Introduction

This paper records the list of voters on the electoral roll for the NSW State Electoral District of Durham for 1913.

The electors had no perception of the hardships that were soon to descend upon them in the following year with the beginning of the First World War.

The electoral list shows that Tea Gardens had the largest population with 170 electors, followed by Nelson Bay with 100 electors and Karuah with 88 electors.

The names of the voters and their occupations are listed for the settlement areas of Anna Bay, Carrington, Karuah, Nelson Bay, Salt Ash, Swan Bay and Tea Gardens. A total of 563 electors resided in the District of Durham, Port Stephens in 1913.

The main occupations of male voters were fisherman, oysterman, labourer, and farmer. The occupation for most females was listed as ‘domestic duties’.

The following electoral lists for the Port Stephens area are found at these links on the website: 1903-1904, 1934, 1943 and 1949.

View of Port Stephens from Shoal Bay [Author photo]

Names and Occupations of Electors – 1913

Anna Bay [87 electors]

Bagnall, Albert, labourer

Bagnall, Albert Joseph, farmer

Bagnall, Celia, domestic duties

Bagnall, Edith Elizabeth, domestic duties

Bagnall, Edith May, domestic duties

Bagnall, Elizabeth, domestic duties

Bagnall, Ernest Edward, fisherman

Bagnall, Ernest William, fisherman

Bagnall, Ettie Matilda, domestic duties

Bagnall, Joseph Stewart, fisherman

Bagnall, Lee, fisherman

Bagnall, Percy, dairyman

Bagnall, Robert, labourer

Bagnall, William James, fisherman

Blanch, Albert, farmer

Blanch, Alfred Sydney, gardener

Blanch, Anne Sarah, domestic duties

Blanch, Annetta Cecelia, domestic duties

Blanch, Annie, domestic duties

Blanch, Clarence Stephen, gardener

Blanch, Eliza Lorman, domestic duties

Blanch, Ernest, farmer

Blanch, Ethel, domestic duties

Blanch, Ethel May, domestic duties

Blanch, Frederick Henry, farmer
Blanch, Herbert, farmer

Blanch, Janet McPherson, domestic duties

Blanch, Jessie Annie, domestic duties

Blanch, John, farmer

Blanch, John, junior, gardener

Blanch, Joseph Henry, farmer

Blanch, Laura Ethel, domestic duties

Blanch, Lois Elizabeth, domestic duties

Blanch, May Louisa, domestic duties

Blanch, Rebecca Lilian, domestic duties

Blanch, Selina, postmistress

Blanch, William, farmer

Cromarty, Christina, domestic duties

Cromarty, Donald, farmer

Cromarty, Margaret Jane, domestic duties

Cromarty, William, farmer

Deamer, Bena, domestic duties

Deamer, Charles, farmer

Eagleton, Emily, domestic duties

Eagleton, William, dairyman

George, Annie, domestic duties

George, John, farmer

Gildea, Edith Alice, domestic duties

Henderson, May Louisa, domestic duties

Holliday, Elmore William john, labourer

Holliday, Lily, domestic duties

Hooper, Robert, labourer

Johns, John, farmer

Johnson, Charles, farmer
Johnson, Margaretta, domestic duties

McGrevey, John, oysterman

McPherson, Rebecca Frances, domestic duties

McPherson, Thomas, labourer

Maslen (1), Andrew, farmer

Maslen (2), Andrew, farmer

Maslen, Emma, domestic duties

Maslen, John, farmer

Maslen, Lillian, domestic duties

Morris, Christina, domestic duties

Morris, Levi, farmer

Morris, Sarah Elizabeth, domestic duties

Morris, Walter, fisherman

Rae, William Gordon, school teacher

Robinson, Ann, domestic duties

Robinson, Arthur Victor, farmer

Robinson, Ernest Henry Walker, labourer

Robinson, George, farmer

Robinson, Herbert, engineer

Robinson, Ida Louisa, domestic duties

Robinson, Mary Jane, domestic duties

Robinson, Oscar, farmer

Spruce, William Henry, labourer

Upton, Annie, domestic duties

Upton, Arthur, farmer

Upton, Effie, domestic duties

Upton, Henry Raymond Philip, labourer

Upton, Hilda Florence, domestic duties

Upton, Leslie Farrar, farmer

Upton, Minnie Violet, domestic duties

Upton, Phillip, labourer

Upton, Selina, domestic duties

Upton, Thomas, dairyman      

Carrington [6 electors]

