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1	From Erickson, R. (ed.) The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre-1829-1888, UWA Press, Nedlands. Arrived 12.12.1863 on the "Tartar". Special constable 1864 at Greenough. Postmaster. Shark Bay 1874.?Lance Cpl Police 1878. Transferred from Shark Bay to Geraldton 1881. Hotelkeeper Greenough 1882 "Golden Sheaf Hotel", bankrupt 1884. Numerous articles mention Henry Mainland in early WA newspapers. These can be viewed online at the National Library of Australia.	Mainland, Henry (I685)
2	Enlarged heart, high blood pressure, cancer	Chadwick, James Alfred Robert (I129)
3	Margaret Summers drowned in the Yangon River, Burma, when Carina Chadwick was aged about 4 years. Her body was never recovered.	Summers, Margaret Ann (I1774)
4	Obituary The West Australian 24 August 1939 p.19 AN ESPERANCE PIONEER. Death of Mrs. Julia Sinclair. ESPERANCE, Aug. 18.-On August 13, Mrs. Julia Sinclair died at her residence in Dempster-street, aged 81 years. Her hus band, Mr. L. Sinclair sen, who prede ceased her in 1923, in 1892 located gold in the cap of the Norseman reef at the same time as his brother and Mr. Allsop did farther north. He named the place Norseman after the horse he was using on the journey. Mrs. Julia Sinclair's passing removes one connected with the very earliest as sociations with Esperance. To many resi dents, and others departed, now with crown-up families, she was attending nurse to their mothers before Esperance was blessed with doctors, post office or hosDital. It was in 1872 that the first portion of the Fanny's Cove sheep sta tion dwelling was built by the late Mr. W. Moir. and it was just before then that the Dempster brothers--Andrew, Jim and Edward---moved portion of their flocks from the Toodyay and Grass Valley areas to the coast here, later also stocking Fraser's Range; the late Mr. Benjamin Hannett assisting them to do so. At the time the whole of the southern coast of this State was served solely by the schooner Agnes, under the Douglas bro thers, Captain Fred and Jim, right from Albany to Eucla. The schooner was later wrecked at Bremer Bay and a larger ves sel was pdrchased and employed in he trade. The Eastern Goldfields had not yet been located. In was in 1879 that the late Mrs. Sinclair (then Miss Phail) came to the by now established home stead of the Deinpster brothers, and soon after, portion of what is now the resi dency, was turned into a post office. Mrs. Sinclair had resided there since until her death. While there are still several Esper ance residents who can remember the fSiding of Norseman, Mr. Andrew Dunn, of:- Boyatup, is now the sole Esperance resident who was here before the finding of gold at Kalgoorlie. Mrs. Sinclair left an adult family of sons and daughters. [Her maiden name is given here as Phail, but this may be a typographical error]	Playle, Julia (I415)
5		Summers, Albert (I1769)
6	Prefix N/2 Volume Number REG2 Folio 719 LDS Film Reference 521852 IOR Reference Z/N/2	Family: Edward Patrick Clarke / Frances Elizabeth Rigg (F145)
7	"in the railway" according to marriage certificate	Stuart, Charles Joseph (I2599)
8	"TROVE". Digitised Newspapers. National Library of Australia. Trove. http://www.trove.nla.gov.au.	Source (S132)
9	(Daily News 26/8/1904)	Family: John Henry Green / Jessie Mainland Sinclair (F58)
10	0 Age: 0	Robinson, Maurice Wentworth Burbidge (I1567)
11	0 Age: 0	Macnamara, Elizabeth (I1855)
12	0 Age: 0	Barren, William Reginald (I2064)
13	0 Age: 0	Barren, Agnes Kathleen Connor (I2065)
14	0 Age: 0	Scott, Florence Agnes Ashton (I2244)
15	0 Age: 0	Moore, Elizabeth Jane (I2696)
16	0 Age: 0	Moore, Joseph Alexander (I2697)
17	0 Age: 0	Mainland, Henry (I685)
18	12 Morningside Gardens	Alexander, Dorothy Salway (I1598)
19	1841 Census resident at Hillock, Dunrossness. 1851 Census resident at Hughsbrake, Dunrossness According to Erickson, R. (ed.) The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre-1829-1888, UWA Press, Nedlands. Arrived with wife and 5 children as warder on Tartar 12.12.1863, nominated by brother John Sinclair of Water Police, Fremantle. Albany - Israelite Bay. This is not entirely accurate as he probably never went to either Albany or Israelite Bay, dying in Guildford 1868 before is family moved to the south of WA	Sinclair, Thomas (I763)
20	1841 census the household was living in Garlick Square, Ardsley, Yorkshire. Occupation Linen weaver. 1851 census occupation Weaver of linen cloth. Living in Ardsley. He was then 65 years old and his wife Ann was 63. His son George was then married to Harriet and they had a grand daughter Lucy, 13. Lucy was working as a house servant and her father George was an agricultural labourer. Son Jonathan was also living in the house and he (16) was already working as a weaver of linen cloth. Occupation weaver on his son William's marriage certificate (Dorset).	Robinson, Jonathan (I1579)
21	1841 Scotland Census, Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Office for Scotland	Source (S75)
22	1861 Census; Marriage Certificate	Goss, Sarah (I2484)
23	1930/5809 Nora Sybil Golding Cedric Duncan Fort	Family: Cedric Duncan Fort / Nora Sybil Golding (F270)
24	2 Age: 2	Connor, Mary (I2625)
25	2 Age: 2	Connor, Mary (I2625)
26	2 Age: 2	Palmer, Susanna (I2866)
27	2 Age: 2	Palmer, Susanna (I2866)
28	2001/9414 Fort Nora Sybil 21 April 1909	Golding, Nora Sybil (I1120)
29	29 Age: 29	Robinson, Maurice Wentworth Burbidge (I1567)
30	4 Age: 4	Hussey, John (I1514)
31	57 Age: 57	Alexander, Elsie Margaret (I2849)
32	71 Age: 71	Carter, Phoebe Kathleen (I978)
33	89 Age: 89; QuarterOfYear: Oct-Nov-Dec	Ewing, Mary Frances (I141)
34	Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.	Source (S20)
35	Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S283)
36	Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S96)
37	Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S199)
38	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S201)
39	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S181)
40	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S212)
41	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861. Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S244)
42	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861. Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S164)
43	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S148)
44	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.	Source (S232)
45	Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1881. Images © Crown copyright. Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, Tel: 020 8392 5225 Fax: 020 8392 5266.	Source (S160)
46	Coalmining Accidents and Deaths. The Coalmining History Resource Centre. http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/disasters/index.html: accessed 20 February 2014.	Source (S225)
47	Dorset Parish Registers. Dorchester, England: Dorset History Centre. Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.	Source (S208)
48	Dorset Parish Registers. Dorchester, England: Dorset History Centre. Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.	Source (S217)
49	Dorset Parish Registers. Dorchester, England: Dorset History Centre. Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.	Source (S243)
50	England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.	Source (S176)

