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Electorates
- MLA East Kimberley 20 April 1893 (by-election)–28 June 1904
- MLA Kimberley 28 June 1904–October 1905
- Contested Kimberley 13 November 1905
- MLC North Province 4 June 1906–24 August 1916
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Personal Information |
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1857 |
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Newry, Armagh, Ireland |
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24 August 1916 |
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Benger, Western Australia |
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Bunbury Cemetery, WA |
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1885 left Ireland for Australia |
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Son of Francis, hotel keeper, and Mary A McCann |
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Married 22 January 1891, St Francis Church, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales to Hannah Alicia (Lee) Hoins (born circa 1872 and died circa July 1929), daughter of William Patrick and Catherine McGee
Children: four sons and three daughters |
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Catholic |
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St Coleman’s College, Ireland
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Businessperson and storekeeper |
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1885 in Wyndham with Denis Joseph Doherty opened firm of Connor & Doherty, storekeepers and packers for Kimberley goldfield
Posts and telegraph officer 1887
1894 firm began trade in shipping live cattle from Wyndham to Fremantle, and took up Newry and Auvergne stations, Northern Territory
1897 amalgamated with Durack Bros to form Connor, Doherty & Durack
1910–1911 firm entered Philippines trade from January to May 1911
Connor undertook successful mission to Manila protesting against closure of Philippines to Australian livestock |
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Battye I, p. 325–326.
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. 52.
G.C. Bolton, History of the Kimberley Pastoral Industry,USWA 1954
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Twentieth Century Impressions, 29. |
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