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THE BICENTENNIAL DICTIONARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIANS pre-l 829-1 8-88 Volume I A- C A Bicentennial Project Co-sponsored by CHALLENGE BANK L TD (formerly the Perth Building Society) and THE AUSTRALIAN BICENTENNIAL AUTHORITY With acknowledgements also to ROYAL WESTERN AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY and AFFILIATED HISTORICAL SOCIETIES and aB volunteers who contributed to the compilation of these works UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA PRESS NEDLANDS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6009 First published in 1987 by the University of Western Australia Press Nedlands W.A. 6009 Agents: Eastern States of Australia and New Zealand: Melbourne University Press, Carhon INTRODUCTION South, Vie. 3053; U.K . and Europe: Peter Moore, p.a. Box 66, 200a Perne Road , Cambridge CBI 3PD, England; U.S.A. and Canada: International Specialized Book Services Inc., p.a. Box 1632, Beaverton, Oregon 97075; Singapore and Malaysia: National University of Singapore The Bicenrennial Dictionary of Western Australians is published as a contri Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society Ltd, Ground Floor , Cemral Library. Kent Ridge. Singa bution to the Bicentennial Celebrations of 1988. It is a gift to Australia, pore OS 11. from people throughout the Commonwealth and overseas who provided their family hhtories to be placed on record in these volumes. The Bicenrennial Dictionary is based on material published previously in This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for (he purposes of private slUdy. research. the four volumes of the Dictionary of Western Australians, the first three of criticism or review, as permitted under (he Copyright ACI , no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher. which were produced for the State's Sesquicenrennial year in 1979. These were printed with the assistance of government funding and the support of © Rica Erickson 1987 the University of Western Australia Press. The public was invited to send biographies of people who were resident in Western Australia from the earliest years. The 'cut-off' date for entries was 19 14. 'National Library of Australia The first three volumes published in 1979 were produced from entries Cataloguing-in-Publication dala relating to the period up to 1868. Biographies for the later periods were med Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians. pre-1829-1888. with the hope that funds would be available for their publication. The bene Volume It A-C. factors who assisted in the later project were the Directors of Challenge Bank, formerly Perth Building Society, who agreed to word-process the ISBN 085564 270 X .(v.l). ISBN 0 85564 278 5 (sel). entries relating to the period 1869-1888. These appeared in two parts in 1984 and 1985. The fifth volume followed in 1987. I . Western Australia- Biography-Dictionaries. The five volumes of the earlier Dictionary were given sub-titles which J. Erick son. Rica, 1908- . were self-explanatory: Volume I, Early Settlers 1829-1850 (compiled by 92~· .0941 . Pamela Statham); Volume 2, Bond 1850-1868; Volume 3, Free 1850-1868; Volume 4, The Challenging Years 1869-1888. They designate the early Typeselting and origination by the University of Western Australia Press, pioneers, the convicts, the free settlers and migrants of the times. Volume 5, printed and bound by Silex Enterprise & Priming Co. , Hong Kong The Golden Years includes those who came in the goldrush years. These volumes were working copies designed to encourage public partici pation in the collection and correction of family records. The remarkable response from thousands of people and the availa bility of more church records and other sources, almost doubled the information printed in the Dictionary. This justified the publication of a new Dictionary rather than supplements to the earlier series. A brief review of the earlier volumes is appropriate at this stage. Early ~Australia . Settlers covers a distinct period in the State's history, although the 'cut-off' 178MI88 date of 1850 left the records of many pioneering families incomplete. By This publication has received financial assistance by then there were about 5,000 people in the colony. The numerous quotations the Western Australian Government to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988 . v First published in 1987 by the University of Western Australia Press Nedlands W.A. 6009 Agents: Eastern States of Australia and New Zealand: Melbourne University Press, Carhon INTRODUCTION South, Vie. 3053; U.K . and Europe: Peter Moore, p.a. Box 66, 200a Perne Road , Cambridge CBI 3PD, England; U.S.A. and Canada: International Specialized Book Services Inc., p.a. Box 1632, Beaverton, Oregon 97075; Singapore and Malaysia: National University of Singapore The Bicenrennial Dictionary of Western Australians is published as a contri Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society Ltd, Ground Floor , Cemral Library. Kent Ridge. Singa