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Henry Charles HARVEY

Burial Location:Kookynie  (details...)
Occupation: Publican
Place of Death: Leonora Hospital
Date of Death: 30 August 1925
Age:69 years
Cause of Death:Pneumonic Heart Failure
OGM Ref#: 3008
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
Monument Style: Two simple engraved plaques placed on a rock at the head of the grave, which is simply surrounded by white stones.

Inscription

HENRY CHARLES
HARVEY
Died 30-9-1925

Above this is the similar plaque for Isabella, which reads:
ISOBELLA SUSAN
HARVEY
Died 12-4-1966

Biography

On 16 February 1906, the deceased was appointed a Justice of the Peace in Kookynie for the North Coolgardie Magisterial District. In 1910, he was living in Fall Street, Niagara, before taking over the lease of the National Hotel, Kookynie, on 22 February 1915. He had lived in Victoria for 40 years before moving to Western Australia. He lived at Pingin, Menzies, Niagara, Kookynie. Australian Electoral Rolls still placed him at Coburg, Bourke, Victoria, in 1903 and Pingin, Western Australia in 1906.

Henry Harvey left his estate in the hands of his son, Walter John Harvey.

Henry's father, Isaac Harvey, was born about 1823 in Somerset, England. He arrived in Launceston, Tasmania, on 6 April 1842, before moving first to Victoria and then to Adelaide, where he married Catherine Boyd on 26 January 1854 (Marriage Registration 21/228, Adelaide). Catherine was born 1830 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. They proceed to have 13 children between 1854 and 1876. Henry Charles was the second eldest of nine boys and 4 girls in the family.  Isaac died 5 May 1881 at Castlemaine, Victoria. His wife died 27 June 1920 at Elsternwick, Victoria.

Parents:Catherine (nee BOYD) and Isaac HARVEY (Gardener)
Spouse:1. Mary Ellen GREENLAND; 2. Eliza Alice TURNER; 3. Isabella Susan ROWE
Marriage Details:1.1874, Victoria; Marriage Registration 4111/1874; 2. 1902, Victoria, Marriage Registration 8142/1902; 3. 5 June 1907 Guildford, Marriage Registration 38/1907, Swan
Children:1. Rosabel born 1885, Victoria; 2. Alice Pearl born 1905; Henry Frederick born 1906; Reginald Lewis born 1910; 3. Henry J born 1908; Walter John born 1913; Richard C born 4 March 1916, Kookynie; Roma; Catherine
Birth Details:1856, Campbell's Creek, Victoria; Birth Registration 9762/1856, Campbells
Death Certificate:11/1925, Mt Margaret
State Records Office: Henry Charles Harvey AU WA S34 cons3403 1925/517 Item - Part of FILES - PROBATE
Comments:The engraved plaque on the grave of Henry and Isabella Harvey states that Henry died 30 September 1925 but all other documentation states his date of death at 30 August 1925.

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