Smith, Elizabeth, domestic duties

Smith, James Agnew, grazier

Smith, Letitia, domestic duties

Smith, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Smith, Thomas, grazier

Smith, William Henry, carpenter

Karuah [88 electors]

Baier, Robert Heinrick, gardener
Barclay, Beatrice May, home duties

Barclay, Edward, oysterman

Barnes Ann, domestic duties

Barrett, James, labourer

Brown, Mabel, domestic duties

Buckley, Elsie, domestic duties

Buckley, John, carpenter

Buckshorun, Thomas, storekeeper

Callaghan, James, labourer

Callaghan, James Henry, storekeeper

Callaghan, John, labourer

Callaghan, Maria, domestic duties

Callaghan, Mary, domestic duties

Callaghan, Patrick Louis, labourer

Callaghan, William, mail contractor

Davis, Annie Christina, laundress

Dillon, Thomas Edward, labourer

Evans, Charles, labourer

Evans, George, labourer

Evans, Mary, domestic duties

Evens, Clara, domestic duties

Evens, James, oysterman

Evens, James Weston, oysterman

Evens, John Alexander, labourer

Farley, Alfred Henry, labourer

Farley Archibald Leslie, labourer

Farley, Dorcas, domestic duties

Farley, Elsie Lillian Constance, domestic duties

Farley, Lillian Elsie, domestic duties

Farley, George, independent means

Feeney, Martin, labourer

Foster, Edward Thomas, labourer

Foster, Ethel May, domestic duties

Hartcher, Margaret Jane, domestic duties

Hartcher, Wellesley Ignatius, school teacher

Holdom, Charles Patrick, labourer

Holdom, John, oysterman

Holdom, Leila, domestic duties

Holdom, Lillian Jane, domestic duties

Holdom, Mary, domestic duties

Holdom, Susannah, domestic duties

Johnson, Arthur, farmer

Johnson, Albert Victor, motor driver

Johnson, Alice Mary, domestic duties

Johnson, Elizabeth, postmistress

Johnson, George Oscar, oysterman

Johnson, John Oscar, labourer

Johnson, John William, labourer

Johnson, Lucy Maud, domestic duties

Johnson, Myra, domestic duties

Lewis, William James, labourer

Linich, Charles, carpenter

Linich, Elizabeth, domestic duties

Longworth, William, independent means

Meweth, Edward Charles, oysterman

Meweth, Eleanor Mary, domestic duties

Milton, Frederick, fisherman

Milton, John, fisherman

Morante, Herbert George. labourer

Morante, John Baptist, labourer

Morante, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Morante, Philippine, domestic duties

Morris, George, fisherman

Morris, Louisa Ann, domestic duties

New, Ellen, housekeeper

Oliver, James Charles, engineer

Oliver, Sarah, domestic duties

Peachey, George Arley, farm labourer

Perrin, Rose, cook

Poole, James Alexander, labourer

Shersingh, Charlie, hawker

Shersingh, Charlotte Elizabeth, domestic duties

Stewart, Mabel, missionary

Symonds, Emily, domestic duties

Symonds, Ernest Jasper, oysterman

Walsh, Evelyn, domestic duties

Wilson, Elizabeth, domestic duties
Witt, Elizabeth Susan, domestic duties

Witt, George, labourer

Witt, George William, labourer

Witt, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Witt, William, labourer

Woodbridge, Edward, fisherman

Woodbridge, Rose, domestic duties

Young, Gardiner, labourer

Young, James, labourer

Young, Jemima, domestic duties

Nelson Bay [100 electors]

