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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

MCINNES, Archibald

Date of Birth

10th March 1875

Place of Birth

Scotland

Date of Death

10th July 1949

Place of Death

At home

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery - Plot 8611, Path 47 South

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Oaklands - 1879

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

1905 S&M - 18 Johns Rd

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

1902 S&M - Montrose Ave Norwood

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

John Hamilton McInnes and Margaret Baird

Spouse(s)

Ida Dorothea Küchenmeister (1876-1961)

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

22nd October 1900

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Kelvin Grove, Blyth, South Australia

Children

1901 - Irene

1903 - Esmeralda Winifred

1905 - Clarence Archibald

1908 - Donald Ludwig

1910 - John Alexander

1913 - Ray Dorothea

1915 - Melville James

 

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Boilermaker

Interests/Activities

Secretary, Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Society (SA) for more than 40 years

Member, Australian Industrial Commission

Member, Royal Commission on Railways (1930)

President/Secretary, Metal Trades Council

Member, Metropolitan County Board

Board member of South Australian Housing Trust (1937)

Vice-President, Prospect Cricket Club

Poetry, literature, opera, music

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

McInnes Avenue is named for him

Local Government experience

Prospect Councillor 1909/10 - 1910/11; 1913/14 - 1916/17

Chairman 1914/15 - 1915/16

Alderman 1940/41 - 1942/43

Sources of information

Buried Treasures

(Article reprinted with permission from The Hamilton Heritage by James McInnes)

 

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