bution to the Bicentennial Celebrations of 1988. It is a gift to Australia, pore OS 11. from people throughout the Commonwealth and overseas who provided their family hhtories to be placed on record in these volumes. The Bicenrennial Dictionary is based on material published previously in This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for (he purposes of private slUdy. research. the four volumes of the Dictionary of Western Australians, the first three of criticism or review, as permitted under (he Copyright ACI , no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher. which were produced for the State's Sesquicenrennial year in 1979. These were printed with the assistance of government funding and the support of © Rica Erickson 1987 the University of Western Australia Press. The public was invited to send biographies of people who were resident in Western Australia from the earliest years. The 'cut-off' date for entries was 19 14. 'National Library of Australia The first three volumes published in 1979 were produced from entries Cataloguing-in-Publication dala relating to the period up to 1868. Biographies for the later periods were med Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians. pre-1829-1888. with the hope that funds would be available for their publication. The bene Volume It A-C. factors who assisted in the later project were the Directors of Challenge Bank, formerly Perth Building Society, who agreed to word-process the ISBN 085564 270 X .(v.l). ISBN 0 85564 278 5 (sel). entries relating to the period 1869-1888. These appeared in two parts in 1984 and 1985. The fifth volume followed in 1987. I . Western Australia- Biography-Dictionaries. The five volumes of the earlier Dictionary were given sub-titles which J. Erick son. Rica, 1908- . were self-explanatory: Volume I, Early Settlers 1829-1850 (compiled by 92~· .0941 . Pamela Statham); Volume 2, Bond 1850-1868; Volume 3, Free 1850-1868; Volume 4, The Challenging Years 1869-1888. They designate the early Typeselting and origination by the University of Western Australia Press, pioneers, the convicts, the free settlers and migrants of the times. Volume 5, printed and bound by Silex Enterprise & Priming Co. , Hong Kong The Golden Years includes those who came in the goldrush years. These volumes were working copies designed to encourage public partici pation in the collection and correction of family records. The remarkable response from thousands of people and the availa bility of more church records and other sources, almost doubled the information printed in the Dictionary. This justified the publication of a new Dictionary rather than supplements to the earlier series. A brief review of the earlier volumes is appropriate at this stage. Early ~Australia . Settlers covers a distinct period in the State's history, although the 'cut-off' 178MI88 date of 1850 left the records of many pioneering families incomplete. By This publication has received financial assistance by then there were about 5,000 people in the colony. The numerous quotations the Western Australian Government to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988 . v from the newspapers, of events in those days, offer unusual glimpses of In 1886 the goldrush to the Kimberley district heralded a new era in the early colonial life. However, much of this material is not repeated in the history of Western Australia. Further discoveries of gold in the I 890s drew Bicentenniai Dictionary, and Early Selliers will therefore remain a worthy many thousands of prospectors and job seekers from Eastern Australia, source of reference. which at the time was suffering an economic depression. The reversal of the All the names (unless corrected, or deleted as being invalid) are included flow of population is reflected in the period 1889- 1914, The Golden Years in the Bicentennial Dictionary. New material. relating to the early years, (Volume 5). covers seamen and scientists who visited Western Australia prior to J 829, as The concept of the Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians to well as names of those who occupied the military out-post at A1bany in include the massive accumulation of data, as well as the additions and 1826, and also all those soldiers wbo were known to be stationed in the corrections, into one cobesive series-A-Z, pre-1829-1888- was inspiring. colony in 1829--1863. The proposal that Challenge Bank (formeriy Perth Building Society) could The years 1850-1868 are less well defined although the transportation of '. undertake the typing as their contribution to the Bicentennial celebrations convicts occurred witbin this period. More than 9,600 prisoners came to the in J988 was graciously accepted by the Directors. colony, and at the same time about 9,000 or more free migrants arrived. Concurrently with the compilation of the Bicentennial Dictionary of The population in the colony increased five-fold despite a constant depar Western Australians, other researchers embarked upon the vast field of ture of people, bond and free, for Eastern Australian colonies.