"Alex" Alexander Charles JONES
Born 1895 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Sarah Rose CLINCH [15]
His mother died in 1899 and in 1902 his father married his late mother's sister
Janet May CLINCH [15]
Resided on and later farmed with his father and stepmother on Turipa Farm
in Coorow [19] [30]
One of the best players
for Coorow in a football match played against Three Springs at Coorow in early
July 1914 [10: 10-Jul-1914]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 1 April 1916 [30:
item 1814299]
On enlistment he was 5 feet 2½ inches tall, weighed 115 lbs.
and had brown eyes, dark brown hair and a tanned complexion [30]
After brief training was appointed in Claremont on 1 July
1916 to the 2nd Reinforcements of the 44th Battalion [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active
service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A28 Militades on 9 August 1916
[18]
After further training at Codford in Wiltshire, England
proceeded to France on the Princess Victoria on 20 December 1916
[30]
Private 1853 in the Australian Imperial Force's 44th
Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 17 August
1919; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Farmer with his father of Turipa Farm in Coorow 1920-1930 [10] [19]
"Jones Bros" horses Leaped Home and Turipa competed at the Sports Meeting in
Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day in 1919 [124]
On his horse Leaped Home came 2nd in the A.I.F. Plate at the Picnic Race Meeting
in Carnamah on 16 September 1920 [10: 1-Oct-1920]
Master of Ceremonies at the Official Opening of the Coorow Agricultural Hall in
Coorow on Thursday 1 February 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
On 15 May 1926 purchased Lots 42 and 43 Commercial Street in the Coorow townsite
[27]
The two townsite blocks were purchased from the Midland Railway Company for £20,
payable by instalments over two years [27]
Married Catherine SIMPSON in Perth in 1926 [66]
At some point he worked in Coorow for the Carnamah District Road Board
[P17] [110]
He also farmed or worked as a farmhand for a period in Perenjori [19]
Resided in Coorow until 1930, and was then a Farmer in Winchester 1931-1935
[4: 22-Nov-1930] [25] [91]
Advertised in the local paper that he was going to Perth in his car on 21
December 1932 and had room for one passenger [5: 16-Dec-1932]
He was forced to cease working and leave the district after going blind in 1935
[5: 3-May-1935]
A Benefit Dance in aid of himself and his family
was held in Coorow on Saturday evening 4 May 1935 [5: 3 & 10-May-1935]
The Carnamah District Road Board provided the Coorow Hall
for the function at the reduced charge of 10/- [5: 3-May-1935]
Around May of 1935 left Winchester and shifted to the Perth suburb of Maylands
[25]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Maylands from 1935 until his death in 1951
[25] [91]
In Maylands resided at 7 Harrow Street 1935-1936; at 5 Cambridge Street
1937-1938; and at 74 Crawford Road 1939-1949 [6]
Father of Desmond, Moreen and Kathleen [25] [91]
Died 8 June 1951; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZI, 104)
[2]
"Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES
Born 1867 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of Thomas JONES and Eliza FITZGIBONS [15]
Married (1) Sarah Rose CLINCH in Gingin in 1893 [15]
His elder brother James V. A. JONES had married his wife's sister Emma Jane
CLINCH the previous year [15]
Farmer in Gingin 1895-1904 [6]
His wife Sarah passed away at the age of 30 years on 22 April 1899 and was
buried at Saint Luke's Churchyard in Gingin [274]
Two days after the death of his wife their third son Charles John passed away
aged one week and was also buried at Saint Luke's [274]
Married (2) his late wife's sister Janet May CLINCH in Perth in 1902 [15]
He is said to have left Gingin in 1904 and settled north of Jun Jun Spring
southeast of Coorow and northeast of Marchagee [P16]
From 1905 to 1908 he had a pastoral leasehold of 5,000 acres
in the Coorow district from the Midland Railway Company [34]
In 1907 he was the Farmer of Lake View Farm near Jun
Jun Spring in Marchagee [9: 13-Dec-1907]
He reaped 14 tons of hay from 7½ acres and his wheat crop
was expected to go 26 to 27 bushels in 1907 [9: 13-Dec-1907]
Farmer of Turipa Farm in Coorow 1908-1939 [19]
In 1932 his farm was 6,566 acres in size [3]
Victoria Locations 2148, 2550, 2940, 2991, 2992, 2994, 2995,
3340, 3341, 3427, 3438, 3772, 4071, 6597, 6598 and 8386 [3]
He had a subscription to The Midlands Advertiser newspaper in 1908 [9:
30-Oct-1908, 11-Dec-1908]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911
[39: 4-Aug-1911]
Came 2nd in the Old Buffers' Race at the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's
Picnic & Sports on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Guaranteed to contribute to the teacher's salary if the attendance fell below
ten at the Coorow State School in 1912 [215]
The Education Department was to build a school in
Coorow but in the meantime the school opened from a bush shed on a farm
[215]
His wife made arrangements in July 1912 for their children
to board in the Coorow townsite and attend the school [215]
The school at that time was in a bush shed on George J. T.
BATTERSBY's Wattle Vale Farm two or more miles out of Coorow [215]
It proved too far for his children to walk from the Coorow
townsite to the school so they were withdrawn and returned home [215]
The Coorow State School closed due to lack of numbers and in 1913 it was
suggested two half-time schools be established [215]
After much correspondence from himself, his wife and others
with the Education Department two schools were opened [215]
The Coorow State School reopened on 3 December 1913 and the
Turipa State School on his farm opened on 8 December 1913 [215]
Both schools were Regulation Four and were run from
privately owned premises with Education Department furniture [215]
The teacher, Robert DIXON, boarded with his family when
teaching at Turipa, and at Coorow when teaching there [215]
In 1914 the five children attending the Turipa State School
were his daughters Sarah, Madge, Una, Janet and Emma [215]
The Turipa State School on their farm closed and reopened a
number of times, but operated sporadically until 1919 [215]
A dance, organised by his daughter Trix and E. Gertrude SHEEHAN, was held at his
home on Turipa on 17 May 1919 [9: 30-May-1919]
He owned a horse named Turipa which ran at local race meetings and was regularly
one of the prize winners [9] [10]
He won £10 when Turipa ran in the Three Springs Races on 6
March 1919 and won the Carnamah Plate [9: 14-Mar-1919]
His horse Turipa competed in the Carnamah Race Club's Picnic
Race Meeting in Carnamah on 27 March 1919 [10: 11-Apr-1919]
Turipa ran in the Three Springs Races on 4 March 1920 and
came 2nd in the Arrino Handicap of 6 furlongs [9: 12-Mar-1920]
On 11 March 1920 Turipa ran in the Carnamah Races and came
2nd in the Local Handicap and Welter Handicap [9: 19-Mar-1920]
Turipa came 2nd in the District Handicap at the Moora Race
Club's Race Meeting on Tuesday 15 March 1921 [10: 4 & 18-Mar-1921]
Turipa again ran at the Carnamah Races on 28 March 1921 and
came 3rd in the Carnamah Stakes of 1¼ miles [10: 1-Apr-1921]
At the Picnic Race Meeting & Agricultural Show in Carnamah
on 22 September 1921 Turipa won the CA Handicap [9: 30-Sep-1921]
At the first wool sale of the season on Friday 4 November 1921 sold seven bales
of wool for 18d. per pound [10: 11-Nov-1921]
Was the owner of two townsite blocks in Coorow which he sold in 1927 to L. S.
BINGHAM to host new shop premises [4: 7-May-1927]
Won 1st prize for Ladies Hack in the Horse section and 2nd in the Sheep Dog
class at the First Coorow Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
He was thrown from his horse on Monday 5 June 1933 resulting in a dislocated hip
and lying out in the rain for some time [5: 9-Jun-1933]
He was treated at his home by Dr ROSENTHAL and Sister LAWTON
of Carnamah and Dr MAYRHOFER of Three Springs [5]
During the week he was moved to the North Midlands District
Hospital in Three Springs for further treatment [5: 16-Jun-1933]
Won 2nd for a Border Leicester Merino Cross Fleece in the Wool section of the
1933 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Committee Member in 1933 and Financial Member 1936-1938 of the Coorow-Waddy
Forest Agricultural Society [5: 23-Dec-1932] [150]
In January 1934 sold 20 bales of wool for the "exceptionally good average price"
of 19¼d. per pound [5: 12-Jan-1934]
Received 2nd prize for a Border Leicester Merino Cross Fleece in the Wool
section of the Coorow Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
In October 1934 purchased a pure bred Red Poll bull from P. T. SANDLAND of Moora
[5: 2-Nov-1934]
Won three 1st prizes in the Horses in Action section of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5]
Received the three 1st prizes for 10 stone Gent's Hack,
Lady's Hack and for Best Pony 14.3 or under [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won three 1st and one 2nd prize in the Ring Events at the Carnamah Agricultural
Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5]
Received 1st prizes for 10 stone Gent's Hack, Lady's Hack
and the Flag Race; and 2nd prize for the Swerving Race [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 16¼d. per pound through Dalgety & Co Ltd at the Wool
Sale in Perth on 13 January 1936 [5: 17-Jan-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester
Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Advertised in March 1936 that he wanted a sharefarmer for upwards of 300 acres
of his farm ten miles from Coorow [5: 13-Mar-1936]
The land available for share-farming had previously stripped
ten bags per acre, and had a plentiful supply of water [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Sold 31 lambs at 15/7 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland
Market on Wednesday 20 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Successfully entered in the Ring Events, Sheep and Grain & Fodder sections of
the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5]
In Ring Events won 1st prizes for both Lady's Hack and
10-stone Gent's Hack, and came 2nd in the Flag Race [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936]
Won 2nd for Merino Ewe in the Sheep section and 1st prizes
for Green Oats for Hay and Sheaves of Green Wheat for Hay [5]
Sold 49 wethers at 10/10 and 57 ewes at 9/1 through Dalgety & Co Ltd at the
Midland Market on 23 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Despite the unfavourable season in 1936 he cut 40 acres of oaten crop from which
he obtained 100 tons of hay [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Sold 31 hoggets at 13/4, 4 ewes at 12/6 and 2 wethers at 13/10 and 8 pigs at
54/1 per head on 11 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Sold four bales of wool at 20½d. per pound through Dalgety & Co Ltd at the Perth
Wool Sale of 23 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
In November 1936 himself and his wife applied for the Carnamah District Road
Board to grade part of the road to their farm [5]
The Road Board responded advising them that the road would
be graded when funds were available [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Sold 19 pigs at £1/15/3 per head through Dalgety & Co Ltd at the Midland Market
on Wednesday 6 January 1937 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Timekeeper for the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Purchased a new C-30 35 cwt. International truck from Carnamah agent W. George
MULLIGAN in August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Won 1st for Lady's Hack and 12-stone Gent's Hack in the Rings Events at
the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
With three 1st prizes he won the Hugo Fischer Trophy for the Ring Events at the
Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1937 [5]
Received the three 1st prizes for 10-stone Gent's Hack,
Lady's Hack and Lady's Hunter [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Father of Roy, Alex, Charles, Trix, Madge, Una, Neta, Emma and Ted [5:
13-Jan-1939] [15]
Died 7 January 1939 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row
C, Plot 4) [1] [14]
His funeral and burial was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah and cost
£4/10/- [53]
Following his death his Turipa Farm in Coorow was run under the control
of his wife Janet [P17]
Also known as Alex Hamlet JONES [19] [215]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 13
January 1939:
"Obituary - Vale Hamlet Jones. In the presence of a large number of
relatives and friends the funeral of the late Mr. Alexander Hamlet Jones took
place on Sunday afternoon when the remains were interred in the Anglican portion
of the Winchester Cemetery. The Rev. A. J. Toomey, of the Anglican Church
conducted the burial service. The late Mr. Jones, who was a well-known and
respected resident of the Coorow district for many years, passed peacefully away
on Saturday, January 7th at the Three Springs district hospital. Death has
deprived the district of yet another old resident, as the late Mr. Jones was an
esteemed member of a well known pioneer family of the Midland districts. Mr.
Jones had been failing in health for some time past but, nevertheless, his death
came as a great shock to all who had known him. Since the formation of the
Coorow Football Club until a few seasons ago the late gentleman had taken a keen
interest in its activities, and his passing will leave a void in sporting
spheres which will indeed be hard to fill. The late Mr. Jones who was aged 72
years leaves a wife and five daughters Trix (Mrs. Edwards), Una (Mrs. Longmore),
Madge, Neta (Mrs. Waldeck), and Emma and one son Edward to mourn their loss.
Despite the short notice of the deceased gentleman's death a large cortege
followed the remains to their last resting place."
Arthur Edmund JONES
Farmer in East Marchagee 1928-1932 [19]
Dain Clinch JONES
Born 1894 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of James Vigors Aldrid JONES and Emma Jane CLINCH [15]
Farmer on his uncle A. Hamlet JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow 1917-1922
[50]
Married Madeline Agnes DUNN in Perth in 1925 [66]
Resided of late in Gingin [2]
Died 11 November 1968; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZT, 72)
[2]
Emma Jane JONES
Born 1910 [15]
Daughter of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Janet May CLINCH [5:
13-Jan-1939]
Resided with her parents on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at the Turipa State School on Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1914
[215]
Student at the Coorow State School held in a makeshift hessian and iron room
near the railway station in Coorow in 1921 [215]
Attended the Coorow Football Club's Wind-up Ball at the Coorow Hall in Coorow on
Saturday 21 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
At the Ball won a crystal vase in a raffle, and
herself and Clifford A. M. SCHOLEFIELD came 3rd in the Waltzing Competition
[5]
After six weeks in Coorow with her parents she returned to Perth by car in
August 1937 to resume her nursing duties [5: 27-Aug-1937]
Married Frederick Thomas BOULTON in Perth in 1947 [66]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Como [2]
Died 24 September 1989; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA
(Presbyterian, DC, 143) [2]
"Ted" Hamlet Edward JONES
Born 13 February 1913 in Moora, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Janet May CLINCH [P17]
Resided with his parents on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at the Coorow State School held in a makeshift hessian and iron room
near the railway station in Coorow in 1921 [215]
Farmer of Turipa Farm in Coorow [P17]
Received 2nd prize for Medium Wool Merino Fleece at the first Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for Strong Wool Merino Ram and Merino Fleece at the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board on 2 February 1934
for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
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 1934-1936 - was Secretary in 1935 and Joint
Secretary in 1936 [5: 3-May-1935, 10-Apr-1936]
Delegate for the Coorow Football Club at meetings of the
North Midlands Football Association in 1937 [5: 9 & 23-Apr-1937]
He was Joint Secretary again in 1937 until resigning in June
1937 [5: 11-Jun-1937]
Received 2nd prize for a Merino Fleece of Medium Wool at the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Premiership Ball held at the Carnamah Hall
on Saturday 20 October 1934 [5: 26-Oct-1934]
Played for the North Midlands Football Association in a match against the
Perenjori-Morawa Association on 28 July 1935 [5: 2-Aug-1935]
Won the Under 25 Years Sheep Judging Competition at the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Received 1st prize for Best Fleece, and 2nd prizes for
Medium Wool Merino Fleece and Merino Ewe under 2½ years [5]
Organised the Coorow Football Club's Wind-Up Ball held at the Coorow Hall on
Saturday 21 September 1935 [5: 13 & 27-Sep-1935]
During the Wind-Up Ball himself and his sister Miss Madge W.