Asquith, John, fisherman

Asquith, Lydia Theresa, domestic duties

Asquith, Susanna, domestic duties

Asquith, Thomas, fisherman

Barry-Cotter, Laura Eleanor, domestic duties

Barry-Cotter, Leslie Frank, school teacher

Bennett, Martha [Shoal Bay], domestic duties

Bird, Albert, labourer

Blanch, Archibald, fisherman

Blanch, Caroline Agnes, domestic duties

Blanch, Carrie Alberta, domestic duties

Blanch, Henry, storekeeper

Blanch, Henry George, fisherman

Blanch, Isabella, domestic duties

Blanch, Mark Leonard, farmer

Broughton, John Francis, fisherman

Davis, Jonathan, fisherman

Davis, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Davis, Sarah Elizabeth, domestic duties

Davis, Walter James, fisherman

Diemar, Charles, fisherman

Diemar, Ernest Nicholas, fisherman

Diemar, Josephine, domestic duties

Diemar, Nettie May, domestic duties

Dives, Susannah, domestic duties

Dives, Thomas, labourer

Duncan, Nicholas, fisherman

Fry, Gilbert Charles, lighthouse-keeper

Fry, Mary Alice, domestic duties

Gale, John Wallace, domestic duties

Gidley, Albert Frederick William, lighthouse-keeper

Gidley, Rosina Theresa, domestic duties

Glover, Walter Henry, fisherman

Glover, William Montague, fisherman

Green, Harriet Emily, domestic duties

Grinsell, Gregory, labourer

Harrington, Alice May, domestic duties

Harrington, Frederick Joseph Edward, greengrocer

Laman, Ada Caroline, domestic duties

Laman, Alfred, fisherman

Laman, Amy, domestic duties

Laman, Arthur Charles, fisherman

Laman, Edith Hales, domestic duties

Laman, Emmaline Ada, domestic duties

Laman, Ernest William, fisherman

Laman, Stanley Waiger, fisherman

Laman, Susannah, domestic duties

Laman, Thomas, fisherman

Laman, Walter Edward, fisherman

Lambourne, Blanch, domestic duties

Lambourne, Henry Edward, light-keeper

Lambourne, Jack, labourer

Lamont, Alexander Vincent, fisherman

Lange, Amelia, domestic duties

Lange, Francis, oysterman

Luce, Carrie May, domestic duties

Lund, Annie Victoria, domestic duties

Lund, Emily Isabella, domestic duties

Lund, John Thomas, boat proprietor

Lund, Nellie Catherine, domestic duties

McLachlan, Albert, blacksmith

Mogork, Edward, fisherman

Mogork, May, domestic duties

Mogork, Thomas Edward, fisherman

Merrin, Lillie, postmistress

Mitchell, William, groom
Morris, Mary, domestic duties

Morris, Oliver John, fisherman

Norman, Emily Charlotte, domestic duties

Norman, George Richardson, apiarist

Paton, Ebenezer Johnston, inspector of fisheries

Paton, May Belinda, domestic duties

Smith, Margaret Mary, domestic duties

Smith, Robert, fisherman Smith, Samuel, fisherman

Smith, William [Point Stephens], light-keeper

Spencer, Arthur, fisherman
Spencer, Emily [Point Stephens], domestic duties

Spencer, William [Point Stephens], light-keeper

Stevenson, Bertha, domestic duties

Stevenson, Edgar Denver, general foreman

Tarrant, John, fisherman

Tarrant, Lillian, fisherman

Tarrant, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Tarrant, William, fisherman

Thompson, Bertha, domestic duties

Thompson, Bina Ann, domestic duties

Thompson, Henry, fisherman

Thompson, Henry, junior, retired

Thompson, Jessie, domestic duties

Thompson, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Thompson, Samuel, fisherman

Thompson, William, fisherman

Thoroughgood, Arthur, fisherman

Thoroughgood, Sussannah, domestic duties

Thoroughgood, Thomas, fisherman

Tilly, Charles, fisherman

Tilly, Mary, domestic duties

Wilson, Clwydd, publican

Wilson, Henrietta, domestic duties

Salt Ash [84 electors]

