Frank Ernest ROBERTS
Born C.1889 [2] [70]
Departed Cape Town, South Africa on the steamship Ballarat and arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 13 August 1922 [70]
Farmer of Adair Farm in Goomalling, Western Australia in 1925 and 1926 [6] [50]
Purchased 13,715 acres of virgin land near Carnamah, Western Australia from the Midland Railway Company in mid 1926 [27]
The 13,715 acres was Lot M1647 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £6,586, payable by instalments over 15 years [27]
11,000 acres of Lot M1647 cost 10/- per acre while the remaining 2,715 acres of Lot M1647 cost 8/- per acre [27]
In 1926 and 1927 his postal address was Carnamah, and he was stated to be "of Carnamah" [4: 21-May-1927] [34]
Married Maud Rebecca SEAMAN in Perth in 1927 [66]
He sold his 13,715 acre Lot M1647 in Carnamah to A. Lancelot SHANNON on 1 March 1927 [86: 17-May-1927] [225: 20-Mar-1931]
He was the vendor for the sale, receiving £2,000 upfront and the balance at 1,000 each alternate year plus six percent interest [225]
By April 1927 he was living in Three Springs [4: 23-Apr-1927]
Purchased a new Chevrolet truck, or Chev, from Carnamah dealer L. Scott WYLIE in April 1927 [4: 23-Apr-1927]
Purchased a new Case tractor from Westralian Farmers in 1927 [4: 23, Apr-1927, 21-May-1927]
He purchased about 7,000 acres in Three Springs from Herbert P. OAKLEY in May 1927 [86: 17-May-1927]
He put a notice in The Irwin Index newspaper in August 1927 stating that he was wanting to buy a scrub rake [4: 13-Aug-1927]
Sold his 7,100 acres of farmland in Three Springs to EVANS Bros for 50/- per acre in March 1928 [4: 17-Mar-1928]
Resided at 38 Holmfirth Street, then in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley and now in the suburb of Menora, from 1930 to 1936 [6] [50]
He regained ownership of his former 13,715 acre Lot M1647 in Carnamah in March 1931 [225: 20-Mar-1931]
A. Lancelot SHANNON had spent considerable money and effort developing the property in the intervening years [225]
Improvements included 4,000 acres of cleared land, eight miles of fencing, a well, house, and other buildings [225]
He was mortgagor of the property and foreclosed, as SHANNON was unable to pay the instalments for the farm [225]
Retained ownership of the 13,715 acre Lot M1647 near Carnamah until selling it to F. W. Gustav LIEBE on 10 May 1935 [27]
Later resided in the southern coastal Perth suburb of Coogee [2]
Died 13 March 1945; buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Anglican, WF, 254) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Frank Ernest Roberts' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 March 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/frank-ernest-roberts [reference list] |
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