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Thomas Andrew CORKHILL (1900 - 1970)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Thomas Andrew CORKHILL (1900 - 1970) Robert CORKHILL (1863 - 1954)











Catherine (Kate) ROLFE (1867 - 1952) Edmund Edward ROLFE (1840 - 1918) Anthony ROLFE (1802 - 1876)
Catherine CURTIS (1811 - 1874)
Margaret LOGUE (1843 - 1867) Brian (Bryan) LOGUE (1812 - 1860)
Margaret MCELROY (1814 - 1904)
b. 1900 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
d. 07 Dec 1970 at Canberra, ACT, Australia aged 70
Parents:
Robert CORKHILL (1863 - 1954)
Catherine (Kate) ROLFE (1867 - 1952)
Siblings (9):
John J CORKHILL (1893 - )
Patrick CORKHILL
Margaret Mary CORKHILL (1895 - )
Edmond B CORKHILL (1896 - )
Philip L CORKHILL (1898 - )
Catherine Patricia CORKHILL (1902 - 1962)
Eileen Veronica CORKHILL (1904 - )
Phyllis M CORKHILL (1905 - )
Robert Brendan CORKHILL (1907 - 1980)
Events in Thomas Andrew CORKHILL (1900 - 1970)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1900 Thomas Andrew CORKHILL was born Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
15 Sep 1952 52 Death of mother Catherine (Kate) ROLFE (aged 85) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 6
04 Jun 1954 54 Death of father Robert CORKHILL (aged 91) Canberra, ACT, Australia 6
07 Dec 1970 70 Thomas Andrew CORKHILL died Canberra, ACT, Australia
Personal Notes:
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Tuesday 8 December 1970 p 26 Family Notices
DEATH
CORKHILL Thomas Andrew. — December 7, at Canberra, late of 79 FlindersWay, Manuka. Beloved husband of Elsie, loved father of Brian, Patrick. Mary, Janice (Miami, USA), Phyllis (Mrs Fitzgerald, Cape Town,South Africa), James and Anthony.
Aged 70 years. Rest in peace.
District pioneer dies, aged 70 A pioneer of the Canberra district, Mr Thomas Andrew Corkhill, died in Canberra Hospital on Monday, aged 70. Mr Corkhill's father, Robert Corkhill came to Australia from the Isle of Man and worked for the Campbell family at Duntroon. In 1912 Robert Corkhill took over the dairy 'River-view' established by the Campbells during the 1880s. Born near the site of the present Parliament House, Thomas Corkhill was one of 10 children. He and his brother Pat took over 'Riverview' until the land was resumed for the de-velopment of Lake Burley Griffin in 1963. 'Riverview', a white two storey homestead, more than 70 years old, was demolished and the site now lies under the lake's west basin. Thomas Corkhill was a committee member of the first racing club of Canberra and officiated as starter at meetings held at the old Acton racecourse. Mr Corkhill who had been ill for some time, is survived by his wife, Elsie, And his seven children.
District pioneer dies, aged 70 The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Wednesday 9 December 1970 p 8 Article
This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
g.bell@bigpond.net.au
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Geoff Bell, September 2020
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