Herbert Harold KERR
Born C.1880 [2]
Married (1) Minnie May CARDY in 1911 [66]
His wife had departed London, England on the Ophir and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 5 November 1908 [70]
Grocer in Albany 1918-1920 [6]
His wife Minnie passed away at the age of 37 years on 3 November 1919 and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Married (2) Margaret Julia YULE nee NEALL in 1920 [66]
Tea Merchant in White Gum Valley, Beaconsfield and then in Fremantle [P320]
Greengrocer in the Perth suburbs of Claremont and Subiaco, and then a Grocer in East Perth [P320]
In 1926 purchased three blocks of farmland / prospective farmland at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district [27]
Purchased the 1,001 acre Lot M1607 of Victoria Location 2023 from Arthur W. H. PLATELL on 24 February 1926 [27]
Purchased the 1,834 acre Lot M1534 of Victoria Location 2023 from Frederick W. ROBERTS on 19 March 1926 [27]
Purchased 1,000 acre Lot M1555 of Victoria Location 2023 from Ivan S. & Noel V. S. LONGMORE on 27 November 1926 [27]
All three blocks of land still had instalments owing to the Midland Railway Company, which he completed paying [27]
On 13 March 1927 purchased 173 acres of virgin land in Waddy Forest from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 173 acres was Lot M1719 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £86.15.0 (10/- per acre), payable by instalments [27]
Completed paying for the 173 acres, which took his land holdings in Waddy Forest to a total of 4,008 acres [27]
In the rate books of the Carnamah District Road Board the property was later listed 13 acres smaller at 3,995 acres [3]
Never resided on his property in Waddy Forest before he sold it to the farming partnership Lannam & Company in 1928 [P84] [P320]
Years later his step-daughter Mrs Dulcie E. HUNTER resided briefly in Waddy Forest and for a number of years in Coorow [P320]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Inglewood [2]
Died 26 May 1951; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 6J, 13) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Herbert Harold Kerr' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 21 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/herbert-harold-kerr [reference list] |
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