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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

MILNER, William

Date of Birth

8th November 1840

Place of Birth

Wales

Date of Death

10th June 1907

Place of Death

Prospect, SA

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery; Plot 2687, Path 12 North

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

~1863 - Sir John Lawrence

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

At least from 1872 he occupied four acres of Section 347 between Harvey and California Sts

1883 - Boothby - Nailsworth

1885 - S&M - Ellen St Nailsworth

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Nairne

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

James and Martha Milner

Spouse(s)

Annie Edmonds ( born ? - died 1931)

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

24th August 1863

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

St Woolos Parish, Newport

Children

1863 - Elizabeth  (died 1864)

1865 - Annie (died 1940)

1867 - Mary (died 1872)

1871 - Elizabeth (died 1872)

1873 - Alfred (died 1951)

1874 - Philip Henry (died 1952)

1876 - Elizabeth Mary (died 1894)

1878 - Ernest (died 1932)

1880 - Florence Ethel (died 1881)

1881 - Percy (died 1964)

1884 - Albert Edmunds (died 1885)

1885 - Herbert Edmunds (died 1958)

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Lime merchant

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

Enfield Methodist Church  - Church Steward, Poor Steward, Church Trustee;

Sunday school teacher and Superintendent

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Well known pioneering extractors of lime and its preparation for use as a building material

Local Government experience

Prospect Councillor 1889/90 - 1892/93

Sources of information

Buried Treasures (Article  by Laurel Milner-Schlinke); SAGHS; S&M; Prospect Council records

 

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