table cloths, table centres, tools, books and a host of sundries [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Left Coorow during the 1930s [P335]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [2]
Mother of Edwin, Olive Jane, George and Thomas [P335]
Died 13 January 1940; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, GA, 333) [2]
Walter HYETT
Farmer in Marchagee [19]
In 1917 had 250 acres of wheat crop growing on his farm [10: 19-Jun-1917]
Mary Louisa HYDE
Born 1881 in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [15]
Daughter of Charles Edward HYDE and Eliza HILL [15]
Grew up in the Bendigo district in Victoria, Australia [P310]
Married George GRONOW on 5 September 1906 at Saint Mary's Church in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [P310]
Her father was one of the first farmers and a pioneer of the Dalwallinu district in Western Australia [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Along with her husband, son and stepson left Victoria and shifted to Waddy Forest in Western Australia [P310]
On 31 March 1924 her husband purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1,377 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest [27]
The 1,377 acres was Lot M1295 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1102, payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
Resided with her husband on Ingleneuk Farm in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [19]
In August 1930 her garden was described in The Irwin Index newspaper "as a thing of beauty" [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Due to illness she was in inmate of the Moora District Hospital during a portion of June 1933 [5: 30-Jun-1933]
She was an invalid from 1933 until her death in 1945 [P310]
After an extended holiday in South Perth she returned to Waddy Forest on Saturday 20 March 1937 [5: 25-Mar-1937]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
After a long period of sickness she returned to Ingleneuk Farm in Waddy Forest in mid October 1935 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Resided in Waddy Forest / Coorow until her death in 1945 [0: image 04356]
Mother of Charles Hyde GRONOW and stepmother of Lionel Rupert GRONOW [54]
Died 9 August 1945 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 12) [1]
Rev. ARBLASTER of Kalamunda officiated at her funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 24 August 1945:
"Mrs. Mary Louisa Gronow. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Louisa Gronow, of Coorow, took place at the Winchester Cemetery on the 11th inst. Deceased, who was the wife of Mr. George Gronow, was an old and highly respected resident of the Coorow district. She was 64 years of age at the time of her demise. The chief mourners were George Gronow (husband), Charles Gronow (son), W. Hyde, J. Hyde, N. Hyde, C. Hyde (brothers), Mesdames H. Gourley and G. Arblaster (sisters). The Rev. Arblaster, of Kalamunda, conducted the service at the graveside. The pall-bearers were Messrs. A. McGilp, A. Rudduck, D. Fowler, T. Morcombe, G. Underwood and P. Hunt."
Norman Francis HYDE
Born 1897 in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of Charles Edward HYDE and Eliza HILL [54]
His father selected prospective farmland in Dalwallinu, Western Australia in January 1910 [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Along with his parents left Victoria in 1910 and shifted to Dalwallinu, where his father was "practically the pioneer of the district" [39]
In about 1925 his father, in addition to his Dalwallinu holdings, purchased two established farms in the Coorow district [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Farmer of Waddy Waddy Farm at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district [19]
Married Ruby Elaine GRAHAM in Perth in 1926 [66]
Himself and his brother, referred to as "Hyde Bros," cropped 1,700 acres of wheat in Waddy Forest in 1926 [81: 24-Oct-1926]
In August 1933 purchased three two year old Merino rams from the New Zealand and Australian Land Co's Tootra Stud [5: 1-Sep-1933]
Along with his wife and children returned to Waddy Forest after a holiday on Monday 12 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Purchased a new John Deere tractor in April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
Along with his wife and children travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth for on a short trip on Wednesday 5 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
In January 1935 himself, his wife and their children spent a holiday at North Beach [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Sold twelve bales of wool at 14d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd sold 92 sheep suckers at the Midland Market on Wednesday 6 November 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
The 92 suckers consisted of 25 sold at 23/1 per head, 22 at 17/10, 36 at 17/1, 1 at 15/-, and 8 at 10/7 per head [5]
Sold 184 lambs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market held on Wednesday 8 April 1936 [5: 10-Apr-1936]
The 184 lambs consisted of 24 sold at 17/10 per head, 30 at 16/-, 58 at 14/10, 35 at 13/10, and 37 at 13/4 per head [5]
He was the first farmer in Waddy Forest to commence hay cutting for the season in mid September 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Sold 38 lambs (37 at 20/7, 1 at 12/-) and 49 ewes (19 at 10/10, 30 at 6/1) at the Midland Market on 20 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1952 [13]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Floreat Park [2]
Father of Graham and Colin [P361]
Died 20 December 1964; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 20C, 57) [2]
Ralph Watts HYDE
Farmhand in Waddy Forest 1925-1933 [19]
Mrs Ruby Elaine HYDE
Wife of Norman Francis HYDE; see Ruby Elaine GRAHAM
Rupert Cuthbertson HYDE
Born 1903 in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of and Charles Edward HYDE and Eliza HILL [54]
His father selected prospective farmland in Dalwallinu, Western Australia in January 1910 [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Along with his parents left Victoria in 1910 and shifted to Dalwallinu, where his father was "practically the pioneer of the district" [39]
In about 1925 his father, in addition to his Dalwallinu holdings, purchased two established farms in the Coorow district [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Married (1) Winifred Hannah TOMS in Perth in 1926 [66]
Farmer of Hyde Park Farm in Dalwallinu and then of Waddy Park Farm in Coorow [19]
Himself and his brother, referred to as "Hyde Bros," cropped 1,700 acres of wheat in 1926 [81: 24-Oct-1926]
In 1928 one of his 200 acre wheat crops in Coorow was expected to yield 30 bushels per acre [120: 20-Dec-1928]
His wife Winifred passed away at the age of 27 years on 8 December 1930, and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Married (2) Gladys Vera THOMAS in Perth in 1935 [66]
Sold 93 suckers for 21/10 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at Midland Market on Wednesday 18 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
The next week sold another 94 suckers for 20/7 per head, also through Elder Smith & Co Ltd and at Midland Market [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Sold 29 suckers for 19/7 per head and 20 shorn hoggets for 12/7 per head at the Midland Market on 2 October 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd sold wool at the price of 13¾d. per pound at a Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Sold 129 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with two consignments to Midland Markets in 1936 [5: 29-Nov-1936, 24-Dec-1936]
The sheep consisted of 80 lambs (35 at 24/1, 23 at 20/1, 22 at 19/10) and 49 ewes (38 at 15/4, 1 at 12/4, 10 at 9/10 per head) [5]
After an "extensive holiday" in Perth himself and his wife returned to Waddy during the second week of March 1937 [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Farmed in Coorow until about 1949 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Swanbourne [2]
Died 14 February 1984; ashes scattered to the wind at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
III
Mary Laura Lydia INKSTER
Born 25 May 1882 in Elliston, South Australia
Daughter of John INKSTER and Barbara CHEYNE
Married "Harry" Wilhelm Julius Heinrich ULLRICH on 19 November 1923 in Norwood, South Australia [55]
Shifted with her husband and stepchildren to Western Australia where they farmed in Tenindewa and then Coorow [19] [50]
Resided on farmland in Tenindewa 1930-1936 and on farmland in Coorow 1936-1962 [5: 23-Oct-1936] [19] [50]
She sold 80 sheep from Coorow at the Midland Market in October 1936 - 47 at 11/7 per head and 33 at 9/4 per head [5: 23-Oct-1936]
JJJ
Daisy JACKSON
Born C.1884 [2]
Married (1) "Jim" James Joseph STARLING in Northampton in 1900 [15]
Their first child, Florence May, was born in 1900 in Northampton and died at the age of two months [15]
Their second child, James Joseph, was born in Mount Magnet in 1901 and passed away aged just one day [15]
Resided in Three Springs in 1907, where her husband was the local Railway Ganger [6]
Mail Receiver in Three Springs in 1907 [6]
Resided in Coorow 1908-1913 [19] [50]
Their daughters Gladys and Pearl were listed as prospective students of the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
Resided in Dongara in 1914 and 1915 [19] [50]
They resided at the Railway Cottages in Dongara [50]
Again resided in Coorow in 1916 and some of 1917 [6] [50]
They were living in Arrino when her husband enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 18 May 1917 [30: item 8090793]
After her husband entered camp herself and her children left Arrino and moved to the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [30]
Her husband's pay from the Australian Imperial Force wasn't sufficient for herself and their children to survive on [30]
They both wrote requesting he be discharged to relieve her distress with six daughters aged between 11 years and 20 months [30]
She paid 30/- in rent and 10/- for firewood per month, and was unable to buy even a stitch of clothing for her children or herself [30]
Their request was granted and her husband was discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 14 September 1917 [30]
Between 1919 and 1925 her husband worked in Carnamah, Dongara and Three Springs [6] [9: 4-Feb-1921, 8-Jul-1921, 24-Jul-1925] [19]
Her absence in electoral rolls and local newspapers are suggestive that she may have resided elsewhere during this time [9] [19]
Resided with her husband in Dongara in 1921 and 1925-1929, and in Gunyidi in late 1929 and 1930 [6] [50]
Resided at 12 Spring Park Road in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction 1931-1935 [6] [50]
Her husband, late of the Perth suburb of Midland Junction, passed away at the age of 53 years on 29 January 1933 [2]
In 1938 she was living at 98 Railway Parade in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [6]
Resided at 122 Swan Street in the Perth suburb of Guildford in 1939 [6]
Married (2) George Ernest LINTOTT in Perth in 1939 [66]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [2]
Died 22 July 1957; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WD, 24) [2]
Claude JAMES
Labourer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1913 and 1914 [50]
Farmer in Nugadong 1916-1921 [19]
Mrs Freda Constance JAMES
Wife of Hector Thomas Austin JAMES; see Freda Constance OVERHEU
Hector Thomas Austin JAMES
Born 14 October 1909 in Subiaco, Western Australia [16]
Son of Thomas Robert JAMES and Grace Edgar MCMASTER [15]
Married Freda Constance OVERHEU on Thursday evening 9 January 1936 in the Perth suburb of Crawley [39: 10-Jan-1936]
Their marriage was the first to be held in the Chapel at Saint George's College, where he had previously been a student [39: 10-Jan-1936]
Shifted from Moora to Coorow to take over the management of the Coorow Hotel in late February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Attended the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1936 [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Attended the evening in honour of Mr & Mrs BIRMINGHAM of Perth at the home of Harry EDWARDS on 27 June 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
Attended the Bucks Party for George A. RAFFAN and Eric J. BRADLEY of Winchester in Coorow on 7 October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
In late October 1936 installed a large self contained Kelvinator refrigerator in the bar of the Coorow Hotel [5: 30-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]
He was injured as a passenger in the car of Three Springs vet Joseph P. GOLLAN when a horse put its hoof through the car [5]
After recovering from his injuries he returned to Coorow on Monday 7 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Again injured as a passenger in a car which collided with another between Coorow and Winchester on New Year's Eve in 1936 [5]
After the accident he spent four days at the Carnamah Private Hospital for injuries to his nose, abrasions and shock [5: 8-Jan-1937]
In January 1937 left Coorow and shifted to Moora where he took over the management of the Moora Hotel [5: 29-Jan-1937]
On leaving Coorow the management of the Coorow Hotel was taken over by Thomas C. BOGUE of Perth [5: 29-Jan-1937]
Member of the Moora Golf Club in 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 October 1940 [16]
Sergeant 406300 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 1st Tactical Air Force Headquarters during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 December 1945 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Died 14 May 1975; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, AA, 76A) [2]
Isobel Mary Austin JAMES
Born 1904 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Thomas Robert JAMES and Grace Edgar MCMASTER [15]
Her father, late of the Perth suburb of Subiaco, passed away at the age of 50 years on 18 March 1915 [2]
In 1916 her mother married her father's former business partner Alexander Burns GLOSTER [6] [66]
Studied at the Conservatory of Music in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1924 and 1925 [9: 13-Feb-1925]
Stayed with her mother and stepfather at the Commercial Hotel in Moora, Western Australia in early 1925 [9: 13-Feb-1925]
She was farewelled from a Moora at a social held at her stepfather's Commercial Hotel on Tuesday 10 February 1925 [9: 13-Feb-1925]
Left Moora on 11 February 1925, and left Perth for Melbourne on the Great Western express train on Tuesday 17 February 1925 [9]
In August 1925 her mother travelled from Moora to Melbourne to visit her [9: 21-Aug-1925]
Her stepfather Alexander B. GLOSTER was the licensee and manager of the Coorow Hotel 1930-1933 [4: 4-Oct-1930] [5: 11-Nov-1932] [19]
Married (1) "Reg" Reginald CROMMELIN in Perth on 19 June 1931 [4: 27-Jun-1931]
Their honeymoon was spent in a visit to the Eastern States of Australia [4: 27-Jun-1931]
Resided with her husband on Morningdale Farm in Coorow [19]
Returned to Coorow on Wednesday 18 October 1933 after spending a week in Perth [5: 20-Oct-1933]
In 1934 they bred their own stud bulldogs, their stud being called the Dale Stud [5: 26-Jan-1934]
During a storm in Coorow in January 1934 the parents of bulldog pups rushed inside and left their pups in the rain [5: 26-Jan-1934]
She rushed outside and rescued the pups, which were worth £30 (the parents were Lady Saucy and "Bill" Iden Contrast) [5]
Used the Coorow Hall for a music teaching on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, at a cost of 5/- per week [5: 23-Mar-1934]
Assisted with the of music at the Played the Carnamah Golf Club's Dance at the Carnamah Hall on 21 April 1934 [5: 27-Apr-1934]
Herself and her husband presumably left Coorow in April 1935, after a clearing sale was held on their farm [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Matron of Honour at the marriage of her brother Hector T. A. JAMES and Freda C. OVERHEU in Perth on 9 January 1936 [39]
She "wore a smart patou pink lace ensemble with short coatee and a smart little toque to match with eye veil of pink lace" [39]
Carried a bouquet of pink gladioli, roses, carnations and maiden hair fern [39: 10-Jan-1936]
Her brother Hector T. A. JAMES shifted to Coorow in late February 1936 to take over the Coorow Hotel [5: 28-Feb-1936]
She appears to have been on a visit to Coorow during July 1936 [5: 17-Jul-1936]
Attended the Anglican Church's Mid-Winter Ball in Carnamah on 11 July 1936 in a mushroom Chantilly lace dinner suit [5]
Played for the Coorow Golf Club against the Carnamah Golf Club at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 12 July 1936 [5]
After spending several weeks in Coorow she returned to her home in Moora on Wednesday 9 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
She may have been helping at the Coorow Hotel with her brother and sister-in-law absent on account of injuries and pregnancy [5]
Departed Colombo, Sri Lanka on the steamship Orontes and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 February 1937 [63]
Member of the Moora Golf Club in 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
