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Susan Adelaide Casson, née Holmes (1871-1952) trade union leader, community activist
Birth: 28 December 1871, Kings Ballycollin, Geashill, Ireland, daughter of William Nassau Holmes (1838-1919), businessman, formerly quartermaster in the British Army who served in Afghanistan in 1878-1880, and Maria Susan, née Geashill [or Ardagh] (1839-1913). Marriage: 14 January 1897 at Perth, Western Australia, to Edgar Harold Jefferies Casson, railway unionist. They had one daughter and five sons, two of whom died in infancy. Death: 23 April 1952 at Applecross, Perth, WA. Religion: Anglican.
Sources
Lenore Layman and Julian Goddard, Organise: a visual record of the labour movement in Western Australia (Perth, 1988); Battye Library, ALP records, ACC 1101 file 17/1919.
'Casson, Susan Adelaide (1871–1952)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/casson-susan-adelaide-33150/text41355, accessed 5 June 2023.
28 December,
1871
Geashill,
Offaly,
Ireland
23 April,
1952
(aged 80)
Applecross, Perth,
Western Australia,
Australia
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