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Thomas Hester
Erickson:
HESTER, Thomas Edward, b. 1790 (England), d. 4.5.1862 (Canning), arr. 6.10.1829 per Lotus with wife & 4 chd, m. c.1817 Sophia EVERETT b. 1795 d. 29.2.1830 (Canning). Chd. Thomas b. 1818 d. 1875, Edward Godfrey b. 1820 d. 1898, Sarah Sophia b. 1821 d. 1895, Robert b. 1824 d. 1875/7, Frederick John b. 1827, ?John d. 1830 infancy. Formerly an officer in Royal Middlesex Militia & 2nd Prov. Battalion. Farmer, Canning, "Redcliffe Farm". Member of Rd. Committee 1843 & 1847. Res. Mag. & Postmaster 1854. JP. C/E.
Appears in the 1832 Census as a widower (his wife Sophia having died in 1830) from England, an agriculturalist, not indentured.
References and Links
Berryman, Ian 1979 ed., A Colony Detailed: The First Census of Western Australia 1832, Creative Research, Perth.
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