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From Erickson, R. (ed.) The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre-1829-1888, UWA Press, Nedlands.
Arrived 12.12.1863 on the "Tartar". Special constable 1864 at Greenough. Postmaster. Shark Bay 1874.?Lance Cpl Police 1878. Transferred from Shark Bay to Geraldton 1881. Hotelkeeper Greenough 1882 "Golden Sheaf Hotel", bankrupt 1884.

Numerous articles mention Henry Mainland in early WA newspapers. These can be viewed online at the National Library of Australia.

Mainland, Henry (I685)

Enlarged heart, high blood pressure, cancer

Chadwick, James Alfred Robert (I129)

Margaret Summers drowned in the Yangon River, Burma, when Carina Chadwick was aged about 4 years. Her body was never recovered.

Summers, Margaret Ann (I1774)

Obituary The West Australian 24 August 1939 p.19
AN ESPERANCE PIONEER. Death of Mrs. Julia Sinclair. ESPERANCE, Aug. 18.-On August 13, Mrs. Julia Sinclair died at her residence in Dempster-street, aged 81 years. Her hus band, Mr. L. Sinclair sen, who prede ceased her in 1923, in 1892 located gold in the cap of the Norseman reef at the same time as his brother and Mr. Allsop did farther north. He named the place Norseman after the horse he was using on the journey. Mrs. Julia Sinclair's passing removes one connected with the very earliest as sociations with Esperance. To many resi dents, and others departed, now with crown-up families, she was attending nurse to their mothers before Esperance was blessed with doctors, post office or hosDital. It was in 1872 that the first portion of the Fanny's Cove sheep sta tion dwelling was built by the late Mr. W. Moir. and it was just before then that the Dempster brothers--Andrew, Jim and Edward---moved portion of their flocks from the Toodyay and Grass Valley areas to the coast here, later also stocking Fraser's Range; the late Mr. Benjamin Hannett assisting them to do so. At the time the whole of the southern coast of this State was served solely by the schooner Agnes, under the Douglas bro thers, Captain Fred and Jim, right from Albany to Eucla. The schooner was later wrecked at Bremer Bay and a larger ves sel was pdrchased and employed in he trade. The Eastern Goldfields had not yet been located. In was in 1879 that the late Mrs. Sinclair (then Miss Phail) came to the by now established home stead of the Deinpster brothers, and soon after, portion of what is now the resi dency, was turned into a post office. Mrs. Sinclair had resided there since until her death. While there are still several Esper ance residents who can remember the fSiding of Norseman, Mr. Andrew Dunn, of:- Boyatup, is now the sole Esperance resident who was here before the finding of gold at Kalgoorlie. Mrs. Sinclair left an adult family of sons and daughters.

