William Henry TAIT - Photo Ancestry.com
William Henry TAIT
Age at Death61
Date Of Death19 March 1942 : Reg 4/1942 Mt Margaret
Place Of BirthDonald, Victoria
OccupationMill Foreman
Spouse's NamePearl Harriet Grange HOWE
ChildrenAlice Pearl Hosking 36yrs, Elfrida Jean Hosking 35yrs, William James Aitken 33yrs, Georgina Dora Hosking 29yrs, Florie Ida Hosking 27yrs, Edward Robert Aitken 25yrs
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
West Australian, Friday 20 March 1942, page 3
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - photo Paul Doust
Leonora Cemetery, Leonora -
William TAIT standing far left - Photo Find a Grave
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Sons of Gwalia Gold Mine, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Caught in the belting at the Sons of Gwalia Gold Mine and was thrown 16ft to the ground.
Place Of Burial
Leonora Cemetery, Leonora, Western Australia
Submitted by
Admin - Moya Sharp
MSW
Married
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
John Aitken TAIT (Engine Driver)
Mother
Alice HOSKING
Place of marriage
Kookynie, Western Australia - 1904
Other Information
An article in "The West Australian" dated March 20 1942 reads: MINER KILLED LEONORA, March 19
William Tait, a middle aged man, today died of injuries received when he was caught in the belting at the Sons of Gwalia mine yesterday afternoon. He was thrown 16 feet to the ground. He left a wife and a grown-up family of four daughters and two sons.
William was the son of John Aitken Tait and Alice Tait (nee Hosking) and was born in Donald, Victoria in 1880. He married Pearl Harriet Grange Howe in Kookynie (WA) in 1904. They had 6 children.
Alice Pearl Hosking Tait - born 1905.
Georgina Dora Hosking Tait - born 1913.
Elfreda I Tait - born 1917.
Edward Robert Aitken Tait - born 1922.
William Tait and Ida Tait (unknown birth dates).