She was among those who travelled from Moora to Coorow to play against the Coorow Golf Club on Sunday 11 July 1937 [5]
Married (2) Charles JONES in Perth in 1941 [66]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 30 June 1986; ashes interred at the Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]
"Jim" James Cowan JEFFERIS
Born 12 March 1909 in South Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS and Minnie Lane COWAN [215]
Resided with his parents on Warrah Farm in Latham [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow 1919-1921 [215]
While attending school himself and his brother Jim boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Resided in Wagin prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 31 March 1942 [16]
Leading Aircraftman 46977 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 17 Repair and Servicing Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 13 October 1945 [16]
"Ken" Kenneth Pank JEFFERIS
Born 14 September 1910 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS and Minnie Lane COWAN [215]
Resided with his parents on Warrah Farm in Latham [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow 1919-1921 [215]
While attending school himself and his brother Jim boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Married Mary Alison BAKER in Perth in 1943 [66]
Private W74197 in Wagin's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 6 August 2000; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lance Howard Memorial Gardens, F, 44) [2]
Mrs Minnie Lane JEFFERIS
Wife of "Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS; see Minnie Lane COWAN
"Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS
Born 11 April 1867 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Son of James JEFFERIS and Marian TURNER [55]
Married Minnie Lane COWAN in 1899 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
He had once been an orchardist and had had farming experience in all of the Australian states [152]
Farmer of Warrah Farm in Latham, Western Australia 1910-1924 [6] [152] [215]
In 1910 he took up 3,000 acres of land - consisting of 2,200 acres of forest country and 800 acres of scrubby land [152]
The land cost 10/- per acre for 1,000 acres and 15/- for 2,000 acres, however the latter was later reduced to 13/- per acre [152]
He was initially going to take up just 1,000 acres but the Agricultural Bank advised him he needed at least 1,500 acres [152]
He cleared and put in 30 acres of crop in 1911 however "the season was a complete failure throughout the district" [152]
Went back to Perth and resumed his business there for nine months and then returned to his farm in Latham [152]
Grew 150 acres of crop in 1913 from which he cut 20 tonnes of hay off 25 acres and sold 700 bags of wheat [152]
Excluding his expenses for carting the 700 bags to the railway at Wongan Hills he made a profit of 7/4 per bag [152]
For the first three years on the farm they had to get everything from Coorow, which was 30 miles away [152]
In 1914, which turned out to be a drought, he seeded 400 acres of crop which was a complete failure [152]
He remarked "that broke me up" of the 1914 failure, however he pressed on with help from the Industries Assistance Board [152]
Seeded 360 of wheat and six acres of oats in 1915, however lost 100 acres of Federation wheat through rust and a hailstorm [152]
In 1915 his wheat averaged about nine bushels per acre, he cut 30 tonnes of hay from 30 acres, and got 90 bags from the oats [152]
He had grown early varieties of wheat including Federation, Bunyip and Yadilla King and had tried to get Gluyus [152]
By 1916 he had cleared 450 acres of his farm and had 300 acres under crop [152]
Seeded his crops with 40 pounds of wheat and 52 pounds of super to the acre until 1915, and 60 pounds of wheat in 1916 [152]
By 1916 had fenced 200 acres of his farm and had posts ready to fence a further 1,000 acres [152]
Owing to what was available in his vicinity he used wodjil posts for his fences, which were generally as good as jam posts [152]
The wodjil posts tended to split though, so instead of boring holes through them he wired the posts up instead [152]
He had a 32-feet deep well which yielded about 3,000 gallons of water a day and was "the champion well of the district" [152]
In 1916 he also had an uncovered 1,000 yard dam of 8-feet 6-inches depth [152]
They kept a number of pigs and poultry for their own use in 1916 [152]
Gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Agricultural Industries of Western Australia in Latham on 24 November 1916 [152]
He believed bulk handling of wheat would reduce costs as farmers made such a heavy loss on bags [152]
During his evidence he gave a demonstration of wiring a wodjil post instead of boring holes through it for wires [152]
He felt that farming machinery was far too expensive, especially some implements in comparison to others [152]
He hadn't grown any but said the only artificial grass that grew in Latham was Canary grass and he expected Lucerne might too [152]
He'd tried to grow six different clovers however they had all died, and had planted fruit trees but most of them also perished [152]
It was his opinion that vegetables could be grown "to perfection" in Latham during the winter months [152]
He had been unable to employ a good man for under 30/- per week and keep and even then they hadn't been very good [152]
He thought the labour issue was because the good ones didn't come as far outback and they got snapped up in the older districts [152]
To make a living in Latham he believed a farmer working on his own needed 900 acres of cleared land plus land for livestock [152]
He thought farmers cooperating would be beneficial but he'd "never struck a community of farmers who could work in unison" [152]
Like others in Latham he hadn't seen any profit but couldn't have foreseen it as no one before them knew the local conditions [152]
He suggested that the Government should cover their liabilities and allow them to repay them over a number of years [152]
It was his opinion that the land at Latham was "undeniably good" but they had to learn how to work with the local climate [152]
He thought they got between nine and ten inches of rain in the growing season plus troublesome amounts of summer rain [152]
Hard conditions and two disastrous seasons had been the drawbacks that had prevented him from getting head [152]
He'd put in his own capital, borrowed from the Agricultural Bank and received help from the Industries Assistance Board [152]
Himself and his wife felt "a great obligation" to Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY of Coorow who boarded their sons Jim and Ken [215]
Their sons boarded with Mrs BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow so they could attend the Coorow State School [215]
He wrote to the Education Department in November 1920 expressing his hope that the Coorow State School would reopen in 1921 [251]
"The children have got on remarkably well and it will be very unfortunate if owing to the building they have been using being [251]
denied them the promoters of this little school are unable to carry on. It is difficult to see what we our here can do & I trust that [251]
you will look closely into the matter & endeavour to arrange for a continuation after Xmas." [251]
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]
Later resided in Albany [2]
Father of Kathleen Marian, Vernon Eddington, Mamie Florence, James Cowan and Kenneth Pank [15] [215]
Died 7 September 1947; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, Rose Memorial, 4A, 3) [2]
James JENNER
Farmhand for Rupert C. HYDE on Waddy Waddy Farm in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1932 [19]
George JENNINGS
Farmer in Marchagee 1931-1939 [19] [50]
William Edward JENNINGS
Farmhand on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1922 [50]
Capt. Carl Godfred Bernhard JENSEN
Born C.1858 [2]
On 24 April 1913 purchased a 471 acre of farm in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 471 acre farm was Lot M965 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1648, payable by instalments (later reduced to £989) [27]
The farm was part of the Midland Railway Co's Improved Farm Scheme and came with a house and was partly cleared and fenced [34]
Farmer of Sandringham Farm in Coorow 1913-1924 [27] [61]
In March 1915 applied unsuccessfully with the Midland Railway Company to purchase an additional 280 acres at 7/- to 8/- per acre [34]
Harvested 1041 bags of wheat from his 1915 wheat crop, 50 bags of which he kept for seed wheat [34]
Had 230 acres of crop on his farm in 1916 [34] and 200 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 - was Vice President in 1917 [34] [39: 25-Jul-1917]
In June 1917 was absent from his farm and was engaged in mine sweeping [34]
In addition to the house on his farm he also rented one on Rabbi RABINOWITZ's farm in Coorow at 5/- per week in 1917 [34]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Member of the Midland Railway Ready Made Farm Settlers' Association in 1918 [34]
Part of a deputation that met with the Midland Railway Company on 3 April 1918 to request the company lower their prices [34]
He stated that it was impossible to make ends meet with the present price of the land and subsequent instalments [34]
He also claimed that the company had charged 1st class price for patches of 2nd and 3rd class land [34]
In 1920 the Midland Railway Company finally lowered their prices and the price of his farm dropped from £1648 to £989 [27]
Inaugural Director for Coorow of the North Midlands Farmers' Co-operative Company in 1919 [9: 27-Jun-1919]
Sang a song at the Welcome Home tendered to A.I.F. Private James FARLEY in Coorow on Thursday 10 July 1919 [10: 18-Jul-1919]
On 11 May 1920 extended his farm with the purchase from the Midland Railway Company of an adjoining 188 acres of virgin land [27]
The 188 acres was a portion of Lot M1233 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £75.8.5, payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
Purchased another 532 acres of virgin land for £292.19.9 (the remaining portion of Lot M1233) on 1 March 1923 [27]
In 1924 grazed livestock on an additional 2500 acres of land in Coorow leased from the Midland Railway Company [34]
Sold his partially paid off 1191 acre farm to George HUTCHCRAFT on 28 August 1924 [27]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 21 June 1945; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, OA, 561) [2]
Gustaf JOHANSEN
Carpenter in Coorow in 1931 and 1932 [19] [50]
"Geoff" Geoffrey Griffith JOHN
Born 1909 [15]
Son of Griffith George JOHN and Sarah RICKARDS [54] [P15]
Grew up in Perth and was educated at Hale School in West Perth [P15]
Farmer in Perenjori 1933-1968 [19]
For a period worked cutting timber for mines on land west of Coorow belonging to his father [P15]
His father, in partnership with Duncan W. PATERSON, owned 3,855 acres of farmland in Marchagee [3] [61]
The 3,855 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3255, 3256, 3257, 3267, 4363 and 5866 [3] [61]
His father sold 2,311 of the acres (Victoria Location 3257, 3267 and 4363) to Thomas I. READ of Coorow on 1 January 1934 [3]
The remaining 1,544 acres (Victoria Locations 3255, 3256 and 5866) were leased to William G. BRYANT of Marchagee [3]
Member of the Coorow Football Club 1933-1935 [5: 9-Jun-1933, 18-May-1934]
Captain of the Coorow Football Club in 1933, and both Chairman and Captain in 1935 [5: 8-Sep-1933, 3 & 24-May-1935]
Pallbearer at the funeral of James SIMPSON at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah on 11 July 1935 [1] [5: 19-Jul-1935]
Played for the North Midlands Football Association in a match against the Perenjori-Morawa Association on 28 July 1935 [5: 2-Aug-1935]
Attended the Coorow Football Club's Wind-up Ball for the 1935 season at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 21 September 1935 [5]
At the Ball he was presented with the trophy for being the Club's Fairest & Best player for the 1935 season [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Attended the Three Springs Football Club's Victory Ball held in Three Springs on Tuesday 24 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Represented the Coorow Cricket Club at meetings of the Carnamah District Cricket Association in 1935-36 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
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]
Played for the Carnamah District Cricket Association at Country Week Cricket in Perth during February 1936 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
In May 1936 purchased Barnett Glass pneumatic tyres for his John Deere tractor from Coorow agent Aeneas CASEY [5: 29-May-1936]
Won the raffle at the Coorow Tennis Club's Dance at the Coorow Hall on Saturday evening 4 July 1936 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Married Marjory Ada MUSGROVE in Perth in 1936 [66]
Described as a very good looking and popular young farmer [P84]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Quinns Rock [2]
Died 1 February 1973; ashes scattered to the wind at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
JOHNS child
Born 18 January 1950 in Three Springs, Western Australia [P361]
Son of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS and "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY of Coorow [P361]
He was born at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs, where he died at the age of four and a half hours [24]
Died 18 January 1950 in Three Springs; buried Three Springs General Cemetery, Three Springs (Anglican, Plot 85) [24]
His funeral was officiated over by Rev. W. J. NORTHERN and undertaken by Hugh H. KNIGHT, both of Three Springs [24]
Darren JOHNS
Born 30 August 1934 in Carnamah, Western Australia [1] [P361]
Son of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS and "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY of Coorow [P361]
Died at the age of 24 hours from low vitality on 31 August 1934; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row B, Plot 14) [1] [14]
His funeral was officiated and undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
Mrs "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace JOHNS
Wife of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS; see "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY
Marion Dorothy JOHNS
Born 24 October 1928 in Moora, Western Australia [P361]
Daughter of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS and "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY [P361]
Resided with her parents on CROMMELIN's Morningdale Farm in Coorow 1928-1932 and then in the Coorow townsite [P361]
In the Coorow townsite initially lived with her parents in a tent near the town oval and then in a house on Main Street [P361]
Student at the Coorow State School [5: 12-Jul-1935]
After a football match in Coorow she got lost in scrub resulting in a widespread search into the evening to try and find her [P361]
Eventually Mrs "Granny" Mary LATHAM found her asleep on the railway line a few hours before a train was due [P361]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as "Arabian Night's" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Came 2nd in the 6 years Girls Running Race at the Combined School Sports in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
She was one of the most successful exhibitors in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5]
Received two 1st prizes for Needlework and 2nd prizes for Writing, Pencil Drawing and Crayon Drawing [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Hit by a truck and instantly killed on Albany Road in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park while on holiday with her parents [P361]
Died 17 January 1937; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LE, 752) [2]
Her mother planted jonquils at her grave and her sister Shirley later dug some up to plant with their parents ashes in Coorow [P361]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 22 January 1937:
Death of Little Girl - Perth Accident. The death occurred at Victoria Park Perth, at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, January 17, when Marion Johns (8), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Johns, of Coorow, was run over and killed by a motor truck driven by Stephen Richard Bowen, of Marr street, Carlisle. The little girl was struck by the vehicle when she ran across the street in front of the house where she was staying with her parents, who had arrived Coorow on Saturday to spend a holiday with relatives living in Albany road. The rear wheel of the truck passed over the girl who sustained dreadful head injuries. The scene of the fatality was a short distance east of the Causeway. The driver of the truck told the police that he first saw the girl on the edge of the footpath, party obscured by a telegraph pole. She appeared to be playing and he took no particular notice of her until he saw her running across the street. In an effort to avoid her he swerved violently to the right. He felt no impact and was not sure whether she was struck by the front of the truck or stumbled and fell in front of it. The deepest sympathy is felt for the parents in their sad bereavement."
