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Family Name

Family Name

Rawson

First Name

Thomas

Middle Name(s) if any

 

Date of Birth

Approximately 1854

Place of Birth

Location unknown

Date of Death

6 September 1930

Place of Death

Prospect SA

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth SA

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

 

Lived in Prospect (dates)

Thought to be from 1880

Addresses in Prospect

2 Gladstone Avenue, Prospect (shop & dwelling).

Also owned 4 Gladstone Ave, Prospect.

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Thomas Rawson

Spouse(s)

Annie Bertha nee Kilmartin. Born 1855. Died 1926. Father’s name John.

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

3 July 1875

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

PM Manse, Franklin St, Adelaide, South Australia

Children

Emma Ada Elsie Rawson (b. 1876)

Minnie Ethel Rawson (b. June 30, 1878, North Adelaide SA),

Mary Violet Rawson (b. 1880 d. 1945),

Ernest Arthur Roper Rawson (b. May 1, 1883, North Adelaide SA, d. August 11, 1917 in Broken Hill NSW),

Ruby May Rawson (b July 3, 1885, Prospect SA),

Lillie Adela Rawson (b. September 26, 1887, Prospect SA., d. October 22, 1948 Port Pirie SA),

Clarice Dorothy Rawson (b. June 18, 1890, Prospect SA., d. 1976 Sydney NSW),

Harold William Vestall Rawson (b. June 28, 1892 Prospect, SA.,d.1950),

Walter Tom Arnold Rawson (b. October 24, 1894 Prospect, d. 1909),

Melville John Clifford Rawson (b. 1897, d.1923)

Occupation(s)

Shopkeeper possibly the Mr Rawson from 2 Gladstone Road with a variety of crockery, bedroom jugs, pots, buckets and tins on his horse-drawn cart, calling ‘Crock-er-y !’

Interests

 

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

8 July1893 Tom Rawson proclaimed elected to Prospect Council with 232 votes. Served 1894- 1895.

1900/01 Thomas (Tom) Rawson  elected as Highbury Ward Councillor.

 

The Rawson that played football for North Adelaide Football Club is thought to be Tom Rawson’s son, Ernest Arthur Roper Rawson, according to North Adelaide Football Club history group, Barry Dolman.

 

Sources of information

freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com

www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10450/advertiser-adelaide-sa

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54453475/4101649#

www.geni.com/people/Ernest-Rawson/6000000039275250581

familysearch.org/search

South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA) July 8 1893

Chronicle (Adelaide, SA) Sep 18 1930

Chronicle (Adelaide, SA) - Feb 6 1947

1894 'DISTRICT COUNCILS.', South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), 2 November, p. 2

Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) June 18 1901

Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Nov 27 1948

Advertiser (Adelaide, SA)  Sep 4 1948

Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Jan 15 1909

Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Feb 12 1947

Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) - Aug 11 1917,p. 8

Recollections of Prospect pp.6,18, 24

Barry Dolman, North Adelaide Football Club

 

Principal researcher

 

Kristina Barnett

 

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