Samuel SOPER (1862

Samuel SOPER (1862 - 1926)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Emily Harriet Grace SOPER (1885 - 1958) Margaret Ann SOPER (1887 - 1955) Samuel SOPER (1890 - 1968) William Francis SOPER (1892 - 1892) Alice Elizabeth Florence SOPER (1895 - 1929) Henry George SOPER (1897 - 1968) Olivia Pearl SOPER (1900 - ) Ernest Arthur Frederick SOPER (1902 - 1984) Herbert Cecil SOPER (1908 - )	Samuel SOPER (1862 - 1926) + Margaret Ann GUNN ( - 1930)	Samuel SOPER (1827 - 1906)



		Grace HEMMANT (1829 - 1905)

b. 1862 at Okehampton, Devonshire

m. 20 Aug 1884 Margaret Ann GUNN ( - 1930) at Queensland, Australia

d. 20 Jun 1926 at Home Hill, Queensland, Australia aged 64

Near Relatives of Samuel SOPER (1862 - 1926)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	Hugh GUNN
Mother in Law	Catherine KEENAGHAN

Father	Samuel SOPER	1827	Hatherleigh, Devon, England	1906	Okehampton, Devonshire	79
Mother	Grace HEMMANT	abt 1829	Merton, Devon, England	1905	Okehampton, Devonshire	76

Self	Samuel SOPER	1862	Okehampton, Devonshire	20 Jun 1926	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia	64

Wife	Margaret Ann GUNN			08 Dec 1930	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia

Daughter	Emily Harriet Grace SOPER	17 Jul 1885	Queensland, Australia	21 Nov 1958	Queensland, Australia	73
Daughter	Margaret Ann SOPER	1887	Queensland, Australia	1955	Queensland, Australia	68
Son	Samuel SOPER	1890	Queensland, Australia	1968	Queensland, Australia	78
Son	William Francis SOPER	1892	Queensland, Australia	08 Oct 1892	Queensland, Australia	0
Daughter	Alice Elizabeth Florence SOPER	1895	Queensland, Australia	1929	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	34
Son	Henry George SOPER	1897	Queensland, Australia	1968	Queensland, Australia	71
Daughter	Olivia Pearl SOPER	1900	Queensland, Australia
Son	Ernest Arthur Frederick SOPER	29 Jun 1902	Selheim, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	1984	Queensland, Australia	82
Son	Herbert Cecil SOPER	1908	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

Sister	Hannah SOPER	1852	Meeth, Devon, England	1907	Hatherleigh, Devon, England	55
Sister	Anne SOPER	1853	Meeth, Devon, England
Sister	Mary SOPER	1855	Meeth, Devon, England
Brother	John SOPER	abt 1857	Meeth, Devon, England	16 Feb 1944	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	87
Sister	Elizabeth SOPER	abt 1858	Meeth, Devon, England
Sister	Grace SOPER	1860	Meeth, Devon, England
Brother	William SOPER	1862	Meeth, Devon, England
Brother	Henry SOPER	abt 1866	Meeth, Devon, England
Brother	George SOPER	1870	Meeth, Devon, England

Son in Law	Arthur Wellesley COWLEY	1876	Gundagai, NSW, Australia	01 May 1955	Queensland, Australia	79
Son in Law	Percy Gleyre Roquerbre DUTTON
Daughter in Law	Elizabeth (Lizzie) FITZGERALD	1891	Queensland, Australia	1959	Cairns, Queensland, Australia	68
Son in Law	Walter Charles CORNISH	1891	Queensland, Australia	1974	Queensland, Australia	83
Daughter in Law	Mary Isabella CARMEN
Son in Law	Harry Kund LOWE
Daughter in Law	Myrtle Anna CORNISH	1904	Queensland, Australia
Daughter in Law	Ethel SIBSON

Grandson	Arthur Samuel COWLEY	1904	Queensland, Australia	1983	Queensland, Australia	79
Grandson	Percival Francis COWLEY	1905	Queensland, Australia	1984	Queensland, Australia	79
Grandson	Mervyn Cecil COWLEY	01 Jan 1918	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	17 May 1945	Queensland, Australia	27
Grandson	Living or Recently Deceased
Granddaughter	Marjorie May SOPER	1914	Queensland, Australia	1971	Cairns, Queensland, Australia	57
Grandson	Samuel Thomas Stanley SOPER	1915	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia
Grandson	Cyril Francis Owen SOPER	1917	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia	1949	Cairns, Queensland, Australia	32
Granddaughter	Living or Recently Deceased

