Geoffrey Paul Stocker was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1899. He arrived in WA aboard the “Omrah” in 1915 aged 16 years. He arrived in Port Hedland in 1922 and the Electoral Rolls list his occupation as “Station Hand”. He was a labourer in 1925 and then he married Myrtle Grace Ellery in 1926. He took over the towns…
Geoffrey Alexander Wyndham was born in Perth in 1900. He lived in Guildford and Highgate in his early years and his father Geoffrey Wyndham had a store in Port Hedland in 1916, when he enlisted in WW1. G A Wyndham studied to become and accountant and was the auditor for Bassendean Road Board Elections in 1923. In 1928 G…
Leopold Arthur von Bibra went to the North West in the late 1880’s and was situated at Shark Bay in the 1890’s. He was the son of an early pioneer of the Macquarie area of NSW and Tasmania, but had ventured west to make his fortune. He had interests in the pearling industry and had a cutter called the…
Edwin Duesbury was born near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England in 1858 to Samuel Duesbury and wife Esther Pryse. The family arrived in Australia in October 1865 when Edwin was seven years old. He married Eliza Loutit in Sydney in 1882. He came to Western Australia and in December 1896 had gained work as manager for Faiz and Tagh Mahomet in…
Edward Reeder Atkinson was born in Coolgardie on 12 October 1899 to John Frederick Atkinson and his wife Florence. He spent his early years as a miner in Kalgoorlie. In 1922 he married Perth girl Katherine Jenkins & the couple settled in Boulder, where he was a miner. After the birth of their son Edward late in 1922, Katherine…
Francis Henderson – He arrived from London in 1885 and became an agent for Francis Richard Flindell in Fremantle, between 1885-1889. Flindell, was a cordial manufacturer and in the mid 90’s transferred to the Goldfields. In 1891 Henderson was an agent for the Stanley Brewery selling their bottles in Fremantle. At this time his address for the Premier Bottling…
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