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Robert Alexander Mitchell (1858-1940) coalminer, trade union official, and farmer
Birth: 12 December 1858 at Brackenhills, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland, son of James Mitchell (1816-1887), iron miner, and Elizabeth, née Crawford (1821-1892). Marriage: 22 April 1889 with Presbyterian forms at the Manse, Palmer Street, Sydney, New South Wales, to Margaret Lamont (1865-1936), a domestic servant born in Scotland. They had four daughters and five sons. Death: 19 May 1940 at Northcote, Melbourne; usual residence Sale, Victoria.
Sources
Outtrim News; Great Southern Advocate; 1906 Victorian Royal Commission into Coal Industry; P. D. Gardner, Too old to rat: the radical miners of South Gippsland 1893-1904 (Ensay, Victoria, 1994).
Peter D. Gardner, 'Mitchell, Robert (1858–1940)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-robert-33767/text42270, accessed 27 September 2023.
12 January,
1858
brackenhills,
Ayrshire,
Scotland
19 May,
1940
(aged 82)
Northcote, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
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