"Bill" William Henry JOHNS
Born 7 May 1906 in Crusoe, Victoria, Australia [P361]
Son of Percy JOHNS and Marion Elizabeth TARR [54]
His grandfather Zacharias JOHNS had left America after the end of its gold rush and migrated to Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [P361]
Resided with his parents at Kangaroo Flat in Victoria and then at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia [P361]
In 1916 his father was working as a Boiler Maker and they were living at 2261 Balfour Street in South Kalgoorlie [50]
When his parents left Kalgoorlie to shift back to Kangaroo Flat in about 1922 he decided to stay in Western Australia [P361]
Farmhand in Narembeen, Bruce Rock and Mount Walker [P361]
He purchased his first truck while working in Narembeen in about 1926 and began contract carting from Perth to Narembeen [P361]
Married "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY in Perth on 22 March 1927 [P361]
Immediately after their marriage they went straight to Coorow [P361]
Farmhand for Reginald CROMMELIN on Morningdale Farm in Coorow 1927-1932 [P361]
Travelled to Round Hill to play football in the early 1930s prior to the formation of the Coorow Football Club [P361]
Others to do so were Harry F. C. KAU of Coorow and John F. THOMAS and Peter W. THOMSON of Marchagee [P361]
He was a very strong man and then worked in Coorow as a Wheat Lumper before operating as a Cartage Contractor [P361]
Lived in a tent near the town oval with his wife and children while building a small house for his family in the Coorow townsite [P361]
In 1933 was working for the Carnamah District Road Board - received £7/5/9 sick compensation pay on 31 October 1933 [300: page 16]
Sanitary Contractor in Coorow and Caretaker of the Coorow Hall for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1934 [5: 18-May-1934, 6-Jul-1934]
Assistant Traffic Inspector for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1935 [5: 21-Jun-1935, 29-Nov-1935]
Steward of the Sheaf Tossing at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Tied for 3rd place in the Sheffield Handicap at the Athletic Sports Meeting in Coorow on New Year's Day 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
In 1937 he was the Coorow distributor of the Carnamah District Road, Health & Vermin Board's vermin poison [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Won 1st prize for Peas and 2nd for Turnips in the Vegetable section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-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]
Himself, John S. READ and Thomas I. READ rode on horseback through virgin bush from Coorow to Green Head in the 1930s [P361]
The three of them made the trek to establish a track from Coorow to the coast [P361]
At that time wild horses traversed the country and drank at three freshwater springs just before the rocky limestone hill [P361]
During the Second World War he was given special petrol rationing tickets as his cartage services were considered essential [P361]
He also supplemented fuel supplies during the war by using gas producers for which he burnt his own coke in trenches [P361]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
In the 1940s himself and his family holidayed at the coast by driving over the rough track and taking all supplies including water [P8]
Resided in Coorow until his death in 1995 [2]
Passed away at the age of 89 years at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [P361]
Father of Marion, Shirley, Frances, William, Darren, Valerie, Robin, Marjorie, Neil, Carol, Kenneth, Glenise [P361]
Died 31 December 1995; cremated Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Himself and his wife are memorialised where their ashes are interred at Lot 7 Main Street in the Coorow townsite [P361]
Charles JOHNSON
Labourer on John T. GLOWREY's farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1913 and 1914 [50]
"Nance" Nancy Selway JOHNSON
Born 1915 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Dressmaker of 30 Seventh Avenue in the Perth suburb of Maylands [50]
Stayed with Donnell E. & Blanche E. FOWLER on Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest from July to September of 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
During October 1936 she spent a holiday with the family of John and Eliza M. P. LAMPARD in Waddy Forest [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Again holidayed with the LAMPARD family on their farm in Waddy Forest in early August 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Married "Ben" Benjamin William John LAMPARD in Perth in 1938 [66]
Resided in Coorow from her marriage 1938 until her death in 1970 [19]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Died 26 July 1970; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 17, 34) [2]
Martha JOLLY
Resided in Coorow in 1916 and 1917 [50]
Resided on Lake View Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1919 [50]
Richard JOLLY
Foreman / Overseer in Coorow in 1916 and 1917 [19] [50]
Farm Manager of Lake View Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1919 [50]
Adrian Arnold Clarence JONES
Born 1907 [15]
Purchased 1,296 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest from the Midland Railway Company on 31 December 1924 [27]
The 1,296 acres was Lot M1281 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £810/3/11 (12/6 per acre), payable by instalments [27]
Sold his 1,296 acres in Waddy Forest to Kenneth E. JONES on 5 October 1926 [27]
Farmer of Berkley Farm in Waddy Forest 1929-1934 [19]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club in 1929-30 [4: 26-Oct-1929]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 23-Feb-1934]
Along with Gilbert J. UNDERWOOD returned from Perth to Waddy Forest by car on Wednesday 14 January 1934 [5: 16-Feb-1934]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H in 1934 [5: 9-Mar-1934]
Participated in the debate between the Carnamah and Waddy Forest groups of Toc H on Tuesday 27 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Left Waddy Forest for Perth on Monday 5 June 1934 for an indefinite period [5: 8-Jun-1934]
In 1936 he was working as a Draughtsman and living at 78 Collins Street in Kalgoorlie [50]
Born 1 February 1925 in Tambellup, Western Australia [215]
Daughter of Harry HAMMER and Vera MCDONALD [215]
Resided with her parents in Coorow 1928-1934 [215] [5: 30-Mar-1934]
They resided in the closed Coorow State School building in Coorow 1928-1930 [215]
She was listed by her mother as a prospective student in applications to reopen the closed Coorow State School in January 1930 [215]
After vacating the school resided with her parents on the quarter acre Gov Lot 44 on the west side of the Coorow townsite [3] [215]
Student at the reopened Coorow State School in Coorow from 13 February 1930 to 9 March 1934 [215]
In March 1934 shifted with her parents from Coorow to Kalgoorlie, where she continued her schooling at a local convent [215]
Married Ronald James GRAHAM in 1946 [66]
Harry HAMMER
Born 1904 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [15]
Married Vera MCDONALD in 1924 [66]
Worked in Coorow during the wheat carting seasons in 1927 and 1928 [215]
Haulage Contractor of 287 Hampton Road in the Perth suburb of Beaconsfield in 1928 [215]
Contractor in Coorow 1931-1934 [5: 30-M ar-1934] [19] [50]
In 1932 he had a hired Fargo truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-6 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Member of the Coorow Football Club - was President in 1933 [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club - was Secretary in 1933-34 [5: 16-Mar-1934] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Resigned as secretary of the Coorow Tennis Club on 13 March 1934, owing to his intending departure from the district [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Along with his wife, brother and parents were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Resided in Coolgardie prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 23 October 1940 [16]
Private WX8718 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 29 November 1945; he had been a Prisoner of War [16]
Father of Adelaide Charlotte [215]
Leslie HAMMER
Born 1902 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [15]
Married Rebecca Isabel Alice MILBOURNE in 1925 [66]
Labourer in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Resided in the Perth suburb of South Fremantle in 1932 [2]
Died 18 April 1932; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Presbyterian, EE, 334) [2]
Mrs Martha Jane Adelaide HAMMER
Wife of Phillip Henry HAMMER; see Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN
Phillip Henry HAMMER
Born 1876 in Stawell, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Elizabeth Jane LUKE [54]
Married Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN in 1898 in Victoria, Australia [54]
Their first two sons were born in Ballarat East in Victoria in 1898 and 1900 [54]
They shifted from Victoria to Western Australia in 1900 or 1901 as their second son died in WA in 1901, aged 10 months [15]
Contractor in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Labourer in Coorow in 1933 [19]
Sanitary Contractor in Coorow and Caretaker of the Coorow Hall in 1933 and 1934 [5: 18-May-1934] [300: page 26]
Carted water in Coorow for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1933 and 1934, for which he was paid 5/- to 10/- a month [300: page 27]
After years left the Coorow district, along with his sons Harry and Stanley and daughter-in-law, in March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Prior to departure the five of them were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Father of Phillip Roy, Albert George, Leslie, Harry and Arthur Stanley [5: 30-Mar-1934] [15]
Died 1947 [15]
Mrs Rebecca Isabel Alice HAMMER
Wife of Leslie HAMMER; see Rebecca Isabel Alice MILBOURNE
"Stanley" Arthur Stanley HAMMER
Born 15 July 1913 in South Fremantle, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [5: 30-Mar-1934] [15]
Labourer in Coorow 1931-1934 [3]
He was the owner of the vacant quarter acre Gov Lot 35 on the west side of the Coorow townsite [3]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Attended the Carnamah Tennis Club's Flannel Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 3 February 1934 [5: 9-Feb-1934]
On the evening of Thursday 15 March 1934 attended the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Dance at the Carnamah Hall [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Left the Coorow district, along with his parents and brother and sister-in-law Harry and Vera HAMMER, in March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Prior to departure the five of them were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
After leaving Coorow he sold his quarter acre Gov Lot 35 in the Coorow townsite to Arthur E. TYLER [3]
Married Emily Victoria MAISEY in 1936 [66]
Labourer in Coolgardie 1936-1942 [16] [50]
Resided in Coolgardie until enlisting
Mrs Vera HAMMER
Wife of Harry HAMMER; see Vera MCDONALD
William Battle HAMMOND
Married Sarah Jane ASHWORTH in Perth in 1908 [66]
Labourer at Moondah Brook in Gingin in 1916 [50]
Labourer in Gunyidi in 1917 [50]
Labourer in Wannamal 1919-1921 [50]
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi in 1931 [50]
Leslie William HANN
Farmer in Coorow in 1931 [50]
John HANN
Farmhand in Marchagee 1914-1916 [19]
Mrs Martha HANNAH
Resided in Gunyidi 1913-1917 [19] [50]
Resided in Coomberdale in 1919 [50]
Resided in Moora in 1921 [50]
Richard HANNAH
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1913-1917 [19] [50]
Railway Employee in Coomberdale in 1919 [50]
Goods Porter in Moora in 1921 [50]
Ronald HANNAH
Born C.1932 [2]
Baker in Coorow 1964-1986 [19]
Resided in Coorow until his death in 1994 [2]
Died 6 February 1994; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium A, A, 179) [2]
Arthur Alfred HANSEN
Farmhand in Coorow in 1909 [50]
James Farmer HARLEY
Labourer in Coorow 1931-1933 [19] [50]
Repairer in Gunyidi 1941-1943 [19]
Richard John HARPER
Farmhand on the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee in 1922 [50]
Vera HARRY
Born 31 January 1900 in Cottesloe, Western Australia [15] [P335]
Daughter of William HARRY and Amelia BOASE [15]
Along with her brothers Sam and Bill and sisters Beth and Lyle she grew up in Perth suburb of Mosman Park [P335]
Educated at the Buckland Hill State School and then on a scholarship at Methodist Ladies College [P335]
After finishing her schooling she continued for two years as a School Monitor and was then passed as a School Teacher [P335]
Taught at State Schools in Meekatharra, Hutt, Coorow and then Miling [P335]
Following a temporary closure she re-opened the Coorow State School upon her arrival in Coorow in April 1921 [215]
School Teacher of the Coorow State School in Coorow 1921-1924, on an annual salary of £222 [73] [215]
During her time teaching in Coorow she boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY "for the modest sum of 15/- per week" [215]
She had a room to herself at Mrs BATTERSBY's, was driven to the school each morning, and walked home each afternoon [215]
During her time teaching the Coorow State School was initially in a makeshift hessian and iron room near the railway station [215]
On 29 May 1922 the school shifted after the Education Department moved a building to Coorow from Golden Ridge [215]
Married Coorow farmer George BATTERSBY in Perth in June 1925 [P335]
Resided with her husband and later children on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow 1925-1951 [P335]
Won 1st prizes for Embroidered Cushion and Half Dozen Photographs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Member of the Coorow Parents & Citizens Association [P335]
In 1940 a new house was built on Wattle Vale Farm by a builder and using bricks that had been made by her husband [P335]
Along with her husband and children Harry, Rae, Iris and Edna left Coorow in 1951 and shifted to the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [P335]
Their sons Jack and Donald remained farming in Coorow [P335]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe and later at the Rowethorpe Retirement Village the Perth suburb of Bentley [P8]
Mother of Jack, Harry, Donald, Rae, Iris and Edna [P335]
Died 24 April 1974; ashes scattered over the Rose Garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Gertrude HARVEY
Born 1873 in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [54]
Daughter of Christopher HARVEY and Jane WILLIAMS [54]
Married William Benjamin GEDGE in 1890 in Victoria, Australia [54]
Resided in Carnamah, Western Australia 1904-1906, where her husband worked on the Midland Railway line [6] [19] [50]
Resided in Coorow 1911-1914, where her husband was the local Railway Stationmaster [19] [50]
Postmistress in Coorow in 1911 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Mother of Vera May, Eva Perley and Sylvia Gertrude [54]
Died 6 September 1943; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WG, 165) [2]
Keith George William HARVEY
Born 20 April 1914 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of George Robert HARVEY and Ada Beatrice MILLER [81: 26-Apr-1914] [120: 1-May-1914]
Resided with his parents in Winchester in 1914 [19] [50] [81: 26-Apr-1914] [120: 1-May-1914]
Resided with his parents in Latham 1915-1919 and by 1921 they were living in Moora [50]
Farmhand in Coorow 1935-1938 [19]
During at least some of his time in Coorow he worked as a farmhand for A. Hamlet JONES on Turipa Farm [50]
Married Edna May WEEDON in Perth in 1941 [66]
Tractor Driver in Moora [50]
Resided in Moora prior to enlisting in the Australian Army in Gingin on 11 July 1942 [16]
Gunner WX28109 in the Australian Army's 3rd Field Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 8 January 1944 [16]
Railway Fettler in Picton Junction in 1949 [50]
Samuel Joseph HASLEMERE
Works Inspector in Coorow 1911-1914 [19]
Ellen HAYES
Married Arthur John THOMSON in 1898 [15]
Resided in Coorow in 1916 [50]
Violet Annie HAYES
Born C.1914 [2]
Married "Bill" William Harcles Patrick HOWARD in Perth in 1953 [66]
Resided on farmland in Marchagee 1953-1959 [19]
Died 11 November 1959; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, M, 63) [2]
Alan Sharwood HEALES
Born 12 December 1898 in Fremantle, Western Australia [15] [16]
Son of Ernest Richard HEALES and Nellie WATKINS [15]
In 1916 was working as a Bank Clerk and was living at 70 King Street in Perth WA [94]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 16 December 1916 [30: item 4749403]
On enlistment he was noted as 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 127 lbs. with light blue eyes, fair hair and a fair complexion [30]
Gave his father as his next of kin, his address also being 70 King Street, Perth WA [30]
On 4 May 1916 embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the H.M.A.T. A17 Port Lincoln for active service abroad [30]
After further training in England proceeded to France on the S.S. Princess Henrietta on 8 January 1917 [30]
Gunner 15046 in the Australian Imperial Force's 14th Field Artillery Brigade in France during the First World War [30]
Hospitalised in England for influenza with complications in early February 1919, while on leave from France [30]
Arrived back in Western Australia on the Transport 85 Devanha on 15 June 1919 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 6 August 1919; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD in Perth in 1925 [66]
Resided in Toodyay in 1926 when his home flooded resulting in the loss of his A.I.F. discharge certificate [30]
In 1929 he was working as a Motor Engineer and residing at 31 Keightley Road in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [30]
Applied on 30 April 1920 for a copy of his discharge certificate to submit to the War Service Homes Commission [30]
Arrived in Carnamah on Monday 12 February 1934 [5: 16-Feb-1934]
Mechanical Engineer at Ivan JOHNSON's Farm Service Station in Carnamah in 1934 and 1935 [5: 16-Feb-1934] [6]
On arrival in Carnamah he had 20 years experience in mechanical engineering and was a certified R.A.C. foreman [5: 16-Feb-1934]
He was one of five staff at the Farm Service Station and oversaw the garage's mechanical department [5: 16-Feb-1934]
The Farm Service Station was situated on the north half of 17 Macpherson Street and was accessible from Robertson Street [--]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Committee Member in 1934 and Vice President in 1937 of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the Returned Solders League [5: 16-Mar-1934] [52]
Attended the Annual R.S.L. General Meeting and Smoke Social in Carnamah on Thursday 8 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Smoke Social held in Carnamah on Thursday 26 April 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
On Saturday 12 May 1934 attended the Carnamah Football Club's Grand Opening Ball at the Carnamah Hall [5: 18-May-1934]
Central Umpire for the North Midlands Football Association in 1934 [5: 4-May-1934]
His mother returned to Perth by train on Monday 23 July 1934 after spending two weeks with him in Carnamah [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Shifted from Carnamah to Coorow, where he had his own mechanical garage until 1938 [88] [19]
Proprietor of the Coorow Garage, which was telephone number Coorow-18 [150]
Undertook repairs and overhauls to all classes of automobiles and tractors, and did oxywelding and all classes of engineering [150]
In July 1935 his garage in Coorow became a Royal Automobile Club (R.A.C.) service station [5: 12-Jul-1935]
