Thomas Durrant

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Roger Size

• Occupation. dairy / miner/ wood yard, railway fettler, pumping station

• Education. no formal education but taught himself to read and write

• emigrated. arrived in Australia aged 10 c1880

Thomas married Sarah Jane Paull, daughter of William Paull and Mary Ann Chapple, on 15 Mar 1891 in Southern Cross, Western Australia. (Sarah Jane Paull was born on 19 May 1873 in Cambrian Hill, Buninyongshire, Grenville County, Victoria Australia, christened in near Ballarat, Victoria Australia, died on 2 Sep 1928 in Ashton's Private Hospital, Mount Lawley, Perth Western Australia and was buried on 4 Sep 1928 in Karrakatta Cemetery, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Salvation Army section.)