Thomas Armitage Salmon (1830-1915)

Obituary
The death occurred last Saturday night at Murwillumbah, of Thomas Armitage Salmon, in his 85th year. Deceased, who was a native of England, came to Australia with his parents some 83 rears ago. He was educated in Sydney and on leaving school went with his father to the Macleay River, where Mr. Salmon, after a while, went on the land. After some forty years on the Macleay he migrated to the Richmond, where he engaged in farming pursuits, coming on from there to the Tweed about seven years ago. He was married twice, leaving a wife, seven sons, and four daughters to mourn their loss—Mesdames Rudder, Woolgoolga ; Macbeath, Manly ; and Leslie, Murwillumbah ; and Messrs. Albert Salmon, Gympie ; Frederick Salmon, Darling Downs, and Thomas Salmon, Murwillumbah, by the first marriage and Mrs. Kiernan, Murwillumbah ; and Messrs. William, Herbert, Jules, and Henry Salmon, all of the Tweed, by the second marriage.

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