Farthing, William Armstrong (1818-1886)

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coalmine manager; coalmine owner; goldminer; leather merchant
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FARTHING, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG (1818-1886), colliery proprietor, was born in Filey, Yorkshire, England, son of William Farthing, farmer, and his wife Jane, née Armstrong. In 1839 he migrated to New South Wales where he became a bootmaker and leather merchant at Maitland. In 1851 he tried gold mining but in 1853 went into coal mining probably because of his marriage in 1843 to Lillias, sister of James and Alexander Brown. Farthing seems to have managed for the Browns their small mines at Four Mile Creek near East Maitland and was probably still there when he tried to bring Four Mile Creek miners to work in the Browns's Minmi collieries during the strike of 1860.

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  1. 'Farthing, William Armstrong (1818 - 1886)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    J. W. Turner
    [1972]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 4
    p. 157.

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