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David Lindsay (Dave) Tweedie (1868–1919)

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David Lindsay (Dave) Tweedie (1868-1919) miner and trade union official

Birth: 1868 at Ballarat, Victoria, son of David Tweedie (1825-1910), a storekeeper, born at Bloomsbury, London, and Jane, née Moffat (1827-1910), born at Glasgow, Scotland. Marriage: 1894 in Victoria to Emma Jane Dennis Parker (1879-1951). They had one daughter and five sons. Death: 3 October 1919 in hospital at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Religion: Methodist. 

  • Moved to Broken Hill in 1888. Was first employed on the construction of Freemason's Hotel but for the great part of his life worked as a miner along the line of lode.
  • Member, Municipal Council of Employees.
  • Involved in strike of 1892. Sometime executive member of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association.
  • Contracted phthisis and lead poisoning causing severe disability from about 1912.
  • Foundation member of the Social Democratic Club. Member, local Labor league. Member of the first board of control of the Barrier Truth.
  • Cause of death: uraemia (one year) and chronic nephritis (6 months).
  • His brother Robert (1865-1919) was also a well-known Broken Hill trade unionist, and his son Walter James Tweedie (1896-1968), a woodcutter, served in the Australian Imperial Force in World War I. Another son Roy Victor Tweedy or Tweedie (1899-1916) died at Broken Hill following a mine accident in 1916.

Sources
Barrier Daily Truth, (Broken Hill), 4 October 1919, pp 2-3; Brian Kennedy, Silver, sin and sixpenny ale; a social history of Broken Hill (Melbourne, 1978), pp 99 and 123; George Dale The industrial history of Broken Hill, (Melbourne, 1918), p 31.

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'Tweedie, David Lindsay (Dave) (1868–1919)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/tweedie-david-lindsay-dave-34897/text43986, accessed 26 April 2025.

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Birth

1868
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Death

3 October, 1919 (aged ~ 51)
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Cause of Death

kidney disease

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