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Ernest Edwin MANATON

Burial Location:Youanmi  (details...)
Occupation: Prospector
Place of Death: George Street, Youanmi
Date of Death: 30 September 1921
Date of Burial:01 October 1921
Age:56 years
Cause of Death:Chronic Myocarditis
OGM Ref#: 1822
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
REF 1822 ERNEST EDWARD MANATON YOUANMI

REF 1822 ERNEST EDWARD MANATON YOUANMI

Biography

Known as Bill. Ernest Edwin Manaton was the fifth of seven children born in Devon to Mary Ann and John Manaton. John was born about 1832 in Chittlehampton, Devon, and his wife was born about 1829 in Bishops Nympton, Devon. The couple were married in Chittlehampton in 1858. Their other children were: Lucy Jane born about 1860; Albany James born about 1862; John Arnell born about 1864; Edith Ann born April 1865; Herbert William born about 1869; Lacey Fred born about 1872. Interestingly, his older sister, Lucy Jane, died in Queensland in 1918. It is not known when or how Ernest came to Western Australia or when his sister went to Queensland, where she married William Atkinson in 1898.

Parents:Mary Ann (nee ARNELL) and John Burgess MANATON
Birth Details:April 1867, Chittlehampton, Devon, England; Birth Registration Vol 5b, Page 492, South Molton
Death Certificate:5/1921, Black Range
State Records Office: Ernest Edward Manaton AU WA S34 cons3403 1922/021 Item - Part of FILES - PROBATE