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John Jeffries or John Jefferys/Jefferey, alias Johnston (1852-1900) labourer, selector, shearer and gaoled trade unionist
Birth: December quarter 1851 in Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, England. Son of William Buttriss Jeffery (1807-1884), agricultural labourer, and Jemima, née Taylor, washerwoman. Marriage: 24 December 1874 with Congregational forms at Toowoomba, Queensland, to native-born Ellen Barry (1855-1933). They had one daughter and seven sons. Death: 18 August 1900 in Peak Downs hospital at Clermont, Queensland. Religion: Anglican.
Sources
Stuart Svensen, The shearers’ war; the story of the 1891 Shearer’s Strike (Brisbane, 1989), pp. 135-6.
Chris Cunneen, 'Jeffries, John (1851–1900)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/jeffries-john-32354/text40099, accessed 1 September 2024.
1851
Swaffham Prior,
Cambridgeshire,
England
18 August,
1900
(aged ~ 49)
Clermont,
Queensland,
Australia
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