Frederick Aubrey LAUNDER (1878-1948) - Warren and Ford Family History

Frederick Aubrey Launder

Birth                      1878, June at Brighton Road, St. Kilda

Father                   George Launder

Mother                  Jane Walker

Marriage               1902 in Perth WA

Spouse                  Florence Nightingale Booth

Residences       1903 Electoral Roll Bagot Road, Subiaco, WA

                        1937-1943 Electoral Roll 16 Packenham Street, East Perth

Death                 1948, June 17 at Mt. Lawley, WA

Age at Death      70 years

Burial                  Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth

Children               1 Winifred Florence Launder

Name: Frederick Aubrey Launder

Birth Registration Date: 1878

Birth Registration Place: Victoria, Australia

Father: George Launder

Mother Maiden Name: Walker

The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Name: Frederick Aubrey Launder

Spouse Name: Florence Nightingale Booth

Marriage Place: Perth

Registration Place: Western Australia

Registration Year: 1902

Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name: Winifred Florence Launder

Birth Date: Abt 1905

Birth Place: Perth

Registration Year: 1905

Registration Place: Western Australia, Australia

Father: Frederick Launder

Mother: Florence Booth

Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

DEATHS – LAUNDER

On the 16th inst. at Moore-street, East Perth, Winifred Florence, the beloved infant daughter of Florence and Frederick Launder, aged 2 weeks.

West Australian (Perth, WA  1879 - 1954), Monday 17 April 1905, page 1

STEALING AS A CLERK - THE CASE OF JACOB WHITE - COMPANY'S METHODS OF BUSINESS

In the Kalgoorlie Circuit Court on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Burnside, Jacob George White pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, on November 22, 1905, at Kalgoorlie, being a clerk in the employ of the Western Fresh Food and Ice Company, stolen 10/, the property of the company on November 29, 13/1d. and on December 29, 10/.

Mr. A. E. Barker prosecuted for the Crown. Thomas Crispe said that he used to take out goods for the Western Fresh Food and Ice Company and make cash sales. He gave receipts to the customers and retained the butts, which showed the various amounts received. On November 22, he gave White the book and £2/15/- which was on the butt and signed for by the accused. On November 29 he collected £2/10/5 and paid it to White who signed for it. On December 29 he collected £2/17/8 which White signed for and received.

To the accused: He did not always pay the cash to the accused.

To Mr. Barker: -When he paid to others, White did not sign for its receipt.

Albert Penlase said that in November and December of last year he was accountant for the Western Fresh Food and Ice Company. Crispe was then a carter and White a clerk. Carter handed in their cash every night, and White entered the amounts on slips for witness next morning. Witness received three slips. on November 22, November 29, and December 29, showing £1/10/5, £1/7/3, and £2/7/ respectively. He had not received the differences.

In March Mr. Launder and the accused had an interview. There was about a dozen discrepancies apart from those named, and White said he could not explain.

To the accused: It was the accused’s suggestion to make out slips.  He did not know of any slips being mislaid. Witness sometimes took money from the carter and told accused what had been received.

Frederick Aubrey Launder, manager of the Western Fresh Food and Ice Company, said that White had been employed at £4.a week. . The discrepancies were brought to witness' notice about March 28. White admitted the figures in the butts and the signatures. There were about 40 discrepancies, totalling £24. He did not explain the shortage, and proceedings were taken.

To accused: He got a week's notice to leave, and worked. for two extra days. Penglase had been discharged said witness; also the storeman. There were discrepancies with two other clerks.  Penglase got one month's notice. Action had not been taken against other employees because satisfactory explanations had been made. The accused had said that the figures were altered and that they were not his.

To Mr. Barker: Penglase did not leave with any imputation on his character. It was on account of White. The directors blamed Penglase for not checking White's work. White had admitted the receipt of all money against which his initials wore placed. The auditors discovered the discrepancies. This closed the case for the Crown.