M. JONES came 2nd in the Waltzing Competition [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow
on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester
Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Sold 45 suckers at 18/6 per head through Dalgety & Co Ltd at the Midland Market
on Wednesday 26 August 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
For the second year running won the Under 25 Years Sheep Judging Competition at
the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5]
Also exhibited in the Wool section, winning 1st prizes for
Medium Wool Merino Fleece and Best Fleece [5: 4 & 11-Sep-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]
In early 1937 he was gorged by a large bull and required medical attention from
Dr Mario A. MAYRHOFER of Three Springs [5]
Afterwards he spent a recuperative holiday in Perth, and
returned to Coorow much improved in early March 1937 [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 10 September 1937
[96]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society
1937-1947 [150]
Exhibited in the Sheep and Wool sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show
at Maley Park in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5]
Won 1st and 2nd prizes for Merino Ewe, 1st and 2nd for
Medium Wool Merino Fleece, and 2nd for Best Fleece [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Following his father's death in 1939 ran Turipa Farm under his mother's
management [P8]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1941-1948
[13]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War
[16]
Advertised his late father's Turipa Stud in the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts
Agricultural Society's 1947 Show Schedule [150]
"Turipa Stud, Reg. Flock No. 1013, Founded on "Coconnoc
Park" Stud Ewes and Rams, Estate Late A. H. Jones, Coorow" [150]
"Stud, Specially Selected and Flock Rams For Sale - For
Particulars Apply H. E. Jones, Coorow" [150]
Advertised his Woolberoo Stud in the Schedule of the Carnamah District
Agricultural Society's 1947 show: [13]
"Woolberoo" Stud, Reg. Flock No. 380. Founded on 'Coconnoc
Park' Stud Ewes and Rams" [13]
"Stud, and Specially Selected and Flock Rams for Sale - For
Particulars apply to H. E. Jones, Coorow" [13]
Later resided in Allanson near Collie [2]
Died 28 September 1998; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury WA
(Banksia Court, Mem. Garden, G3A, 102) [2]
James Vigors Aldrid JONES
Born 1860 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of Thomas JONES and Eliza FITZGIBONS [15]
Married Emma Jane CLINCH in 1891 [15]
Licensee of the Granville Hotel in Gingin 1895-1929 [6]
Also the licensee of the Railway Refreshment Rooms in Gingin for at least the
years 1916-1921 [10: 12-Dec-1916, 17-Dec-1920]
From 1906 to 1908 he was the Conditional Purchase lessee of 840 acres of land
near the Yarra Yarra Lakes in Carnamah [44]
His 840 acres in Carnamah consisted of Conditional Purchase
leases 2422/56 and 8859/55 [44]
From 1908 until 1920 he was the owner of 960 acres of land near Turipa Spring in
Coorow [44]
The 960 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3340, 3341 and
3427 [44]
Also held a grazing lease for the 500 acre Victoria Location
3438 near Turipa Spring in Coorow from 1908 until 1920 [44]
His land in Coorow appears to have been farmed as part of
his younger brother Hamlet's Turipa Farm [44]
In 1920-21 his Victoria Locations 3340, 3341 and 3438 were
transferred to his nephew Alexander C. JONES [44]
He remained the owner of the 260 acre Victoria Location 3427
until at least 1924 [44]
By 1932 all of the Victoria Locations he had owned in Coorow
were owned by his younger brother Hamlet [3] [44]
Conducted the Granville Hotel in Gingin until his death in 1929 [6]
Died 22 November 1929; buried at Saint Luke's Churchyard in Gingin, Western
Australia [274]
"Net" Janet Christina JONES
Born 1907 [15]
Daughter of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Janet May CLINCH [5:
13-Jan-1939]
Resided with her parents on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at the Turipa State School on Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1914
[215]
Student at the Coorow State School conducted from a makeshift hessian and iron
room near the railway station in Coorow in 1921 [215]
Married Bruce Parker WALDECK in Perth in 1926 [66]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow
on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Was the "Best Dressed Boy" at the Coorow Tennis Club's Back to Childhood Ball at
the Coorow Hall on 22 August 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Awarded 2nd prize for Sponge Sandwich in the Confectionary section of the
Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936
dressed in violet and helis crepe satin [5: 11-Sep-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]
In early 1937 she left Coorow and shifted back to Perth to work as caretaker of
a business [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Mrs Janet May JONES
Second wife of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES; see Janet May CLINCH
John Michael Aloysius JONES
Farmer of Jibberding Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1913 and 1914
[50]
Capt. John William JONES
Farmer in Marchagee 1931-1943 [19] [50]
His farm in Marchagee was 2,443 acres in size and consisted of Victoria
Locations 5830 and 8669 [3]
In 1932 he owned a Buick car registered with the Carnamah District Road Board
with license plate CA-271 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow
Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in September 1934 requesting extensive
road works be done in Marchagee [5: 21-Sep-1934]
In March 1935 he received a letter from the Road Board outlining the money spent
on the Gunyidi East Road [5: 15-Mar-1935]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in July 1935 for further information
about the work done on Marchagee roads [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Carnamah
on Wednesday 23 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Purchased a new Chrysler all-wave wireless set through the agency of E. V. CASEY
of Coorow in February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board during July 1936 in connection with
his outstanding rates [5: 10-Jul-1936]
"Ken" Kenneth Edmund JONES
Born 1 February 1899 in Fremantle, Western Australia [16]
Son of John Edmund JONES and Edith Adelaide MANUEL [15]
On 6 September 1922 his father purchased 1,296 acres of virgin land in Waddy
Forest from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 1,296 acres was Lot M1280 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1102/-/6 (17/-
per acre) payable by instalments [27]
Farmer of Berkley Farm in Waddy Forest 1923-1950 [5: 30-Aug-1935]
[19]
His father's 1,296 acre Lot M1280 in Waddy Forest was
assigned to him on 2 April 1925 [27]
On 5 October 1926 took over the contract to purchase the
adjoining 1,296 acre Lot M1281 from Adrian A. C. JONES [27]
After extending the instalments for both lots he completed
paying got Lot M1280 in 1941 and Lot M1281 in 1943 [27]
Vice Chairman in 1925 and President in 1926 of the Coorow & Waddy Forest
District Progress Association [9: 13-Feb-1925] [81: 24-Oct-1926]
Grew 1,000 acres of wheat crop on his farm in 1926 and in 1930 [4:
31-May-1930] [81: 24-Oct-1926]
Married Norma Clark BELL in Perth in 1927 [66]
Inaugural Secretary of the Coorow and Waddy Progress Association on its
reformation in 1928 [4: 24-Nov-1928]
With Baxter D. BOTHE interviewed the Minister for Health about the establishment
of a hospital in Coorow in 1930 [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Attended the Surprise Party tendered to John and Eliza LAMPARD at their home in
Waddy Forest on 24 May 1930 [4: 31-May-1930]
Himself and Charles GRONOW won the Ping Pong Tournament that was conducted at
LAMPARD's Surprise Party [4: 31-May-1930]
Foundation Chairman of the Coorow-Waddy branch of the Primary Producers
Association in 1930 [4: 25-Oct-1930]
Executive Member of the Primary Producers Association of
Western Australia in 1932 [5: 9-Dec-1932]
Chairman of the Greenough Zone Council of the Industrial
Section of the Primary Producers Association in 1932 [5: 12-Aug-1932]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 13 May 1932
[96]
In 1932 he owned an Oakland car and Chevrolet truck with license plates CA-84
and CA-280 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Attended the meeting of wheatgrowers on the Wheat Hold-up issue at the Carnamah
Hall on Sunday 4 December 1932 [5: 9-Dec-1932]
Vice Patron of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1933
and again in 1937 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 20-Nov-1936]
Won 1st prize for Three Fat Crossbred Sheep at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural
Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34, 1934-35 and 1935-36 [5:
20-Oct-1933, 7-Dec-1934, 25-Oct-1935]
Purchased four Southdown rams at the stock sale after the Royal Show in Perth in
1933 and had them railed to Coorow [5: 20-Oct-1933]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association in 1934 [5:
8-Jun-1934]
Exhibited in the Sheep and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show at Maley Park on 30 August 1934 [5]
Received 1st prize for Three Fat Sheep and 2nd prizes for
Three Fat Lambs in the Wool and for Wheaten Chaff [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the
Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Represented Waddy at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis
Association in 1934-35, 1935-36 [5: 7-Sep-1934, 20-Dec-1935]
Competitor in the Parkinson Tennis Club's Open Championship Tournament in
Carnamah on Tuesday 1 January 1935 [5: 21-Dec-1934]
Himself and his wife departed Waddy Forest on Friday 11 January 1935 for an
extended holiday at the beach [5: 18-Jan-1935]
The steering of his truck faulted near the turn off onto the Coorow East Road in
Coorow on Wednesday 6 February 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
His truck crashed into a tree and the vehicle was
completely wrecked, however he fortunately escaped with just bruises [5]
After travelling to and from Melbourne he arrived back in Waddy Forest on
Saturday 28 September 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
After spending a holiday with himself and his wife his mother returned to her
home in Greenmount on 30 September 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 15d. per pound through Westralian Farmers Ltd on
Monday 25 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Accompanied by Ivor B. ROBERTS motored from Waddy Forest to Perth on Monday 20
January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Sunday 9 February 1936 [5:
14-Feb-1936]
Attended the public meeting on the question of Saturday Afternoon Closing in
Carnamah on Thursday 19 March 1936 [5: 27-Mar-1936]
The proposition was to replace the half-day holiday on
Thursday afternoons with a half-day holiday on Saturday afternoons [5]
The driving force was some of the local sporting bodies, who
wished to play their organised sport on Saturday instead of Sunday [5]
His opinion was that it wasn't feasible unless it was also
adopted within the Three Springs and Mingenew road board districts [5]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against
Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
During the afternoon he presented W. George & Ester F.
