Orphan Number: | 2151 |
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Orphan: | William GRAHAM |
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Mother: | DONOVAN, Eliza |
Father: | GRAHAM, Walter |
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Age when admitted: | 3yrs |
Date admitted: | 2 Aug 1866 |
Date discharged: | 3 Mar 1877 |
Institution(s): | Queens Orphan School |
Discharged to: | Edmund Sheehan, Waterworks, Hobart |
Remarks: | mother a prisoner, father deserted - won arithmetic prize 1873 |
References: | SWD26/9, 27, 32/1, 54, HAP1871/63, Mercury 9 Jan 1874 |
William Graham is my great great grandfather. He moved to Melbourne at approx age 17 and lived there until his death in 1930. William married Frances Mary Charlotte Smith in 1892 and they had 5 children together - William Tasman Hazlewood (my great grandfather), Elizabeth Charlotte, Benatta Olive Frances, Percy Arthur Oscar Hobart and Ernest Huon Franklin. William died in 1930 in Melbourne.