Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Dwyer's lease Ivanhoe, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Western Australia

Place Of Burial
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia

Submitted by
Jeff Wood

Cause of Death
Mine Lung

Other Information
John Clipstone who died in Fremantle in 1905. John Clipstone was born in London in 1858 and migrated with his parents James Clipstone and Jane nee Jones to South Australia on the General Hewitt in 1858. They settled first at Athelstone and then later at Langhorne Creek where James died in 1873. The family then moved to Mundalla near Bordertown and farmed there from 1876-1882 before moving to Dinyarrak, Victoria, farming there from 1883-1892. John's mother Jane died at Dinyarrak in 1889. John Clipstone married Violet Wilson Rankine at Bordertown in 1879. John and Violet then went to run a dairy in Carlton in Melbourne from 1893-1897. John then went to Kalgoorlie/Boulder and according the WA Post Office directories was a miner at Ivanhoe from then until 1904. The 1904 Electoral Roll states he was a miner at Dwyer's Lease, Ivanhoe. In 1904 John became sick with silicosis or some other similar dust disease of the lungs. He then went to Fremantle where he died of this complaint in 1905. John is buried in Fremantle Cemetery. John and Violet also lost a daughter Alice Ethel Clipstone who is buried in Old Boulder cemetery, she was 21 when she died. Her address was given as GM Lease 3712E. Besides the immediate family, other members of the Clipstone family were in the goldfields of WA but none died as a result of working in the mines. The others were John's brother William Clipstone died Narrogin 1920, Joseph Clipston died Pingelly 1913 and his son James Joseph Clipston died Popyannining 1937. A cousin Thomas Henry Clipson who was a miner at Ivanhoe and later Menzies died in Perth in 1923.