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24 December 1890 |
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Toodyay |
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Electorates
- Nominated MLC 24 December 1890–June 1894
- Contested East Province 16 July 1894
- MLC Toodyay 29 September 1874–6 October 1875 (resigned); York 11 February 1880–27 October 1884
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Search for speeches by Edward Hamersley |
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Personal Information |
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1 September 1835 |
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Paris, France |
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14 January 1921 |
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York, Western Australia |
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Northam Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA with family 28 February 1837 on Shepherd |
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Son of Edward Hamersley, farmer, and Anne Louise (Elvira) Corneille
Brother of Samuel Richard Hamersley and brother-in-law of John Forrest, Charles and Andrew Dempster |
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Married 4 February 1867, St Matthew’s Church, Guildford to Jane McLean Dempster (born 19 March 1840), daughter of James McLean and Ann Ellen Pratt
Children: seven sons and three daughters
Widowed 1 April 1913 |
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Church of England |
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Educated France and England |
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Farmer |
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Pastoralist 1853 managed family horse station at Richmond, Williams district
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To France 1843–1850; to WA again 1850
Owned Pyrton near Guildford
Later owned Wilberforce and Woodside, York |
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Battye II, p. 485–86
Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 88
BDWA II
Eastern Districts Chronicle, 21 January 1921
Western Mail, 10 February 1921
Who's Who in Australia, (1906) |
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