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Aeneas J. Gunn Aeneas J. Gunn i(A60212 works by) (a.k.a. Aeneas James Gunn)
Born: Established: 1862 ; Died: Ceased: 1903
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Cousin of West Australian pastoralist James Bradshaw, Gunn settled for a time (with the Bradshaw's) at Marigui in the Kimberley region of Western Australian. In 1893, after the settlement at Marigui had failed, Gunn moved to Melbourne where he worked as a librarian and a journalist. He married Jeannie Taylor (who came to be better known as Mrs Aeneas Gunn, author of We of the Never-Never) (q.v.) and took a posistion as manager of a station on the Roper River, Northern Territory.


Gunn died from malarial dysentry at the age of 41. A note in "The Advertiser" of 28 March 1903 (p7) states: "News has been received here of the death last week of Mr. Aeneas J. Gunn, manager of the Elsey cattle station, from an attack of dysentery. " "The Advertiser", 28.03.1903

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