[Her maiden name is given here as Phail, but this may be a typographical error]

Playle, Julia (I415)

Summers, Albert (I1769)

Prefix N/2 Volume Number REG2 Folio 719 LDS Film Reference 521852 IOR Reference Z/N/2

Family: Edward Patrick Clarke / Frances Elizabeth Rigg (F145)

"in the railway" according to marriage certificate

Stuart, Charles Joseph (I2599)

"TROVE". Digitised Newspapers. National Library of Australia. Trove. http://www.trove.nla.gov.au.

Source (S132)

(Daily News 26/8/1904)

Family: John Henry Green / Jessie Mainland Sinclair (F58)

0 Age: 0

Robinson, Maurice Wentworth Burbidge (I1567)

0 Age: 0

Macnamara, Elizabeth (I1855)

0 Age: 0

Barren, William Reginald (I2064)

0 Age: 0

Barren, Agnes Kathleen Connor (I2065)

0 Age: 0

Scott, Florence Agnes Ashton (I2244)

0 Age: 0

Moore, Elizabeth Jane (I2696)

0 Age: 0

Moore, Joseph Alexander (I2697)

0 Age: 0

Mainland, Henry (I685)

12 Morningside Gardens

Alexander, Dorothy Salway (I1598)

1841 Census resident at Hillock, Dunrossness.
1851 Census resident at Hughsbrake, Dunrossness

According to Erickson, R. (ed.) The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre-1829-1888, UWA Press, Nedlands.
Arrived with wife and 5 children as warder on Tartar 12.12.1863, nominated by brother John Sinclair of Water Police, Fremantle.
Albany - Israelite Bay. This is not entirely accurate as he probably never went to either Albany or Israelite Bay, dying in Guildford 1868 before is family moved to the south of WA

Sinclair, Thomas (I763)

1841 census the household was living in Garlick Square, Ardsley, Yorkshire. Occupation Linen weaver.
1851 census occupation Weaver of linen cloth. Living in Ardsley. He was then 65 years old and his wife Ann was 63. His son George was then married to Harriet and they had a grand daughter Lucy, 13. Lucy was working as a house servant and her father George was an agricultural labourer. Son Jonathan was also living in the house and he (16) was already working as a weaver of linen cloth.

Occupation weaver on his son William's marriage certificate (Dorset).

Robinson, Jonathan (I1579)

1841 Scotland Census, Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Office for Scotland

Source (S75)

1861 Census; Marriage Certificate

Goss, Sarah (I2484)

1930/5809 Nora Sybil Golding Cedric Duncan Fort

Family: Cedric Duncan Fort / Nora Sybil Golding (F270)

2 Age: 2

Connor, Mary (I2625)

2 Age: 2

Connor, Mary (I2625)

2 Age: 2

Palmer, Susanna (I2866)

2 Age: 2

Palmer, Susanna (I2866)

2001/9414 Fort Nora Sybil 21 April 1909

Golding, Nora Sybil (I1120)

29 Age: 29

Robinson, Maurice Wentworth Burbidge (I1567)

4 Age: 4

Hussey, John (I1514)

57 Age: 57

Alexander, Elsie Margaret (I2849)

71 Age: 71

Carter, Phoebe Kathleen (I978)

89 Age: 89; QuarterOfYear: Oct-Nov-Dec

Ewing, Mary Frances (I141)

Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Source (S20)

Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces.

Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Source (S283)

Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces.

Source (S96)

Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces.

Source (S199)

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Source (S201)

Source (S181)

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Source (S212)

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861. Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Source (S244)

Source (S164)

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Source (S148)

Source (S232)

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1881.

The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided.

Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, Tel: 020 8392 5225 Fax: 020 8392 5266.

Source (S160)

Coalmining Accidents and Deaths. The Coalmining History Resource Centre. http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/disasters/index.html: accessed 20 February 2014.

Source (S225)

Dorset Parish Registers. Dorchester, England: Dorset History Centre. Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.

Source (S208)

Dorset Parish Registers. Dorchester, England: Dorset History Centre. Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.

Source (S217)

Dorset Parish Registers. Dorchester, England: Dorset History Centre. Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, England.

Source (S243)

England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Source (S176)

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