Mankey (Cr) Thomas

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Fast Facts
Type of person Individual
Date of birth 1824
Place of birth Cornwall
Date of death 1872
Place of death Gawler


Thomas Johns Mankey was born in Cornwall on 20 August 1824, son of James Mankey. He arrived in South Australia in 1848 and proceeded to Gawler, where he married Selina Jones on 20 Feb 1849 in St George's Church.

He was Councillor for East Ward in 1860.

Thomas John Mankey, of Gawler Town, machinist, was declared insolvent in January 1870.[1]

He died on 10 April 1872, "after long months of suffering", aged 47.[2]

His widow Selina Mankey, survived him by over 50 years, passing away in Glenelg on 26 April 1927, in her 96th year.[3] Her death notice records her to have been "a colonist of 85 years" and "mother of J. W. Mankey, Glenelg. Mrs. A. W. Silver (Brighton), Mrs. George Lucas (of Melbourne); and the late Mrs. Thomas Mankey and J. Walter Mankey, and the late Mrs. Jabez Bunting".[3]

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Children of Thomas Mankey include:

MANKEY Miriam May (BUNTING)

b. 1871, Gawler, SA ('Mirian May' [sic], Reg. Barossa 104/49)

m. Jabez BUNTING (see F T Bunting for more about the Bunting family)

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References

  1. "This Weeks Insolvency" (The Irish Harp and Farmers' Herald) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97208441
  2. The Late Mr Mankey (Bunyip 27 Apr 1872) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97208441
  3. 3.0 3.1 (Bunyip 29 Apr 1927) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96671775




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