MULLIGAN with a gift on behalf of the local Tennis Association [5]
The gift was as a token of appreciation for hosting meetings
of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association [5: 10-Apr-1936]
He was among the 200 farmers who attended the meeting in Carnamah on 31 July
1936 about local Bulk Wheat Handling [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Himself and Carnamah farmer John BOWMAN had put in a lot of
work into the preparatory work prior to the meeting [5]
It was also due to their efforts that Joseph J. POYNTON,
General Manager of the Midland Railway Company, attended [5]
The meeting led to an agreement between the farmers and the
Midland Railway Company for Bulk Wheat Handling facilities [5]
As a result Bulk Wheat Handing facilities were to be made
available at eight railway sidings between Marchagee and Mingenew [5]
The terms were 1/6 per ton above existing wheat freight
charges reducible by ½d. per 1,000 tons after 30,000 tons per siding [5]
Vice Patron and Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts
Agricultural Society in 1936 [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Played in the Carnamah Masonic Lodge's Inaugural Annual Golf Meeting in Carnamah
on Saturday 1 August 1936 [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Sold one bale of wool at 14½d. per pound through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the
Perth Wool Sale on 5 October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy
Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Sold 19 sheep hoggets at 12/10 per head through Dalgety & Co Ltd at the Midland
Market on 11 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Himself and his wife played a pianoforte duet at the Social Evening at the Waddy
Forest Hall on 15 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
Competitor in the Parkinson Tennis Club's Tennis Tournament held in Carnamah on
New Year's Day 1 January 1937 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Tennis Club's four new courts at
Centenary Park in Carnamah on 31 January 1937 [5]
On behalf of the visitors at the opening he congratulated
the Club on their new colas courts, which he found almost faultless [5]
The only fault he found with the courts was that you had
nothing to blame but yourself if you made a faulty stroke [5: 5-Feb-1937]
He paid a visit to Perth during the first week of February 1937 [5:
5-Feb-1937]
Wrote a Letter to the Editor of The North Midland Times which was published in
the newspaper on Friday 26 February 1937 [5]
He wrote the letter in response to one from New South Wales
that had urged a NO vote in the Marketing Referendum [5]
He very strongly urged people to cast a YES vote as it would
ensure a profit for wheat sold for Australian consumption [5]
He stated this was something farmers had never had, and that
they would never forget selling what at half its cost [5: 26-Feb-1937]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary
Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
After being away himself, his wife and their children returned to Waddy Forest
on Tuesday 29 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Sold 92 sheep through Westralian Farmers Ltd with two consignments to the
Midland Market in July and August 1937: [5: 9-Jul-1937]
48 lambs at (46 at 27/4, 2 at 19/-) and 39 ewes (17 ay 21/4,
11 at 17/10, 11 at 16/7), and 5 suckers at 23/4 per head [5: 13-Aug-1937]
Travelled to Perth in mid July 1937 to attend a meeting of the Growers' Advisory
Council of the W.A. Wheat Pool [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Private in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War
[16]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1940; also
donated 10/6 cash to the society in 1940 [13]
Around 1950 sold his farm in Waddy Forest to Norman F. HYDE & Sons of Coorow
[3]
His wife, Mrs Norma Clark Jones, late of Mount Pleasant, passed away at the age
of 81 years on 20 August 1981 [2]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Hilton [2]
Died 24 May 1985; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lawn 2, Rose
Memorial, GGD, 39) [2]
Madge Winifred May JONES
Born 1904 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Janet May CLINCH [15]
Resided with her parents on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at the Turipa State School on Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1914
[215]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Premiership Ball on Saturday 20 October
1934 in a floral crepe-de-chene dress [5: 26-Oct-1934]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1934-35 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Won 1st prize for Butter and The North Midland Times Trophy at the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
With brother Ted came 2nd in the Waltzing Competition at the Coorow Football
Club's Wind-Up on 21 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow
on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Won 2nd prizes for Pie Melon and Butter at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on
Thursday 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy
Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended the hugely successful Annual Catholic Ball in Three Springs on 3 June
1937 dressed in black Floral marocain [5: 11-Jun-1937]
Won the North Midland Times Trophy for receiving 1st prize for Butter at the
Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Married "Boy" Alfred James YORK in Perth in 1944 [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Watheroo [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Midland [2]
Died 30 March 1990; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Mrs Norma Clark JONES
Wife of "Ken" Kenneth Edmund JONES; see Norma Clark BELL
"Roy" Hamlet Roy Burrows JONES
Born 14 August 1894 in Perth, Western Australia [15] [187]
Son of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Sarah Rose CLINCH [15]
His mother died in 1899 and in 1902 his father married his late mother's sister
Janet May CLINCH [15]
Resided with his father and stepmother on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at Saint Ildelphonus College in New Norcia from 8 February 1913 until
December 1913 [187]
Farmer and Grazier of Turipa Farm in Coorow [50]
One of the best players for Coorow in a football match played against Three
Springs at Coorow in early July 1914 [10: 10-Jul-1914]
His horses Turipa and Leaped Home competed in the races at the Sports Meeting
held in Carnamah on 4 May 1916 [10: 16-May-1916]
Turipa won Trial Stakes and Flying Handicap; Leaped Home was
2nd in the Carnamah Handicap and won the Losers Handicap [10]
With his horse Turipa he won the Forced Handicap race at the Sports Meeting in
Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day in 1919 [124]
Resided in Coorow until 1921 [19]
Married Margaret Lindsay BURTON in Perth in 1922 [66]
In 1923 he was working in the Insurance Industry and had previously tried his
hand at engineering [187]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [2]
Died 20 April 1962; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian,
CC, 502) [2]
"Trix" Sarah Ann Eliza JONES
Born 1902 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Janet May CLINCH [15]
Resided with her parents on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at the Turipa State School on Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1914
[215]
Herself and E. Gertude SHEEHAN organised a dance, which was held at her parents'
home on Turipa on 17 May 1919 [9: 30-May-1919]
Married Vernon Hubert EDWARDS in Perth in 1921 [66]
Resided with her husband in Marchagee 1921-1931 [19] [50]
Thomas Henry JONES
Miner & Contractor in Latham in 1917 [50]
Una Ada Wallis JONES
Born 1905 in Perth, Western Australia
Daughter of "Hamlet" Alexander Hamlet JONES and Janet May CLINCH [15]
Resided with her parents on Turipa Farm in Coorow [19]
Student at the Turipa State School on Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1914
[215]
Student at the Coorow State School conducted from a makeshift hessian and iron
room near the railway station in Coorow in 1921 [215]
Married Ivan Slack LONGMORE in Perth in 1927 [66]
Herself and her daughters Jess and Stepheney holidayed at Turipa Farm in
Coorow and in Perth in early 1937 [5: 5-Mar-1937]
At the conclusion of their holiday they returned to their home in Nannine in
early March 1937 [5: 5-Mar-1937]
William Percy JONES
Labourer in Coorow 1930-1933 [19]
Edward William JOYCE
Contractor in Marchagee 1911-1914 [19]
Charles Frederick William JUST
Farmer in Latham 1911-1921 [19]
His address was initially Latham's Rock, Coorow [19]
KKK
Gay KAU
Born 8 November 1945 in Three Springs, Western Australia [1]
Daughter of Harry Frederick Cleaver KAU and "Lorna" Loreeta Gertude ULLRICH of
Coorow [14] [P15]
Died 8 November 1945 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row
D, Plot 3) [1]
Tom MORCOMBE of Coorow officiated at her funeral, which was undertaken by Henry
Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
Jeanette KAU
Born 8 November 1945 in Three Springs, Western Australia [1]
Daughter of Harry Frederick Cleaver KAU and "Lorna" Loreeta Gertrude ULLRICH of
Coorow [14] [P15]
Died 10 November 1945 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah
(Row D, Plot 3) [1]
Tom MORCOMBE of Coorow officiated at her funeral, which was undertaken by Henry
Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
"Fred" Johann Frederich KAU
Born 1 June 1874 in Palmer, South Australia [55]
Son of Peter KAU and Dora BOOK [55]
His parents first met on a ship on their way to Victoria, Australia from Germany
during the Victorian gold rush [P15]
Although he was registered at birth as Johann Frederich KAU he later went by the
name of Frederick John KAU [19] [55]
Grew up in South Australia and shifted to Western Australia with two of his
brothers when he was in his 20s [P15]
Settled in Wagerup, Western Australia where he purchased virgin land [P15]
Grew potatoes in swamp land and worked in a timber mill while clearing and
getting his farm into production [P15]
In 1909, along with Baxter and Charles BOTHE, travelled from Wagerup to Coorow
to inspect prospective farmland [110]
On 1 October 1911 purchased 650 acres of virgin scrub in Coorow - Victoria
Location 6595 [44] [P15]
Farmer of Meadowdale Farm in Coorow 1911-1950 [P15]
On 1 January 1912 purchased an additional 251 acres of virgin land in Coorow -
Victoria Location 6605 [44]
Married May Minnie Annie BOTHE in Perth in 1914 [66]
By 1918 had purchased a further 1906 acres in Coorow - Victoria Locations 4864,
5822 and 5848 [44]
Won a cake at the Dance in aid of the Coorow Christmas Tree at the school house
in Coorow on 29 November 1919 [9: 5-Dec-1919]
On 21 August 1922 purchased from the Midlands Railway Company another 1350 acres
of land in Coorow [27]
The 1350 acres was Lot M1380 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £675, payable by
instalments over 15 years [27]
During the 1920s increased his farm to a total of 4237 acres with the purchase
of Victoria Location 8225 [3]
Also farmed an additional 781 acres owned by his wife May (Victoria Locations
5791, 5792 and 5793) [3] [P15]
Applied with the Carnamah Road Board in November 1928 for a road along the
southern boundary of M1380 to be closed [4: 1-Dec-1928]
Sold a bale of wool at 10¼d. per pound through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the
Perth Wool Sale on 18 October 1929 [4: 19-Oct-1929]
Won 1st prize for a Sheaf of Green Oats for Grain at the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Sent in his apologies for not being present at the Ratepayers meeting of the
Carnamah Road Board in February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Sold 117 sheep suckers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at Midland Markets in
September, October and November 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
The 117 suckers consisted of 35 sold at 19/4 per head, 25 at
15/10, 35 at 15/4, and 22 at 13/5 per head [5: 11-Oct-1935, 15-Nov-1935]
On 30 October 1935 sold 1 bull for £7/2/6, 1 cow for
£4/17/6, 1 heifer for £1/12/6 and 4 steers at £3/6/5 per head [5:
1-Nov-1935]
Sold 12 pigs on 13 November 1935 - 1 for 8/6, 7 at £2/10/-
per head, 3 at £2/9/6 per head, and 1 for £2/1/6 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Carnamah
on Wednesday 23 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester
Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
At 9:30 a.m. on 18 February 1936 telephoned the Carnamah Police Station to
report that some of his sheep had been stolen [88]
Tracks revealed a truck had been backed up to his fence and
two men had mustered and caught some of the sheep [88]
Constable Alan O. FIEBIG left Carnamah with a tracker at 11
a.m. and on arrival the tracker began following the tracks [88]
The tracks led to the farm of his brother-in-law Charles C.
BOTHE, who said he was the one responsible [88]
Charles had been there the previous day to collect a ram
belonging to him that Fred had told him about [88]
The matter was dismissed on the grounds of being a
misunderstanding [88]
Sold five pigs at £2/13/6 per head and two pigs at £2/2/6 per head through Elder
Smith & Co Ltd on 8 July 1936 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Sold 23 pigs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 7
October 1936 [5: 9-Oct-1936]
They comprised 16 porkers (8 at £2/1/6, £1/18/6) and 7
baconers (3 at £2/18/-, 1 at £2/15/-, 1 at £2/4/-, 1 at £1/10/-, 1 at 17/6)
[5]
Sold five bales of wool at 16½d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the
Perth Wool Sale on 23 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
Attended the surprise 75th birthday for his father-in-law Heinrich W. BOTHE in
Coorow on Tuesday 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Sold 21 pigs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 5
May 1937: [5: 7-May-1937]
3 baconers (1 at £3/2/6, 2 at £1/18/6) and 18 pigs (3 at
£2/9/6, 3 at £2/7/6, 8 at £1/17/6, 2 at £1/16/6, 1 at £1/13/6, 1 at £1/8/6)
[5]
Sold 70 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 28
July 1937: [5: 30-Jul-1937]
31 suckers (2 at 22/-, 20 at 17/1, 9 at 8/10), 31 ewes (5 at
25/-, 25 art 22/4, 1 at 15/-) and 8 lambs at 24/- per head [5]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in
1946 [150]
Father of Olive and Harry [14]
Died 24 March 1950 in Perth; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row E, Plot
7) [1]
Rev. W. J. NORTHERN officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by H. KNIGHT
of Three Springs [1]
His estate was valued for probate at £12,779/8/2 with the beneficiaries being
his wife and children [39: 18-Aug-1950]
His Meadowdale Farm in Coorow was inherited by his son Harry [P15]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 1 April 1950:
"Coorow Residents Death - Late Mr. Frederick John Kau - Funeral at
Winchester. After an illness extending over a period of many months, the death
occurred in Perth on Saturday last of an old and highly respected resident of
Coorow in the person of Mr. Frederick John Kau at the age of seventy-six years,
the deceased gentleman being survived by his wife and one son (Harry Kau) and
one daughter (Mrs. H. Lovell). In the presence of a large gathering of relatives
and friends of the late Mr. Kau, the funeral took place at the Winchester
Cemetery on Monday last with the Rev. J. Northern officiating at the graveside.
The chief mourners were the bereaved widow and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kau (son and
daughter-in-law) and Mr. and Mrs. G. Lovell (daughter), and the pall-bearers
were Messrs. A. A. McGilp, Geo. Greenwood, E. Fowler, S. A. Rudduck, G. B.
Raffan and A. Saunders (Perth). The casket carriers were Messrs. J. F. Thomas,
E. Chapman, E. A. Long and B. Lampard and the mortuary arrangements were
conducted by Mr. H. H. Knight, of Three Springs."