Niece	Mary Grace SOPER	16 Jun 1886	Queensland, Australia	12 May 1979	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	92
Nephew	John SOPER	1888	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia	02 Jul 1971	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	83
Niece	Sarah Jane SOPER	1892	Queensland, Australia	04 Oct 1982	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	90
Nephew	William George SOPER	25 Mar 1894	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	17 Sep 1985	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	91
Niece	Ellen SOPER	1897	Queensland, Australia
Niece	Ethel SOPER	1899	Queensland, Australia	26 Apr 1970	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	71
Niece	Emily Margaret SOPER	1903	Queensland, Australia	1903	Queensland, Australia	0
Nephew	Henry Samuel SOPER	1904	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	22 Sep 1987	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	83
Nephew	Herbert Francis SOPER	1906	Queensland, Australia	22 Feb 1976	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	70
Nephew	Arthur Frederick SOPER	27 May 1908	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	30 Jun 1979	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	71
Nephew	Walter James SOPER	1910	Queensland, Australia	16 Dec 1964	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	54

Sister in Law	Mary GUNN	abt 1861
Sister in Law	Margaret Sarah PORTER	1869	Queensland, Australia	06 Apr 1953	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	84

Events in Samuel SOPER (1862 - 1926)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1862		Samuel SOPER was born	Okehampton, Devonshire	Note 1	46, 67
1871	9	Census	Meeth, Devon, England	Note 2	67
28 Sep 1880	18	Immigration	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	Note 3
20 Aug 1884	22	Married Margaret Ann GUNN	Queensland, Australia	Note 4	52
17 Jul 1885	23	Birth of daughter Emily Harriet Grace SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 5	52
1887	25	Birth of daughter Margaret Ann SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 6	52
1890	28	Birth of son Samuel SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 7	52
1892	30	Birth of son William Francis SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 8	52
08 Oct 1892	30	Death of son William Francis SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 9	52
1895	33	Birth of daughter Alice Elizabeth Florence SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 10	52
1897	35	Birth of son Henry George SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 11	52
1900	38	Birth of daughter Olivia Pearl SOPER	Queensland, Australia	Note 12	52
29 Jun 1902	40	Birth of son Ernest Arthur Frederick SOPER	Selheim, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	Note 13	52, 61
1903	41	Residence	Selheim, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	Note 14	37
1905	43	Death of mother Grace HEMMANT (aged 76)	Okehampton, Devonshire	Note 15	46
1906	44	Death of father Samuel SOPER (aged 79)	Okehampton, Devonshire	Note 16	46
1908	46	Birth of son Herbert Cecil SOPER	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	Note 17	52
1908	46	Residence	Selheim, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	Note 18	37
1913	51	Residence	Selheim, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	Note 19	37
1919	57	Residence	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia	Note 20	37
1925	63	Residence	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia	Note 21	37
20 Jun 1926	64	Samuel SOPER died	Home Hill, Queensland, Australia	Note 22	52, 59, 60

Note 1: free bmd Jan to Mar 1862 - Oakhampton, Devon. Vol 5b, page 403

1871 census - age 9 - Meeth, Devon

Note 2: SOOPER Samuel (42) c 1829 - Hatherleigh, Devon - ag labourer;
Grace (42) c 1892 Merton, Devon; Elizabeth (13) - c 1858 - b Meeth; Grace (11) - b 1869 Meeth;
Samuel (9) c 1862, Meeth;
William (6) c 1865 Meeth;
Henry (5) c 1866 Meeth;
George (1) c 1870 Meeth

Note 3: John Soper - age 23 & Samuel Soper - age 18
"Carnatic" dep Plymouth - arr Townsville 28 Sept 1880
Queensland, Australia Passenger Lists 1848-1912

Note 4: Reg No 1884/001792 - page 13979

20 Aug 1884 • Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Samuel & Margaret Ann were married at St Jame's Church of England. Samuel's brother John and Margaret's sister Mary were the witnesses.

Note 5: REg No 1885/000291 - page 13979 - 17 July 1885 - Samuel Soper and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 6: Reg No 1887/C10295 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 7: Ref No 1890/C12271 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 8: Reg No 1892/C7455 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 9: Reg No 1892/007455 - page 24606 - parents Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 10: Reg No 1895/C6269 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 11: Reg No 1897/C6493 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 12: Reg No 1900/C6377 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 13: REg No 1902/C6553 Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 14: SOPER Margaret - hd; Samuel - engine driver

Note 15: free bmd Jul to Sept 1905 - est birth years 1830 - age 75 - vol 5b, page 231

Note 16: free bmd Apr to Jun 1906 - age 80 - Vol 5b, page 237

Note 17: Reg No 1908/C6045 - Samuel and Margaret Ann Gunn

Note 18: SOPER Margaret - hd; Margaret Ann - hd; Samuel - engine driver

Note 19: SOPER Margaret - hd; Samuel - engine driver

Note 20: SOPER Margaret Ann - hd; Samuel - engine driver

Note 21: SOPER Ernest Arthur Frederick - farmer; Margaret Ann - hd; Samuel - engine driver

Note 22: Reg No 1926/003736 - page 1658 - Samuel Soper and Grace Hamilton?