Barton, Thomas, labourer

Blanch, Annie, domestic duties

Blanch, James Reginald, teamster

Boyce, Amelia Eveline, domestic duties

Boyce, Henry, farmer

Boyce, John Medlom, gardener

Browne, Isabella, domestic duties

Browne, Percival, farmer

Bryant, Emma, domestic duties
Bryant, George, dairyman

Bryant, James Augustus, farmer

Bryant, Louisa May, domestic duties

Bryant, Margaret, domestic duties

Bryant, William Hamilton, roadman

Chesworth, Celia Jane (Parading Ground), domestic duties

Chesworth, Ellen Sarah (Parading Ground), domestic duties

Chesworth, Elsie, domestic duties

Chesworth, Ethel (Parading Ground), domestic duties

Chesworth, George (Parading Ground), farmer

Chesworth, Henry (Parading Ground), farmer

Chesworth, James (Parading Ground), farmer

Coulter, John, farmer

Coulter, Rachel, domestic duties

Cox, Edith, domestic duties

Cox, Reuben, farmer

Crawley, Annie, domestic duties

Crawley, Lewis Victor, storekeeper

Crawley, Walter John, labourer

Dalton, Eliza, domestic duties

Dalton, James (Tillygarry), farmer

Dalton, John (Tillygarry), farmer

Gallespie, Samuel Thomas, farmer

Gallespie, Susanah, domestic duties

Graham, Annie, domestic duties

Graham, John, labourer

Holmwood, Arthur Percy, teacher

Holmwood, Mabel Alice, domestic duties

Kuhn, Lewis, labourer

McKenzie, Archibald, farmer

McKenzie, Catherine, domestic duties

McKenzie, Edith Ann, domestic duties

McKenzie, Isabella, domestic duties

McKenzie, John, farmer

McLennan, Isabella Ora Campbell, domestic duties

Maslen, Edward, labourer

Maslen, John (Oakfield), farmer

Maslen, Lillian (Oakfield), domestic duties

Mathewson, Barbara, domestic duties

Priestly, Henry, farmer

Priestly, May Frances, domestic duties

Rooke, Annie Agnes (Port Stephens), domestic duties

Rooke, Samuel James, teamster

Rooke, Walter Joseph (Port Stephens), labourer

Rooke, William Arnold (Port Stephens), labourer

Russell, Edward James, labourer

Russell, Hilda Jane, domestic duties

Russell, Susanah, domestic duties

Sansom, Andrew, farmer

Sansom, Arthur, farmer

Sansom, David John (Oakfield), farmer

Sansom, Esther, domestic duties

Sansom, Hannah (Parading Ground), domestic duties

Sansom, Joseph, farmer

Sansom, Lilly Alice, domestic duties

Sansom, Mary Ann (Oakfield), domestic duties

Sansom, Oscar Willard (Parading Ground), farmer

Sansom, Stephen, farmer

Sansom, William James, farmer

Scott, William, labourer

Slade, Amelia May, domestic duties

Slade, Eliza Ann, domestic duties

Slade, Henry Alexander (Oakfield) farmer

Slade, John, farmer

Slade, Minnie (Oakfield), domestic duties

Slade, Selina, domestic duties

Slade, William Alfred, farmer

Turner, Albert Samuel, labourer

West, Ada Jane, domestic duties

West, George, senior (Oakley), farmer

West, George, farmer

West, George William, farmer

West, Martha Emma, domestic duties

West, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Swan Bay [28 electors]

