"Clive" Edwin Clive HUNTER
Born 24 March 1907 in Swanbourne, Western Australia [P320]
Son of Walter Sydney HUNTER and Charlotte Kelk WATERLAND [P320]
His father was a stonemason and later builder who had come from the Parramatta district of New South Wales [P320]
Grew up in the Perth suburbs of Swanbourne and Victoria Park, and was educated at the Victoria Park State School [P320]
Worked as a builder with his father in suburban Perth, and built houses in Tincurrin and Kalamunda [P320]
Married Dulcie Elizabeth YULE on 9 July 1932 at the Anglican Christ Church in the Perth suburb of Claremont [P320]
In 1932 he began working as a builder on his own [P320]
Resided with his wife and later children in a house he built in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [P320]
Had a boat shed at Marmion Beach, and built boats which had sails his wife made out of sewed together Ajax bags [P320]
Builder in the Coorow district [P320]
He and his wife lived with Ernest and Mora CHAPMAN in Waddy Forest while he built a house for them in Coorow [P320]
Their children continued to live in their home in Victoria Park, where they were cared for by relatives living in the house [P320]
He built many houses from in the Coorow district from ground level to final completion, in addition to extending existing homes [P320]
During the brick shortage after the Second World War he created wooden moulds and made concrete bricks [P320]
Many of the homes he built in and around Coorow were made with his concrete bricks, and some were timber framed homes [P320]
Built houses for locals G. Ernest R. A. D. CHAPMAN, Ronald L. PETERS, Mrs Janet M. JONES, Roy M. PATTON, [P320]
Norman J. M. PATTON, Graham N. HYDE, Albert C. BOTHE, Geoffrey T. TREMLETT, Benjamin E. CROFT, [P320]
Arnold G. C. HIRST, Miles Y. MORCOMBE, Mrs Janet M. MCGILP, Colin E. HYDE, David I. DAVIES, [P320]
Bevan M. O'CALLAGHAN, Harry C. GREENWOOD, Maxwell J. BARKER, and Mrs Margaret V. MANNING [P320]
Extended Charles H. GRONOW's house in Coorow, and built the Coorow Bowling Club and the Coorow R.S.L. Hall [P320]
Also built houses in Green Head for fisherman Douglas I. MORPHETT and Ross D. MORPHETT [P320]
He and his wife also ran a hardware business in Coorow, which had evolved out of people needing building supplies [P320]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 19 March 1948 [96]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club [P320]
Member of the Coorow Masonic Lodge - donated the land for the Lodge, and was the contractor who built the Lodge [P320]
Member of the Coorow Bowling Club [P320]
While living at Coorow he regularly travelled to Jurien and later Green Head to go fishing [P320]
At Billy Goat Bay in Green Head he built seven boat sheds, one of which was for himself [P320]
Built another two boats, one of which he used himself and the other for Coorow farmer David I. DAVIES [P320]
In about 1972 built a house at Green Head, after which he and his wife left Coorow [P320]
Resided in the coastal town of Green Head from about 1972 until his death in 1984 [P320]
Father of Phyllis, Margaret, Pauline and Elizabeth [14]
Died 13 May 1984 in Green Head; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row S, Plot 12) [1]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Edwin Clive Hunter' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 18 November 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/edwin-clive-hunter [reference list] |
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