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Name	William Cogan
Born	20 July, 1854 Gawler, South Australia, Australia
Died	13 October, 1924 (aged 70) Eastwood, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
Cultural Heritage	English Irish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Cogan, Emily (wife) Dickson, Alice Cicley (daughter) Cogan, John James (son) Lamb, Patrick Austin (son-in-law) Dickson, William Edward (son-in-law)
Occupation or Descriptor *	farmer (1874-1880) South Australia, Australia butcher (1880-1888) South Australia, Australia teamster (1888-1905) New South Wales, Australia carter (1905-1915) New South Wales, Australia silver, lead, zinc miner (1905-1915) New South Wales, Australia
Key Events *	Broken Hill miners strike (1892) (participant)
Key Organisations *	Federated Carters & Drivers Industrial Union of Australia (NSW) (member, ?-?)

* Dates are approximate

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