George Cooke Attfield

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  General Notes:

'Dr. George Cooke Attfield was born at Bath on January 27 1826 died at Hove January 16, 1925, within 11 days of his 99th birthday. He played a little County Cricket for both Somerset and Surrey and later kept up the game in West Australia'
From Wisden Book of Cricketers Lives, ed Benny Green, 1986
For his cricketing statistics 1845-1856 see:
http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36249/36249.html

From the 1850s until 1879 he was Medical Officer to Convict Establishment, Fremantle, W.Australia
Source: http://www.fremantleprison.com/history/history3.cfm

"Attfield Street" is today one of the principal streets in Fremantle.

ATTFIELD George Cook, b.1822 d. 1923 (England), arr. 6.11.1857 per "Dolphin", m. 12.11.1863 (Perth) Alice Maude ROE b. 11.6.1846 youngest dtr. of J.S. ROE (Surveyor General). Chd. Maud Cecil b. 1864 (Frem), Florence Mary b. 1866 (Frem) d. 1866, Alice (Teakel) Isabel b. 1868 (Frem), Edith Blanche b. 1867 d. 1894, Ethel Clare b. 1870. Imperial Surgeon Frem. Convict Est. etc. appointed 7.1857-1879 & Supt. Lunatic Asylum, also Director Marine Ins. Co. from 1874. Employed 2 T/L servants 1870 & 1871. Wife & 3 chd. to London 19.7.1874 per "Chalgrove" & returned 7-8-1876 per "Daylight". TPOo U.K. again 28.12.1878 per "Helena Mena" with 3 chd. Dr. to KGS 11.2.1879 per "Rob Roy".
Bicentenial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829 - 1888 Vol. 1 A-C
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH/2001-04/0986994343

1891: Medical practitioner, 96 Buckingham Road, Brighton
From 1894: 17 Salisbury Road, Hove

George married Alice Maude Roe, daughter of John Septimus Roe and Matilda Elizabeth Bennett, on 12 Nov 1863 in Perth, Western Australia. (Alice Maude Roe was born on 6 Aug 1845 in Swan River Colony, Western Australia and died on 1 Apr 1925 in 7 Wilbury Road, Hove, Sussex.)

  Marriage Notes:

Reference Number:5770