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Charles William Dawes (1865-1927) miner, trade union leader
Birth: 20 September 1865 at Black Rock, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, son of Charles Dawes (1842-1921), a coalminer born in Derbyshire, and Staffordshire-born Christiana, née Pearson (1845-1924). Marriage: 20 May 1895 at Brunswick, Victoria to Rebecca, née Whitworth, late Crase (1865-1940), a widowed knitter, born in Lancashire, England, who had two children. The couple later had two sons. Death: 27 May 1927 in hospital at Collie, Western Australia. Religion: Congregational.
Sources
Collie Miners' Union MSS, Battye Library, Perth; Outtrim News; information from Mrs Crawford, Collie; P. D. Gardner, Too old to rat: the radical miners of South Gippsland 1893-1904 (Ensay, Victoria, 1994).
Peter D. Gardner, 'Dawes, Charles William (1865–1927)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/dawes-charles-william-33616/text42051, accessed 7 November 2024.
20 September,
1865
West Bromwich,
Staffordshire,
England
27 May,
1927
(aged 61)
Collie,
Western Australia,
Australia
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