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Richard William Holmes

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cork, Cork, Ireland
Death: March 09, 1887
Ballarat Hospital, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
Place of Burial: Kew, VIC, Australia
Immediate Family:

Son of George Holmes and Sarah Holmes
Husband of Catherine Holmes
Father of Robert Holmes; Robert Holmes; Catherine Holmes; Alice Julia Yendall; Teresa Agnes Holmes and 1 other
Brother of Henry Lavender Lavender Holmes; Mary Ann Catherine Holmes and Martha Glendenning

Occupation: Engine Driver
Managed by: Barry Minster, OAM
Last Updated:

About Richard William Holmes

Trial, Waterford City, Ireland. 31/03/1848

Guilty of Larceny Sentenced to 7 years

Arrived on Ship "Havering"

Grandfather Holmes was an engine driver who drove the first train from Flinders Street, to Sandridge [Port Melbourne] he then wet to Adelaide

He was also known as hellfire Dick.

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Richard William Holmes's Timeline

1859
1859
Quarry Hill, VIC, Australia
1861
1861
Inglewood, VIC, Australia
1863
1863
Gippsland, VIC, Australia
1868
November 7, 1868
in a tent on goldfields, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
1872
January 11, 1872
Ballarat, VIC, Australia
1875
December 10, 1875
Ballarat, VIC, Australia
1887
March 9, 1887
Ballarat Hospital, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
March 10, 1887
Kew Cemetery, Kew, VIC, Australia
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Cork, Cork, Ireland