George Auchmuty KININMONTH
Born 27 December 1908 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland [16]
Son of ironmonger and seedsman John Auchmuty KININMONTH and Isabella McLean HARDIE [28]
Five months before he was born in 1908 his father passed away at the age of 44 from appendicitis [28]
He was the youngest of three sons with elder brothers John Gordon and William Hardie [28]
Following his father's death his mother and brothers moved to Dunfermline to live with his mother's brother William HARDIE [20] [28]
He was born and spent his the first few years of his life on his uncle William HARDIE's Glowridge Hill Farm in Dunfermline [20] [28]
When the 1922 census was taken he was living with his mother and brothers at 68 Marchmont Crescent in Edinburgh [20]
Five days before his 18th birthday in 1926 his mother passed away from breast cancer at the age of 55 years [28]
He departed London, England on the steamship Esperance Bay and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 29 March 1928 [63]
Resided in Carnamah 1928-1934 and again in 1935 [5: 11-Jan-1935, 30-Aug-1935] [9: 7-Sep-1928] [19]
In 1933, and likely for his other years in Carnamah, he worked as a Farmhand for John BOWMAN on The Home Farm [5: 7-Jul-1933] [19]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club 1928-1933 [4: 22-Aug-1931] [5: 2-Jun-1933] [9: 7-Sep-1928]
He was among those who attended the Centenary Ball held at the Carnamah Hall on 26 July 1929 [86: 3-Aug-1929]
The ball was to celebrate 100 years since the founding of Perth and the establishment of the Swan River Colony [86]
Attended the Plain and Fancy Dress Ball at the Carnamah Town Hall on Thursday 8 August 1929 as a "Schoolboy" [4: 17-Aug-1929]
Attended the Grand Ball following the Carnamah Show and opening of Centenary Park on 19 September 1929 [4: 28-Sep-1929]
On Thursday 3 October 1929 attended the Carnamah Anglican Church's Freak Ball at the Carnamah Hall [4: 12-Oct-1929]
Attended the Ball in Carnamah in aid of the local Roman Catholic Church's building fund on Thursday 24 May 1930 [4: 31-May-1930]
On one occasion he loaded up a horse drawn cart with supplies and then travelled for a few days to spend a holiday at Green Head [P9]
When he returned from Green Head he gave the BOWMAN children a big shell and told them to put it to their ear to hear the ocean [P9]
Attended the Fancy Dress Ball held in Carnamah dressed as a "Golfer" on Thursday 28 August 1930 [4: 6-Sep-1930]
Won 2nd prizes for a Selection of Fodder Plants and for Plain Scones baked by Bachelor at the Carnamah Show in 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Returned to Scotland for a holiday, during which he purchased linen in Dunfermline for Mrs Margaret S. BOWMAN of Carnamah [P9]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 11 November 1932 [96]
Departed London, England on the steamship Oxford and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 1 November 1932 [63]
Admitted to the Carnamah Private Hospital on Friday 30 June 1933 to be operated on for a septic arm [5: 7-Jul-1933]
One of four members of the Carnamah Rifle Club who competed at the National Rifle Association's meeting in 1933 [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Attended the Carnamah Tennis Club's Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 9 December 1933 [5: 15-Dec-1933]
Also attended the Carnamah Tennis Club's Flannel Dance held at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 3 February 1934 [5: 9-Feb-1934]
During 1934 he appears to have left Carnamah and shifted to Perth [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Travelled to Carnamah by train on 5 January 1935 to spend a few days holiday with John and Margaret BOWMAN [5: 11-Jan-1935]
By August 1935 he was living in Carnamah again [5: 30-Aug-1935]
Member of the Carnamah Rifle Club in 1935 [5: 30-Aug-1935, 27-Sep-1935]
He and Percy MATTHEWS travelled from Carnamah to Kalgoorlie for race week in September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
By January 1937, when he spent a holiday in Carnamah, he was working on the goldfields near Laverton [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Married Justine Millet SNOOK in Perth in 1939 [66]
Farmer of Hill View Farm in Arrino 1941-1950 [2] [6]
He had purchased Hill View from "Bert" Albert H. COUSINS [P2]
Sergeant W71873 in Arrino's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [P2]
His wife gave birth to a son in January 1943 at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [5]
Member of the Three Springs Miniature Rifle Club in 1945 and 1946 [5]
Financial Member of the Three Springs Agricultural Society in 1947 [262]
After a number of years in Arrino he began suffering from a bad type of arthritis which often crippled him [P2]
He had to stay in bed a lot and was frequently in and out of hospital, later spending months at a hospital in Perth before his death [P2]
Father of David and William [84]
Died 27 July 1950; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Crematorium Rose Gardens, Niche Wall, WN, 54) [2]
His brother, Sir William Hardie KININMONTH, was an architect in Scotland and was knighted in 1972
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'George Auchmuty Kininmonth' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/george-auchmuty-kininmonth [reference list] |
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