Orphan Number: 4534

Orphan:	Alfred READER
Mother:	McCARTHY, Ellen
Father:	READER, William
Mother's ship:	Lloyds
Father's ship:	Hyderabad
Age when admitted:	3yrs 6mths
Date admitted:	20 Jan 1857, 1867
Date discharged:	27 Sep 1867
Institutions(s):	Queens Orphan School
Discharged to:	parents
Remarks:	won Infant prize Jan 1862 - mother in hospital - father prisoner at Port Arthur
References:	SWD6, 26/6, 28, CSD25/12/675, CSD1/110/3483, Hobart Town Mercury 16 & 26 Jan 1857, Launceston Examiner 3 Feb 1857p2

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Anne Merrick wrote:

Alfred Charles Reader was born on 27 Dec 1852 at Brown’s River. After leaving the Orphan School, Alfred worked as a labourer in the New Norfolk area, where his father was living with his second wife. On 5 May 1875 he married Charlotte Taylor at the Church of St Mary the Virgin at Gretna. They had four children. In 1888, aged 25, Alfred was described as being about 5 feet 3 inches tall with sandy hair and whiskers, and nearly blind. As a result of his blindness, he spent some time in the New Town Charitable Institute in the 1890s. In 1913 he married Jane Patterson (nee Lowe). He died on 14 Dec 1924 at the General Hospital, Hobart and is buried at Cornelian Bay Cemetery.

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