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NameEast, JamesOccupationAlderman, Mayor.Place of ResidenceShellharbour Village.BiographyThomas East married Elizabeth Lacey in 1838. They migrated to Australia with their two daughters on board the 'Earl Grey'. An outbreak of measles occurred on the voyage and their two children died.

Upon their arrival in Kiama, they settled at the Waughope Estate at Jamberoo with their three children all born in Australia; Eliza born 1843, Emma born 1845 and Richard born 1848. In 1850 another son, James, was born.

In 1852, Thomas purchased 'Prospect', part of an original grant of 500 acres promised to Andrew Byrne. 'Prospect' is now the East’s Beach Holiday area at Kiama.

At 'Prospect' more children were born, John, Sarah, Mary Ann, Alfred and George, increasing the family to nine children.

Alfred’s son, Augustus Milton East died in 1918, killed in action in France. John’s son, Wentworth East, died in 1917 at war. Their names are listed on the memorial at Shellharbour.

James East was an Alderman of Shellharbour Council from 1895-1917 and served as Mayor from 1905-1907. He married Eliza Elliott in 1874 and they had six children, James Russell, Maude, Stanley, Mimie, Daisy and Charles.

External LinkAld James Russell EastIn Memoriam

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Wollongong Junior Technical School Papers

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Merit Certificate

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Appointment of Trustees for Land General Cemetery Shellharbour, Wesleyan Burial Ground

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East Collection - Methodist Church Papers.

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East, Russell

East, Augustus Milton

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James and Eliza East

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Appointment of Trustees for Land General Cemetery Shellharbour, Wesleyan Burial Ground

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Bassett Darley Estate Plan Lots 17, 18, 19

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Russell East Park

James and Eliza East, Shellharbour, c.1900.

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