Mrs "Lorna" Loreeta Gertrude KAU
Wife of Harry Frederick Cleaver KAU; see "Lorna" Loreeta Gertrude ULLRICH
Mrs May Minnie Annie KAU
Wife of "Fred" Johann Frederich KAU; see May Minnie Annie BOTHE
Olive Wilhelmina KAU
Born January 1915 at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow, Western Australia
[P15]
Daughter of "Fred" Johann Frederich KAU and May Minnie Annie BOTHE [P15]
Resided with her parents and later also brother Harry on Meadowdale Farm
in Coorow 1915-1926 [P15]
Student at the Coorow State School until 1926; attended Perth College 1927-1929
and Saint Bridgets in Kalamunda in 1930 [P15]
At the end of 1930 returned to reside with her parents on Meadowdale Farm
in Coorow [P15]
Worked for a period in Carnamah with tailor Alfred E. NIND and his assistant
Harry ROBINSON [P15]
In July 1932 helped organise a concert in Coorow to support G. RAFFAN in the
local Popular Football Competition [5: 15-Jul-1932]
Attended the Carnamah Grand Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Thursday 28 July 1932
in a gown of white lace and georgette [5: 5-Aug-1932]
Exhibited and won prizes in two sections of the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural
Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for Decorated Cake, Yeast Buns and 2nd prizes
for Fancy Scones, Collection of Jams and Butter [5: 16-Sep-1932]
The next week won 1st prizes for Home-made Bread and Best
Decorated Cake at the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Attended the Show Ball following the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 15 September
1932 in a gown of green chiffon [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Herself and Miss Ivy BINGHAM were good friends and "went around together as two
sophisticated young ladies of Coorow" [P84]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1932-33 [5: 17-Mar-1933]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Monster Ball in Carnamah on 2 September
1933 in black lace over red satin [5: 8-Sep-1933]
Received four 1st and five 2nd prizes at the Second Annual Agricultural Show in
Coorow on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
1st: Cream Puffs, Decorated Cake, Marmalade, Butter; 2nd:
Biscuits, Yeast Buns, Farmer's Luncheon, Fancy Bread, Butter [5]
The next week, on Thursday 14 September 1933, won three 1st and two 2nd prizes
at the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5]
Received 1st prizes for Yeast Buns and Decorated Cake; both
1st and 2nd for Biscuits; and 2nd for White Bread [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Attended the McCabe Academy of Dressmaking in Perth where she obtained
dressmaking qualifications [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Returned to Coorow and resided there until commencing a dressmaking business in
Carnamah in October 1933 [5: 13-Oct-1933, 20-Oct-1933]
Ran her dressmaking business from a portion of Cowderoy's Buildings at 2
Macpherson Street, Carnamah [4: 2-Dec-1933]
She undertook all classes of dressmaking and children's clothes with a specialty
for evening wear [5: 24-Nov-1933]
In addition to working as a dressmaker in Carnamah she also visited neighbouring
districts by appointment [4: 2-Dec-1933]
Attended the Three Springs Golf Club's Annual Ball in Three Springs on 12
October 1933 in a dress of blue georgette [5: 20-Oct-1933]
Member of the Carnamah Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 20-Oct-1933]
She was among the 150 who attended the Carnamah Tennis Club's Dance at the
Carnamah Hall on 9 December 1933 [5: 15-Dec-1933]
Later returned to Coorow and once again resided with her parents and brother on
Meadowdale Farm [P15]
Arrived back in Coorow in later May 1934 after spending a holiday of several
months duration in the Eastern States [5: 1-Jun-1934]
Attended the Roman Catholic Church's Ball in Carnamah on 26 May 1934 in a pretty
frock of apple green georgette [5: 1-Jun-1934]
Attended the Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 30 June 1934 to raise
funds for Church organ repairs [5: 6-Jul-1934]
Attended the Dance in aid of the Institute for the Blind held at the Carnamah
Hall on Saturday evening 18 August 1934 [5: 24-Aug-1934]
Gave a recitation at her BOTHE grandparents Golden Wedding celebration at the
Coorow Hotel on 26 February 1935 [5: 1-Mar-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 12-Jul-1935,
19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Attended the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on
Saturday 7 December 1935 as a "Senorita" [5: 13-Dec-1935]
She was part of the Best Dressed Set as "Spaniards" with
nine others from Coorow dressed as Senoritas, Toreadors and Bulls [5]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 7-Feb-1936,
23-Oct-1936]
Sewing Mistress of the Coorow State School from 1936 to 1940 [73]
Rode her horse from the farm to the Coorow State School once
a week to teach the schoolchildren how to sew [P15]
When clothing materials for the school were in short supply
she used hessian bags from her grandparents store in Coorow [P15]
As sewing mistress her annual salary in 1936 was £18/16/-
and from 1937 to 1940 was £20/-/- [73]
Attended the Mad Hatter's Leap Year Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 29 February
1936 wearing black silk ring velvet [5: 6-Mar-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on
Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Helped decorate the Agricultural Hall in Three Springs for the Roman Catholic
Church's Annual Ball on 9 July 1936 [5: 17-Jul-1936]
Attended the Anglican Church Mid-Winter Ball in Carnamah on 11 July 1936 in eau
de nil georgette with Grecian drapings [5: 17-Jul-1936]
Best Dressed Girl at the Coorow Tennis Club's Back to Childhood Ball at the
Coorow Hall on Saturday 22 August 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Financial Member in 1936 and Committee Member in 1939 of the Coorow-Waddy Forest
Districts Agricultural Society [150]
One of the prominent prize winners at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at
Maley Park in Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5]
Awarded five 1st prizes for Wedding Cake, Preserved Fruits,
Yeast Buns, Embroidered Cushion and Hand-painted Article [5]
Received five 2nd prizes for Decorated Cake, White Bread,
Biscuits, Marmalade and Home Made Soap [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Show Ball held on the evening of the show at
the Coorow Hall wearing "biscuit lace, cape en suite" [5]
Won 1st for Pickles and Decorated Cake and 2nd for Jams at the Carnamah
Agricultural Show on Thursday 10 September 1936 [5]
In the evening attended the Show Ball at the Carnamah Hall
dressed in black taffeta and net with silver rope girdle [5: 18-Sep-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]
Following a visit to Perth she returned to Coorow on Monday 5 April 1937
[5: 9-Apr-1937]
Attended the surprise 75th birthday for her grandfather Heinrich W. BOTHE in
Coorow on Tuesday 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Attended the Coronation Ball in Carnamah on 12 May 1937 in "midnight blue angel
skin with silver lame trimmings" [5: 14-May-1937]
Partook in the Empire Parade dressed as India at the Anglican Church's Annual
Ball in Three Springs on 17 June 1937 [5: 25-Jun-1937]
She was among the 80 who attended the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social Evening
at the Carnamah Hall on 25 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Repertory Club in 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Coorow-Waddy Forest entrant in the North Midlands Popular Girl Competition in
aid of the Anglican Church in 1937 [5: 9-Jul-1937]
A successful Mad Hatter's Dance in Waddy Forest in July 1937
raised £4 to further her candidature in the competition [5: 23-Jul-1937]
A Back to Childhood Ball to raise further funds for her
candidature was held at the Coorow Hall on 14 August 1937 [5: 13-Aug-1937]
Runner-Up of the North Midlands Popular Girl Competition at a Grand Ball in
Three Springs on Tuesday 31 August 1937 [5]
At the Grand Ball the Very Rev. Dean MOORE of Saint
George's Cathedral in Perth presented her as the "Duchess of Coorow" [5]
Her 13,184 votes, only 1,882 votes short of the winner,
raised £54/18/8 for the Anglican Church [5: 3-Sep-1937]
One of the Judges at the Waddy Forest Children's Fancy Dress Ball in 1938
[0: image 03711]
During a portion of the Second World War she helped her father run Meadowdale
Farm as labour was hard to obtain [P15]
Among other help on the farm she drove the tractor at seeding and harvest time
during the war [P15]
Resided on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow until her marriage in 1943 [19]
[P15]
Married George Henry LOVELL in Perth on 3 March 1943 [0: image 04239] [P15]
After her marriage, but still during the war, she was the Minister for Defence's
driver [P15]
After the war her husband remained in the Navy and she resided in Perth,
Melbourne VIC, Darwin NT, Sydney NSW and Perth [P15]
Dedicated much of her time to helping raise money for the Spastic Welfare
Association [P15]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Died 5 February 2003; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman
Catholic, NC, 307) [2]
Elizabeth Buchan KAY
Born C.1928 [2]
Married James MACDONALD in Perth in 1950 [66]
Resided in Coorow in 1953 and in Winchester in 1955 and 1956 [19]
Later resided in South Hedland [2]
Died 26 September 1983; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA
(Presbyterian, DC, 236) [2]
"Bob" Robert Smith KEAY
Worked in the wheat and ship districts of Victoria for a few years before
returning to Scotland for a holiday [108: page 5]
Before leaving for Scotland he met and spoke with James F. THOMSON about them
buying a farm together [108: page 5]
On his return he met up with James F. THOMSON and as a
result he travelled to Western Australia to look at farms [108: page 5]
His investigations into farmland in Western Australia
resulted in them purchasing a 2,037 acre property in Marchagee [108: page
5]
Farmer of Anster Farm in Marchagee 1928-1933 [19] [108: pages 5, 13]
The farm's 2,037 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3231,
3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3240, 3250, 6383 and 7036 [3]
Himself and James F. THOMSON owned and farmed the property
in partnership [3] [108: pages 5, 13]
He settled on and began farming the property in 1928
[19] while THOMSON initially remained in Melbourne [108: page 5]
Married Daisy May BRYANT in Perth in 1929 [66]
Resided with his wife in a two roomed gable roofed house on
the farm that had verandahs on the front and back [108: page 5]
Half of the back verandah was enclosed for their kitchen,
and the house was the typical sort of basic home for the era [108]
His mother-in-law lived with them to assist his wife with
their three children under one year of age - a daughter and twins [108]
In 1931 the farm had stables and machinery sheds that were built of bush timber
with straw covered rooves [108: page 6]
The only more permanent farm building was the chaff room
next to the stables which was made of corrugated iron [108]
They had no shearing shed and took their sheep to be shorn
at Frank R. BRYANT's Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee [108]
In May 1931 James F. THOMSON along with James' wife Nellie and son Peter joined
them on the farm in Marchagee [108: page 6]
W. KEEPS
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]
Ellen Mary KELLY
Born 1892 in Bindoon, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Bernard KELLY and Mary Ann BUTLER [15]
Married George Lewis KINGMAN in Perth in 1932 [66]
Resided in Gunyidi, where her husband was the local railway ganger, from 1932
until 1941 [6] [19]
Later resided in Muchea [2]
Died 6 November 1965; buried Midland Cemetery, Perth suburb of Midland (Roman
Catholic, B, 54) [2]
Mrs Emma KENSIT
Wife of Thomas Hale KENSIT; see Emma GRAY
Thomas Hale KENSIT
Born 1889 in Saint Pancras, London, England [21] [30]
Son of Francis John KENSIT [30]
Departed Antwerpe, Belgium on the steamship Cassel and arrived in
Fremantle, Western Australia on 21 October 1912 [70]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 20 May 1916 [30: item
7371301]
On enlistment he gave his occupation as "Farmer" and his
postal address as "C/- Mrs Bunney, Kelmscott, Western Australia" [30]
At the time he was 5 feet 5½ inches tall, weighed 120 pounds
and had $brown eyes, brown hair and a fresh complexion [30]
Gave his next of kin as his aunt, Mrs Annie Bunney, whose
address was Kelmscott, Western Australia [30]
Embarked Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for active service
abroad on the H.M.A.T. A23 Suffolk on 30 September 1916 [30]
Disembarked in Plymouth, England after further training at
Folkestone proceeded to France S.S. Armadale on 1 January 1917 [30]
Sapper 5355 in the Australian Imperial Force's 1st
Tunnelling Company in France during the First World War [30]
Hospitalised in France a number of times due to illness and
once after being wounded in action (gassed) on 31 October 1917 [30]
Married Emma GRAY on 21 July 1919 at Saint James Church in
Clapton, England [30]
Along with his wife embarked from England on the Port
Napier on and disembarked in Australia on 2 February 1920 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 27 March
1920; received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Worked for Leslie KEAMY on Cardo Farm in Watheroo, Western Australia
[30: item 7371301]
While working in Watheroo a piece of wood fell out of the
fireplace and burnt down the hessian lined house he was living in [30]
Farmer in Watheroo in 1922 [50]
Farmer in East Marchagee, Western Australia 1925-1938 [2] [19]
His farm was 2,094 acres in size and consisted of Victoria
Locations 3151, 3210, 3236, 3237, 3241, 4218, 5794, 5795, 5796 [3]
In 1932 he owned a Chevrolet car and Chevrolet truck with license plates CA-230
and CA-287 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Signatory to a letter sent in January 1934 expressing confidence in the Carnamah
Road Board and its South Member [5: 19-Jan-1934]
In June 1934 he applied with the A.I.F. for a new Discharge Paper, as he'd lost
his, and everything else, in the fire at Watheroo [30]
Sold 142 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday
17 February 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
The 142 sheep consisted of 73 ewes (42 at 14/4, 31 at 18/4),
62 hoggets (41 at 15/1, 21 at 11/10) and 7 lambs at 15/1 per head [5]
Resided in Marchagee until his death in 1938 [2]
Died 13 November 1938; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Karrakatta WA (Anglican, LB,
170) [2]
Barry Robert KERR
Farmer in Waddy Forest 1968-1971 [19]
Builder of Lot 79 Slater Street, Carnamah 1972-1977 [7] [19]
Member and later Life Member of the Carnamah Apex Club - was President in 1972
[7: page 181]
Builder of 60 Glenview Street in the Geraldton suburb of Tarcoola in 1978
[19]
Distributor of 82 Mills Road in the Geraldton suburb of Moresby in 1992
[19]
Distributor of 11 Mills Road in the Geraldton suburb of Moresby in 2005
[19]
Resident of Geraldton until his death in 2006 [45]
Husband of Pamela [45]
Father of Christina, Lisa, Toni, Stewart and Steve [45]
Died suddenly on 18 October 2006 in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia
[45]
Herbert Harold KERR
Born C.1880 [2]
Married (1) Minnie May CARDY in 1911 [66]
His wife had departed London, England on the Ophir and arrived in
Fremantle, Western Australia on 5 November 1908 [70]
Grocer in Albany 1918-1920 [6]
His wife Minnie passed away at the age of 37 years on 3 November 1919 and was
buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Married (2) Margaret Julia YULE nee NEALL in 1920 [66]
Tea Merchant in White Gum Valley, Beaconsfield and then in Fremantle [P320]
Greengrocer in the Perth suburbs of Claremont and Subiaco, and then a Grocer in
East Perth [P320]
In 1926 purchased three blocks of farmland / prospective farmland at Waddy
Forest in the Coorow district [27]
Purchased the 1,001 acre Lot M1607 of Victoria Location 2023
from Arthur W. H. PLATELL on 24 February 1926 [27]
Purchased the 1,834 acre Lot M1534 of Victoria Location 2023
from Frederick W. ROBERTS on 19 March 1926 [27]
Purchased 1,000 acre Lot M1555 of Victoria Location 2023
from Ivan S. & Noel V. S. LONGMORE on 27 November 1926 [27]
All three blocks of land still had instalments owing to the
Midland Railway Company, which he completed paying [27]
On 13 March 1927 purchased 173 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest from the
Midland Railway Company [27]
The 173 acres was Lot M1719 of Victoria Location 2023 and
