Julia Playle

1857 - 1939  (82 years)

• Name	Julia Playle
  Birth	3 Apr 1857	"Norwood"
  Christening	1 Feb 1865	Northam, Western Australia, Australia
  Gender	Female
  Burial	1939	Esperance, Western Australia, Australia
  Death	13 Aug 1939	Esperance, Western Australia, Australia
  Person ID	I415	Robinson Taylor
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	John Charles Playle,   b. 1821, Stebbing, Essex, England d. 23 Jan 1908, "Norwood" (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lucy Roser,   b. 1831, Sussex, England d. 13 Sep 1913, "Norwood Farm", Northam, Western Australia, Australia (Age 82 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	28 Dec 1849	St. Stephen's, Toodyay, Western Australia   [1]
  Family ID	F535	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Laurence Sinclair,   b. 2 Jan 1854, Hughsbrake, Hillock, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland d. 9 Feb 1923, Esperance, Western Australia, Australia (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	9 Dec 1879	Hindmarsh, SA, Australia
  Children	1. Bertie Sinclair,   b. 5 Oct 1888, Hawker, South Australia, Australia d. 13 Oct 1888, South Australia, Australia (Age 0 years)  [natural]   2. Laurence Sinclair,   b. 1 Mar 1882, Franklin Harbour, South Australia, Australia d. 4 Jan 1923, Esperance, Western Australia (Age 40 years)  [natural]   3. Ernest James Sinclair,   b. 5 Apr 1884, Middle Camp,,South Australia,Australia d. 4 Oct 1970, Esperance, Western Australia, Australia (Age 86 years)  [natural]   4. Leslie Norman Sinclair,   b. 9 Sep 1897, Esperance Western Australia d. 22 May 1953, Esperance Western Australia (Age 55 years)  [natural]   5. Jessie Mainland Sinclair,   b. 30 Aug 1880, Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia d. 21 Apr 1959, Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia, Australia (Age 78 years)  [natural]   6. Mary Margaret Bain Sinclair,   b. 21 Dec 1889, Esperance, Western Australia, Australia d. 17 May 1974, North Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 84 years)  [natural]   7. Cecilia Ethel Sinclair,   b. 23 Sep 1892, Esperance, Western Australia, Australia d. 27 Aug 1976, Esperance, Western Australia, Australia (Age 83 years)  [natural]   8. Selina Edith Playle Sinclair,   b. 21 Feb 1877, "Buckland" d. 7 Apr 1960, Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia (Age 83 years)  [natural]   9. Julia Mainland Sinclair,   b. 19 May 1886, Franklin Harbour, South Australia d. 3 Jul 1963, North Perth, Western Australia (Age 77 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2025
  Family ID	F440	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Julia Playle Wearing the gold necklace that Laurie Sinclair had made for her

  
  

• Notes

  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]

  
  

• Sources

  [S37] Young, Janice M, In Search of Elizabeth 1982, (Name: Name: Name: Chatterbox Pty Ltd, Armadale;;;), 27.