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Electorates
- MLC Geraldton 11 October 1870–29 September 1874
- Contested Greenough (Legislative Assembly) 21 June 1894, 3 May 1897
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1826 (1825?) |
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Londonderry, Ireland |
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1 February 1900 |
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In a paddock at 'Ellendale', Greenough, Western Australia |
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1837 arrived WA on Hero |
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Son of Joseph Keys, farmer, and Elizabeth (Catherine?) Goodwin |
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Married 3 April 1856, Middle Swan Church of England to Lucy Ellen Shaw (born 27 January 1832 and died January 1925), daughter of William, army officer and agriculturist, and Eliza Cooper
Children: four sons and five daughters |
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Church of England |
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Farmer |
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1850 drove stock from York to Geraldton district, then a pastoralist at ‘Ellendale’, Greenough
Bred horses for the India trade |
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A Bain, Ancient Landmarks, Nedlands, 1975.
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. 17.
Erikson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III.
Geraldton Advertiser, 9 February 1900.
Logue Diaries (Battye Library)
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, PWH Thiel, Perth, 1901, p. 604. |
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