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George Hossack McGILLIVRAY

Age at Death55

Date Of Death9 July 1968 : Reg 118/1968 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie)

Place Of BirthDay Dawn, Western Australia

OccupationMiner

Spouse's NameElizabeth WILEY

  • Dept of Mines Annual Report 1968

  • Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - photo Paul Doust

  • Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - photo Danelle Warnock

  • Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Danelle Warnock

  • Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Danelle Warnock

Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Perseverance Shaft, Goldmines of Kalgoorlie

Diagnosis or cause of accident
Fell from a ladder 20ft into the stope below.

Place Of Burial
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia

Submitted by
David McMillan and Eric Chamberlain (volunteers)

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Married

District
Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Cause of Death
Mine Accidents

Father
Charles Evans McGillivray : Charles Evans McGillivray was born on 19 December 1874 in Stirling, Stirlingshire. He married Jessie Mair Hossack on 8 March 1894 in Mackay, Queensland. They had 19 children in 24 years. He died on 21 May 1950 in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 75.

Mother
Jessie Mair HOSSACK

Place of marriage
Perth, WA 1942

Other Information
There is a street named after him in Somerville, Kalgoorlie - McGillivray Street.

His brother, Hugh Hossack McGILLIVRAY, died in a mining accident in 1964.

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