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Robert George (Bob) McWilliams (1895-1951) labourer, cook and Communist activist
Birth: 28 May 1895 at Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, son of Edward McWilliams (1856-1918), a shipyard labourer, who signed with a mark, and Ann Jane, née Cowan (1857-1911). Both parents were originally from Leitrim, in Ireland. Marriage: 22 March 1922 at Katoomba, New South Wales, to Daisy Olive Patterson (c.1898-1981), domestic servant, born at Brunswick East, Melbourne, Victoria. They had one daughter and one son. Death: 15 November 1951 at Malekula, Santo, New Hebrides. Religion: Ardent atheist but christened by Church of Ireland minister, married with Methodist forms and buried with an Anglican service.
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Information supplied by Margaret Sampson, historian and grand-daughter of Robert.
'McWilliams, Robert George (Bob) (1895–1951)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mcwilliams-robert-george-bob-34397/text43173, accessed 17 February 2025.
Bob McWilliams, n.d.
photograph provided by family
28 May,
1895
Glasgow,
Lanarkshire,
Scotland
15 November,
1951
(aged 56)
Malekula Island,
Vanuatu
Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
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