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Independent
Liberal from 1904 |
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18 March 1903 |
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Pilbara |
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Electorates
- MLA Pilbara 6 March 1903 (by-election)–27 June 1906 (resigned)
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Search for speeches by James Isdell |
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Personal Information |
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1849 |
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Victoria?, Australia |
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5 October 1919 |
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Victoria Hospital, West Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Arrived in Western Australia on 21 November 1883, again 10 April 1884, possibly with wife |
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Marriage details not known |
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Church of England |
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Prospector |
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Managed Karratha station near Roebourne
Kimberley pastoral lessee with Henry Hickes 1885
Lake Edah cattle station near Broome, also purchased Croyden station with R and D McRae
Prospecting in Kimberley from 1887, sought stock route Fitzroy–Oakover rivers
1888–1903 in Pilbara, prospecting and storekeeper
Sold Lake Edah February 1889
1902 Justice of the Peace
1904 mine manager at Nullagine
1906–1909 travelling Protector of Aborigines, Marble Bar and Kimberley districts
1910–1915 Protector of Aborigines at Turkey Creek
1916 storekeeper at Pilbara |
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Apparently farming in Victoria
Publications:
- Developing Our Resources: The Great Nor-Western Railway Port Hedland to Marble Bar and Nullagine, (Perth 1905?)
- Opening Up the Pilbara Goldfields, (Perth 1905) - with James Thomson
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Pilbara Goldfields News, 7 March 1903.
Reports – Chief Protector of Aborigines, 1907–1910.
Derby Police Journals (A241) (WA Archives)
Wise (1915–16)
BDWA II
Information supplied by Cathie Clement |
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