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Adam William Armstrong
Adam William Armstrong (1852-1915) was the second son of Francis Fraser Armstrong. He was a publican for eight years or so, but is mainly remembered as a customs officer of eighteen years service.
His first wife was Margaret Brennan (m. 1876; she died 1892). They had seven children.
He died at 19 Canning Road East Fremantle where he lived 1900-1915 with his second wife, Mary Cass. She continued to live there until 1925, but died in 1926 at 'Thornbury', 37 Bedford Street East Fremantle. They had four children.
Adam Armstrong was licensee of the Exchange (Commercial) Hotel in 1885, and the Club (Orient) from 1889, leaving the hotel business when he went bankrupt in 1893.
He joined the Customs Department in 1894, remaining there until his retirement in 1912.
References and Links
streetsofeastfreo page, from which much of the information above comes. That page has AWA as the fourth son, but he was the second.
Article in The Daily News giving details of AWA's 1893 bankruptcy - apparently not his first.
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