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James Isdell
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Birth | | Date: 1849
Place: Victoria?, Australia |
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Arrival in WA | | Arrived in Western Australia on 21 November 1883, again 10 April 1884, possibly with wife |
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Marriage and Family | | Marriage details not known |
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Death | | Date: 5 October 1919
Place: Victoria Hospital, West Subiaco, Western Australia
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia
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Religion | | Church of England |
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Occupation | | Prospector |
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Employment History | | 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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House | | MLA |
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Local Government Service | | |
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Party | | Independent
Liberal from 1904 |
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Date Elected | | 18 March 1903 |
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Speeches | | Search for speeches by James Isdell |
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Year Retired/Resigned | | 1906 |
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Electorate | | Pilbara |
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Parliamentary Service | | Electorates
- MLA Pilbara 6 March 1903 (by-election)–27 June 1906 (resigned)
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Background/Membership | | 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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References | | 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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