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Electorates
- MLA Hannans, 3 October 1911–12 March 1938
Office
- Minister without portfolio, 17 April 1924–30 April 1927; for Mines and Health, 30 April 1927–23 April 1930, 24 April 1933–12 March 1938
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Personal Information |
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23 September 1870 |
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Gibbons Plains, near Armidale, New South Wales, Australia |
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12 March 1938 |
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St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Family grave at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia. Presbyterian area, BC section, 0324 grave site |
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Arrived WA 1895 |
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Son of Alexander Welch, farmer, and Anna Maria Richardson |
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Married 24 November 1892, private residence, Hamilton, NSW, (Baptist) to Jessie Kerr (born circa 1875 and died 11 September 1972), daughter of Adam and Jessie
Children: two sons and four daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Educated state schools in the Newcastle district of NSW
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Miner |
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Began work in timber trade at Wallsend, 1884
Shoemaker, 1892
Miner, Eastern Goldfields |
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Lived at Paddington and then Kalgoorlie
General president, Federated Miners’ Union
To Canberra to stimulate passage of Gold Bounty Act, 1930
Visited London, England to promote investment in mining industry, 1935
Chairman, board of directors, Westralian Worker |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 148.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=9b49d1cc-911d-ec11-b6e7-00224814c0bd |
| Bibliography |
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Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 350.
West Australian, 14 March 1938. |