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- MLA Hannans 24 April 1901–28 September 1902
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Personal Information |
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19 August 1867 |
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Emu Point, White Hills, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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28 September 1902 |
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Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Came to WA 1897 |
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Son of William, puddler, and Nancy Carr |
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Unmarried |
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Presbyterian |
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Bendigo School of Mines
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Mine engine driver |
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Apprentice bookseller and newsagent
Mill hand on Johnston’s Gold Mining Company battery |
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1888 qualified as engine driver
1892 president Eaglehawk branch Engine Drivers’ Association
Member Bendigo Trades and Labour Council (TLC)
Member executive council of Amalgamated Engine Drivers’ Victoria
Mining in Kalgoorlie, founder and twice president Goldfields TLC
President Amalgamated Certificated Engine Drivers’ Association |
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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, 2010, p. 168.
Morning Herald, 29, 30 September 1902.
J. Raeside, Golden days: being memoirs and reminiscences of the goldfields of Western Australia , Colortype Press, Perth, 1929, p. 74–78.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, PWH Thiel, Perth, 1901, p. 35. |
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