He was the accredited R.A.C. servicemen for the Coorow, Waddy Forest and Watheroo districts [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1934-35 and 1936-37 [5: 21-Dec-1934, 15-Jan-1937]
Agent for and Installer of 20 Light Power Plants suitable for farmers in 1935, at a cost of £60 [5: 15-Mar-1935]
Represented the Coorow Football Club at meetings of the North Midlands Football Association in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1937, and Assistant Secretary in 1937 [5: 17-May-1935, 27-Mar-1936, 16-Apr-1937]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
On 26 August 1935 gave a witness statement to Constable FIEBIG of Carnamah in connection with a motor accident near Coorow [88]
Travelled to Perth on Monday 30 September 1935 to give evidence at the trial of the man charged over the accident [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1935-1937 [5: 13-Sep-1935, 12-Jun-1936]
Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Society in July 1936, and was again Assistant Secretary in 1937 [5: 17-Jul-1936] [150]
Himself and "Tom" Philip L. MORCOMBE had been Joint Secretaries for the first half of 1937 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Attended the Fourth Annual North Midlands R.S.L. Reunion Dinner held in Three Springs on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Had the top of his thumb taken off when a tractor he was repairing in Coorow backfired on Thursday 24 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Secretary of the committee who organised the Grand Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5]
The Sports & Dance was a joint initiative between the Waddy Forest Toc H and the Coorow Cricket Club [5: 8 & 15-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 25-Oct-1935, 23-Oct-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
During February 1936 himself, his wife and their children spent a prolonged holiday in Perth [5: 7, 14 & 21-Feb-1936]
Attended the Annual Meeting & Smoke Social of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the R.S.L. on Wednesday 11 March 1936 [5: 20-Mar-1936]
Conveyed an extensively damaged Marmon 8 car from two miles south of Coorow to the siding for it to be railed to Perth [5: 10-Apr-1936]
The car, belonging to Mr and Mrs DAVIES of Ashburton Downs, had been wrecked after crashing into a salmon gum tree [5]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Golf Club's 1936 season Opening Day at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 26 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
Warden of the Coorow Anglican Church in 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Attended the Coorow Tennis Club's Back to Childhood Ball at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 22 August 1936 dressed as "Nurse" [5]
He attended as the "Nurse" of David TODD and Harry F. C. KAU who attended together dressed as "Twins" [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Attended the social for Lord Archbishop of Perth Henry F. LE FANU in Carnamah on Saturday evening 19 September 1936 [5]
Himself and George ANTHONY of Arrino spoke about the activities and responsibilities of the Church and its members [5]
The following evening himself and his wife entertained the Lord Archbishop at dinner at their home in Coorow [5]
Also at their dinner were the members of the Coorow Vestry in local farmers Lionel R. GRONOW and Charles C. BOTHE, [5]
Mrs Margaret BOTHE, and North Midlands Anglican Minister Rev. Alfred J. TOOMEY of Three Springs [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Bucks Party for George A. RAFFAN and Eric J. BRADLEY of Winchester in Coorow on 7 October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Played for the Married Men who almost defeated the Single Men in a cricket match in Coorow on 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
In late 1936 complained to the Carnamah District Road Board about the damage caused by straying cattle in the Coorow townsite [5]
He informed them he had given public notice that in future he would destroy any straying cattle that caused damage [5]
The Road Board advised him to secure straying cattle and demand compensation before release [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Advertised in January 1937 that he had for sale a 2-ton Holt caterpillar tractor in good order [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Officer on the Coorow Tennis Club's H.M.S. Coorow Dance at the Coorow Hall on Saturday evening 23 January 1937 [5: 29-Jan-1937]
After a visit to Perth himself, his wife and their children returned to Coorow during the third week of February 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
Played for the again defeated Married Men in a cricket match against Single Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Gave "an interesting and instructive talk" on diesel engines at the Waddy Forest Toc H meeting on 18 May 1937 [5: 21-May-1937]
Took bookings for bridge tables for the Anglican Church's Bridge & Euchre Evening in Coorow on 20 May 1937 [5: 14-May-1937]
Presided over the R.S.L. Valedictory for Charles A. METTAM at the lounge of the Carnamah Hotel on 28 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-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]
Telephoned the Carnamah Police Station on 29 November 1937 to report he had seen in Coorow a person reported missing [88]
By 1942 he was living in the Perth suburb of Como; and later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2] [16]
Died 4 January 1983; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Mrs Edith Vera HEALES
Wife of Alan Sharwood HEALES; see Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD
"Vin" Vincent Sharwood HEALES
Born 26 September 1926 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Alan Sharwood HEALES and Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD [16]
Resided with his parents in Carnamah in 1934 and in Coorow 1935-1938 [5] [19]
Student at the Carnamah State School in 1934 [5: 13-Jul-1934]
Won a 3rd prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 6 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Student at the Coorow State School in 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as an "Indian Chief" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Won 1st prize for Best Model in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the inaugural Combined School Sports of the Carnamah Road Board district in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5]
Came 2nd in the 10 years Boys Running Race (aged 9), and also came 2nd in the 8 and 9 years Boys Sack Race [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Won a 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Awarded a 1st prize for Cane & Raffia Work in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Competed at the Coorow-Waddy Progress Association's Annual Children's Sports in Coorow on 12 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Won the Up to 10 Years Boys Running Race and the Boys 9 Years & Over Sack Race [5]
Along with Rodney G. CROFT came 2nd in the Boys Siamese Race [5]
Came 3rd in the 9 Years & Over Obstacle Race, and at four feet came 4th in the High Jump [5]
Received 2nd prizes for Writing and the Novelty Competition at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy at Fremantle on 26 September 1944 and was discharged on 26 November 1946 [16]
Stoker F5505 on the Royal Australian Navy's H.M.A.S. Leeuwin during the latter part of the Second World War [16]
Later resided in the coastal town of Green Head [2]
Died 10 April 1985; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
"Nellie" Ellen HEALY
Born C.1890 [2]
Married George Edward GUPPY in Perth in 1920 [66]
Her husband, late of Maddington, passed away at the age of 49 years on 13 February 1932 [2]
Arrived in Waddy Forest in February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
School Teacher of the Waddy Well State School in Waddy Forest in 1936 and 1937 [73]
As the sole teacher of the Waddy Well State School she received an annual salary of £221/17/- in 1936 and £229 in 1937 [73]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth, where she spent the school holidays, on Friday 8 May 1936 [5: 15-May-1936]
Herself and Miss Charlotte RIDLEY of the Waddy Forest State School spent the 1936 Christmas holidays in Perth [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Died 11 April 1982; ashes buried in the grave of her husband at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, GC, 243) [2]
"Rene" Florence Irene HEARN
Born C.1892 [2]
Married David Elwin DAWSON in 1912 [66]
Resided in Coorow from September 1935 until February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936] [19]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
After six months in Coorow herself and her husband left and shifted to Perth on Monday 24 February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [2]
Died 24 October 1993; ashes dispersed Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Edith Vera HEAZLEWOOD
Born 1898 in Fremantle, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Charles Edmund HEAZLEWOOD and Edith Mary SHEPHERD [15]
Married Alan Sharwood HEALES in Perth in 1925 [66]
Resided with her husband in Carnamah in 1934 and 1935 [6]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Grand Opening Ball on 12 May 1934 in a shell pink crepe de chine dress [5: 18-May-1934]
Her mother returned to Perth by train on Monday 23 July 1934 after spending a holiday staying with her in Carnamah [5: 27-Jul-1934]
During the year 1935 herself, her husband and their children shifted from Carnamah to Coorow [5]
Along with her children spent several weeks holiday in Perth during July and August 1935 [5: 16-Aug-1935]
Herself, her husband and their children spent the Easter holiday in 1936 at Dongara [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Her mother, of Perth, and her mother-in-law, of Melbourne, both stayed with them in Coorow during May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on 3 September 1936 dressed in flame georgette [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Costume Judge at the Anglican Church's Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Three Springs on Friday 27 November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Herself and her children spent a holiday in Perth during early December 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 11-Jun-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Ardross [2]
Died 28 October 1973; ashes dispersed at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Hugh HENRY
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi in 1912 and 1913 [50]
Arthur James HERDSMAN
Miner in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1914-1917 [50]
George Norman HERLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi 1930-1953 [19] [279]
In 1937 he was the Gunyidi distributor of the Carnamah District Road, Health & Vermin Board's vermin poison [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Gerald Lyel HERLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi 1931-1938 [19] [50]
Mrs Margaret HERLEY
Resided in Gunyidi 1931-1949 [19] [50]
Monica Eileen HERLEY
Born 1908 [15]
Daughter of William George HERLEY and "Maggie" Margaret Maud TROY [15]
She was a qualified school teacher when she shifted to farmland in Gunyidi with her mother and brothers in 1930 [279]
Officially Opened the Gunyidi State School in Gunyidi on Monday 8 September 1930 [279]
School Teacher of the Gunyidi State School in Gunyidi 1930-1935 [279]
For the duties of sole teacher received an annual salary of £222 in 1931, £208/14/- in 1932 and 1933, £231/17/- in 1934 and 1935 [279]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [2]
Died 21 April 1962; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZE, 471) [2]
Margaret Elizabeth Bryant HEWITT
Resided on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [19] [50]
Bernice Louise HIGGS
Born 1905 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Franklin HIGGS and Ellen MARTIN [15]
Married Owen Penrhyn RANDELL in Perth in 1932 [66]
Resided on Meelyah Farm and Chiarcona Farm in Gunyidi [19]
Exhibited in the Confectionary section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5]
Received 1st prizes for both Sponge Sandwich and Decorated Cake, and was awarded 2nd prize for Brown Bread [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Won 1st prize for Jams in the Preserves section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bassendean [2]
Died 31 March 1988; memorised at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury WA (Cassia Court, Niche Wall, W15, 30) [2]
Frank Robert HIGGINS
Born C.1874 [2]
Labourer in Bamboo Creek northeast of Marble Bar in 1903 [50]
Labourer on Muccan Station near Marble Bar in 1906 [50]
Farm Manager in Moora 1908-1910 [9: 2-Oct-1908] [19]
His eye needed four stitches after a horse he was riding took him against a wire clothesline in Moora in September 1908 [9: 2-Oct-1908]
Himself and other bachelors organised a picnic attended by 80 on the Walebing Road in Moora on 11 October 1908 [9: 16-Oct-1908]
Contractor in Moora in 1912 and 1913 [50]
Contractor in Perenjori in 1914 [19] [50]
Contractor in Coorow in 1915 [6]
Contractor in Marchagee in 1919 [19]
Sunk a well and did other work in Coorow for Robert W. OWEN-DAINTREY in 1920 [10: 17-Sep-1920]
Contactor in Coorow in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Contractor in Winchester 1932-1937 [4: 12-Nov-1932] [50]
In 1932 had a hired Ford truck licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board, with license plate CA-16 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Paid £1/1/- by the Carnamah District Road Board in November 1933 for effecting repairs to a water soak in Winchester [300: page 49]
The Road Board paid him £6/6/6 on 11 May 1934 and £2/12/4 on 5 June 1934 for work done on roads in Winchester [300: page 62, 66]
Corresponded with the Carnamah District Road Board regarding truck registrations in April 1936 [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son [53]
Died 3 August 1937; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, FA, 199) [2]
The effects of his estate were sold by auction at the Carnamah Police Station at 2 p.m. on 12 March 1938 [88]
John HIGLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi 1916-1923 [19]
"Alf" Alfred Edward HILL
Born 1889 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of Charles HILL and Anne WILLEY [15]
Farmhand in Coorow 1919-1939 [19] [50]
On 17 June 1923 purchased Lot 89 of the Coorow townsite from the Midland Railway Company for £10 [27]
He was struck on the head by a handle while adjusting the elevator of a haystack in Coorow during December 1930 [4: 20-Dec-1930]
After receiving the strike to his head he required medical attention, and was seen to by Coorow doctor W. SHANAHAN [4]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1934, and Runner-Up B Grade Champion in 1937 [5: 5-Jan-1934, 2-Jul-1937]
Steward of the Sheaf Tossing at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Stewards of the Sheep section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Resided in Coorow until his death at the age of 49 years from atheroma of coronary artery [1] [0: image 03791]
Died 7 May 1939 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row C, Plot 8) [1]
Rev. C. A. WALSH of Three Springs officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
Albyn DOWNES of Coorow paid the £25 for his funeral [53]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 12 May 1939:
Obituary - Late Mr. A. E. Hill
"It is with extreme regret that we record the death of Mr. Alfred Edward Hill, who passed away suddenly at Coorow last Saturday evening. The late Mr. Hill was a well-known figure in Coorow, and the news of his death came as a great shock to all who had known him. The deceased gentleman appeared to be in the best of health and spirits right up to the time of his death. Death was due to heart failure. He was still a comparatively young man being 49 years of age. During his sojourn in the Coorow district he had taken a keen interest in the Coorow Rifle Club and was a popular marksman among his fellow members. Four brothers, two at Gingin and one at Narrogin and another at Victoria Park, and a sister residing at West Perth, are left to mourn their loss. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon, the place of interment being the Winchester cemetery."
Sydney William May HILLMAN
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19] [50]
Andrew Gerald HIRST
Born 21 May 1958 [14]
Son of Arnold Gerald Creswell HIRST and "Maisie" Mary Lochhead MCGILP [14]
Resided with his parents in a house on the Midlands Road in Coorow town [P12]
Died 31 December 1960 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row H, Plot 14) [1]
Arnold Gerald Creswell HIRST
Born 12 October 1917 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [16]
Son of Eric Arnold HIRST and Ella HICKS [P12]
Resided in Serpentine prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 30 April 1941 [16]
Married (1) "Joy" Joyce Amelia TIDY in 1942 [66]
Corporal 38528 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 79 Operational Base Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 December 1945 [16]
Resided in Carnamah in 1946 and early 1947 [0: images 04431 & 04389] [52]
Mechanic for Eric H. GURR at the garage at 4 Macpherson Street in Carnamah [P4]
During their time in Carnamah himself and his wife Joy lived at 15 Yarra Street in the Carnamah townsite [P4]
Member of the Carnamah Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1946 [52]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1946 [0: image 04389]
Along with his wife left Carnamah in January 1947 and shifted to Perth [0: image 04431]
By April 1947 he had moved to Coorow where he ran his own business "Hirst's Garage and Agency" [0: image 04477]
Worked in Coorow as an Automotive Engineer including Oxywelding and all Motor Repairs [150]
In 1947 was also an agent in Coorow for Wigmores Limited, Caterpillar Tractors and Shearer Farm Machines [150]
Sub-agent in 1947 for Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co (Accident, Fire, Motor Cars) and Independent Oil Industries (Purr Starr) [150]
In 1947 also sold all makes of tyres and was a sub-agent for Ford cars, trucks and tractors [0: image 04477]
Initially had a garage in Commercial Street, Coorow and later on Poynton Parade in Coorow [P8]
Member of the Winchester Cricket Club in 1947 [0: image 04492]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1948-1958 [0: image 04509] [4: 11-Jul-1958]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Coorow farmer George HUTCHCRAFT on 28 January 1949 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1951 [4: 21-Apr-1951]
Married (2) "Maisie" Mary Lochhead MCGILP on 12 July 1952 at Saint Andrew's Church in Perth WA [0: image 04640]
At his second wedding his best man was Coorow farmer Milton J. TILLY and his groomsman R. FARMER [0: image 04640]
Employed the services of E. Clive HUNTER [P320] to build a house next to his garage on the Midlands Road in Coorow [P12]
When they returned after their wedding the house wasn't quite ready so they had to stay at the Coorow Hotel for a week [P12]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1952 [0: image 04685]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1953 [0: image 04707]
As an agent for Wigmores was a seller of the John Deere automatic pick-up hay baler in 1954 [4: 24-Jul-1954]
In 1955 was the authorised Ford Dealer for Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs and Perenjori [4: 1-Oct-1955]
Performed general repairs to cars and trucks in addition to selling petrol, oils, greases, tyres and tubes [4: 1-Oct-1955]