cost £86.15.0 (10/- per acre), payable by instalments [27]
Completed paying for the 173 acres, which took his land
holdings in Waddy Forest to a total of 4,008 acres [27]
In the rate books of the Carnamah District Road Board the
property was later listed 13 acres smaller at 3,995 acres [3]
Never resided on his property in Waddy Forest before he sold it to the farming
partnership Lannum & Company in 1928 [P84] [P320]
Years later his step-daughter Mrs Dulcie E. HUNTER resided briefly in Waddy
Forest and for a number of years in Coorow [P320]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Inglewood [2]
Died 26 May 1951; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose
Gardens, 6J, 13) [2]
Hilda Christina KERR
Born 26 July 1913 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [P63]
Daughter of Horace Edward KERR and Margaret Christina SIMPSON [P63]
Married "Bill" William Robert GLOVER on 10 July 1939 [P63]
Resided with her husband in Dumbleyung and then Watheroo before shifting with
him to Coorow in mid 1943 [P63]
Resided in Coorow from 1943 until 1990 - initially at Lot 83 Bristol Street and
later at Lot 49 Commercial Street [P63]
Member of the Coorow Bowling Club [P63]
Spent her final few months at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three
Springs, where she died at the age of 77 years [P63]
Mother of Robert and Margaret [14]
Died 13 December 1990 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah
(Row S, Plot 14) [1]
"Jim" James Philip Mair KERR
Born 10 June 1916 in Avonmouth, Bristol, England [16]
Son of Robert KERR and Christina Logan MAIR [5: 9-Feb-1945]
Departed London, England with his mother and two siblings on the Borda
for Fremantle, Western Australia on 10 February 1925 [203]
Later in 1925 his mother married for the second time to Waddy Forest farmer
"Billy" William Scott MITCHELL [66]
Resided with her mother, stepfather and siblings on farmland in Waddy Forest
[19]
Left Waddy Forest on Tuesday 5 March 1935 to study electrical engineering at
university [5: 8-Mar-1935]
Arrived in Waddy Forest for a short holiday on Monday 13 May 1935 and then
returned to his studies in Perth [5: 17 & 31-May-1935]
During a break from his studies he returned to his home in Waddy Forest on
Saturday 10 August 1935 [5: 16-Aug-1935]
Arrived in Waddy Forest on Saturday 23 November 1935 for several weeks vacation
from his studies [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Returned to Perth on Thursday 2 January 1936 to further his studies in
engineering [5: 10-Jan-1936]
Arrived in Waddy Forest on Monday night 11 May 1936 to spend another holiday
with his parents [5: 15-May-1936]
Returned to Perth to resume his studies at university on Friday 22 May 1936
[5: 29-May-1936]
With an aggregate of 198 out of 210 won the University Trophy for Rifle Shooting
over the 300 yard range on 4 July 1936 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Travelled from Perth to Waddy Forest with Angus A. N. MCGILP on Tuesday 11
August 1936 [5: 14-Aug-1936]
After spending a week with his parents in Waddy Forest he returned to Perth on
Monday 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Spent his university holidays with his parents in Waddy Forest in May 1937
[5: 21-May-1937, 4-Jun-1937]
Married Helen Hilda CLAIRS in Perth in 1941 [66]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe prior to enlisting in the Australian
Army on 15 January 1941 [16]
Lieutenant WX10786 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Field Regiment during the Second
World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 18 January 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Inglewood [2]
Died 9 March 1998; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium
Rose Gardens, 36, 72) [2]
"Maisie" Mary McIntyre Mitchell KERR
Born 1921 in Maybole, Ayr, Scotland [28]
Daughter of Robert KERR and Christina Logan MAIR [5: 9-Feb-1945]
Departed London, England with her mother and brothers on the Borda for
Fremantle, Western Australia on 10 February 1925 [203]
Later in 1925 her mother married for the second time to Waddy Forest farmer
"Billy" William Scott MITCHELL [66]
Resided with her mother, stepfather and siblings on farmland in Waddy Forest
[19]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Geraldton on Saturday 2 February 1935 [5:
8-Feb-1935]
Student at the Geraldton High School, Geraldton in 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
Returned to school after spending the May 1936 school holidays with her parents
in Waddy Forest [5: 29-May-1936]
Won 2nd for Wildflowers and for Darned Woollen Socks by girl under 16 at the
1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Spent the Easter holidays in March 1937 and school holidays in May 1937 with her
parents in Waddy Forest [5: 25-Mar-1937, 7 & 21-May-1937]
Married D. MARTIN [5: 9-Feb-1945]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Palmyra [2]
Died 9 September 1988; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of
Palmyra (Crematorium R, Burial Plaque, 2, 6) [2]
"Robin" Robert Alexander KERR
Born 23 September 1919 in Maybole, Ayr, Scotland [16]
Son of Robert KERR and Christina Logan MAIR [5: 9-Feb-1945]
Departed London, England with his mother and two siblings on the Borda
for Fremantle, Western Australia on 10 February 1925 [203]
Later in 1925 his mother married for the second time to Waddy Forest farmer
"Billy" William Scott MITCHELL [66]
Resided with his mother, stepfather and siblings on farmland in Waddy Forest
[19]
Student at the Waddy Well State School in Waddy Forest [P12] and then
as a boarder at the Geraldton High School [5: 25-May-1934]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday Party for Nance FOLLAND at Enfield Park
in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Himself and his stepfather were among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to
Perth for the Royal Show in 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1939 [4: 29-Jul-1939]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1939 [0: image 03886]
Member of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the motorised 25th Light Horse
Machine Gun Regiment in 1939 [P15]
The No. 2 Troop was a local militia unit made of people from the North Midlands
and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australian Army on 9 April 1941
[16]
Sergeant WX11654 in the Australian Army's 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion
during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 17 December 1945 [16]
After the war obtained farmland on the Waddy Estate through the Soldier
Settlement Scheme [61]
Farmer in Waddy Forest [19]
In February 1943 his engagement to Miss Joan COX of Naraling was announced
[0: image 04208]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club 1952-1959 [0: image 04682] [4: 24-Jul-1959]
Retired to 16 Doulton Street in Jurien Bay and resided there until his death in
2002 [1] [90]
Husband of Joan [19]
Father of Beryl, Ian, Colin and Barry [45]
Died 12 November 2002 on the Brand Highway, Geraldton WA; buried Winchester
Cemetery, Carnamah (Row H, Plot 10) [1]
William KETT
Farmhand for Paterson & Company on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee
in 1917 [50]
Kevin KING
Stationmaster of the Railway Station in Coorow [P15]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 24-May-1935,
22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on
Saturday 7 December 1935 as a "Toreador" [5]
He was part of the Best Set as "Spaniards" with nine others
from Coorow dressed as Toreadors, Senoritas and Bulls [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow
on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Played for the defeated "The Rest" in a cricket match against Carnamah in Coorow
on Sunday 22 March 1936 [5: 27-Mar-1936]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against
Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
He was among those from Coorow who spent the Easter holidays in 1936 at Dongara
[5: 17-Apr-1936]
Sole Treasurer and Joint Secretary with H. Edward JONES of the Coorow Football
Club in 1936 [5: 10-Apr-1936]
Represented the Coorow Football Club at meetings of the North Midlands Football
Association in 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936 [5: 31-Jul-1936]
Could be the K. KING of the Mingenew Railway Station who relieved in Carnamah in
October-November 1936 [5: 23-Oct-1936, 6-Nov-1936]
Mrs Ellen Mary KINGMAN
Wife of George Lewis KINGMAN; see Ellen Mary KELLY
George Lewis KINGMAN
Born 1883 in Saint Helens, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England [20] [21]
Son of sea mariner Joseph KINGMAN and his wife Janet [20]
In 1891 was living with his parents and sisters Norah and Alma at Saint Helens
Green in Saint Helens, Isle of Wight [20]
Departed London, England on the steamship Armadale bound for Fremantle,
Western Australia on 12 November 1910 [203]
Railway Fettler in Moora 1913-1917 [50]
Railway Fettler / Line Repairer in Carnamah 1919-1922 [6] [50]
Sang a song at the farewell to departing railway
stationmaster James J. STARLING in Carnamah on 18 June 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
Railway Fettler in Winchester 1922-1930 [19]
Signed the petition in February 1923 for the Irwin Licensing
Court to grant a hotel license for Carnamah [10: 9-Mar-1923]
Attended the Euchre Party and Dances held fortnightly in
Winchester in August and September 1929 [4: 17-Aug-1929, 7 & 21-Sep-1929]
Railway Ganger in Gunyidi 1931-1941 [6] [50]
Married Ellen Mary KELLY in Perth in 1932 [66]
Won 1st prize for the Best Pair of Birds in the Poultry
section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
At the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 he was again
awarded 1st prize for the Best Pair of Bird [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Awarded 1st prize for male White Leghorn in the Poultry
section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 28 February 1971; buried Midland Cemetery, Perth suburb of Midland (Roman
Catholic, B, 54) [2]
Leslie Montague KINGSMILL
Selector in Gunyidi in 1910 [50]
James Francis KIRWAN
Teamster in Waddy Forest in 1931 [50]
"Keith" Francis Keith KITSON
Born 31 December 1904 in Albany, Western Australia [16]
Son of John William KITSON and Alice O'CALLAGHAN [15]
Appears to have resided in Three Springs in 1929, however by mid 1930 was living
in Coorow [4]
Member of the Three Springs Football Club in 1929 [4: 13-Jul-1929]
Employee of the Carnamah District Road Board [P84] and in 1933 was
Foreman of their Coorow Road Gang [5: 13-Oct-1933]
He was also a Vermin Inspector for the Carnamah District Road Board 1932-1937
[4: 19-Dec-1931] [5: 22-Dec-1933, 20-Dec-1935, 24-Dec-1936]
The Carnamah District Road Board appointed him Pound-Keeper for Coorow in
September 1933 [5: 6-Oct-1933]
Member of the Coorow Football Club 1930-1937 [4: 3-May-1930, 18-Jul-1931]
[5: 20-Apr-1934, 16-Apr-1937]
Member in 1930 and 1931, Committee Member in 1934 and 1937,
and Selection Committee Member in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Represented the Coorow Football Club at meeting of the North
Midlands Football Association in 1930 [4: 3-May-1930]
Married "Peg" Margaret SIMPSON in Perth in 1934 [66]
Around 1932 purchased Lot 83 in Bristol Street, Coorow from J. F. HARLERY
[3]
Employed the services of Clem H. P. GRANT who in August 1933
built a house on his block in Bristol Street [5: 25-Aug-1933]
Resided with his wife Peg at his house at Lot 83 Bristol
Street, Coorow [P84]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club from 1932-33 until 1935-36 [5:
17-Mar-1933, 25-Oct-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1937 [5: 17-May-1935,
19-Jun-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]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester
Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on
Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1936-37 [5: 30-Oct-1936, 29-Jan-1937]
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]
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]
Later resided at 201 Heytsbury Road in the Perth suburb of Daglish [3]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Subiaco prior to enlisting in the Australian Army
on 3 August 1943 [16]
Sapper 22540 in the Australian Army's 9 Australian Advance
Ammunition Depot during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 18 March 1946
[16]
Sold his house in Bristol Street, Coorow to Joan CROFT in 1946 [3]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Yokine [2]
Father of Patricia [91]
Died 27 February 1981; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic,
Lawn 7, 402) [2]
Mrs Elizabeth KLEIN
Resided in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1914 [19]
Resided in Wubin 1914-1932 [19]
M. KLEM
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4:
13-Dec-1930]
LLL
William LABAN
Born C.1900 in Scotland [24]
Labourer in Waddy Forest and Coorow 1927-1929 [19] [24]
Died 30 January 1929 in Three Springs; buried Three Springs General Cemetery,
Three Springs (Methodist, Plot 1) [24]
Mrs Elizabeth LADD
Resided on Lake View Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1914-1917
[14] [50]
Richard LADD
Farmhand on Lake View Farm in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1914-1917
[19] [50]
Archibald Saunders LAIRD
Farmhand on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Elizabeth Anderson LAIRD
Housekeeper on Koobabbie Farm in Coorow in 1931 [50]
Eva Victoria LAMBERT
Born 1901 in Saint Leonards, New South Wales, Australia [32]
Daughter of William and Letitia J. LAMBERT [32]
Married "Pat" Aeneas CASEY in 1931 in Perth, Western Australia [66]
Resided with her husband Aeneas CASEY on farmland in Coorow [19]
Won 2nd prize for Crochet Doyleys in the Fancy Work section of Coorow's
Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Accompanied by her infant daughter she returned to Coorow on 18 November 1933
after being in Perth for some weeks [5: 24-Nov-1933]
In 1936 she was the Coorow agent for Texaco motor oil [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Beginning on Friday 3 April 1936 began advertising her
agency for Texaco motor oil in The North Midland Times newspaper [5]
The advertisements were in conjunction Raymond R. WYLIE, who
was the Carnamah agent for Texaco motor oil [5]
Their first advertisement, taking up a quarter of the back
page read "Keep it under your bonnet for extra trouble free miles" [5]
In October 1936 her sister Letitia G. LAMBERT of Sydney holidayed in Coorow with
herself and her brother Gordon [5: 23-Oct-1936]
Their Texaco depot had the greatest increase sales in non-metropolitan Western
Australia over the nine months to February 1937 [5]
Her husband, who ran the depot, attributed the success to
their valued clients and to the high standard of Texaco products [5]
As a result they won a free holiday in Perth and a bonus for
every pound sold in excess of quota [5: 26-Feb-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant [2]
Died 7 June 1969; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZA, 316)
[2]
"Gordon" William Gordon LAMBERT
Born 23 April 1902 in Pymble, New South Wales, Australia [16]
Son of William and Letitia J. LAMBERT [32]
Farmer of Carrawidgy Farm in Coorow, Western Australia 1930-1962
[19] [50]
Initially farmed and jointly owned 2,067 acres of farmland in Coorow in
partnership with Aeneas CASEY [3] [19]
The 2,067 acres consisted of Victoria Location 995 and Lots M963, M1232 and
M1357 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
In 1932 "Lambert & Casey" had a Ford truck licensed with the Carnamah District
Road Board with license plate CA-148 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Won 2nd prize for a Strong Wool Merino Ram at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show
on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
"Lambert & Casey" began their hay cutting for the 1933 season on Wednesday 27
September 1933 [5: 29-Sep-1933]
In October 1933 "Lambert & Casey" sold through Westralian Farmers Ltd two bales
of wool at 15¼d. per pound [5: 13-Oct-1933]
They were paid £3 in Vermin Bonuses by the Carnamah District Road Board in the
1933-34 financial year for killing six foxes [300]
Himself and his partner did the Midland Railway Company's rabbit poisoning in
Coorow in 1935 [34]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 and 1936 [5: 9-Aug-1935, 3-Jul-1936]
Steward of the Horses in Action section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Shows
in 1935 and 1937 [5: 28-Jun-1935, 7-May-1937]
Won 2nd prize for Merino Ewe over 2½ years at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show
on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
