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Electorates
- MLC Geraldton 27 October 1884–28 May 1885 (resigned) MLA Murchison 26 May 1897–24 April 1901
- Contested Murchison, 24 April 1901, 10 December 1901 (min. by-election), Greenough 28 June 1904
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1838* |
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Cornwall, England, United Kingdom |
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5 July 1912 |
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Northampton, Western Australia |
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Gwallia Cemetery, Northampton, Western Australia |
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Arrived WA November 1867 on Zephyr with one brother and band of miners from Cornwall as manager of Geraldine lead mine |
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Son of Samuel and grandfather of Sir David Brand |
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Married (1) 17 November 1860, Parish Church, Uny Lelant, Cornwall, England to Mary Jane Stephens (born circa 1845), daughter of Hugh
Children: six sons and four daughters
Widowed 9 June 1883
Married (2) 12 June 1890, District Registry Office Greenough to Hannah Cory (born 1874 England), daughter of Richard and Mary Ann Stephens
Children: three sons and seven daughters |
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Methodist |
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Mine manager |
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In 1860 mining agent living at Uny Lelant, Cornwall
Opened Wheal Ellen Lead mine and others
By 1880s became storekeeper, stock and station agent at Northampton |
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Northampton Road Board member from 1872
Chairman 1876–1879 |
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*Possibly baptised 28 October 1838 Cubert, Cornwall, son of Samuel, miner of Perranzabuloe and May Anne
Justice of the Peace, 1882
Honorary captain Volunteer Corps
Mining inspector
Published Looking Backwards: Reminiscences of Forty-Two Years (Geraldton 1911) |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 140.
Erickson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, vol 3.
Inquirer, 27 September 1871.
Kimberly WB. History of West Australia, p. 177. |
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