Peter Englehart Lawson [15812] ²

   Ancestral File Number: 9SBM-SQ. FamilySearch ID: LQ5X-5K3.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Court: BANKRUPTCY, 1895 Feb 18. ³ GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. (1895, February 18). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved August 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4549979>

BANKRUPTCY.-Public examination: Eng-lehart Peter Lawson, builder; date of exami-nation and meeting of creditors, 4th March. Dividends: D. A. Hay, first and final, 20s. in the £, payable 1st March, at office of R. M. Walker & Co., Fremantle; M. Hay & Son, second and final, ls. l¼d. and a fraction, pay- able 1st March, at the office of R. M. Walker & Co., Fremantle.

• Court: Defendant, 1895 Mar 7, Western Australia. ⁴ SUPREME COURT\emdash IN BANKRUPTCY. (1895, March 7). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved August 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4544334>

SUPREME COURT-IN BANK-
RUPTCY.
(Before the Registrar.)
MONDAY MARCH 4TH. The Court sat at half-past 10 a.m.
Re E.P. LAWSON.
The public examination of Englehart Peter Lawson, joiner, of Perth, was commenced by the Official Receiver.
The debtor stated that his unsecured creditors amounted to £201 18s., and the creditors for wages to £11 10s. He had no assets. He arrived in the colony about eight years ago. He had been working at day work and building at Albany, Vasse, Bun- bury, and Perth. He had £500 in jewellery and money when he came to the colony. His wife also had £500, mostly in money she re- ceived from her brother's estate, and which she put into the National Bank, Albany. All that money had gone. She took up some land down there. 'That she mortgaged to Mr. Bumpster and he foreclosed. With the money she had on the mortgage, about £400, she bought cattle, and they died. That was about twelve months ago. He sold all the furniture and jewellery, but he did not know exactly what amount he got for it. He hawked it round the country. He sold it because be had no use for it. The money went to keep the house. He was not in work at the time, and his wife's illness cost pretty well £500 altogether. He only had one contract at Albany, clearing some land for the W.A. Land Company. He got 7s. a chain, and had 3 1/2 miles to clear. It took him over two months to do it. He had four or five men on the contract. He lost on it through miscalcula-tion and things being dull. He had only one contract at Bunbury, about £130, on which he lost also.
Do you mean to say you have been taking contracts and losing on every one of them? -
Yes.
And getting into debt at the same time? -Yes, that's how I got into debt.
What day work did you do? - I was on the forts at Albany for about twelve months at 10s. a day.
May I take it you have been at work the most of your time ?-Well, I must have been at work to keep my family.
Yes, but didn't you have the proceeds of your furniture, and the money of your creditors? -Yes; but eight years is a long time to keep a large family.
Continuing, debtor said he owed Barnard, a storekeeper, about £22 for goods, Barnard got judgment against him, after which he left Albany. He took a horse and cart with him. A little before that he was getting ls. 3d. per hour from Donald and Donnell. He left them because he had finished for them, and he took the labouring off one of the cottages they had to complete. He was em- ployed at the Vasse by a man named Fry at 10s. a day.
Will you explain how it is you owe all this amount and have nothing to pay it with, while all the time you have been receiving good wages ?-Yes, but that was only some- times. Sometimes I had work, and at others
I had not.
Tell me the number of times, on an average, during the year, that you have been employed? -Well, I was two months at the Vasse.
Had you disposed of your furniture before that?-Yes. I was out of employment; also at Albany and Bunbury.
But you say at Albany you were engaged on the forts?-That was only for twelve months.
But you say you have been engaged at Bunbury and Vasse, and you are still employed there ?-No, not now. I have been promised a job to go to Cool- gardie. I left my work last Saturday, and I was getting 10s. a day. Continuing, debtor said he had no assets now. His family consisted of his wife, who was a cripple, and seven children, five of whom he had to support. It had not been his custom to hand his earnings to his step-daughter. She had never
got any money from him. She held no money of his. She lent him £12 10s. for his insol-vency expenses. She was a music teacher once, and kept a store at the Vasse. She got something like £100 from her grandfather.
Debtor never received any of it. He had none of her money except the £12 10s. already referred to. The only way he could account for his deficiency was the sickness in his family, and his being out of work. His wife had her foot taken off at Albany, and he had paid some hundreds of pounds to the doctors. He kept no books.
The examination was adjourned for a week.

• Court: BANKRUPTCY, 1903 Mar 21. ⁵ NEWS AND NOTES. (1903, March 21). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved August 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24857742>

Bankruptcy .-The following are ga-setted this week ;-Applicationsg for dis-charge: Englehart Peter LawsonPerth, lately carrying on business, at the Vasse, builder, date fixed for hearing, April 21.

• Land: Sale, 1927 Aug 7, Kulikup, , Western Australia, Australia. ⁶ THE SELECTOR'S GUIDE. (1927, August 7). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), p. 23. Retrieved August 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58331133>
2252/10.
Nelson Location: 2436, being the whole of the land comprised ta Certifi- cate of Title, Vol. 802, Fol. 194. stand- ing in the name of Elizabeth Lawson. Area, 300 acres, situated 11 miles north-west of Kulikup, described as good open grazing land, first-class feeding country, 300 acres rung and poison grubbed. 229 chains ,3-wire and netting fencing.
345A0.. ' Nielson Locations 2527, 2528, 2529, 2530, 3511, being the whole of the land comprised in Conditional Purchase ; Lease 19821/55, and Homestead Farm Lease 10013/74, standing in the name of Englehart PeterLawson. Area, 500 acres, situated ll miles north-west of Kulikup, fronting Blackwood Hiver, described as about 150 acres fair to good sandy loam, 260 acres sandy, gra- velly and clayey, balance gravel and Ironstone, 40 acres have been cleared. 22 acres part cleared, 230 acres rung, poison grubbed, 182 chains 7-wir_ 40 chains 6-wire, and 39 chains 3-wire ¡ and netting fencing, slab hut.
Tenders Returnable at Kununoppin,

• Death Notice, 1935 Sep 20. ⁷ Family Notices. (1935, September 20). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved August 23, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32902044>

LAWSON. - On September 19, 1935, at Subiaco, Peter, dearly loved husband of Elizabeth Law- son, loving father of Ella (Mrs. Chas. Caporn), Martha (Mrs. Bert Caporn), Clare (Mrs. Arthur Caporn), Emily (Mrs. G. McAdam), and James; aged 82 years.

• Registration: Death, 1935, Perth, , Western Australia, Australia. ⁸ LAWSON
PETER
Male




PERTH
1661
1935

Peter married Elizabeth P. Ainsworth [840] [LHQX-VNB] [MRIN: 5108], daughter of Joseph Ainsworth [23769] [LCZJ-M12] and Martha Blackman [709] [LHV7-WL9], on 1881 Jan 24 in Bathurst, Bathurst County, New South Wales.¹ (Elizabeth P. Ainsworth [840] [LHQX-VNB] was born on 1848 Jun 25 in Macquarie Plains, Roxburgh County, New South Wales,⁹ died on 1945 Aug 25 in West Leederville, Western Australia, Australia ⁹ and was buried on 1945 Aug 27 in Karrakatta, Western Australia, Australia.)