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MLC |
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23 May 1883 |
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North |
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Electorates
- MLC North district 23 May 1883 (entitlement to additional member)–24 February 1888
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1888 |
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1842 |
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Glenlivet, Victoria, Australia |
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24 February 1888 |
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Roebourne, Western Australia |
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Roebourne Cemetery?, WA |
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To WA December 1864 on Stag to Camden Harbour |
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Son of Duncan and Margaret Kennedy |
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Married 13 May 1881, RGO Roebourne to Isabel McKay (MacKay?), daughter of Donald, grazier, and niece of Donald McDonald MacKay
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Farmer, businessperson and pearler |
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Lessee Maitland River
Founded Millstream Station, Pilbara
By 1876 merchant, pearler, shipping agent Cossack
1880 partner with Charles Harper in an Ashburton station |
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1865 explored Fitzroy Valley, then Ashburton River
1866-1867 to Victoria
Living in Roebourne 1881 |
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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.18.
R Erickson, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III.
J Hardie, Northwesters of the Pilbara Breed, Port Hedland, 1981.
Lorraine's Cemetery Records pages website. Accessed 4 December 2015. http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Roebourne/roebourne.htm
WA Bulletin, 10 March 1888.
West Australian, 8 and 16 March 1888. |
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