Blanch, Ambrose, labourer

Blanch, Ambrose Herbert, labourer

Blanch, Emily, domestic duties

Blanck, Martha, domestic duties

Coombes, James, engineer

Davis, Alice, domestic duties

Davis, Cecilia, domestic duties

Davis, George, farmer

Davis, George Stanley, labourer

Davis, John, labourer

Evans, Eliza Eveline, domestic duties
Evans, Frederick Adolph, fisherman

Evans, Jane, domestic duties

Hemmingway, Charles, labourer

Knight, Herbert Lilley, fisherman

Knight, Sidney Lilley, fisherman

Lilley, Ivy, domestic duties

Lilley, Vera May, domestic duties

Lilly, Alfred John, labourer

Lilly, Frederick George, fisherman

Lilly, Samuel, fisherman

Lilly, Selina, domestic duties

Morant, Catherine, domestic duties

Morant, Edward James, fisherman

Morant, George Francis, fisherman

Morante, Martha, domestic duties

Poole, Henry, labourer

Poole, Isabella, domestic duties

Tea Gardens [170 electors]

Asquith, Grace Amelia, domestic duties

Asquith, Robert William, fisherman

Barker, James William, engineer

Battram, Grace Richmond, domestic duties

Battram, James, labourer

Blanch, Jacob, labourer

Blanch, Mary Harriett, domestic duties

Burrows, Amy Alice, domestic duties

Burrows, Annie [Myall River], domestic duties

Burrows, Charles, shipbuilder

Burrows, William Edward [Myall River], carpenter

Callaghan, William, mail contractor

Cave, Alice [Pindimar], domestic duties

Cave, Ernest James [Pindimar], fisherman

Casey, Joseph, independent means

Davies, Blanch Hyacinth, dressmaker

Davies, Edward George Ambrose, labourer

Davies, George Joseph, labourer

Davies, Mary, domestic duties

Davies, William, labourer

Dives, Evelyn, domestic duties

Dives, James Doherty, labourer

Dodd, George, barman

Doherty, Annie, domestic duties

Doherty, Bernard Joseph, hotel keeper

Duncan, Arthur James, fisherman

Duncan, Matilda Melvada, domestic duties

Engel, Charles James, engine driver

Engel, Eliza, domestic duties

Engel, Emily Jane, domestic duties

Engel, Frederick, labourer

Engel, George Adolph, storekeeper

Engel, George Peter, engine driver

Engel, Gustave William, butcher

Engel, Gustave William, oysterman

Engel, Henry Melvin, engineer

Engel, Jane Amelia, domestic duties

Engel, Leslie Frederick, fireman

Engel, Mary Ann, domestic duties

Engel, May Elizabeth, domestic duties

Engel, May Florence, domestic duties

Fitzpatrick, Thomas James, cook

Flanagan, Edith Ellen, postmistress

Flanagan, Joseph James, storekeeper

Flanagan, Lilly May, domestic duties

Flanagan, Nicholas, labourer

French, Clarence Albert, hotel keeper

French, Emma Sarah, domestic duties

Hill, Alice Ann, domestic duties

Hill, Annie, housemaid

Hill, James Austin, cook

Hill, John Thomas, master mariner

Hoare, Alfred Fortescue, plumber

Holbert, Alice, domestic duties

Holbert Anna, domestic duties

Holbert, David, fisherman

Holbert, Elizabeth, domestic duties

Holbert, Francis, fisherman

Holbert, Francis Henry, oysterman

Holbert, Francis Henry Chappelow, fisherman

Holbert, Hugh Fitz, oysterman

Holbert, Hugh Fitz, junior, fisherman

Hough, Amy Margaret [Bulga], domestic duties

Hough, Bridget Agnes, domestic duties

Hough, Bridget Elizabeth, domestic duties

Hough, Esmond Burke, grazier

Hough, Jacob, [Viney Creek] grazier

Hough, John Bede [Viney Creek], grazier

Hough, Mary Patricia, domestic duties

Hough, Mary Veronica [Viney Creek], domestic duties

Hough, Thomas, storekeeper

Hough, William [Bulga], grazier

Hough Willie, labourer

Humphreys, Joseph, mill manager

Kelly, John, teamster