In 1956 was an agent for Coldsbrough Mort & Co (Farm Requisites), [4: 1-Oct-1955]
Wigmore's Ltd (Farm Machinery), G-Well Loaders, and the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd [4: 1-Oct-1955]
His garage was telephone number Coorow-21 [4: 1-Oct-1955]
Member of the Coorow Bowling Club [P8]
Sold his garage on Poynton Parade in Coorow to Eric J. BRADLEY in 1962 or 1963 [60]
After giving up his garage he went share-farming in Coorow - on Thomas NIVEN's Caringi and also for H. Edward JONES [P12]
While share-farming in Coorow continued to reside with his family in their house on Poynton Parade in the Coorow townsite [P12]
Resided in their house on Poynton Parade in the Coorow townsite until shifting with his wife and children to Winchester C.1964 [P12]
From C.1964 to the early 1970s share-farmed and resided on J. P. STRATTON's farm in Winchester [P12]
In the early 1970s shifted to a farm in Perenjori and continued farming [P12]
Member of the Perenjori Bowling Club [P8]
In 1995 was a retired farmer and was living at 15 Russell Street in the Perenjori townsite [90]
Father of Nicol, Christopher, Andrew and Jeffery [P12]
Died 13 March 1995 in Morawa; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row H, Plot 15) [1]
"Jim" Randolph Hanscombe Belper HOGBIN
Born 11 May 1907 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Sidney Robert HOGBIN and Mabel HARRISON [15]
Farmer of the 961 acre Lot M1271 in Waddy Forest 1931- [3] [50]
His father had purchased the farm from William A. T. and Marianne GODWIN on 20 October 1925 [27] [34]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club from 1933-34 to 1936-37 [5: 20-Apr-1934, 19-Apr-1935, 23-Oct-1936]
In early 1934 he had a new cement brick house built for himself at Waddy Forest [5: 9-Feb-1934]
After a trip to Perth he returned to Waddy Forest on Monday 23 July 1934 [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth in early October 1934 to attend the Perth Royal Show [5: 5-Oct-1934]
Married Wylie Melissa BELL in Perth in 1934 [66]
Along with his wife arrived in Coorow by train on 1 December 1934 and received a warm reception at the station [5: 14-Dec-1934]
Himself and his wife returned to Waddy on 23 February 1935 after spending a holiday at the beach in Perth [5: 15-Feb-1935, 1-Mar-1935]
Played the piano for the adult dancing which followed the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
In July 1935 purchased a new McKay-Sunshine 14 disc Sundercut plough [5: 26-Jul-1935]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth for a short visit on Saturday morning 24 August 1935 [5: 30-Aug-1935]
In his father's name sold 43 suckers for 12/10 per head through Westralian Farmers on 4 September 1935 [5: 6-Sep-1935]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth in October 1935 to attend the Perth Royal Show [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Represented Waddy at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 6-Sep-1935, 29-Jan-1937]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Thursday 16 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
His father was carting water for him from William G. MORCOMBE's Wynmara Farm in Waddy Forest on 29 January 1936 [5]
On the way back the steering gear broke and his truck driven by his father left the road and careered through a fence [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Returned to Waddy Forest on Thursday 6 February 1936 after spending a few weeks in Perth [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday Party for Nance FOLLAND at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-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]
Himself, his wife and their daughter returned to Waddy on 22 February 1937 after a number of weeks at the beach [5: 26-Feb-1937]
"S. R. Hogbin & Son" sold 12 sheep at 25/9 per head through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on 7 July 1937 [5: 9-Jul-1937]
Returned from Perth with a new Chrysler Plymouth car during the last week of July 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Won 2nd prize for early season Medium Strong White Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-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]
Private W27068 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Sold his 961 acre farm in Waddy Forest, Lot M1271, to Gilbert R. FOLLAND [3]
In 1948 purchased El Cala Farm in Coorow from S. Arnold RUDDUCK and renamed the property Wandao [P363]
The farm was 2,697 acres and consisted of Victoria Locations 3019, 3175, 3177, portion 3178, 3228, 3229, 3261 and 3429 [3]
Sold his Wandao Farm in Coorow to John DOLEY in 1974 [P363]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Father of Cynthia and Geoff [P8]
Died 14 May 1995; memorised at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 9O, 106) [2]
Mrs Wylie Melissa HOGBIN
Wife of "Jim" Randolph Hanscombe Belper HOGBIN; see Wylie Melissa BELL
Linda Helen HOGG
Born 30 July 1879 in Mitcham, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Lewis Richard HOGG and Helen PAGE [55]
Married Gordon Caleb GURR on 19 January 1910 at Saint Michael's Church in Mitcham, South Australia [55]
Their first three children were born in 1911, 1913 and 1915 at Mitcham and North Adelaide in South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in Western Australia 1914-1916 [19]
Their final four children were born in 1918, 1920, 1922 and 1925 in Loxton, Unley Park and Prospect in South Australia [55]
Mother of Helen, David, Margaret, Eustace, Gwenda, Natalie and Alesa [55]
Charles Augustus HOLBERG
Teamster and Carpenter on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1916 and 1917 [19] [50]
Station-hand on Kadji Kadji Station in Morawa in 1919 [50]
Handyman in Walebing in 1922 [50]
Alma Caroline HOLDEN
Born 5 December 1889 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England [P328]
Daughter of Frederick Charles HOLDEN and Dolly BEADLE [P328]
She was in the house of her groomsman uncle Edward H. BEADLE in Croydon, Surrey at the time of the 1891 British Census [20]
In 1901 was living with her maternal grandmother Emma BEADLE at Wattenden Cottages in Coulsdon, Surrey, England [20]
Departed London, England on the Otranto and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 21 February 1911 [70]
Following her arrival she proceeded to Mornington Mills where she worked as an upstairs maid servant [P328]
Married (1) James Herbert THOMAS in 1912 [66]
After breaking up with her husband he took their daughter Dolly and she took their daughter "Violet" Alma Violet THOMAS [P328]
Met (2) "Augie" Augustus Frederick Leopold CROFT in the Perth suburb of Subiaco in 1916 [P328]
Resided with Augie on Osnabruck Farm in Moora 1919-1922 [50]
Later resided with her partner Augustus and later also their children on Wattle Dell Farm in Moora [P328]
In 1930 they left Moora and shifted to the Coorow townsite [P328]
They initially resided in a makeshift house called The Haven on land in Coorow belonging to the Midland Railway Company [P328]
On 20 September 1935 she purchased two quarter acre blocks in the Coorow townsite (Lots 12 and 33 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
She purchased the two blocks from the Midland Railway Company for £30, payable by instalments over 12 months [27]
Her partner constructed a house which they named Mornington on her Lot 12, which was on Poynton Parade in Coorow [P328]
Resided at Mornington on Poynton Parade in the Coorow townsite 1936-1941 [P328]
Then resided with her partner and their children in a humpy on farmland at Lake Eganu west of Coorow 1941-1945 [3] [P328]
During their time at Lake Eganu she taught her three younger children by correspondence schooling [P328]
On leaving the farm they returned to their home Mornington in the Coorow townsite [P328]
In the mid 1950s they left Coorow and shifted to Latham, and in the later 1950s shifted to Mingenew [P328]
Resided in the Mingenew townsite for at least the years 1958-1970 [P328]
Herself and her partner later resided with their daughter Dolly at 77 Carson Terrace in Geraldton [P328]
Following Augustus' death in 1974 she continued living with her daughter Dolly until her own death in 1981 [P328]
Mother of Frederick, Leo, Lloyd, Dolly, Joyce, Olga, Rodney, Max, Benjamin and April CROFT [P328]
Died 13 May 1981; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton [26]
Bruce HOLDEN
Born C.1901 [2]
Married Edith Louisa ARCHER in Perth in 1926 [66]
Garage Proprietor in Coorow in 1928 and 1929, and Storekeeper in Marchagee 1930-1932 [19]
Paid £22/17/9 by the Carnamah District Road Board for undertaking mechanical repairs over the 1933-34 financial year [300: page 19]
Attended the Annual Meeting of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Football Club on Saturday 14 April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1934 [5: 25-May-1934]
While helping with chaff cutting on Thursday 26 July 1934 he got his right index finger caught in the cogs of the feeder [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Received treatment at the Carnamah Private Hospital, where it was found necessary to have the first joint of the finger removed [5]
Returned to his home in Waddy Forest on Saturday 28 July 1934 however was unable to use his injured hand for some time [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Left Waddy Forest on Thursday 14 February 1935 after obtaining a job with the firm Wigmore's in Perth [5: 15-Feb-1935]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [2]
Died 3 July 1968; ashes scattered over the rose garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Charlotte HOLMES
Married Frank Ringol BRYANT in 1906 [66]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Marchagee [50]
Won 1st prize for Knitted Woollen Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Awarded 1st prize for Knitted or Crochet Article and 2nd for Baby Set at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Arthur Delbridge HOLT
Born 25 February 1908 in Fremantle, Western Australia [16]
Farmer in Gunyidi [19]
Farmed in Gunyidi partnership with Francis C. DELBRIDGE 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]
Resided in Narembeen prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 9 April 1941 [16]
Corporal WX11499 in the Australian Army's 2/1 Headquarters Guard Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 22 December 1944 [16]
Reginald John HONEYMAN
Born C.1934 [1]
Farm Labourer in Coorow in 1978 [90]
Passed away at the age of 43 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [90]
Died 9 January 1978 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row U, Plot 5) [1]
Ivan Meredith HOPE
Farmer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1913-1922 [50]
Arthur HORTON
Farmhand on Ytinchie Farm in Marchagee 1915-1919 [50]
James HORTON
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
At the Picnic & Sports Meeting he won both the Pole Vaulting and Hop Step & Jump [39: 12-Oct-1911]
"Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING
Born 1911 [15]
Married "Jim" James Horace DONEY in 1932 [66]
Resided with her husband and children in Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite [P84]
During the first week of December 1956 herself and her husband spent a few days in Perth [4: 7-Dec-1956]
Later resided in South Perth [45] and the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Hazel, Win, Lindsay, Vivian, Joan, Ken, Barbara, Elizabeth and Colleen [45]
Died 15 June 2006; cremated at the Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]
Edith Agnes HOUSE
Resided in Coorow in 1909 [50]
Mrs Violet Annie HOWARD
Wife of "Bill" William Harcles Patrick HOWARD; see Violet Annie HAYES
Gilbert Lindsay HUGHES
Farmhand in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [19] [50]
Joseph HUGHES
Farmhand in Waddy Forest 1923-1933 [19]
Mrs Kathleen Edith HUGHES
Resided in Waddy Forest 1931-1933 [50]
William Cyril Ernest HUGHES
Teamster in Waddy Forest 1931-1933 [19] [50]
In 1931 he was working for Kenneth E. JONES on Berkley Farm in Waddy Forest [50]
John Benson Parker HULL
Farmhand in Latham in 1916 [50]
Farmhand for Herbert T. FOX in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Mrs Phoebe Elizabeth HUNT
Wife of Price Willis HUNT; see Phoebe Elizabeth MORCOMBE
Price Willis HUNT
Born 8 June 1891 in Minlaton, South Australia [55]
Son of Thomas HUNT and Elizabeth MARTIN [55]
Married Phoebe Elizabeth MORCOMBE on 27 August 1921 in Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Farmer in Ceduna, South Australia until shifting to Western Australia in 1927 [0: image 04398]
On 28 May 1927 purchased 1,248 acres of farmland in Waddy Forest, Western Australia (Lot M1282 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
The land had previously been owned by Donnell E. FOWLER, and had originally been taken up in 1925 by NEWMAN & SMITH [27]
Farmer of Kilby Farm in Waddy Forest 1927-1946 [0: image 04398] [5: 8-Jun-1934]
His farm was said to have been situated fourteen miles from Coorow and fourteen miles from Latham [4: 8-Feb-1947]
In August 1930 his wife's garden was described as "exceptionally attractive" in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 23-Aug-1930]
In 1932 was the owner of an Oakland car and a Chevrolet truck with license plates CA-106 and CA-221 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1932-1946 [4: 9-Apr-1932, 1-Jun-1935] [150]
Won 1st for a Draught Blood Mare and 2nd for Three Sheaves of Green Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Purchased a new Horwood Bagshaw combine in April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
In 1934 installed a Gilco electric lighting plant at his homestead on Kilby Farm [5: 8-Jun-1934]
Along with his wife and children left for Perth on Monday 9 July 1934 en route to Adelaide to see his seriously ill mother [5: 13-Jul-1934]
After travelling each way and two weeks in Adelaide they arrived back in Waddy Forest on Saturday 4 August 1934 [5: 17-Aug-1934]
Received 2nd prize for a Yearling Draught Colt or Filly at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
On Saturday 1 September 1934 he took delivery two draught horses imported from South Australia [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Travelled to Perth by car, accompanied by his nieces Eileen MORCOMBE and Nance FOLLAND, on 1 October 1934 [5: 5-Oct-1934]
Around October 1934 purchased a Hallstrom semi-automatic refrigerator from Carnamah agent S. L. HIDDEN [5: 2-Nov-1934]
Advertised in The North Midland Times newspaper in January 1934 that he had seed barley for sale [5: 4-Jan-1935]
Had for sale Californian Six Row Barley for £1 per bag or five or more bags at 15/- per bag [5]
Proyors Malting Barley for 9/- per bag, Cape Barley for 7/6 per bag; and also feed oats for 6/- per bag [5]
He had the telephone connected to his home on Kilby Farm - was telephone number Waddy Forest-16 [5: 4-Jan-1935]
After spending a holiday at the beach himself and his family returned to Waddy Forest in late February 1935 [5: 1-Mar-1935]
Sold 313 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at six Midland Markets in 1935: [5: 16 & 23-Aug-1935, 7 & 20-Sep-1935, 4 & 11-Oct-1935]
161 suckers (81 at 18/4, 33 at 17/7, 45 at 16/4, 2 stained at 15/-) and 152 ewes (72 at 9/7, 44 shorn at 7/10, 36 shorn at 5/7) [5]
Won 1st prize for 2 year old Draught Filly bred by exhibitor and 2nd for Brood Mare at the Coorow-Waddy Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 12¼d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Delivered the first load of wheat in Coorow for the 1935-36 harvest on Saturday 2 November 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of William B. SHERIDAN of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Proposed the toast at his niece Nance FOLLAND's 21st Birthday at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Won 1st prize for 2-year old Filly bred by exhibitor in the Horse section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Sold 131 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at three Midland Markets in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936, 23-Oct-1936, 6-Nov-1936]
They comprised 110 suckers (23 at 20/4, 44 at 18/7, 23 at 18/-, 12 at 13/7, 8 at 8/10), 10 ewes at 13/7 and 11 hoggets at 10/- [5]
Advertised a large light oak oval table for sale in The North Midland Times newspaper in November 1936 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
In late May 1937 he took delivery of a new John Deere tractor In June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Won 1st prize for Green Oats for Grain at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Underwent an operation on his elbow at the Carnamah Private Hospital in September 1938 [0: image 03747]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Eliza Wilhelmina BOTHE at the Winchester Cemetery on 24 August 1942 [0]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04318]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Mary Louisa GRONOW on 24 August 1942 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
Father of Reata, Kevin, June and Marion [14]
Died 10 September 1946 at the Morawa Hospital, Morawa; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 9) [1]
Rev. Percy CLARK officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
During the 1946-47 financial year his farm in Waddy Forest was sold to James Leslie ADAMS of Winchester [3]
On 20 February 1947 livestock, farm machinery, produce and sundries from his estate were sold by public auction [4]
His livestock included fourteen horses, six cows and 650 sheep (mainly Border Leicester cross ewes) [4]
Machinery sold at the sale included a 2-ton Holt tractor, 14-disc Shearer twin plough, 16-row rigid tyne H.B. combine, [4]
24-disc Shearer drill, 10-foot A.L. harvester, 10-foot McKay harvester, 6-foot Massey Harris binder, 6-furrow M.B. plough, [4]
hay rake, 35-tyne cultivator, corn-crusher, 8-leaf Shearer harrow with trailer, Federation dam sinking plough, Federation scoop, [4]
Gilchrist pickler, McKay chaffcutter, 12-foot elevator, Bishop grader and pickler and a 1½-horsepower Ronaldson-Tippet engine [4]
Other items sold at the sale were a Buzzacott fumigator, rabbit poisoning cart and numerous sundries and supplies [4: 8-Feb-1947]
Before leaving Coorow his wife Phoebe was publicly farewelled at the Coorow Hall on 26 March 1947 [0: image 04451]
Phoebe died on 21 August 1970, aged 88 years and was buried at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in Perth WA [2]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, September 1946:
"Obituary - Late Price William Hunt. A gloom was cast over the whole district on Tuesday, September 10 when it was learnt that an old and highly respected resident of Waddy Forest in the person of Price William Hunt, had passed away at the Morawa Hospital at the age of 56 years. Deceased who is survived by a widow, three daughters and one son, was born in Ceduna, South Australia, where he was conducing farming operations. His parents were one of the oldest families who pioneered farming settlements at Ceduna. The late Mr. Hunt came to W.A. in 1927, and took up a property at Waddy Forest, which he occupied until his demise. The funeral which was conducted by the Rev. Percy Clark, and was very largely attended, took place at the Winchester Cemetery on Wednesday, September 11. The chief mourners were Mrs. P. W. Hunt (widow), daughters, June and Marion, son Kevin, sisters, Mrs. Dunne and Mrs. Bowel, sister-in-law Mrs. S. K. Folland, and brothers-in-law W. G., P. T., A. E. and E. Y. Morcombe. The pall bearers were Messrs G. Gronow, E. Chapman, A. McGilp, C. C. Bothe, F. Bingham and G. Greenwood."