Burdekin cemetery records - Samuel Soper - age 64 - died 20/6/1926 - buried Home Hill 21/6/1926

Cairns Post 29 June 1926
MR. SAMUEL SOPER.
Another, pioneer of the Lower Burdekin
passed away when Mr. Samuel
Soper breathed his last in Craigdhu
Private Hospital, Ayr, at the age of
65 years, his ailment being heart
trouble, from which he had been
suffering for the past six months. Landing
on the Burdekin in the early
eighties the late Mr. Soper was one of
the first men to grub a tree on the
old Seaforth Plantation at the time
of the erection of the mill bearing
that name. For several years
following the deceased carried out the
trade of brickmaker at the various
sugar mills then in the district, and
upon the erection of Pioneer Mill was
engaged as a fitter for some years,
leaving that position to go to Selheim
as an engineer at the smelting works.
The late Mr. Soper took up a block
of land on the Inkerman Resumption
some 14 years ago, and successfully
pursued the career of sugar farming
at the time of his death. In 1914.
the first year that Inkerman Mill
crushed, the deceased was engaged as
driver of the crushing engines. A
widow and grown-up family of five
sons and four daughters are left to
mourn, being Messrs. S. Soper (Bowen),
W. Soper (Sydney), Bert, Ernest
and Henry Soper'. ((Burdekin), and
Mesdames A. W Cowley, P. Dutton,
H. Lowe and W. Cornish.
The funeral, largely attended, left
the Home Hill, station (the body being
brought to Home Hill for interment)
The service was; conducted by Rev.'
Norman Michael, C. of E.

Source References:

37. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: Australian electoral rolls, Title: Australian Electoral Rolls, Auth: Australian government

- Reference = (Residence)

- Notes: SOPER Margaret - hd; Samuel - engine driver

- Reference = (Residence)

- Notes: SOPER Margaret Ann - hd; Samuel - engine driver

46. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Free bmd UK, Title: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

- Reference = (Birth)

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Marriage)

- Notes: Reg No 1884/001792 - page 13979

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Reg No 1926/003736 - page 1658 - Samuel Soper and Grace Hamilton?

59. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Burdekin Burial Register, Title: Burdekin Burial Register, Auth: Burdekin Shire Council

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Burdekin cemetery records - Samuel Soper - age 64 - died 20/6/1926 - buried Home Hill 21/6/1926

60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Cairns Post 29 June 1926
MR. SAMUEL SOPER.
Another, pioneer of the Lower Burdekin
passed away when Mr. Samuel
Soper breathed his last in Craigdhu
Private Hospital, Ayr, at the age of
65 years, his ailment being heart
trouble, from which he had been
suffering for the past six months. Landing
on the Burdekin in the early
eighties the late Mr. Soper was one of
the first men to grub a tree on the
old Seaforth Plantation at the time
of the erection of the mill bearing
that name. For several years
following the deceased carried out the
trade of brickmaker at the various
sugar mills then in the district, and
upon the erection of Pioneer Mill was
engaged as a fitter for some years,
leaving that position to go to Selheim
as an engineer at the smelting works.
The late Mr. Soper took up a block
of land on the Inkerman Resumption
some 14 years ago, and successfully
pursued the career of sugar farming
at the time of his death. In 1914.
the first year that Inkerman Mill
crushed, the deceased was engaged as
driver of the crushing engines. A
widow and grown-up family of five
sons and four daughters are left to
mourn, being Messrs. S. Soper (Bowen),
W. Soper (Sydney), Bert, Ernest
and Henry Soper'. ((Burdekin), and
Mesdames A. W Cowley, P. Dutton,
H. Lowe and W. Cornish.
The funeral, largely attended, left
the Home Hill, station (the body being
brought to Home Hill for interment)
The service was; conducted by Rev.'
Norman Michael, C. of E.

67. Type: Census, Abbr: UK Census Collection, Title: UK Census Collection, Auth: Ancestry.com.au, Publ: Ancestry.com.au

- Reference = (Birth)

- Notes: 1871 census - age 9 - Meeth, Devon

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