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Frank Keen Nieass (1886-1967) compositor, trade union official, mayor and parliamentarian
Birth: 25 October 1886 at Bowden, South Australia, son of John Nieass (1850-1921), a builder, born at Torquay, Devon, England, who arrived at Port Adelaide with his parents on 28 May 1855 aboard the John Banks, and native-born Elizabeth Prudence, née Keen (1855-1907), born at Gawler Plains, South Australia. Marriage: 23 December 1909 in the Methodist Church, Bowden, SA, to native-born Violet Gertrude Lang (1888-1972). They had two sons and one daughter. Death: 28 August 1967 at Norwood, SA. Religion: Methodist.
Sources
Howard Coxon, John Playford and Robert Reid, Biographical Register of the South Australian Parliament 1857-1957 (Adelaide, 1985); Labor Year Book. 1934-35 p 234; Jim Moss, Sound of trumpets: history of the labour movement in South Australia (Cowandilla, 1985), p 251.
'Nieass, Frank Keen (1886–1967)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/nieass-frank-keen-33898/text42464, accessed 1 September 2024.
Frank Nieass, n.d.
25 October,
1886
Bowden, Adelaide,
South Australia,
Australia
28 August,
1967
(aged 80)
Norwood, Adelaide,
South Australia,
Australia
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