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TOBIAS, ERNEST RHYS

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1889

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B/W copy print of head and shoulders studio portrait of Ernest Rhys Tobias, mounted on card. He has short hair and a moustache and is wearing a jacket, high buttoned waistcoat, shirt and tie. Written on the back of the original in blue biro [Ernest Rhys Tobias m Louisa Francis 12.11.94./ father Gladys Beatrice m. G. Henry York 1922]

Historical information

Ernest Tobias, aged 21, arrived in Fremantle with his elder brother on the Orion in 1886. They had come from South Wales . He shared a house in Goldsworthy Road Claremont with three other bachelors from about 1887 to 1892. The four men bought the block in Goldsworthy Rd together and sank either the first well in Goldsworthy Rd or in Claremont on the block. Ernest rode a bicycle to Fremantle each day to work at Bateman's. In 1892, he walked from York to Coolgardie where he became a wholesale and retail merchant until 1903. He lived at 'Moana', 58 Victoria Avenue, with family c1903-1905. Portrait taken during a trip back to Wales in 1889.

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cwa-org-28--98-663

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1889

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