Kelly, Margaret, domestic duties

Kingsmill, Ethel Lavington, domestic duties

Kingsmill, Henry Edward, carpenter

Kingsmill, Lucy, domestic duties

Kingsmill, Luke, retired civil servant

Kinnaird, Ada, domestic duties

Kinnaird, James Donaldson, shipbuilder

Kinnaird, Sydney Stewart, fisherman

Knowles, William Gibson, labourer

Korsman, Esther Mary, domestic duties

Korsman, Joseph Hollis, fisherman

Lawson, Elizabeth, domestic duties

Lawson, George, maintenance man

Lean, Linda Grace, postmistress

McCann, John Joseph, police constable

McCann, Kate Evelyn, domestic duties

McCann, Matthew, labourer

McGrath, John, labourer

McRae, Alexander, labourer
McRae, Anna Clara, domestic duties

McRae, Archibald [Windy Wappa], labourer

McRae, Donald, labourer

McRae, Elizabeth Ann [Windy Wappa], domestic duties

McRae, Emily Agnes, domestic duties

McRae, John [Windy Wappa], shipping agent

Macpherson, Charles Edward, timber agent

Macpherson, Minnie Dorothea, domestic duties

Matthews, Charles, carpenter

Matthews, Kathleen Emma, domestic duties

Morante, Cecelia Mary [Pindimar], domestic duties

Morante, James [Pindimar], oysterman

Motum, Albert Edwin, fisherman

Motum, Ernest William, fisherman

Motum, Herbert Arthur, fisherman

Motum, Janet, domestic duties

Motum, Jesse William, fisherman

Motum, Leslie John, fisherman

Motum, Mary Sophia, domestic duties

Motum, Priscilia May, domestic duties

Motum, Violet, domestic duties

Noble, William, domestic duties

O’Neil, Elizabeth [Ocean Vale], domestic duties

O’Neill, James Henry, seaman

O’Neill, Kate, domestic duties

O’Neill, William Vincent, labourer

Peterie, Elizabeth Ann, domestic duties

Peterie, Ernest Coldstream, labourer

Peterie, John William, timber merchant

Priestly, Thomas David [Pindimar], manager

Priestly, Ella Louisa, Pindimar], domestic duties

Phillips, Frederick [Pindimar], grazier

Phillips, Sarah [Pindimar], domestic duties

Radcliffe, Eliza Jane [Pindimar], domestic duties

Radcliffe, George Arthur [Pindimar], ship builder

Robinson, William George, baker

Sadler, Lilian, domestic duties

Sadler, Samuel Alexander, engineer

Seal, Charles, labourer

Sellick, Arthur George, engine-driver

Sellick, Harriett Louisa, domestic duties

Sheather, Edith Evelyn, domestic duties

Sheather, James, labourer

Sheather, Jesse Ernest, fisherman

Simpson, Clara Ann, domestic duties

Simpson, George William, labourer

Smith, Clyde, fireman

Smith Elizabeth [Hawks Nest], domestic duties
Smith, Esther Ann [Hawks Nest], domestic duties
Smith, Samuel, fisherman

Smith, Stewart [Hawks Nest], oysterman

Smith Stewart William, fisherman

Smith, Vesta Lilian [Hawks Nest], domestic duties

Smurthwaite, James [Pindimar], labourer

Taylor, Amma Bella, domestic duties

Thurlow, Hugh Clopton Godfrey, clerk

Thurlow, Humphrey Clopton Hovell, launch proprietor

Thurlow, Geoffrey Ralph, engineer

Toms, Albert, labourer

Waddington, Henry [Winda Woppa], marine engineer

White, Edward Russell [Summerville], labourer 

White, George [Summerville], grazier

White, James, school teacher

White, Lucille Fedora, domestic duties

White, Mary [Summerville], domestic duties

White, Renie Mary, domestic duties

Wilson, John Thomas, carpenter
Wilkins, William George, labourer

Yates, Aaron Alfred, carpenter

Yates, Edward Thomas, carpenter

Yates, Florence May, domestic duties

Zeininger, George Albert [Myall River], dairyman

Zeininger, Margaret [Myall River], domestic duties

Zeininger, Russell, carpenter

Researched and compiled by Kevin McGuinness

March 2025