"Lambert & Casey" sold 15 shorn wethers at 14/10 per head and 45 ewes at 12/4
per head on 29 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Travelled form Coorow to Perth on Friday 28 February 1936 [5: 28-Feb-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]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936 and 1937 - was B Grade Champion in 1937
[5: 31-Jul-1936, 2-Jul-1937]
Won 2nd prize for Merino Fleece of Strong Wool at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural
Show on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
"Lambert & Casey" sold 34 wethers at 17/4 and 31 ewes at 15/3 per head through
Dalgety & Co Ltd in February 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora
Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Sergeant W72081 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second
World War [16]
Around 1942 he became the sole owner and farmer of the 2067 acres formerly owned
by himself and Aeneas CASEY [3]
Later marginally extended the farm by 10 acres with the purchase of Lots M1831,
M1832 and M1834 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Ardross [2]
Died 12 February 1972; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (EC Section,
Garden of Remembrance, 4, 8)
"Ben" Benjamin William John LAMPARD
Born 4 March 1912 in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia [P147]
Son of John LAMPARD and Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH [P147]
Arrived in the Coorow district of Western Australia with his parents in 1921
[P147]
Farmer in Waddy Forest [19]
Member of the Waddy Forest Cricket Club 1928-1930 [4: 10-Nov-1928,
25-Oct-1930]
His uncle Clarence O. BAKER and aunt Margaret BAKER (nee LAMPARD) settled on
farmland in Winchester in 1929 [P147]
Assisted his uncle on their farm in Winchester when they first arrived and
ploughed up 50 acres of virgin land for their first crop [P147]
Member of the Winchester Tennis Club in 1932-33 [5: 17-Mar-1933] [4:
18-Mar-1933]
Member in 1933 and Committee Member in 1934 of the Coorow Football Club [5:
9-Jun-1933, 20-Apr-1934]
Received a cut over the eye in a football match at Three Springs on Sunday 11
June 1933 [5: 16-Jun-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club from 1933-34 to 1950-51 [5: 3-Nov-1933,
6-Apr-1934] [4: 14-Apr-1951]
While on an extended holiday at the beach in March 1934 he purchased a new
B.S.A. motorcycle [5: 6-Apr-1934]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club 1934-1957 [4: 22-Dec-1934, 22-Feb-1957]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on
Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1958 - was Captain in 1951 [5:
17-May-1935] [4: 9-Aug-1941, 7-Apr-1951, 11-Jul-1958]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club 1935-1959 [5: 1-Nov-1935] [4: 24-Jul-1959]
Represented the Coorow Rifle Club at the annual shoot for
the Shearn Cup in Mingenew on Sunday 20 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Presented with the W. G. Morcombe Trophy at the Club's
Annual Ball at the Coorow Hall on 28 November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Master of Ceremonies "in his usual capable manner" at the
Rifle Club's Presentation Ball in Coorow on 10 July 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
Member of the committee who organised the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow
on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Master of Ceremonies of the Dance at the Coorow Hall after the Coorow-Waddy
Sports on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Attended the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on
Saturday 7 December 1935 as a "Toreador" [5]
He was part of the Best Set as "Spaniards" with nine others
from Coorow dressed as Toreadors, Senoritas and Bulls [5: 13-Dec-1935]
After an extended holiday in Perth he returned to Waddy Forest on Tuesday night
7 January 1936 [5: 10-Jan-1936]
The following day his parents left for Perth, presumably for
a holiday of their own with him home to run the farm [5: 10-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]
Travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Wednesday night 15 April 1936 [5:
17-Apr-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 Surprise 21st Birthday Party for Nance FOLLAND at Enfield Park
in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in
Coorow on Sunday 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Himself and Peter ROBERTS of Waddy travelled to Perth with Roy M. PATTON on
Saturday 19 December 1936 [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in
1937 and 1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951] [150]
After holidaying in Perth he returned to Waddy Forest on Monday night 18 January
1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in
Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow
Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Stewards of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural
Society's Annual Show on 2 September 1937 [150]
At the Show tied for 1st prize for Sheaf Tossing in the
Rings Events [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Married "Nance" Nancy Selway JOHNSON in Perth in 1938 [66]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora
Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 20 July 1945
[96]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Carnamah farmer Carl OLSEN at the Winchester
Cemetery on 21 March 1946 [5]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Edith Maude GREENWOOD on 5 April 1947 at the
Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [5]
Assistant Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts
Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Casket carrier at the funeral of Coorow farmer Frederick John KAU at the
Winchester Cemetery on 27 March 1950 [4]
Represented the Coorow Tennis Club at meetings of the Coorow Tennis Association
in 1950-51 [4: 14-Apr-1951]
In 1954 was the owner of a Custom Line Ford Sedan car with licence plate CA-533
[22]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Morley [2]
Father of Theonie, Claire and Lesley [P147]
Died 10 January 1981; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium
Rose Gardens, 17, 140) [2]
Mrs Eliza Mabel Perry LAMPARD
Wife of John LAMPARD; see Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH
John LAMPARD
Born 5 November 1885 in Apsley, Victoria, Australia [P147]
Son of William LAMPARD and Margaret ANDERSON [54]
Married Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH on 16 October 1911 in Dimboola, Victoria,
Australia [P147]
Along with his wife and children left Victoria in 1921 and settled on
prospective farmland in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [P147]
Farmer in Waddy Forest 1922- [50]
On 20 March 1922 signed a contract to purchase 920 acres of virgin land at Waddy
Forest from the Midland Railway Company [27]
His 920 acres was Lot M1277 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £828.5.10 (18/-
per acre), payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
During some of the 1920s, prior to definitive boundaries being set, his farm was
recorded as being in Winchester [44]
Lived in a hut in the bush, from which his food was sometimes stolen, while
clearing his farm with an axe [P129]
Showed his brother-in-law Clarence O. BAKER of Weerup, Victoria prospective land
to buy in Winchester in about 1929 [P129]
In 1929 his brother-in-laws Howard H. CHAPPEL and Clarence O. BAKER both left
Victoria and settled on land in Winchester [P129]
Himself and his wife were the recipients of a Surprise Party on 24 May 1930,
when 50 locals visited them at their home [4: 31-May-1930]
His wife organised a Bazaar which was held on 20 September 1930 in the Coorow
Hall in aid of hospital funds [4: 4-Oct-1930]
They hosted a kitchen tea at their home for Mary MORCOMBE and sixty guests on
Saturday 11 October 1930 [4: 18-Oct-1930]
A thunderstorm started a fire on his farm in December 1930 and shortly
afterwards was extinguished by a shower of rain [4: 20-Dec-1930]
Won 1st prize for a Border Leicester Ram in the Sheep section of Coorow-Waddy's
First Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
In 1932 he was the owner of an Essex car and a Chevrolet truck with license
plates CA-43 and CA-235 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
At the second annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 he won 2nd prize for
a Border Leicester Ram [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Received the highest price for lambs sold at the Lamb Market in late June 1934
[5: 6-Jul-1934]
Accompanied by his daughter he drove to Perth on Monday 30 July 1934 to attend a
horse sale [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Exhibited in the Grain & Fodder and Sheep section of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Received 1st prize for Green Wheat for Hay and 2nd prizes
for Border Leicester Ram and Three Lambs Suitable for Export [5]
Himself and his wife departed Coorow on Thursday 8 January 1935 for a holiday
trip to Perth and Denmark [4: 11-Jan-1936]
During the May 1935 school holiday his nieces Kitty and Hazel CHAPPEL of
Winchester visited them in Waddy Forest [5: 17-May-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1937, and Captain 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]
Won 1st for Green Oats for Hay and 2nd for Brown Oats and Oaten Hay at the 1935
Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Came 2nd in the Old Buffers Race at the Athletic Sports Meeting at Maley Park in
Coorow on Wednesday 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy
Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Returned the best score off stick at the Carnamah Golf Club's largely attended
Opening Day on Sunday 26 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
His parents spent time staying with himself in Waddy Forest and his sisters in
Winchester and Carnamah in 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
They left for South Australia in mid May 1936 to visit more
relatives, and then returned to their home in Jeparit, Victoria [5]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on
Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Sold a chopper pig for £1/19/6 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland
Market on Wednesday 8 July 1936 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in
1936 [150]
Won 1st prize for male White Turkey in the Poultry section of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-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]
Master of Ceremonies at the Coorow Rifle Club's Annual Ball at the Coorow Hall
on Saturday 28 November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
After their son returned from his holiday himself and his wife motored to Perth
on Wednesday 20 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Attended and competed at the Carnamah Golf Club's Season Opening at Centenary
Park in Carnamah on 2 May 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
Sold one chopper at 83/6 through elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on
Wednesday 26 May 1937 [5: 28-May-1937]
Attended the Silver Wedding Anniversary of Guy & Maude GREENWOOD at Manell
Farm in Waddy on 1 June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-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]
In August 1937 Miss Nancy JOHNSON of Perth spent a holiday staying with himself
and his wife in Waddy Forest [4: 7-Aug-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow
Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Exhibited in the Sheep, Poultry and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prizes for Oaten Chaff, Oaten Hay and Muscovy
Duck [5]
Received 2nd prizes for Muscovy Drake, Green Oats for Hay
and Three Fat First Cross Lambs in the wool [5]
He was made a Life Member of the Coorow Golf Club on 28 March 1951 [4:
7-Apr-1951]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [2]
Brother of Mrs "Bess" Bertha CHAPPEL of Winchester and Mrs Margaret BAKER of
Winchester and Carnamah [P147]
Father of Benjamin and Agnes [P147]
Died 26 October 1955; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium
Rose Gardens, B, 103) [2]
"Agnes" Margaret Agnes Abbott LAMPARD
Born 19 August 1914 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [P107]
Daughter of John LAMPARD and Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH [P147]
Niece of Mrs Margaret BAKER and of Mrs Bess CHAPPEL, both of Winchester
[P147]
Arrived in the Coorow district of Western Australia with her parents in 1921
[P147]
Resided with her aunt Margaret BAKER in Winchester for a month of the year 1931
[4: 30-May-1931]
Won 1st prize for a pair of hand knitted socks at the first Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
The next week won 2nd prize for a pair of hand knitted socks at the 1932
Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Attended the Show Ball following the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 15 September
1932 in a gown of apricot lace [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Exhibited in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at
Maley Park, Coorow on 7 September 1933 [5]
Awarded 1st prize for Embroidered Doyleys and 2nd prizes for
both Knitted Socks and a Knitted Woollen Article [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Attended the Carnamah Football Club's Monster Ball at the Carnamah Hall on
Saturday 2 September 1933 [5: 8-Sep-1933]
She was reported to have attended the Monster Ball in "an
ankle length dress of orange lace, finished off with large bow at wait" [5]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 and 1934-35 [5:
20-Oct-1933, 28-Sep-1934]
Paid a 5/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in May 1934 for
helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300: page 42]
In July 1934 spent a holiday with her uncle Howard and aunt Bess CHAPPEL on
their Marathon Farm in Winchester [5: 20-Jul-1934]
Exhibited in the Fancy Work and Confectionary sections of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prize for a Coloured Toilet Set and 2nd prizes for
Embroidered Doyleys, Knitted Socks and Collection of Preserves [5]
After an extended holiday in Cottesloe herself and her mother returned to Waddy
Forest in early March 1935 [5: 8-Mar-1935]
One of the suppliers of music at the Coorow Cricket Club's Dance held at the
Coorow Hall on Saturday 13 April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on
Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
After the Patron hit the first ball the ladies present took
off after the ball and she was the lucky one to retrieve it [5]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Along with 70 guests celebrated her 21st birthday at her parents' home in Waddy
on Monday evening 19 August 1935 [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Won 1st prize for Crochet Woollen Article and 2nd for Supper Cloth at the
Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the Show Ball after the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 12 September 1935
in a gown of salmon pink marocain [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Attended the Ball at the East Marchagee Hall after the Marchagee-Gunyidi Picnic
& Sports Day on 14 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 25-Oct-1935,
8-Nov-1935, 20-Nov-1936]
Completed her schooling as a boarder at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara
[P107]
Attended the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on
Saturday 7 December 1935 as a "Senorita" [5: 13-Dec-1935]
She was part of the Best Dressed Set as "Spaniards" with
nine others from Coorow dressed as Senoritas, Toreadors and Bulls [5]
Herself and Evelyn A. BINGHAM received notice to begin their training at the
Perth Hospital in early December 1935 [5: 6-Dec-1935]
Trained for three years as a nurse at the Perth Hospital in Perth from December
1935 until qualifying in January 1939 [P107]
Won 2nd prizes for Hand-Knitted Socks and Novelty Article in Wool at the
Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
During late October and November 1936 she spent a holiday with her parents in
Waddy Forest [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]
Following the conclusion of her holidays she re-commenced her duties at the
Perth Hospital in late November 1936 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Won 1st and 2nd prizes for Hand-Knitted Socks at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural
Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
After completing midwifery training in Melbourne, Victoria she worked as a
