Thomas
Edward
Meats
Born in Hentland , Herefordshire , England , United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Meats
and Eliza (Browning) Meats
Brother of
Edmund Joseph Meats, John Browning Meats, Mary Eliza Meats, Charlotte Ann (Meats) Dew, Elizabeth Julia Meats, Susannah (Meats) Cadle, William Meats and Robert Pearce Meats
Husband of
Sarah (Johnston) Meats
— married
6 Jul 1880 in Tasmania, Australia
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 76
in Hobart , Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Jan 2019
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Biography
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Thomas Edward was baptized at Hentland on 14th Dec 1830 .
Thomas Edward was employed by Charles Hawkins in Gloucester as a Draper's Apprentice up until 1851 . From the 1840s there was a "Gold Rush" in Australia , during the 1850s gold prospecting immigrants reached it's highest number and in Nov 1852 with his brother Edmund Joseph Meats , Thomas Edward set off for Australia on the ship the DINAPORE . Both brothers worked in the mining industry in Australia , both being the main shareholders of the MOA MINING COMPANY.
In 1880 he married widow Sarah Johnstone at her residence in Hobart Town , Tasmania .
In 1899 Thomas registered a patent for a machine for extracting minerals known as " The Giant Gold or Tin Seperator" .
Thomas died aged 72yrs in Hobart .
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