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Joseph Daniel (Joe) McGinness or Pumeri (1914-2003) labourer, trade unionist and Aboriginal activist
Birth: 2 July 1914 at Lucy Claim Tin Mine, near Darwin, Northern Territory, son of Stephen Joseph McGinness (1855-1918), a ganger on the North Australian railway and tin miner, born in United Sates of America of Irish parents, and Alyngindabu (Lucy), (1c.874-1961) a Kungarakan woman. Marriages: (1) 1935 to Jaura Ahmat (d. c.1939). They had one son and one daughter. (2) to Amy Nagas. Two step-sons one daughter. Death: 11 July 2003 at Cairns, Queensland.
Sources
Weekend Australian, 24-25 May 1997 p 11; Australian, 23 July 2003.
'McGinness, Joseph Daniel (Joe) (1914–2003)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mcginness-joseph-daniel-joe-17813/text43581, accessed 1 September 2024.
Joe McGinness, c.1943
National Archives of Australia, B883:DX977
2 July,
1914
Batchelor,
Northern Territory,
Australia
11 July,
2003
(aged 89)
Cairns,
Queensland,
Australia
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