"Sammy" Samuel Alphonsus HILL
Born C.1880 [116]
Member of the New Norcia Mission Cricket Club in 1908-09 [9: 25-Dec-1908, 16-Apr-1909]
Member of the Warrengabbie Cricket Club in Moora in 1909-10 [9: 10-Dec-1909, 11-Mar-1910]
Member of the Wanderers Football Club in Moora in 1910 [9: 3-Jun-1910]
The Wanderers Football Club was an all-Aboriginal team which competed in the Moora Football Association [120: 28-Jul-1949]
Married (1) Lucy NALGO in Three Springs in 1912 [15]
Played in the winning Carnamah Natives team who competed against a team of Geraldton cricketers in Geraldton on 9 April 1912 [86]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1912, 1913 and 1914 [9: 29-Nov-1912, 2-Jan-1914, 26-Jun-1914, 23-Oct-1914]
He was also a member of the New Norcia Cricket Club in 1914 [9: 20-Feb-1914]
His wife Lucy gave birth to their daughter Mary in Mingenew in 1913 and their daughter Dora or Doris in Moora in 1915 [15]
Their daughter Doris passed away at the age of 10 months in Carnamah in 1916 [15]
Married (2) Mary Conception YAPPO in New Norcia in 1940 [15] [239: Tree 19]
Mary had three Aboriginal grandparents and a grandfather from East Africa [471] [239: Tree 19]
His second wife died from diabetes aged 60 in 1940 and was buried at the Moore River Native Settlement in Mogumber [471]
He later resided in New Norcia [116]
Died 29 June 1958; buried at Moora Public Cemetery in Moora, Western Australia (Roman Catholic, Plot 139) [116]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Samuel Alphonsus Hill' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/samuel-hill [reference list] |
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