"Bill" Herbert Harold DEWAR
Born 1898 in Gingin, Western Australia [15]
Son of William Francis DEWAR and Elizabeth MASTERS [15]
Farmhand on his father's Spring Park Farm in Gingin [50]
By 1925 he was living in Carnamah [19]
Farmer of Ingie Farm in Carnamah in partnership with his brother Percy as "Dewar Bros" [P30]
Attended the Massey Harris Wallis tractor demonstration held on GregorfieldsFarm in Winchester on 31 January 1929 [4: 2-Feb-1929]
He sold out his share in the farm to his brother Percy however continued to reside in Carnamah [P30]
Also worked as a Kangaroo Shooter in Carnamah, and at one time had two people busy full time skinning kangaroos he'd shot [P5]
He would only travel to Louis P. PARKER's Glenwilli Farm in Winchester if he could get 100 kangaroos in a night [P5]
Resided in a two roomed house with walls made out of white washed hessian on Ingie Farm in Carnamah [P30]
An English lady lived with him in his two roomed house [P30]
Went kangaroo shooting with Sid SMITH on the sandplain west of the Mulliah / Yarra Yarra Lakes in early October 1933 [5: 13-Oct-1933]
During the first week of October 1933 they reported having jointly bagged 40 kangaroos Carnamah [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Arrived back in Carnamah by train on Wednesday 22 November 1933 after a trip to Gingin [5: 24-Nov-1933]
Travelled down to Perth for the Christmas break in December 1933 and then returned to Carnamah [5: 18-Aug-1933]
Sold 20 lambs at 10/10, one ewe at 6/-, and 23 suckers at 16/1 per head through Dalgety Co Ltd on 16 October 1935 [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Sold 87 sheep through Dalgety & Co Ltd and Westralian Farmers Ltd with consignments to Midland Markets in 1936 [5: 10-Apr-1936]
14 wethers at 21/1, 23 suckers at 16/4, 17 lambs (5 at 18/1, 12 at 11/1), 33 ewes (2 shorn at 10/1, 31 at 6/5) [5: 25-Sep-1936, 4-Dec-1936]
Sold 35 ewes at 12/7 per head through Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 20 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Farmer in Carnamah until at least 1937 [50], after which he shifted to Gingin where he had his own farm [P30]
Married Nellie Maude TRINDER, who had worked at the Carnamah Hotel, in Perth in 1938 [19] [66]
Filed for and was granted a divorce from his wife on 7 November 1951 on the grounds of five or more years separation [39: 8-Nov-1951]
Resided in Gingin until his death in 1975 [2]
Died 14 May 1975; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Also known as Hubert Harold DEWAR [19] [39: 8-Nov-1951] [50]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Herbert Harold Dewar' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/herbert-harold-dewar [reference list] |
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