midwife at the hospital in Warracknabeal, Victoria [P107]
Married Leo DUNNE on 4 October 1941 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [P107]
Resided of late in the southern Perth suburb of Shoalwater Bay [2]
Mother of Derek [P147]
Died 10 August 2001; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Fremantle WA
(Crematorium N, 3, 2) [2]
Mrs "Nance" Nancy Selway LAMPARD
Wife of "Ben" Benjamin William John LAMPARD; see "Nance" Nancy Selway
JOHNSON
"Jenny" Janet McDougall LANG
Born 19 October 1888 in Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland [28]
Daughter of John LANG and Mary LOCHHEAD [28]
Grew up in Greenock and Kilmacolm in Renfrew, Scotland [P1]
Attended the Glasgow West End School of Cookery and became a qualified school
teacher in cookery, laundry and housewifery [P12]
Along with her parents departed London, England on the Otway and arrived
in Fremantle, Western Australia on 12 May 1914 [P43]
Settled with her parents in Carnamah shortly after their arrival in Western
Australia [P12]
Resided with her parents on Grianaig Farm in Carnamah [P12]
Member of the Carnamah Sunday School in 1914 [7: page 238]
Helped cater for 180 people at the luncheon of the Carnamah Races on Easter
Monday 9 April 1917 [9: 27-Apr-1917]
For a period, along with her sister Jean, boarded in Perth where they both
worked as school teachers [P12]
Married "Mac" Angus Archibald Nicol MCGILP on 7 April 1920 at Grianaig
Farm in Carnamah [P12]
She was given away by her father and wore a charming bridal
frock of ivory crepe de chine [10: 16-Apr-1920]
Her veil was Georgette embroidered Brussels net held by
orange blossoms; carried a bouquet of Easter lilies and white asters [10]
Best man and bridesmaid at their wedding were Carnamah
pioneer Donald MACPHERSON and her sister Mary L. LANG [10]
Resided with her husband on Waddy Waddy Farm and later on Polaris
Farm, both in Waddy Forest 1920-1956 [P12]
Attended the Carnamah Race Club's Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 10 April 1924
wearing cream crepe de chene georgette [10: 24-Apr-1924]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural
Society 1932-1948 [4: 9-Apr-1932] [150]
Exhibited and won prizes in four sections of the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural
Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for a Collection of Roses, Peas, Shortbread
and for a Knitted Woollen Article [5]
Awarded 2nd prizes for Plain Scones, Decorated Cake and
Brown Hen Eggs [5]
The next week won 1st prizes for Roses and Peas at the Carnamah Agricultural
Show on Thursday 15 September 1932 [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Successfully exhibited in the Second Annual Coorow Agricultural Show at Maley
Park, Coorow on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Won prizes for Fancy Scones and Lemons, and 2nd prizes for
Fancy Cakes and a Decorated Cake in Confectionary section [5]
Won 2nd prize for female White Turkey in the Poultry
section and 2nd prize for an Embroidered Cushion in the Fancy Work [5]
Herself and Mrs Chris FORRESTER judged the Confectionary section at the Three
Springs Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 29-Sep-1933]
Herself and her husband attended the opening of the East Marchagee Hall in
Marchagee on Saturday 11 November 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
On 24 January 1934 departed Waddy Forest with her husband and children for their
annual holiday at Rockingham [5: 26-Jan-1934]
Exhibited in the Confectionary and Farm Produce sections of the Coorow-Waddy
Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prizes for Decorated Cake, Shortbread, Preserves,
Butter and Brown Hen Eggs and 2nd for Fancy Cakes and Biscuits [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the
Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Along with her husband and children departed Waddy Forest on Wednesday 23
January 1935 for a holiday in Rockingham [5: 25-Jan-1935]
Attended her parents Golden Wedding Celebration at Grianaig Farm in
Carnamah on Sunday 18 August 1935 [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Won prizes in the Poultry, Vegetables and Confectionary sections of the
Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 15-Sep-1935]
In Poultry received 1st prize for Muscovy Drake and 2nd for
male Black Orpington; and 2nd for Peas in the Vegetables section [5]
Awarded 1st prizes for Fancy Scones, Shortbread and
Marmalade, and 2nd for Coffee Rolls and Lemons in Confectionary [5]
Judged the Confectionary section of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's
Annual Show on 20 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Chief mourner at the funeral of her sister "May" Mary L. LANG at the Winchester
Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Herself and her husband travelled to Perth on Sunday 8 December 1935 to attend
the Scotch College presentation night [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Along with her husband and children motored from Waddy Forest to Perth on Monday
27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
After spending a number of weeks in Perth she returned to her home in Waddy
Forest on Thursday 27 August 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Judged the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural
Society's Annual Show in 1936 [5]
Exhibited in the Farm Produce and Flower sections of the
Show, winning 1st prize for Brown Hen Eggs and 2nd for 12 Pansies [5]
Wearing biscuit lace she attended the Show Ball held at the
Coorow Hall on the evening of the Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Judged the Confectionary section at the Three Springs Agricultural Society's
Annual Show on 17 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-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]
Travelled to Perth in May 1937 to bid farewell to her mother and brother John
before they departed for Scotland [5: 21-May-1937]
With Mrs Henrietta FRANKLIN of Three Springs judged the Confectionary at the
Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Judged the Cookery and Knitting sections of the Carnamah District Agricultural
Society's Shows in 1940 and 1941 [0: image 03897] [13]
President of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Red Cross Society in 1941 and
1942 [0: images 04106 / 7]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic
Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Judge of the Flower and Knitting sections at the Carnamah District Agricultural
Society's Victory Show in 1945 [13] [0: image 04367]
Judged the Confectionary section at the Mingenew District Agricultural Society's
1945 show [261]
Judge of the Knitting section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's
Annual Show in 1947 [13]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the R.S.L. Women's Auxiliary in 1951
[4: 7-Apr-1951]
Judged the Handicrafts section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's
Annual Show in 1954 [0: image 04751]
Employed the services of Coorow builder E. Clive HUNTER to build her a house
[P320]
Resided in Main Street in the Coorow townsite from 1956 to 1973 [P12]
In 1961 she had Margaret Mary JAMES as a housekeeper at her home in Coorow
[19]
Left Coorow and shifted to the Lady Brand Lodge in Three Springs on 6 October
1973 [147]
Shifted to the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs in 1978, where
she died in her 90th year [P12]
Mother of Sandy, Maisie, John and Tups [P12]
Died 31 March 1978 in Three Spring; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F,
Plot 13) [1]
Bernt Andrews LARSON
Labourer in Coorow 1915-1917 [50]
William Henry LARWOOD
Farmer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19] [50]
"Mick" Arthur LATHAM
Born 16 September 1916 in Payne's Find, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
Won the 12-14 years Running Race at the Sports Day and Picnic held at Centenary
Park, Carnamah on 9 October 1930 [4: 18-Oct-1930]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in February 1934
for helping to control vermin by killing a fox [300]
Himself and James PRICE left Waddy Forest for Carnarvon in a Dodge runabout car
on 20 October 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Kangaroo Shooter and Shearing Contractor in Coorow [19] [30: item 6506087]
Won the Throwing at Wicket at the Sports Meeting at Maley Park in Coorow on
Boxing Day 26 December 1936 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Married Elsie GALBRAITH in 1939 [66]
Enlisted in the Australian Army in Coorow on 28 January 1942, and was called up
for service on 7 April 1942 [30: item 6506087]
Initially gave his next of kin as his brother George LATHAM
of Coorow, but it was later changed to his wife Elsie [30]
Private W20476 in the Australian Army's 13th Training
Battalion in Northam during the Second World War [30]
He was declared an "Illegal Absentee" after leaving the 13th
Training Battalion in Northam at 6:40 a.m. 7 May 1942 [30]
Surrendered himself to the Australian Army's General Details
Depot at 2 p.m. on 5 May 1944 and was detained [30]
A District Court Martial in Claremont on 19 May 1944
sentenced him to 18 months detention over two charges [30]
He was found guilty of absenting himself without leave and
for losing his clothing and equipment valued at £5/13/1 [30]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 4 July 1944 and
permitted to work as a Shearer in Payne's Find [30]
Legislative Assembly Electoral Rolls list him as a Contractor in Coorow until
1947 [19]
"Ted" Edward LATHAM
Born 1912 [15]
Son of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
Resided with his parents in Coorow in 1919 [215]
His name was listed as a prospective student on applications for the reopening
of the closed Coorow State School in May 1919 [215]
Labourer in Coorow in 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
The Carnamah Police Court fined him £2 plus £2/6/- costs for driving an
unlicensed vehicle without registration in August 1936 [5]
He was also imposed with a £8 car license bringing the overall charge to £12/6/-
or in default 27 days imprisonment [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Won the Hop, Step & Jump at the Sports Meeting at Maley Park in Coorow on Boxing
Day 26 December 1936 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
At 9.9 stone competed in the Boxing Tournament before a full house in Carnamah
on Saturday evening 28 August 1937 [5: 3-Sep-1937]
Married Kathleen GALBRAITH in 1939 [66]
Contractor in Coorow 1941-1943 [19]
Contractor in Carnamah in 1947 [19]
Contractor in Perenjori 1950-1956 [19]
Farm Manager in Dongara 1958-1980 [19]
Resided of late at Lot 1456 Brand Highway in Dongara [132]
Father of Janet and Keith [P402]
Died 23 April 1990 in Dongara; buried Dongara Cemetery in Dongara, Western
Australia (Anglican, Plot 77) [132]
Mrs Elsie LATHAM
Wife of Arthur LATHAM; see Elsie GALBRAITH
"Frank" Francis LATHAM
Born 9 June 1904 in Coorow, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
Married Dorothy Margaret NANNUP in 1932 [66]
Shearer in Trayning in 1936 [50]
In 1940 he was working as a Shearer and living on Riley Street in the Perth
suburb of Tuart Hill [30: item 6499789]
Enlisted in the Australian Army in Perth on 30 September 1940 [30: item
6499789]
Served with the Australian Army's W/C Ordnance Workshops in
Perth, Bushmead and Northam during the Second World War [30]
Began as a Private but was appointed Lance Corporal on 25
May 1942, and promoted to Corporal on 7 October 1942 [30]
He was "Reduced to Ranks" and reverted to Private on 25
October 1943 for giving misleading information to obtain leave [30]
Discharged from the Australian Army in the Perth suburb of
Claremont on 13 March 1944 [30]
By 1942 himself and his wife had shifted from Tuart Hill to the Perth hills
suburb of Parkerville [84]
Their son Ronald William and daughter Nancy Fay were baptised by Arthur HAWKINS
of Mundaring on 19 October 1942 [84]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Swan View [2]
Father of Raymond, Rodney, Nancy Fay, Ronald, Kenneth George, Elva Merle and
Francis Edward [P402]
Died 1 February 1968; buried Midland Cemetery, Perth suburb of Midland
(Anglican, D, 78) [2]
"Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM
He was from Echuca, Victoria, Australia and served in the Merchant Navy
[265]
He is said to have been Arthur Herbert GREEN, born 1881 in
Echuca, son of George GREEN and Elizabeth ABBOTT [15] [P402]
After often being in fights with sailors and getting
punished he jumped ship at Fremantle in Western Australia in about 1892
[265]
He changed his surname to Latham and headed north where he
caught a brumby, broke it in and went kangarooing on it [265]
Sold the kangaroo skins while based in Three Springs for a
time, and later prospected at Payne's Find [265]
He worked on and off for LONG Bros in Coorow from 1898 to
1905 [120: 15-Feb-1951]
While prospecting at Payne's Find he met Mary OLIVER, the daughter of an English
pastoralist and an Aboriginal woman [265]
Their son Richard Oliver LATHAM, who was born in Arrino,
drowned in a well at the age of five years in 1905 [15] [265]
Richard was buried on 8 September 1905 in plot 235A of the
Anglican section at the Mingenew Cemetery in Mingenew [176]
Kangaroo Hunter in Coorow in 1903 [50]
Farmer in Marchagee 1903-1911 and in Coorow 1911-1914 [19] [44] [50] [120:
15-Feb-1951]
In about 1903 he took up land at Jun Jun Springs and became
the first person to take up land towards Marchagee [120: 15-Feb-1951]
The block was the 160 acre Homestead Lease 4313/74 at Jun
Jun Springs and near Turipa Spring [44]
Francis H. R. THOMAS of Coorow Station was tried but
found not guilty of stabbing him in Coorow in 1906 [39: 29-Mar-1906,
8-Sep-1906]
Labourer at Jun Jun in Coorow in 1909 and 1910
[50]
Paid rates for his 160 acres at Jun Jung Springs until the
1910-11 financial year [44]
Prior to 1914 he sunk Waddy Well at Waddy Forest in the
Coorow district [265]
Married Mary OLIVER in Coorow in 1906 [265]
One day himself and Mary were loading kangaroo skins onto a
train at Coorow and getting supplies off [265]
There was a parson on the train and he married them on the
platform of the railway station [265]
The country east of Coorow had been regarded as "no man's land" comprising of
good for nothing impenetrable scrub [120: 15-Feb-1951]
The LONG Bros of Coorow Station, and who had been
born in Coorow, had only been about 20 kilometres to the east [120]
In about 1906 he rode through the apparently "impenetrable
scrub" to the 141-mile gate on the rabbit proof fence [120]
He returned in about 1908, cut sandalwood trees around a
rock where he made his camp, and made a road to the 141-mile gate
[120]
He is said to have previously cleaned out a waterhole on the
rock, and also stacked his sandalwood trees on the rock [265]
In 1909 settlers looking for prospective farmland followed
the track he made from Coorow and called the place Latham's Rock [120]
The rock was recorded as Latham Rock in 1909, named in his
honour for establishing a watering place for stock being droved [184]
He recounted the facts of how Latham was named to The
Western Mail newspaper, which were published on 15 February 1951 [120]
When the railway went through Latham was selected as the
name for a nearby railway siding and later townsite [184]
His son George stated the railway siding was named after him
because he was the first to load any goods on the train there [265]
Grazier of Tungaloo Station in Payne's Find in 1916 [50]
Pastoralist & Grazier in Coorow in partnership with Thomas BONHAM as "Bonham &
Latham" in 1919 [44] [50]
They farmed 3,523 acres - Victoria Locations 2927, 2997,
3058, 3059, 3350, 3351, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3500, 3502, 3732, 5464 [44]
In 1919 he was living with his wife and children on Victoria
Location 2997 in Coorow [215]
He wrote to the Education Department on 29 March 1919
requesting the closed Coorow State School be reopened [215]
Following further correspondence to the Education Department
from himself and others the school opened on 19 August 1919 [215]
The school was in a room of Coorow House on Victoria
Location 385, which was a one mile journey if his children attended [215]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd arranged for an auction to be
held on his farm in Coorow on 12 September 1919 [10: 12-Sep-1919]
The auction was to sell his farm, stock and plant however
before the sale the property was sold privately as a going concern [10]
The farm in Coorow was sold to John R. LONGMORE and Laurence
A. R. BRYANT [44] [265]
After selling the farm he shifted with his wife and children
