Researching Francis Stokes
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Records of Francis Stokes on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Stokes and the Stokes Family History
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Some Famous People called Francis Stokes
Francis William Stokes
Francis William Stokes (c. 1832 – 2 August 1889) was a pastoralist and politician in the colony of South Australia.
Stokes was a son of the Rev. John Stokes, Vicar of Cobham and Rector of Milton, Kent, and emigrated to South Australia on the British Empire in 1850, and after staying a few months in the city undertook the management of a station for Anstey & Giles. He founded the firm of Grant & Stokes to run Coonatto (Konetta ?) Station, and were also associated with the Wellington Station in which Sir William Jervois, was later interested. Stokes also had an interest in the Willowie Pastoral Company.
He represented the seat of Mount Barker in the House of Assembly from April 1878 to April 1881.
He did not seek re-election and paid a visit to England, but during the return voyage he received a paralytic stroke while on the Red Sea. After twelve months he returned to England, where he lived with his brother, Lieutenant-General Sir John Stokes K.C.B, R.E.
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