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Alexander Sinclair (abt. 1846 - 1899)

Alexander Sinclair
Born about in Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdommap [uncertain]
Husband of — married 1870 in Victoria, Australiamap
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Died at about age 53 in Nurrabiel, Victoria, Australiamap
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Biography

Alexander Sinclair died at Noradjuha Victoria 1899 age 53, mother Jean FRASER, father James.[1]


--Extract from the Horsham Times Tuesday 13 June 1899[2]--

DEATH. SINCLAIR.-On the 12th inst., at Noradjuha (suddenly), Alexander Sinclair; aged 53 years.

--Extract from the Argus (Melbourne), Wednesday 14 June 1899[3]--

NATIMUK- Alexander Sinclair, a resident of Nurrabiel for over 20 years, died on Monday at Noradjuha from paralysis. For many years he was collector and clerk of works under the Wimmera Shire Council, and after severance and the constitution of the shire of Arapiles he was appointed secretary, a position he held until his death. He was largely esteemed, and his death has caused profound regret.

Sources

  1. Death: Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages Register 7044/1899
  2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/75059830
  3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9507014
  • Victorian Marriage Certificate 3111/1870 Marriage at Hamilton; Alexander was a wheelwright at this time. Birthplace shown as Inverness. [The Sinclair family is believed to have been living at at Muirends Farm, Knockbain, on the Black isle across the Beauly & Moray Firths from Inverness] .
  • Family knowledge was that he was teaching Sunday School in Noradjuha when he was stricken, that he was taken home to Nurrabiel where he died early the next morning.
  • There is an extant photograph of the original Sinclair home at Nurrabiel taken about 1876 which shows the first three children with their parents, and includes the very tall Henry Featherby and others in the image.




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