to Moora, where he owned a ten acre block [265]
Grazier of Banna Station south of Payne's Find 1919-1922 [265]
He sunk a well on the station, built a rough shed for a
house and made a horse paddock [265]
At the end of 1919 his wife and children moved up from Moora
to join him on Banna Station [265]
Purchased 1,000 sheep from Ningham Station and drove
them the 60 miles to Banna Station [265]
He carted his wool with horses to Mandiga Station
near Bencubbin in 1921, and carted stores on the way back [265]
In 1922 he sold Banna Station, which was later known
as Mouroubra Station, to Pavey & Grant [265]
With his wife and children walked 3,000 sheep to Ballidu,
where he had ordered a special train [265]
They loaded everything onto the train - the sheep, horses,
spring cart, dray and sulky [265]
The sheep were taken off at the saleyards in the Perth
suburb of Midland Junction and sold [265]
Resided with his wife and children on a small farm in Eden Hill from 1922 until
June 1924 when himself and his wife separated [265]
Farmer of Koralling Farm in Wongan Hills in 1925 [50]
He worked developing a series of 5,000 acre blocks in Wongan
Hills which he then sold to the Agricultural Department [265]
Said to have developed a 5,000 acre block each year, which
the Agricultural Department used for their research farms [265]
In 1943 he was working as a Labourer and living at 76 John Street in Perth
[50]
He later resided on Walter Road in the Perth suburb of Morley, then known as
Morley Park [50] [120: 15-Feb-1951]
Father of Richard, May, Frank, Violet, Ted, George, Arthur, Molly and Dorothy
[265]
Died 28 May 1956 [P402]
"Fred" Frederick LATHAM
Born 1907 [15]
Son of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
Student at the Gosnells State School in the Perth suburb of Gosnells in 1913
[215]
Resided with his parents in Coorow in 1919 [215]
His name was listed as a prospective student on applications
for the reopening of the closed Coorow State School in May 1919 [215]
Contractor in Coorow 1929-1939 [19]
Married Grace Ann GALBRAITH in 1932 [66]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest in 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 24-May-1935]
Went before the Moora Local Court in Moora on Friday 15 November 1935 over money
owed to Westralian Farmers Ltd [5]
The North Midland Farmers' Co-operative Company had assigned
his overdue account to Westralian Farmers Ltd [5]
Westralian Farmers Ltd recovered judgement for £9/5/5 plus
19/6 costs [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Went before the Carnamah Police Court on Friday 22 November 1935 for having
driven an unlicensed vehicle [5: 29-Nov-1935]
He pleaded not guilty, provided one witness in his defence
and could have provided a further two witnesses if given more time [5]
The Court said they had to go with what information that had
and he was fined £1 plus costs of £5/1/8/6 [5]
Himself and his brother George ran into trouble when returning to Waddy Forest
from Marchagee on Wednesday 29 January 1936 [5]
Rolled scrub had caught alight and was burning out of
control when a change in the wind turned the fire towards their truck [5]
The heat from the fire caused their truck to function
improperly and they had no choice but to abandon it and run for their lives
[5]
They were both severely burnt around the arms and face, and
the newly purchased truck was burnt to cinders [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Peter W. THOMSON of Marchagee found them in a shocked state
and conveyed them to their home in Waddy Forest [5]
Supplier of music at the Dance in aid of the Anglican Church held in Waddy
Forest on Saturday 20 June 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Advertised for four months in 1937 to shear up to 10,000 sheep with a two stand
plant in late September [5: 18-Jun-1937, 30-Jul-1937, 3-Sep-1937]
In 1939 himself and his brother George began shearing together and shore sheep
in Coorow, Dalwallinu and Calingiri [265]
His wife leased 2,322 acres of farmland in Coorow from the Midland Railway
Company (Lots M1744 and M1745) in 1939 [34]
In 1939 he farmed his wife's leasehold in Coorow in addition
to working away as a shearer [34]
They abandoned their 2,322 leasehold in Coorow during March
of 1940 [34]
After an absence shifted back to Coorow in June 1941, and his children attended
the Coorow State School [215]
Shearer of Coorow in 1941 and of Waddy Forest in 1943 [215]
Farmer in Morawa in 1950 [19]
Father of Jean, Graham, Ellen and Eric [215]
Died 9 January 1951; buried at the Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton, Western
Australia [26]
George LATHAM
Born 16 September 1914 in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [30: item
6506118]
Son of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
He was born near Waddy Well in the Coorow district, which had previously been
sunk by his father [265]
Resided with his parents on Banna Station south of Payne's Find 1919-1922
and then in Eden Hill 1922-1924 [265]
Following the separation of his parents shifted with his mother and siblings to
Coorow in 1924 [265]
Their mother was fell ill with rheumatic fever and was taken to Perth by train
[265]
During their mother's absence his siblings were taken to a convent however he
continually hid from police and wasn't found [265]
Their mother returned in 1925 and himself, his brother Arthur and sister Molly
attended the Coorow State School [265]
He later skipped school and instead went out on his horse to catch kangaroos
[265]
For a number of years worked looking after "Geoff" Geoffrey G. JOHNS' farm in
Coorow when he was away [265]
Worked harvesting for a mate of JOHNS and then got a job seeding with "Bill"
William FLANAGAN in Gunyidi [265]
Left Gunyidi to work with his elder brother "Fred" Frederick LATHAM in Waddy
Forest [265]
For five months he worked fencing on Ullawarra Station in Carnarvon, and
then returned to the Coorow district [265]
Farmhand for Malcolm L. PATTON on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest in 1931
[265]
While working on Longforest Farm he broke in a few a
horses and looked after the farm's cattle and sheep [265]
Fell ill in the winter of 1933 and Carnamah doctor Cecil P. ROSENTHAL diagnosed
him with appendicitis [265]
Went to the North Midlands District Hospital in Three
Springs where he had his appendix removed [265]
Resided in Coorow in 1933 and 1934 [300: pages 41, 42]
In December 1933 the Carnamah District Road Board paid him
£35 for clearing Vanzetti Road in Marchagee [300: page 79]
Paid £4/10/- in Vermin Bonuses by the Carnamah District Road
Board in 1933-34 for killing two wild dogs and two foxes [300]
Attended the Annual Meeting of the Coorow-Waddy Forest
Football Club on Saturday 14 April 1934 [5: 20-Apr-1934]
At the age of 20 in 1934 he purchased car and went kangarooing in the Gascoyne
and also spent time in Perth learning boxing [265]
Purchased a few ponies and was given a six month old foal which he drove from
Perth up to Coorow, with the foal following [265]
The foal, named Derby, grew up to be a great horse and won
the high jump at a Carnamah Show with a height of 5 feet 3 inches [265]
In 1935 he worked water boring and well sinking in Waddy Forest with his brother
Fred, and at times also worked as a farmhand [265]
At 5 feet 3 inches he won the High Jump at the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in
Coorow on 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Came 2nd in both the Hurdle Race and the Obstacle Race at the Athletic Sports
Meeting in Coorow on 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
Himself and his brother Fred ran into trouble when returning to Waddy Forest
from Marchagee on Wednesday 29 January 1936 [5]
Rolled scrub had caught alight and was burning out of
control when a change in the wind turned the fire towards their truck [5]
The heat from the fire caused their truck to function
improperly and they had no choice but to abandon it and run for their lives
[5]
They were both severely burnt around the arms and face, and
the newly purchased truck was burnt to cinders [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Peter W. THOMSON of Marchagee found them in a shocked state
and conveyed them to their home in Waddy Forest [5]
In 1936 he paid rates for the 4,820 acre Victoria Location 9516 in Coorow, until
it was forfeited on 27 November 1936 [3]
Contract bag sewer in Coorow over the harvest of 1936 and then again worked for
Malcolm L. PATTON in the winter and spring [265]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1936 and 1937 [5: 29-May-1936,
28-May-1937]
Worked making concrete tanks with Coorow builder Augustus F. L. CROFT and then
went up north mustering stock [265]
In 1939 took up shearing with his brother Fred and they shore sheep in Coorow,
Dalwallinu and Calingiri [265]
Won the Sheffield Handicap and the Hurdle Race at the Sports Meeting in Coorow
on Boxing Day 26 December 1936 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Shearer in Coorow until enlisting in the Australian Army in Coorow on 28 January
1942 [30: item 6506118]
Gave his brother Arthur LATHAM of Coorow as his next of kin
[30]
He was recorded as being 5 foot 10 inches tall with dark
hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion [30]
Private W20476 in the Australian Army's 13th Training
Battalion and then 3rd Field Regiment during the Second World War [30]
Without permission he permanently left the 13th Australian
Infantry Training Battalion in Northam late at night on 2 May 1942 [30]
A Court of Inquiry on 8 June 1942 declared him an "Illegal
Absentee" and a Desertion Warrant was issued on 25 July 1942 [30]
In civilian clothes he surrendered himself the Australian
Army's General Details Deport in Claremont on 3 April 1944 [30]
A District Court Martial in Claremont on 17 April 1944 found
not guilty of desertion but guilty of absent without leave [30]
He was sentenced to 18 months detention, and was discharged
from the Australian Army in Perth on 25 April 1944 [30]
At the time of his discharge he was working on Erribidie
Station near Meekatharra and still had to serve his detention [30]
From 1946 he worked mustering stock outside of Carnarvon, and sometimes drove
the stock to Mullewa [265]
Musterer, Shearer and Water Diviner on Callytharra Station in the
Gascoyne 1950-1988 [265]
Married (1) Grace M. EVANS in 1952 [66]
Leyland Brothers filmed him during their "Wheels Across the Wilderness" film
through the middle of Australia in 1966 [265]
Partner of (2) Lorna Robina BLACKWELL nee LIZARS from 1957 [265]
In 1958 purchased a house for £60 from the closed down Big Bell Mine and had it
erected on Callytharra Station [265]
Himself and Lorna left Callytharra Station in 1988 and shifted to 100
acres on Bookera East Road in Dongara [265]
Father of Margaret [265]
Died 9 November 2004 [29]
Mrs Grace Ann LATHAM
Wife of "Fred" Frederick LATHAM; see Grace Ann GALBRAITH
Mrs Kathleen LATHAM
Wife of Edward LATHAM; see Kathleen GALBRAITH
Mrs Mary LATHAM
Wife of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM; see Mary OLIVER
May LATHAM
Born C.1902 [2]
Daughter of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
Married (1) George FREEMAN [P402]
Resided in Coorow 1935-1942 [19]
Owner of the vacant quarter acre Gov Lot 48 on the west side of the Coorow
townsite from 1939 until 1949 [3]
Married (2) Gordon Royal Anthony TAMBLYN in 1942 [66]
Resided in Coorow in 1942 and 1943 [19]
During the 1948-49 financial year the Carnamah District Road Board wrote off her
Gov Lot 48 for non-payment of rates [3]
Resided in Perenjori 1953-1973 [19]
Later resided at 136 Healy Road in the Perth suburb of Hamilton Hill
[2]
Mother of Margaret, Francis and Alexander [P402]
Died 18 July 1980; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra
(Crematorium A, A4, 104) [2]
Violet Elsie LATHAM
Born 1906 [215]
Daughter of "Frank" Francis Arthur LATHAM and Mary OLIVER [265]
Student at the Gosnells State School in the Perth suburb of Gosnells in 1913
[215]
Resided with her parents in Coorow in 1919 [215]
Her name was listed as a prospective student on applications for the reopening
of the closed Coorow State School in May 1919 [215]
Married Wilfred James TAYLOR in Perth in 1926 [66]
In 1936 herself and her husband were living at 36 Garden Street in the Perth
suburb of Claremont [50]
Mother of Robert, Jean, Ronald, Noel Wilfred, Elsie and Alfred Travelynn
[P402]
David LATTO
Born C.1860 [2]
Married Annie VALENTINE [54]
In 1914 resided in Helena Street, Midland Junction and in 1915 was living in
Henry Street, Midland Junction [6] [30: item 7378101]
During the First World War shifted to 69 Tower Street in the Perth suburb of
Leederville and then to Walkaway [30: item 7378101]
His son John enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and was Killed in Action
in Belgium on 1 November 1917 [94]
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1922-1925 [50]
Railway Fettler in Winchester in 1925 and 1926 [6] [19]
Resided in Winchester until his death in 1926 [2]
Father of James David Valentine, George Stanley, John Alexander Anderson,
Raymond Burbage and Elspeth Dora May [15] [54]
Died 28 February 1926; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, GA,
407) [2]
His wife Annie, late of Mullewa, died at the age of 74 years on 1 July 1936 and
was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Alexander Cordery LAWRENCE
Farmer in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Malcolm Fenwick LAURIE
Born 1878 in Witham, Essex, England [20] [21]
When the 1881 census was taken he was with his widowed grandmother Catherine
LAURIE at Newland Street in Witham, Essex [20]
Ten years later, in 1891, he was a boarding student at the Grammar School
in Snettisham, Norfolk, England [20]
Storekeeper in Coorow, Western Australia 1929-1935 [19]
Conducted a business from leased premises in Coorow from 1929 until 1932
[5: 18-Nov-1932]
On the expiration of his lease purchased a block of land in Coorow from the Bank
of New South Wales and had a store erected [5]
In 1932 owned an Oldsmobile car and Rugby truck with license plates CA-67 and
CA-281 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow
Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Member of the Coorow Waddy Forest Progress Association - was Secretary in 1933
and 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Departed Coorow on Friday 12 January 1934 to spend two or three weeks holiday in
Perth [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club - was Secretary in 1934 [5: 17-May-1935]
By May 1935 he was no longer living in Coorow [5: 17-May-1935]
Later resided in Mia Mia [2]
Died 2 May 1951; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose
Gardens, 8D, 1) [2]
Gladys Victoria LAWSON
Married Vernon Eric RANDELL in Perth in 1923
Resided with her husband on Meelyah Farm in Gunyidi 1923-1933 [19]
In 1932 she had a Chevrolet car licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board
with license plate CA-80 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
John Richard LEADBEATER
Labourer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1913-1923 [19] [50]
"Pat" Patricia Vera LEADBITTER
Born 1928 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Married Jack BATTERSBY on 27 January 1951 [0: images 04602 & 04715]
Resided in Coorow 1951-1978 [19]
Later resided at 29 Koman Way in the Perth suburb of Girrawheen [156]
Member of the Coastal Ladies Golf Club [45]
Long serving executive of the Western Australian Women's Golf League [45]
Mother of Stephen, Susan, Allan and Wayne [45]
Died 17 May 2007; cremated at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in the Perth
suburb of Padbury on 24 May 2007 [45]
Nettie LEAF
Born 1883 in Hull, Yorkshire, England [20] [21]
Daughter of Robert LEAF and Anita DIXON [20] [21]
In 1891 was living with her parents and sister Lillian at 8 Drewton Terrace in
Southcoates, Yorkshire [20]
Married (1) John GALE in 1907 in Yorkshire, England [21]
Departed London, England with her children on the Ballarat and arrived in
Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 December 1923 [70]
Married (2) "Clem" Clement William John LONG in 1925 in Perth, Western Australia
[66]
Resided with her husband on Samuel B. RUDDUCK's Koobabbie Farm in Coorow
[P17]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the
Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Henry [2]
Mother of John GALE and Peggy GALE [70]
Died 13 May 1968; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LE, 226)
[2]
Mrs Adelaide LEE
Resided in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1917-1922 [50]
George LEE
Labourer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1919-1922 [50]