John Huxtable Wesley Peryman was born in 1837 at Brixham, Devon, England & arrived in Adelaide, South Australia with his parents about 1848. He married Julia O’Sullivan on 28 Feb 1863 in Adelaide. He worked for the Bank of Adelaide at the time and was also involved with the S A Cavalry and was Captain of the Adelaide Rifle…
KEITH ATHOL MOSELEY (MOSELY) & EDWIN ANGUS RICHARDSON operated as aerated water manufacturers from 1946 to the 1950’s. Moseley was born in Melbourne in 1913 and newspapers list his name as Moseley and Mosely. He was living in Port Hedland from 1914 where his mother Kathleen had a Drapery store. In 1943 he married Hope Sowden Ward of Wagin…
Michael Quain was born c1870 in Ireland and emigrated to Victoria before joining the gold rush in the Murchison. In 1903 at the age of 33years he was a cordial maker in Leonora. The goldfields town of Nungarra saw a downturn in mining so the nearby “show” at Sandstone saw that town gazetted in 1906. In April 1907 he…
Irish immigrants John and Mary McAlinden arrived in WA in 1859. John was a police Constable in Fremantle on arrival, before moving to Bunbury. He resigned in 1870 & became a publican at Blackwood River. He and wife Mary had 11 children, 3 girls and 8 boys including their 1st born twin girls. Fourth son Frederick Patrick was born…
HENLEY & O’BRIEN DANIEL O’BRIEN was born in Liverpool, England in 1870, the son of parents who were born in Ireland. By the early 1890’s he had made his way to Geraldton, Western Australia. He married Winifred Catherine McDonnell at Northampton in April 1893. I believe he may have been in partnership with John H Gordon, in a tent…
Lehmann Bros marble bottles have the inscription L H and 4 dimples on the bottle and they come in two sizes, 200mm & 240mm. These bottles are not common as the company only traded for a short time. Herman Ernest Lehmann was born in Victoria in 1879 and was one of 12 children. I believe, as he named the…
Western Australian based group dedicated to the finding and preservation of relics of all sorts.