Mrs Yvonne Jessie HUNT
Born C.1920 [2]
Resided in Three Springs in 1947 and on Kendrick Farm in Bowgada in 1948 and 1940 [19]
Resided on Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee 1950-1973 [19]
Resided in Coorow in 1976 [2]
Died 5 November 1976; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (EC Section, Garden of Remembrance, 13, 61) [2]
"Clive" Edwin Clive HUNTER
Born 24 March 1907 in Swanbourne, Western Australia [P320]
Son of Walter Sydney HUNTER and Charlotte Kelk WATERLAND [P320]
His father was a stonemason and later builder who had come from the Parramatta district of New South Wales [P320]
Grew up in the Perth suburbs of Swanbourne and Victoria Park, and was educated at the Victoria Park State School [P320]
Worked as a builder with his father in suburban Perth, and built houses in Tincurrin and Kalamunda [P320]
Married Dulcie Elizabeth YULE on 9 July 1932 at the Anglican Christ Church in the Perth suburb of Claremont [P320]
In 1932 he began working as a builder on his own [P320]
Resided with his wife and later children in a house he built in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [P320]
Had a boat shed at Marmion Beach, and built boats which had sails his wife made out of sewed together Ajax bags [P320]
Builder in the Coorow district [P320]
Himself and his wife lived with Ernest and Mora CHAPMAN in Waddy Forest while he built a house for them in Coorow [P320]
Their children continued to live in their home in Victoria Park, where they were cared for by relatives living in the house [P320]
He built many houses from in the Coorow district from ground level to final completion, in addition to extending existing homes [P320]
During the brick shortage after the Second World War he created wooden moulds and made concrete bricks [P320]
Many of the homes he built in and around Coorow were made with his concrete bricks, and some were timber framed homes [P320]
Built houses for locals G. Ernest R. A. D. CHAPMAN, Ronald L. PETERS, Mrs Janet M. JONES, Roy M. PATTON, [P320]
Norman J. M. PATTON, Graham N. HYDE, Albert C. BOTHE, Geoffrey T. TREMLETT, Benjamin E. CROFT, [P320]
Arnold G. C. HIRST, Miles Y. MORCOMBE, Mrs Janet M. MCGILP, Colin E. HYDE, David I. DAVIES, [P320]
Bevan M. O'CALLAGHAN, Harry C. GREENWOOD, Maxwell J. BARKER, and Mrs Margaret V. MANNING [P320]
Extended Charles H. GRONOW's house in Coorow, and built the Coorow Bowling Club and the Coorow R.S.L. Hall [P320]
Also built houses in Green Head for fisherman Douglas I. MORPHETT and Ross D. MORPHETT [P320]
Himself and his wife also ran a hardware business in Coorow, which had evolved out of people needing building supplies [P320]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 19 March 1948 [96]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [P320]
Member of the Coorow Masonic Lodge - donated the land for the Lodge, and was the contractor who built the Lodge [P320]
Member of the Coorow Bowling Club [P320]
While living at Coorow he regularly travelled to Jurien and later Green Head to go fishing [P320]
At Billy Goat Bay in Green Head he built seven boat sheds, one of which was for himself [P320]
Built another two boats, one which he used himself and the other for Coorow farmer David I. DAVIES [P320]
In about 1972 built a house at Green Head, after which himself and his wife left Coorow [P320]
Resided in the coastal town of Green Head from about 1972 until his death in 1984 [P320]
Father of Phyllis, Margaret, Pauline and Elizabeth [14]
Died 13 May 1984 in Green Head; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 12) [1]
Mrs Dulcie Elizabeth HUNTER
Wife of "Clive" Edwin Clive HUNTER; see Dulcie Elizabeth YULE
James HUNTER
Farmer in Latham 1919-1922 [50]
Percy Herman HUNTER
Farmer in Latham 1917-1922 [50]
Mrs Ada HUTCHCRAFT
Wife of George HUTCHCRAFT; see Ada PRIOR
Cyril HUTCHCRAFT
Born 25 May 1922 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England [16]
Son of George HURCHCRAFT and Ada PRIOR [14]
Resided with his parents on Sandringham Farm in Coorow, Western Australia [19]
Awarded 2nd prize for Sealing Wax Work in the Educational section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Won 2nd prizes for Handwork and a Crayon Drawing at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held in Coorow in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1951 [5: 12-Jul-1935, 7-Aug-1936] [4: 11-Jul-1958]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 14-Feb-1936, 19-Mar-1937]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 25 May 1943 [16]
Gunner WX39786 in the Australian Army's 2/8 Australian Field Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 9 May 1946 [16]
Farmer of 1000 acres in Coorow, being Lot M1069 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Resided in Coorow until at least 1970, and later resided in Green Head [1] [19]
Husband of Barbara [14]
Father of Carlene and John [14]
Died 18 November 1980 at the Leeman Nursing Post, Leeman; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row J, Plot 14) [1]
George HUTCHCRAFT
Born 13 September 1884 in Ramsey, Huntingdon, England [16]
Son of "Tom" Thomas HUTCHCRAFT and Sarah Ann WYLES [20] [21]
Grew up in Ramsey, Huntingdon, England where his father and later himself worked as an Agricultural Labourer [20]
In 1901 was living with his parents and siblings John, William, Ellen, Martha, Edith, Ada, Ethel and Jack in High Street, Ramsey [20]
Married Ada PRIOR in 1904 in London, England [21]
Departed London, England with wife and son on the Osterley and arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 27 January 1910 [70]
On 23 July 1924 purchased Carl G. B. JENSEN's 1305 acre Sandringham Farm in Coorow, Western Australia [27]
The 1305 acres consisted of Lots M965, M1233 and M1457 and still had instalments owing to the Midland Railway Company [27]
Farmer of Sandringham Farm in Coorow 1924-1949 [19] [27]
In September 1928 purchased a new Chev truck from Carnamah dealer L. Scott WYLIE [4: 22-Sep-1928]
In 1932 his Chevrolet truck was registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-346 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Purchased for cash Robert J. MCDONALD's 1,000 acre farm in Coorow on a walk in walk out basis [5: 30-Jun-1933]
The farm, which he purchased for his son Reg, was Lot M1069; and 700 of its 1000 acres were First Class land [3] [5]
The local paper stated "Mr. Hutchcraft, who prides himself on his skill in poisoning rabbits, is a careful and successful farmer [5]
In October 1933 sold seven bales of wool through Westralian Farmers Ltd at 14½d. per pound [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Requested with the Carnamah Road Board in March 1934 for a road adjoining his farm to be closed [5: 23-Mar-1934]
In November 1934 purchased a new Leeuwin No. 4 chaffcutter through Carnamah agent Stanley L. HIDDEN [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Around the same time he also purchased a new Big E harvester [5: 23-Nov-1934]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1934-35 [4: 22-Dec-1934]
In August 1935 advised the Carnamah District Road Board of farmers who hadn't done compulsory rabbit extermination [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Sold a consignment of 63 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 2 October 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Sold 21 of the sheep consisting of 15 shorn wethers, 3 shorn ewes, 1 shorn lamb and 2 suckers for 11/- per head [5]
The remainder were 1 stained lamb at 10/7, 3 shorn rams at 8/-, 14 shorn ewes at 5/7, and 24 shorn ewes at 4/7 per head [5]
Sold another 35 sheep at 8/- per head through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on 21 October 1936 [5: 23-Oct-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on Friday 18 September 1936 [5]
Purchased three Merino rams, two at 6¾ guineas and 1 at 6 guineas, from the Carnamah based Wongyarra Stud [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Sold 117 ewes through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market in 1937 - 27 at 12/10, 57 at 10/10 and 33 at 5/1 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
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 Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah; [5]
Frank R. BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL, W. Frank FENNELL and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; Baxter D. BOTHE, [5]
William J. GAUNT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM and John S. READ of Coorow [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]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937, 6-Aug-1937]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Australian Defence League in 1940 [0: image 03947]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Thomas BONHAM on 10 August 1945 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [0: 24-Aug-1945]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 [150]
In December 1948 he sold his original 1305 acres of farmland to Lloyd D. BOTHE of Coorow [3]
Father of Reginald and Cyril [14]
Died 27 January 1949 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 4) [1]
Rev. P. C. DANGER of Moora officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by H. KNIGHT of Three Springs [1]
Following his death his estate was valued for probate at £27,304/0/9 [4: 3-Sep-1949] [39: 27-Aug-1949]
His remaining 1000 acres of land, Lot M1609, originally purchased for his son Reg, appears to have been inherited by his son Cyril [3]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Thursday 3 February 1949:
"Sudden Death of Mr. G. Hutchcraft. On Thursday last, January 27, a well known and respected farmer of Coorow, Mr. George Hutchraft collapsed whilst in Coorow, and passed away shortly after the arrival of Dr. Mayrhofer who had been summoned from Three Springs. Death was due to heart failure. The late Mr. Hutchcraft was 64 years of age and was born at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, England, and is survived by his widow and two sons, Reginald and Cyril. Deceased has been conducting farming operations in Coorow for many years and his loss will be felt by many local organisations, especially the Coorow Golf Club of which he was hon. Secretary. The funeral took place at the Winchester Cemetery on Friday, January 28 and was attended by a large number of relatives and friends. The Rev. P. C. Danger, of Moora conducted the burial service at the graveside. The chief mourners were:- deceased's widow and two sons Reg. and Cyril and two daughters-in-law. The carriers and pall bearers were Messrs. George Raffan, A. Hirst, N. M. James, K. Ball, A. C. Bierman, C. J. Dallimore, G. Battersby, H. Greenwood, P. W. Thomson, E. Casey and C. Chapman."
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 5 February 1949:
"Sudden Death at Coorow - With somewhat tragic suddenness, the death occurred at Coorow on Friday of last week of Mr. George Hutchcraft, of Sandringham Farm, the deceased gentleman being a very old and highly respected resident of the Coorow district. The funeral took place in the Winchester Cemetery on Saturday last and was largely attended by residents from all parts of the district."
Reginald George HUTCHRCFAT
Born 12 September 1938 [84]
Son of Reginald Percy George HURCHCRAFT and Gladys Irene KNAPP [84]
Resided with his parents in Coorow [84]
He was baptised in S. John G. ASPLIN of the North Midlands Methodist Mission on 11 December 1938 [84]
Later resided with his parents in Three Springs and Carnamah [19] [84]
Died 8 June 2007 [29]
"Reg" Reginald Percy George HUTCHCRAFT
Born 22 March 1905 in London, England [14] [21]
Son of George HUTCHCRAFT and Ada PRIOR [14]
Departed London, England with his parents on the Osterley and arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 27 January 1910 [70]
Presumably settled with his parents on Sandingham Farm in Coorow, Western Australia in 1924 [--]
Farmer and Farmhand in Coorow 1927-1941 [19] [84]
Married Gladys Irene KNAPP in 1937 [66]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club from 1928-29 to 1936-37 [4: 3-Nov-1928, 13-Dec-1930, 15-Jan-1937]
On Sunday 28 October 1928 played in the first ever cricket match of the Coorow and Districts Cricket Association [4: 3-Nov-1928]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Delegate for the Coorow Cricket Club at meetings of the Carnamah District Cricket Association in 1935-36 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Represented the Carnamah District Cricket Association in a match against the North Midlands on 1 December 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Played for the Carnamah District Cricket Association at Country Week Cricket in Perth during February 1936 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Played for the defeated "The Rest" in a cricket match against Carnamah in Coorow on Sunday 22 March 1936 [5: 27-Mar-1936]
Attended the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
He was one of the first on the scene of a head on car collision between Coorow and Winchester on New Year's Eve in 1936 [5]
He rushed the most seriously injured from the collision to the Carnamah Private Hospital in Carnamah [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1936-37 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Carrier in Three Springs in 1940 [84], and Labourer in Three Springs in 1943 [19]
Resided in Carnamah from 1947 to 1956, where he initially also worked as a Labourer [19]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club in 1948 [0: image 04509]
Conducted a tearooms in Macpherson Street, Carnamah in 1950 and 1951 [60]
Builder in Carnamah 1951-1956 [60]
From 1951 to 1956 resided in Yarra Street, Carnamah and was telephone number Carnamah-33 [60]
Received electricity at his home from Carnamah firm Henry Parkin & Son; in 1952 paid a flat monthly rate of 17/6 for electricity [53]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1952 [13]
Resided in Carnamah until 1964 and in 1965 was a Fisherman in Green Head [19]
Resided of late at Little Anchorage in Green Head [1]
Father of Reginald and Richard [84]
Died 15 June 1966 in Green Head; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 1) [1]
Annie Mary HUTCHINS
Born 6 July 1872 in Clare, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Benjamin HUTCHINS and Elizabeth ROSCROW [55]
Married George John Thomas BATTERSBY on 9 September 1889 in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia [P335]
In Victoria gave birth to a daughter Olive Jane at Omeo on 21 June 1891, who died on 4 April 1892 in Cassilis [P335]
They shifted to Western Australia and lived in Boulder, Mount Magnet and Cue where he husband worked as a Miner [P335]
Resided with her husband and children on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1908-1925 [P335]
Despite having no children of school age she led the local campaign to have the closed Coorow State School reopened in 1919 [215]
After five months of written correspondence with the Education Department the school reopened on 19 August 1919 [215]
She was one of four locals who signed a guarantee to supplement the teacher's wage if the enrolment fell below eight students [215]
In 1919 and 1920 several children from Latham boarded with her in Coorow so they could attend the Coorow State School [215]
Wrote to the Education Department numerous times to ensure the school stayed opened and to get an official school building [215]
The school's teachers Mercia C. BARLOW in 1921 and Vera HARRY 1921-1924 boarded at her home on Wattle Vale Farm [215]
After unfulfilled promises of an official school building she wrote to and recruited the help of Charles C. MALEY, M.L.A. [215]
Her persistence paid off with the Education Department moving a school building from Golden Ridge to Coorow in May 1922 [215]
The school had previously been at two rooms of the uninhabited Coorow House and then in a makeshift hessian and iron room [215]
Sometime after her son George's marriage in 1925 she shifted into the Coorow townsite where she ran a boarding house [P335]
In 1930 her boarding house in Coorow was known as the "Coorow Hostel" and was telephone number Coorow-14 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Her hostel provided home-like accommodation for boarders and boasted every modern convenience [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Requested in March 1936 for the Carnamah District Road Board to remove the trees in front of her hostel in Coorow [5: 20-Mar-1936]
At their monthly meeting on Wednesday 22 April 1936 the Carnamah District Road Board decided to remove the trees [5: 17-Apr-1936]
After vacating her boarding house its first class furniture and effects were sold at a clearing sale on Saturday 20 March 1937 [5]
The sale had been organised by her son George and was conducted by auctioneer Alexander R. G. BARR of Three Springs [5]
Everything from the boarding house was sold without reserve and included three single wooden bedsteads; six iron bedsteads; [5]
two double wooden bedsteads and matrasses; 14 matrasses, pillows, quilts and blankets; two dressing tables with mirrors; [5]
two wardrobes with mirrors; linos for eight rooms, four 6x20 linos; three cane chairs; three cane armchairs; 14 bentwood chairs; [5]
three small tables; two Aladdin hanging lambs and fittings; curtains and fitting from all rooms; two armchairs; 18 oak chairs; [5]
three 5x3 oak tables; three kitchen tables; one leather lounge; six glass bread crocks; one oak sideboard; four table lamps; [5]
six hurricane lanterns; seven pairs of white blankets; eight pairs of grey blankets; large boiler; large safe; large mirror and stand; [5]
cement bath; six verandah blinds and fittings; 40 fowls; and a large quantity of crockery, cut glass, kitchen utensils, glassware, [5]
cutlery, towels, sheets, pillow slips, cushions, table cloths, table centres, tools, books and a host of sundries [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Left Coorow during the 1930s [P335]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [2]
Mother of Edwin, Olive Jane, George and Thomas [P335]
Died 13 January 1940; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, GA, 333) [2]
Walter HYETT
Farmer in Marchagee [19]
In 1917 had 250 acres of wheat crop growing on his farm [10: 19-Jun-1917]
Mary Louisa HYDE
Born 1881 in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [15]
Daughter of Charles Edward HYDE and Eliza HILL [15]
Grew up in the Bendigo district in Victoria, Australia [P310]
Married George GRONOW on 5 September 1906 at Saint Mary's Church in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [P310]
Her father was one of the first farmers and a pioneer of the Dalwallinu district in Western Australia [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Along with her husband, son and stepson left Victoria and shifted to Waddy Forest in Western Australia [P310]
On 31 March 1924 her husband purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1,377 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest [27]
The 1,377 acres was Lot M1295 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1102, payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
Resided with her husband on Ingleneuk Farm in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [19]
In August 1930 her garden was described in The Irwin Index newspaper "as a thing of beauty" [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Due to illness she was in inmate of the Moora District Hospital during a portion of June 1933 [5: 30-Jun-1933]
She was an invalid from 1933 until her death in 1945 [P310]
After an extended holiday in South Perth she returned to Waddy Forest on Saturday 20 March 1937 [5: 25-Mar-1937]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
After a long period of sickness she returned to Ingleneuk Farm in Waddy Forest in mid October 1935 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Resided in Waddy Forest / Coorow until her death in 1945 [0: image 04356]
Mother of Charles Hyde GRONOW and stepmother of Lionel Rupert GRONOW [54]
Died 9 August 1945 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 12) [1]
Rev. ARBLASTER of Kalamunda officiated at her funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 24 August 1945:
"Mrs. Mary Louisa Gronow. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Louisa Gronow, of Coorow, took place at the Winchester Cemetery on the 11th inst. Deceased, who was the wife of Mr. George Gronow, was an old and highly respected resident of the Coorow district. She was 64 years of age at the time of her demise. The chief mourners were George Gronow (husband), Charles Gronow (son), W. Hyde, J. Hyde, N. Hyde, C. Hyde (brothers), Mesdames H. Gourley and G. Arblaster (sisters). The Rev. Arblaster, of Kalamunda, conducted the service at the graveside. The pall-bearers were Messrs. A. McGilp, A. Rudduck, D. Fowler, T. Morcombe, G. Underwood and P. Hunt."
