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Qld shearers strike leaders, 1893 [Bennett is second from right, front row]
William James ('Billy') Bennett (1858-1934) labourer, shearer and gaoled trade union leader
Birth: 1858 in Belfast, Ireland, son of James Bennett, farmer. Marriage: 15 November 1897 in Psychological Society Rooms, Adelaide, South Australia, to Fanny Rosanna Ricks (1876-1946), born in Wiltshire, England. Death: 23 August 1934 at Ruby Vale, near Emerald, Queensland. Religion: “freethinker”.
Sources
Gavin Souter, A Peculiar People: the Australians in Paraguay (Sydney, 1968); Stuart Svensen, The Shearers' War: the story of the 1891 shearers' strike (Brisbane, 1989); DR 16574, p.307 and DR92277, p 256 prison records, Queensland State Archives https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM341532
Martin Sullivan, 'Bennett, William James (Billy) (1858–1934)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/bennett-william-james-billy-32295/text39967, accessed 4 December 2023.
Qld shearers strike leaders, 1893 [Bennett is second from right, front row]
23 August,
1934
(aged ~ 76)
Emerald,
Queensland,
Australia
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