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MLC |
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2 October 1874 |
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Swan |
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Electorates
- MLC Murray and Williams 2 October 1874–12 February 1880; Swan 9 May (by-election)–21 October 1890
- Contested Toodyay 1 February 1889
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Search for speeches by Samuel Hamersley |
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1890 |
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Personal Information |
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12 October 1842 |
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Guildford, Western Australia |
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1 October 1896 |
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Lockridge near Guildford, Western Australia |
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Perth Cemetery, WA |
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Son of Edward and Ann Louise Corneille, brother of Edward
Brother-in-law of Maitland Brown |
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Married 5 April 1865, St Matthews Church, Guildford to Matilda Brown (born 25 November 1847 and died 13 November 1920), daughter of Thomas and Eliza Bussey
Children: three sons and three daughters
Father of Vernon Hamersley |
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Church of England |
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Farmer |
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Under system of tenant farming, farmed in Toodyay, York and Swan districts
1873 butchering business |
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Swan Road Board chairman 1876 |
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Circa 1865–68 at Richmond, Williams District
1868–1870 at Wungong, Canning District
From 1870 lived at Lockridge, near Guildford
1875 inherited Haseley, Toodyay from father
Member Swan Board of Education 1875
Justice of the Peace
Officer, Volunteer Forces |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 13.
Commission on Agriculture, First Progress Report, pp 91–94.
Daily News, 1 October 1896.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume II, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987. |
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