Norman Francis HYDE
Born 1897 in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of Charles Edward HYDE and Eliza HILL [54]
His father selected prospective farmland in Dalwallinu, Western Australia in January 1910 [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Along with his parents left Victoria in 1910 and shifted to Dalwallinu, where his father was "practically the pioneer of the district" [39]
In about 1925 his father, in addition to his Dalwallinu holdings, purchased two established farms in the Coorow district [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Farmer of Waddy Waddy Farm at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district [19]
Married Ruby Elaine GRAHAM in Perth in 1926 [66]
Himself and his brother, referred to as "Hyde Bros," cropped 1,700 acres of wheat in Waddy Forest in 1926 [81: 24-Oct-1926]
In August 1933 purchased three two year old Merino rams from the New Zealand and Australian Land Co's Tootra Stud [5: 1-Sep-1933]
Along with his wife and children returned to Waddy Forest after a holiday on Monday 12 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Purchased a new John Deere tractor in April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
Along with his wife and children travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth for on a short trip on Wednesday 5 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
In January 1935 himself, his wife and their children spent a holiday at North Beach [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Sold twelve bales of wool at 14d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd sold 92 sheep suckers at the Midland Market on Wednesday 6 November 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
The 92 suckers consisted of 25 sold at 23/1 per head, 22 at 17/10, 36 at 17/1, 1 at 15/-, and 8 at 10/7 per head [5]
Sold 184 lambs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market held on Wednesday 8 April 1936 [5: 10-Apr-1936]
The 184 lambs consisted of 24 sold at 17/10 per head, 30 at 16/-, 58 at 14/10, 35 at 13/10, and 37 at 13/4 per head [5]
He was the first farmer in Waddy Forest to commence hay cutting for the season in mid September 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Sold 38 lambs (37 at 20/7, 1 at 12/-) and 49 ewes (19 at 10/10, 30 at 6/1) at the Midland Market on 20 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1952 [13]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Floreat Park [2]
Father of Graham and Colin [P361]
Died 20 December 1964; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 20C, 57) [2]
Ralph Watts HYDE
Farmhand in Waddy Forest 1925-1933 [19]
Mrs Ruby Elaine HYDE
Wife of Norman Francis HYDE; see Ruby Elaine GRAHAM
Rupert Cuthbertson HYDE
Born 1903 in Raywood, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of and Charles Edward HYDE and Eliza HILL [54]
His father selected prospective farmland in Dalwallinu, Western Australia in January 1910 [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Along with his parents left Victoria in 1910 and shifted to Dalwallinu, where his father was "practically the pioneer of the district" [39]
In about 1925 his father, in addition to his Dalwallinu holdings, purchased two established farms in the Coorow district [39: 31-Jan-1929]
Married (1) Winifred Hannah TOMS in Perth in 1926 [66]
Farmer of Hyde Park Farm in Dalwallinu and then of Waddy Park Farm in Coorow [19]
Himself and his brother, referred to as "Hyde Bros," cropped 1,700 acres of wheat in 1926 [81: 24-Oct-1926]
In 1928 one of his 200 acre wheat crops in Coorow was expected to yield 30 bushels per acre [120: 20-Dec-1928]
His wife Winifred passed away at the age of 27 years on 8 December 1930, and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Married (2) Gladys Vera THOMAS in Perth in 1935 [66]
Sold 93 suckers for 21/10 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at Midland Market on Wednesday 18 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
The next week sold another 94 suckers for 20/7 per head, also through Elder Smith & Co Ltd and at Midland Market [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Sold 29 suckers for 19/7 per head and 20 shorn hoggets for 12/7 per head at the Midland Market on 2 October 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd sold wool at the price of 13¾d. per pound at a Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Sold 129 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with two consignments to Midland Markets in 1936 [5: 29-Nov-1936, 24-Dec-1936]
The sheep consisted of 80 lambs (35 at 24/1, 23 at 20/1, 22 at 19/10) and 49 ewes (38 at 15/4, 1 at 12/4, 10 at 9/10 per head) [5]
After an "extensive holiday" in Perth himself and his wife returned to Waddy during the second week of March 1937 [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Farmed in Coorow until about 1949 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Swanbourne [2]
Died 14 February 1984; ashes scattered to the wind at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
III
Mary Laura Lydia INKSTER
Born 25 May 1882 in Elliston, South Australia
Daughter of John INKSTER and Barbara CHEYNE
Married "Harry" Wilhelm Julius Heinrich ULLRICH on 19 November 1923 in Norwood, South Australia [55]
Shifted with her husband and stepchildren to Western Australia where they farmed in Tenindewa and then Coorow [19] [50]
Resided on farmland in Tenindewa 1930-1936 and on farmland in Coorow 1936-1962 [5: 23-Oct-1936] [19] [50]
She sold 80 sheep from Coorow at the Midland Market in October 1936 - 47 at 11/7 per head and 33 at 9/4 per head [5: 23-Oct-1936]
JJJ
Daisy JACKSON
Born C.1884 [2]
Married (1) "Jim" James Joseph STARLING in Northampton in 1900 [15]
Their first child, Florence May, was born in 1900 in Northampton and died at the age of two months [15]
Their second child, James Joseph, was born in Mount Magnet in 1901 and passed away aged just one day [15]
Resided in Three Springs in 1907, where her husband was the local Railway Ganger [6]
Mail Receiver in Three Springs in 1907 [6]
Resided in Coorow 1908-1913 [19] [50]
Their daughters Gladys and Pearl were listed as prospective students of the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
Resided in Dongara in 1914 and 1915 [19] [50]
They resided at the Railway Cottages in Dongara [50]
Again resided in Coorow in 1916 and some of 1917 [6] [50]
They were living in Arrino when her husband enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 18 May 1917 [30: item 8090793]
After her husband entered camp herself and her children left Arrino and moved to the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [30]
Her husband's pay from the Australian Imperial Force wasn't sufficient for herself and their children to survive on [30]
They both wrote requesting he be discharged to relieve her distress with six daughters aged between 11 years and 20 months [30]
She paid 30/- in rent and 10/- for firewood per month, and was unable to buy even a stitch of clothing for her children or herself [30]
Their request was granted and her husband was discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 14 September 1917 [30]
Between 1919 and 1925 her husband worked in Carnamah, Dongara and Three Springs [6] [9: 4-Feb-1921, 8-Jul-1921, 24-Jul-1925] [19]
Her absence in electoral rolls and local newspapers are suggestive that she may have resided elsewhere during this time [9] [19]
Resided with her husband in Dongara in 1921 and 1925-1929, and in Gunyidi in late 1929 and 1930 [6] [50]
Resided at 12 Spring Park Road in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction 1931-1935 [6] [50]
Her husband, late of the Perth suburb of Midland Junction, passed away at the age of 53 years on 29 January 1933 [2]
In 1938 she was living at 98 Railway Parade in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [6]
Resided at 122 Swan Street in the Perth suburb of Guildford in 1939 [6]
Married (2) George Ernest LINTOTT in Perth in 1939 [66]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [2]
Died 22 July 1957; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, WD, 24) [2]
Claude JAMES
Labourer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1913 and 1914 [50]
Farmer in Nugadong 1916-1921 [19]
Mrs Freda Constance JAMES
Wife of Hector Thomas Austin JAMES; see Freda Constance OVERHEU
Hector Thomas Austin JAMES
Born 14 October 1909 in Subiaco, Western Australia [16]
Son of Thomas Robert JAMES and Grace Edgar MCMASTER [15]
Married Freda Constance OVERHEU on Thursday evening 9 January 1936 in the Perth suburb of Crawley [39: 10-Jan-1936]
Their marriage was the first to be held in the Chapel at Saint George's College, where he had previously been a student [39: 10-Jan-1936]
Shifted from Moora to Coorow to take over the management of the Coorow Hotel in late February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Attended the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1936 [5: 19-Jun-1936]
Attended the evening in honour of Mr & Mrs BIRMINGHAM of Perth at the home of Harry EDWARDS on 27 June 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
Attended the Bucks Party for George A. RAFFAN and Eric J. BRADLEY of Winchester in Coorow on 7 October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
In late October 1936 installed a large self contained Kelvinator refrigerator in the bar of the Coorow Hotel [5: 30-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]
He was injured as a passenger in the car of Three Springs vet Joseph P. GOLLAN when a horse put its hoof through the car [5]
After recovering from his injuries he returned to Coorow on Monday 7 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Again injured as a passenger in a car which collided with another between Coorow and Winchester on New Year's Eve in 1936 [5]
After the accident he spent four days at the Carnamah Private Hospital for injuries to his nose, abrasions and shock [5: 8-Jan-1937]
In January 1937 left Coorow and shifted to Moora where he took over the management of the Moora Hotel [5: 29-Jan-1937]
On leaving Coorow the management of the Coorow Hotel was taken over by Thomas C. BOGUE of Perth [5: 29-Jan-1937]
Member of the Moora Golf Club in 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 October 1940 [16]
Sergeant 406300 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 1st Tactical Air Force Headquarters during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 December 1945 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Died 14 May 1975; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, AA, 76A) [2]
Isobel Mary Austin JAMES
Born 1904 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Thomas Robert JAMES and Grace Edgar MCMASTER [15]
Her father, late of the Perth suburb of Subiaco, passed away at the age of 50 years on 18 March 1915 [2]
In 1916 her mother married her father's former business partner Alexander Burns GLOSTER [6] [66]
Studied at the Conservatory of Music in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1924 and 1925 [9: 13-Feb-1925]
Stayed with her mother and stepfather at the Commercial Hotel in Moora, Western Australia in early 1925 [9: 13-Feb-1925]
She was farewelled from a Moora at a social held at her stepfather's Commercial Hotel on Tuesday 10 February 1925 [9: 13-Feb-1925]
Left Moora on 11 February 1925, and left Perth for Melbourne on the Great Western express train on Tuesday 17 February 1925 [9]
In August 1925 her mother travelled from Moora to Melbourne to visit her [9: 21-Aug-1925]
Her stepfather Alexander B. GLOSTER was the licensee and manager of the Coorow Hotel 1930-1933 [4: 4-Oct-1930] [5: 11-Nov-1932] [19]
Married (1) "Reg" Reginald CROMMELIN in Perth on 19 June 1931 [4: 27-Jun-1931]
Their honeymoon was spent in a visit to the Eastern States of Australia [4: 27-Jun-1931]
Resided with her husband on Morningdale Farm in Coorow [19]
Returned to Coorow on Wednesday 18 October 1933 after spending a week in Perth [5: 20-Oct-1933]
In 1934 they bred their own stud bulldogs, their stud being called the Dale Stud [5: 26-Jan-1934]
During a storm in Coorow in January 1934 the parents of bulldog pups rushed inside and left their pups in the rain [5: 26-Jan-1934]
She rushed outside and rescued the pups, which were worth £30 (the parents were Lady Saucy and "Bill" Iden Contrast) [5]
Used the Coorow Hall for a music teaching on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, at a cost of 5/- per week [5: 23-Mar-1934]
Assisted with the of music at the Played the Carnamah Golf Club's Dance at the Carnamah Hall on 21 April 1934 [5: 27-Apr-1934]
Herself and her husband presumably left Coorow in April 1935, after a clearing sale was held on their farm [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Matron of Honour at the marriage of her brother Hector T. A. JAMES and Freda C. OVERHEU in Perth on 9 January 1936 [39]
She "wore a smart patou pink lace ensemble with short coatee and a smart little toque to match with eye veil of pink lace" [39]
Carried a bouquet of pink gladioli, roses, carnations and maiden hair fern [39: 10-Jan-1936]
Her brother Hector T. A. JAMES shifted to Coorow in late February 1936 to take over the Coorow Hotel [5: 28-Feb-1936]
She appears to have been on a visit to Coorow during July 1936 [5: 17-Jul-1936]
Attended the Anglican Church's Mid-Winter Ball in Carnamah on 11 July 1936 in a mushroom Chantilly lace dinner suit [5]
Played for the Coorow Golf Club against the Carnamah Golf Club at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 12 July 1936 [5]
After spending several weeks in Coorow she returned to her home in Moora on Wednesday 9 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
She may have been helping at the Coorow Hotel with her brother and sister-in-law absent on account of injuries and pregnancy [5]
Departed Colombo, Sri Lanka on the steamship Orontes and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 February 1937 [63]
Member of the Moora Golf Club in 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
She was among those who travelled from Moora to Coorow to play against the Coorow Golf Club on Sunday 11 July 1937 [5]
Married (2) Charles JONES in Perth in 1941 [66]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 30 June 1986; ashes interred at the Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]
"Jim" James Cowan JEFFERIS
Born 12 March 1909 in South Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS and Minnie Lane COWAN [215]
Resided with his parents on Warrah Farm in Latham [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow 1919-1921 [215]
While attending school himself and his brother Jim boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Resided in Wagin prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 31 March 1942 [16]
Leading Aircraftman 46977 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 17 Repair and Servicing Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 13 October 1945 [16]
"Ken" Kenneth Pank JEFFERIS
Born 14 September 1910 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS and Minnie Lane COWAN [215]
Resided with his parents on Warrah Farm in Latham [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow 1919-1921 [215]
While attending school himself and his brother Jim boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Married Mary Alison BAKER in Perth in 1943 [66]
Private W74197 in Wagin's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 6 August 2000; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lance Howard Memorial Gardens, F, 44) [2]
Mrs Minnie Lane JEFFERIS
Wife of "Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS; see Minnie Lane COWAN
"Harry" William Harry JEFFERIS
Born 11 April 1867 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Son of James JEFFERIS and Marian TURNER [55]
Married Minnie Lane COWAN in 1899 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
He had once been an orchardist and had had farming experience in all of the Australian states [152]
Farmer of Warrah Farm in Latham, Western Australia 1910-1924 [6] [152] [215]
In 1910 he took up 3,000 acres of land - consisting of 2,200 acres of forest country and 800 acres of scrubby land [152]
The land cost 10/- per acre for 1,000 acres and 15/- for 2,000 acres, however the latter was later reduced to 13/- per acre [152]
He was initially going to take up just 1,000 acres but the Agricultural Bank advised him he needed at least 1,500 acres [152]
He cleared and put in 30 acres of crop in 1911 however "the season was a complete failure throughout the district" [152]
Went back to Perth and resumed his business there for nine months and then returned to his farm in Latham [152]
Grew 150 acres of crop in 1913 from which he cut 20 tonnes of hay off 25 acres and sold 700 bags of wheat [152]
Excluding his expenses for carting the 700 bags to the railway at Wongan Hills he made a profit of 7/4 per bag [152]
For the first three years on the farm they had to get everything from Coorow, which was 30 miles away [152]
In 1914, which turned out to be a drought, he seeded 400 acres of crop which was a complete failure [152]
He remarked "that broke me up" of the 1914 failure, however he pressed on with help from the Industries Assistance Board [152]
Seeded 360 of wheat and six acres of oats in 1915, however lost 100 acres of Federation wheat through rust and a hailstorm [152]
In 1915 his wheat averaged about nine bushels per acre, he cut 30 tonnes of hay from 30 acres, and got 90 bags from the oats [152]
He had grown early varieties of wheat including Federation, Bunyip and Yadilla King and had tried to get Gluyus [152]
By 1916 he had cleared 450 acres of his farm and had 300 acres under crop [152]
Seeded his crops with 40 pounds of wheat and 52 pounds of super to the acre until 1915, and 60 pounds of wheat in 1916 [152]
By 1916 had fenced 200 acres of his farm and had posts ready to fence a further 1,000 acres [152]
Owing to what was available in his vicinity he used wodjil posts for his fences, which were generally as good as jam posts [152]
The wodjil posts tended to split though, so instead of boring holes through them he wired the posts up instead [152]
He had a 32-feet deep well which yielded about 3,000 gallons of water a day and was "the champion well of the district" [152]
In 1916 he also had an uncovered 1,000 yard dam of 8-feet 6-inches depth [152]
They kept a number of pigs and poultry for their own use in 1916 [152]
Gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Agricultural Industries of Western Australia in Latham on 24 November 1916 [152]
He believed bulk handling of wheat would reduce costs as farmers made such a heavy loss on bags [152]
