Robert Arthur SLEAFORD^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]}

1871 - 1951  (80 years)

• Name	Robert Arthur SLEAFORD  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	10 Jul 1871	Lincolnshire, England, UK   [5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1881	Heighington, Lincolnshire, England   [6]
  	Age: 9; Relation to Head of House: Son
  Arrival	4 Feb 1888	Brisbane   [5]
  	Age: 17
  Departure	London, England   [5]
  Married	1898	Queensland   [4]
  _ORIG	Lincolnshire, England   [5]
  Death	24 Nov 1951	Mt Morgan, Qld, Australia   [3, 8]
  Person ID	I18313085957	NunnSuffolk
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family	Rovena Elizabeth HEBBARD,   b. C1875, Queensland, Australia d. 22 Feb 1957, Mount Morgan Queensland Australia (Age ~ 81 years)
  Marriage	16 Oct 1898	Childers, Queensland, Australia
  Children	1. Rovena Amelia Ada SLEAFORD,   b. 29 Sep 1901, Childers, Queensland, Australia d. 15 Nov 1988, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Age 87 years)   2. John Alfred SLEAFORD,   b. 16 Feb 1905, Childers, Queensland, Australia d. 4 Mar 1970, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Age 65 years)   3. Lilian Jane SLEAFORD,   b. 6 Dec 1918, Queensland, Australia d. 17 Aug 1979, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F1028	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S_1477291525] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S_1475710736] Ancestry.com, Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.). [S_1474357851] Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.). [S_1475691349] Ancestry.com, Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.). [S_1263338291] Ancestry.com, Queensland, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1848-1912, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Queensland State Archives; Registers of Immigrant Ships' Arrivals; Series: Series ID 13086; Roll: M1703. [S_1477548884] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1881 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. 1881 British Isles Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the l), Class: RG11; Piece: 3236; Folio: 54; Page: 7; GSU roll: 1341771. [S_1476123928] FreeBMD, England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro). . OBITUARY R. Sleaford, Sen. Death occurred at the age of 83 of Mr Robert Arthur Slea- ford, sen., a resident of Mt Morgan for the past 32 years. He arrived in Australia with his family from Lincolnshire, England, at the age of 16 years. His family lived in Gympie. He followed the tim- ber industry for a number of years. He then moved to Chil- ders and worked for Mr Dick Hebbard making bricks. He married at Childers Miss Rov- ena Elizabeth Hebbard and was then employed by Messrs Gant and Brand on the sugar fields. In 1908 he moved to Mt Tom, Miriam Vale, and had the care of a dairy for Messrs Gant and Brand. In 1910 he Joined the Railway Depart- ment and was stationed at Rosedale, Canoona, Buneru and Mt Morgan. He was a ganger from 1915 until he retired. He is survived by a widow and two daughters, Mrs F. Coker (Kabra) and Mrs C. Coker (West Rockhampton) and seven sons, Robert Arthur (Mt Morgan), John Alfred (Kabra), Richard (Roma), James Ern- est (Rockhampton), Theodore Claude (Mt Morgan), Arthur Cyril (Mt Morgan) and Percy Reginald (Three Springs, Western Australia. One sister, Mrs C. White, Cribb Street, Milton, Brisbane is still living. APA citation OBITUARY R. Sleaford, Sen. (1951, December 27). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878-1954), p. 3. Retrieved May 23, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57111832