During his evidence he gave a demonstration of wiring a wodjil post instead of boring holes through it for wires [152]
He felt that farming machinery was far too expensive, especially some implements in comparison to others [152]
He hadn't grown any but said the only artificial grass that grew in Latham was Canary grass and he expected Lucerne might too [152]
He'd tried to grow six different clovers however they had all died, and had planted fruit trees but most of them also perished [152]
It was his opinion that vegetables could be grown "to perfection" in Latham during the winter months [152]
He had been unable to employ a good man for under 30/- per week and keep and even then they hadn't been very good [152]
He thought the labour issue was because the good ones didn't come as far outback and they got snapped up in the older districts [152]
To make a living in Latham he believed a farmer working on his own needed 900 acres of cleared land plus land for livestock [152]
He thought farmers cooperating would be beneficial but he'd "never struck a community of farmers who could work in unison" [152]
Like others in Latham he hadn't seen any profit but couldn't have foreseen it as no one before them knew the local conditions [152]
He suggested that the Government should cover their liabilities and allow them to repay them over a number of years [152]
It was his opinion that the land at Latham was "undeniably good" but they had to learn how to work with the local climate [152]
He thought they got between nine and ten inches of rain in the growing season plus troublesome amounts of summer rain [152]
Hard conditions and two disastrous seasons had been the drawbacks that had prevented him from getting head [152]
He'd put in his own capital, borrowed from the Agricultural Bank and received help from the Industries Assistance Board [152]
Himself and his wife felt "a great obligation" to Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY of Coorow who boarded their sons Jim and Ken [215]
Their sons boarded with Mrs BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow so they could attend the Coorow State School [215]
He wrote to the Education Department in November 1920 expressing his hope that the Coorow State School would reopen in 1921 [251]
"The children have got on remarkably well and it will be very unfortunate if owing to the building they have been using being [251]
denied them the promoters of this little school are unable to carry on. It is difficult to see what we our here can do & I trust that [251]
you will look closely into the matter & endeavour to arrange for a continuation after Xmas." [251]
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]
Later resided in Albany [2]
Father of Kathleen Marian, Vernon Eddington, Mamie Florence, James Cowan and Kenneth Pank [15] [215]
Died 7 September 1947; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, Rose Memorial, 4A, 3) [2]
James JENNER
Farmhand for Rupert C. HYDE on Waddy Waddy Farm in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1932 [19]
George JENNINGS
Farmer in Marchagee 1931-1939 [19] [50]
William Edward JENNINGS
Farmhand on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1922 [50]
Capt. Carl Godfred Bernhard JENSEN
Born C.1858 [2]
On 24 April 1913 purchased a 471 acre of farm in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 471 acre farm was Lot M965 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1648, payable by instalments (later reduced to £989) [27]
The farm was part of the Midland Railway Co's Improved Farm Scheme and came with a house and was partly cleared and fenced [34]
Farmer of Sandringham Farm in Coorow 1913-1924 [27] [61]
In March 1915 applied unsuccessfully with the Midland Railway Company to purchase an additional 280 acres at 7/- to 8/- per acre [34]
Harvested 1041 bags of wheat from his 1915 wheat crop, 50 bags of which he kept for seed wheat [34]
Had 230 acres of crop on his farm in 1916 [34] and 200 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 - was Vice President in 1917 [34] [39: 25-Jul-1917]
In June 1917 was absent from his farm and was engaged in mine sweeping [34]
In addition to the house on his farm he also rented one on Rabbi RABINOWITZ's farm in Coorow at 5/- per week in 1917 [34]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Member of the Midland Railway Ready Made Farm Settlers' Association in 1918 [34]
Part of a deputation that met with the Midland Railway Company on 3 April 1918 to request the company lower their prices [34]
He stated that it was impossible to make ends meet with the present price of the land and subsequent instalments [34]
He also claimed that the company had charged 1st class price for patches of 2nd and 3rd class land [34]
In 1920 the Midland Railway Company finally lowered their prices and the price of his farm dropped from £1648 to £989 [27]
Inaugural Director for Coorow of the North Midlands Farmers' Co-operative Company in 1919 [9: 27-Jun-1919]
Sang a song at the Welcome Home tendered to A.I.F. Private James FARLEY in Coorow on Thursday 10 July 1919 [10: 18-Jul-1919]
On 11 May 1920 extended his farm with the purchase from the Midland Railway Company of an adjoining 188 acres of virgin land [27]
The 188 acres was a portion of Lot M1233 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £75.8.5, payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
Purchased another 532 acres of virgin land for £292.19.9 (the remaining portion of Lot M1233) on 1 March 1923 [27]
In 1924 grazed livestock on an additional 2500 acres of land in Coorow leased from the Midland Railway Company [34]
Sold his partially paid off 1191 acre farm to George HUTCHCRAFT on 28 August 1924 [27]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 21 June 1945; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, OA, 561) [2]
Gustaf JOHANSEN
Carpenter in Coorow in 1931 and 1932 [19] [50]
"Geoff" Geoffrey Griffith JOHN
Born 1909 [15]
Son of Griffith George JOHN and Sarah RICKARDS [54] [P15]
Grew up in Perth and was educated at Hale School in West Perth [P15]
Farmer in Perenjori 1933-1968 [19]
For a period worked cutting timber for mines on land west of Coorow belonging to his father [P15]
His father, in partnership with Duncan W. PATERSON, owned 3,855 acres of farmland in Marchagee [3] [61]
The 3,855 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3255, 3256, 3257, 3267, 4363 and 5866 [3] [61]
His father sold 2,311 of the acres (Victoria Location 3257, 3267 and 4363) to Thomas I. READ of Coorow on 1 January 1934 [3]
The remaining 1,544 acres (Victoria Locations 3255, 3256 and 5866) were leased to William G. BRYANT of Marchagee [3]
Member of the Coorow Football Club 1933-1935 [5: 9-Jun-1933, 18-May-1934]
Captain of the Coorow Football Club in 1933, and both Chairman and Captain in 1935 [5: 8-Sep-1933, 3 & 24-May-1935]
Pallbearer at the funeral of James SIMPSON at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah on 11 July 1935 [1] [5: 19-Jul-1935]
Played for the North Midlands Football Association in a match against the Perenjori-Morawa Association on 28 July 1935 [5: 2-Aug-1935]
Attended the Coorow Football Club's Wind-up Ball for the 1935 season at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 21 September 1935 [5]
At the Ball he was presented with the trophy for being the Club's Fairest & Best player for the 1935 season [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Attended the Three Springs Football Club's Victory Ball held in Three Springs on Tuesday 24 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Represented the Coorow Cricket Club at meetings of the Carnamah District Cricket Association in 1935-36 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
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]
Played for the Carnamah District Cricket Association at Country Week Cricket in Perth during February 1936 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
In May 1936 purchased Barnett Glass pneumatic tyres for his John Deere tractor from Coorow agent Aeneas CASEY [5: 29-May-1936]
Won the raffle at the Coorow Tennis Club's Dance at the Coorow Hall on Saturday evening 4 July 1936 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Married Marjory Ada MUSGROVE in Perth in 1936 [66]
Described as a very good looking and popular young farmer [P84]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Quinns Rock [2]
Died 1 February 1973; ashes scattered to the wind at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
JOHNS child
Born 18 January 1950 in Three Springs, Western Australia [P361]
Son of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS and "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY of Coorow [P361]
He was born at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs, where he died at the age of four and a half hours [24]
Died 18 January 1950 in Three Springs; buried Three Springs General Cemetery, Three Springs (Anglican, Plot 85) [24]
His funeral was officiated over by Rev. W. J. NORTHERN and undertaken by Hugh H. KNIGHT, both of Three Springs [24]
Darren JOHNS
Born 30 August 1934 in Carnamah, Western Australia [1] [P361]
Son of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS and "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY of Coorow [P361]
Died at the age of 24 hours from low vitality on 31 August 1934; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row B, Plot 14) [1] [14]
His funeral was officiated and undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
Mrs "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace JOHNS
Wife of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS; see "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY
Marion Dorothy JOHNS
Born 24 October 1928 in Moora, Western Australia [P361]
Daughter of "Bill" William Henry JOHNS and "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY [P361]
Resided with her parents on CROMMELIN's Morningdale Farm in Coorow 1928-1932 and then in the Coorow townsite [P361]
In the Coorow townsite initially lived with her parents in a tent near the town oval and then in a house on Main Street [P361]
Student at the Coorow State School [5: 12-Jul-1935]
After a football match in Coorow she got lost in scrub resulting in a widespread search into the evening to try and find her [P361]
Eventually Mrs "Granny" Mary LATHAM found her asleep on the railway line a few hours before a train was due [P361]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as "Arabian Night's" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Came 2nd in the 6 years Girls Running Race at the Combined School Sports in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
She was one of the most successful exhibitors in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5]
Received two 1st prizes for Needlework and 2nd prizes for Writing, Pencil Drawing and Crayon Drawing [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Hit by a truck and instantly killed on Albany Road in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park while on holiday with her parents [P361]
Died 17 January 1937; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LE, 752) [2]
Her mother planted jonquils at her grave and her sister Shirley later dug some up to plant with their parents ashes in Coorow [P361]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 22 January 1937:
Death of Little Girl - Perth Accident. The death occurred at Victoria Park Perth, at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, January 17, when Marion Johns (8), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Johns, of Coorow, was run over and killed by a motor truck driven by Stephen Richard Bowen, of Marr street, Carlisle. The little girl was struck by the vehicle when she ran across the street in front of the house where she was staying with her parents, who had arrived Coorow on Saturday to spend a holiday with relatives living in Albany road. The rear wheel of the truck passed over the girl who sustained dreadful head injuries. The scene of the fatality was a short distance east of the Causeway. The driver of the truck told the police that he first saw the girl on the edge of the footpath, party obscured by a telegraph pole. She appeared to be playing and he took no particular notice of her until he saw her running across the street. In an effort to avoid her he swerved violently to the right. He felt no impact and was not sure whether she was struck by the front of the truck or stumbled and fell in front of it. The deepest sympathy is felt for the parents in their sad bereavement."
"Bill" William Henry JOHNS
Born 7 May 1906 in Crusoe, Victoria, Australia [P361]
Son of Percy JOHNS and Marion Elizabeth TARR [54]
His grandfather Zacharias JOHNS had left America after the end of its gold rush and migrated to Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [P361]
Resided with his parents at Kangaroo Flat in Victoria and then at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia [P361]
In 1916 his father was working as a Boiler Maker and they were living at 2261 Balfour Street in South Kalgoorlie [50]
When his parents left Kalgoorlie to shift back to Kangaroo Flat in about 1922 he decided to stay in Western Australia [P361]
Farmhand in Narembeen, Bruce Rock and Mount Walker [P361]
He purchased his first truck while working in Narembeen in about 1926 and began contract carting from Perth to Narembeen [P361]
Married "Dorrie" Dorothy Alice Grace CANDY in Perth on 22 March 1927 [P361]
Immediately after their marriage they went straight to Coorow [P361]
Farmhand for Reginald CROMMELIN on Morningdale Farm in Coorow 1927-1932 [P361]
Travelled to Round Hill to play football in the early 1930s prior to the formation of the Coorow Football Club [P361]
Others to do so were Harry F. C. KAU of Coorow and John F. THOMAS and Peter W. THOMSON of Marchagee [P361]
He was a very strong man and then worked in Coorow as a Wheat Lumper before operating as a Cartage Contractor [P361]
Lived in a tent near the town oval with his wife and children while building a small house for his family in the Coorow townsite [P361]
In 1933 was working for the Carnamah District Road Board - received £7/5/9 sick compensation pay on 31 October 1933 [300: page 16]
Sanitary Contractor in Coorow and Caretaker of the Coorow Hall for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1934 [5: 18-May-1934, 6-Jul-1934]
Assistant Traffic Inspector for the Carnamah District Road Board in 1935 [5: 21-Jun-1935, 29-Nov-1935]
Steward of the Sheaf Tossing at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Tied for 3rd place in the Sheffield Handicap at the Athletic Sports Meeting in Coorow on New Year's Day 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
In 1937 he was the Coorow distributor of the Carnamah District Road, Health & Vermin Board's vermin poison [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Won 1st prize for Peas and 2nd for Turnips in the Vegetable section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-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]
Himself, John S. READ and Thomas I. READ rode on horseback through virgin bush from Coorow to Green Head in the 1930s [P361]
The three of them made the trek to establish a track from Coorow to the coast [P361]
At that time wild horses traversed the country and drank at three freshwater springs just before the rocky limestone hill [P361]
During the Second World War he was given special petrol rationing tickets as his cartage services were considered essential [P361]
He also supplemented fuel supplies during the war by using gas producers for which he burnt his own coke in trenches [P361]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1946 [13]
In the 1940s himself and his family holidayed at the coast by driving over the rough track and taking all supplies including water [P8]
Resided in Coorow until his death in 1995 [2]
Passed away at the age of 89 years at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [P361]
Father of Marion, Shirley, Frances, William, Darren, Valerie, Robin, Marjorie, Neil, Carol, Kenneth, Glenise [P361]
Died 31 December 1995; cremated Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Himself and his wife are memorialised where their ashes are interred at Lot 7 Main Street in the Coorow townsite [P361]
Charles JOHNSON
Labourer on John T. GLOWREY's farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1913 and 1914 [50]
"Nance" Nancy Selway JOHNSON
Born 1915 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Dressmaker of 30 Seventh Avenue in the Perth suburb of Maylands [50]
Stayed with Donnell E. & Blanche E. FOWLER on Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest from July to September of 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
During October 1936 she spent a holiday with the family of John and Eliza M. P. LAMPARD in Waddy Forest [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Again holidayed with the LAMPARD family on their farm in Waddy Forest in early August 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Married "Ben" Benjamin William John LAMPARD in Perth in 1938 [66]
Resided in Coorow from her marriage 1938 until her death in 1970 [19]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Died 26 July 1970; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 17, 34) [2]
Martha JOLLY
Resided in Coorow in 1916 and 1917 [50]
Resided on Lake View Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1919 [50]
Richard JOLLY
Foreman / Overseer in Coorow in 1916 and 1917 [19] [50]
Farm Manager of Lake View Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1919 [50]
Adrian Arnold Clarence JONES
Born 1907 [15]
Purchased 1,296 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest from the Midland Railway Company on 31 December 1924 [27]
The 1,296 acres was Lot M1281 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £810/3/11 (12/6 per acre), payable by instalments [27]
Sold his 1,296 acres in Waddy Forest to Kenneth E. JONES on 5 October 1926 [27]
Farmer of Berkley Farm in Waddy Forest 1929-1934 [19]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club in 1929-30 [4: 26-Oct-1929]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 23-Feb-1934]
Along with Gilbert J. UNDERWOOD returned from Perth to Waddy Forest by car on Wednesday 14 January 1934 [5: 16-Feb-1934]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H in 1934 [5: 9-Mar-1934]
Participated in the debate between the Carnamah and Waddy Forest groups of Toc H on Tuesday 27 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Left Waddy Forest for Perth on Monday 5 June 1934 for an indefinite period [5: 8-Jun-1934]
In 1936 he was working as a Draughtsman and living at 78 Collins Street in Kalgoorlie [50]