The accused addressed the jury from the dock. He said that he knew at the time that the auditors were coming, and if he had been guilty of stealing/. he should have made things right. He could easily have torn out one of the slips and put the amount on another one. Things were done very loosely at the company's offices; money very often being given to the storeman. He (accused) passed the money to Penglase and got no receipts. He claimed that slips were frequently lost, and maintained that it was not feasible that if he took the money, he should not endeavour to hide the matter when he knew the auditors were coming. If he had wanted to rob the company, he could have stolen £100 instead of a few shillings. There was no doubt that there had been a big robbery, nut he was not interested in that. Mr. Thompson (the previous manager), Penglase Davey and Storeman had been discharged. and if he was a criminal why were they discharged? He did not think that the reason for Penglase’ s' discharge was for not looking after him (accused). Storeman used to hand in cash at the end of the week, for which reason he was discharged. He (accused) had not benefited to the amount of sixpence, and had he been guilty he would not have left such evidence behind when it was in his power to destroy it during eight or ten days.

His Honour addressed the jury, who, after a retirement of about eight minutes, returned a verdict of guilty, adding a strong recommendation to mercy on account of the looseness with which the company conducted their business.. The Crown Prosecutor stated that nothing was known against the accused previously. Accused, in reply to his Honour, stated that he had been working in Kalgoorlie for nine or 10 years, and was a married man.- He first worked in the Union Bank at Coolgardie, and ever since had worked in various places as a clerk.

His Honour said it was very regrettable, to see such a man in the position in which the accused stood. He took it that the accused had some education, some knowledge of book-keeping, and an appreciation of the desirability of  being honest in money transactions. His Honour could not close his eyes to the fact that there were considerable other sums of money unaccounted for. He was liable to a very severe sentence, because he had held a position of trust. It. was painful to see a man who had borne a good character commence a career of crime at the accused's time of life.

"Have you ever been in a court of justice before " asked his Honour.

Accused: No.

His- Honour: - Have you any friends in this locality?

Accused: Yes.

His Honour: Well, look her'; if you have any sense you will be honest in the future. If you get me a surety you can go away.  I am not sending you to gaol, because if you go there it will no doubt be the end of you on this side of the continent.  Can you find men to go surety for your future good behaviour?

Accused: Yes.

His Honour: If you can get me sureties of two persons in Kalgoorlie, who will undertake to be responsible in the sum of £100 each, I will let you go without sending you to gaol. If you can't I must pass sentence on you, I will give you to the end of the session to find the sureties. I think the most effective form of mercy is to give a man an opportunity to make up for what might be his first downfall.

Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 - 1916), Tuesday 26 June 1906, page 11

Cr. F. A. Launder, of Kalgoorlie, yesterday received news of the death of his aged father (Mr. George Launder), which occurred at Preston, Victoria, on the previous night at half-past 8 o'clock. The deceased gentleman was 78 years of age, and up to March last he had not had a day's serious illness in his life. He leaves a widow and four sons, namely, Mr. Walter Launder, of Wellington, New Zealand, Mr. Septimus Launder, of Perth; Mr. George Launder, of Perth; and Mr. Fred Launder, of Kalgoorlie.

The deceased was one of the only two surviving members of the original Victorian Eight Hours' Pioneers' Association. The members of that association comprised only those who took part in the eight hours movement prior to April 21, 1856, and who walked in the first procession on Whit Sunday, May 12, of that year.

The late Mr. Launder was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, England, on July 5, 1836. He left London in the barque Pestona Bomange, and arrived in Melbourne in March 1851. He was a carpenter, and joined his father in the building and contracting line, but when the gold diggings started he made one of a party of six who set out for the Ballarat fields.

In 1861 he left Melbourne for Queensland. He was the foreman carpenter in the erection of the Town Hall, Brisbane, and was afterwards appointed town clerk and surveyor at Roma. In 1862 he founded the first trades union of carpenters in Queensland, and the organisation, which was an immediate success, is now one of the most powerful trade societies in the northern State. He returned from Roma to Melbourne in 1869.   Last year he was president and treasurer of the Eight Hours' Pioneers' Association.

The late Mr. Launder was also a marksman of note, and, among other prizes, won the National Rifle Association's medal in Brisbane in 1863. Up to the time of his illness' the deceased did a great deal of work in the way of preparing plans and acted as clerk of works on buildings in course of erection for various contractors.

Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1954), Thursday 28 May 1914

COUNCILLORS. (Four Required.) Elliott Robinson Brown, Frederick Aubrey Launder,

Kalgoorlie Miner (WA), Thursday November 22, 1917

PERSONAL.

The following have been appointed Justices of the Peace:—Mr. Carlo Henry Georgy, of Pithara and Mr. Norman Claude Stone street, of Wongan Hills, for the Swan magisterial district; Mr. Frederick Aubrey Launder, of Perth, for the Perth magisterial district.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Saturday 28 March 1925, page 11

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), Friday 8 May 1925 (No.65), page 2091

CLUB WORKERS' CLAIMS - Case for the Employers

Evidence in support of the clubs' answer to the union's claim for conditions governing the work of club employees was heard yesterday by the Arbitration Court.

Frederick Aubrey Launder, secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Club. Perth, said the club employed a staff of 34 at Perth, and 5 at Fremantle. The membership of Jus club was 1,628, of whom a third were outside the metropolitan area. His staff worked 48 hours a week, with a maximum daily spread of 12 hours. If the week's work were limited to a 49 hours spread, as the union was claiming, an increase of 10 employees would be necessary.  In existing circumstances very little overtime was worked. A witness from his club had stated that he was tired at the end of a day's work, because- of the overtime be was called upon to do. On looking up the records witness saw that the witness had entered the bar on March 8 last, and up to December 8 had worked only 7 hours overtime. It was a wild stretch of imagination to say that the club's bar trade was in excess of the saloon bar trade of any hotel.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Friday 11 December 1925, page 15

At the City Court this morning, before Mr. A. B. Kidson, P.M., Allan Padbury Ward (22), salesman, was charged with having falsely pretended that a certain, valueless cheque, was a good and valuable security. He was also charged with having obtained 10s from, Dorothy Fradgeley by means of a fraudulent trick.

Detective-Sergeant Cameron said that accused came to this State from Adelaide about three months, ago. Oh January 7 he went to Frederick Aubrey Launder and said that he was short of money, and asked him to cash a cheque for him. The cheque was drawn on the National Bank of Australia Ltd. and signed 'R. B. Ackland,' and was made out for £3. The cheque was presented and returned marked 'No account.'   On January 9 Ward took a room at a lodging-house owned by Dorothy Fradgeley, and from her he obtained 10s by means of another valueless cheque. He was fined £2, with costs, on each charge.

Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950), Monday 23 January 1928, page 1

A Stolen Hat

On a charge of having stolen a hat, the property of Frederick Aubrey Launder, Alfred Wilson (50) was sent to prison for six weeks. It was stated that the hat was left by the owner on a hallstand at the Fremantle Commercial Travellers' Club on the night of May 6. When he went to get it about two hours later it was gone.    On May 19 Wilson was seen by Constable Gray wearing the hat and was arrested on warrant. Accused said that he went to sleep on a footpath in Fremantle and when he awoke he found the hat on his head. Sergeant Tuohy prosecuted.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Saturday 28 May 1932, page 12

Name: Dorothy E Launder

Marriage Place: Western Australia

Registration Place: Perth, Western Australia

Registration Year: 1933

Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Mirror (Perth, WA : 1921 - 1956), Saturday 5 June 1937, page 15

Name: Wilfred A Launder

Marriage Place: Western Australia

Registration Place: Perth, Western Australia

Registration Year: 1939

Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name: Wilfred Aubrey Launder

Birth Date: 10 Jul 1906

Birth Place: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Year Range: 1939-1948

Enlistment Place: T Wcomd H Q, Western Australia

Service Number: W232684

Father: Frederick Launder

Series Description: B884: Army Citizen Military Forces

National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australia; Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947

Name: Gwennyth E Launder

Marriage Place: Western Australia

Registration Place: Perth, Western Australia

Registration Year: 1941

Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

DEATHS LAUNDER

Passed peacefully away at Mt. Lawley, on June 17. Frederick A. Launder (late of Commercial Travellers' Club, Perth), dearly loved father of Edna and Fred Nelson, Kalgoorlie.

Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1954), Friday 18 June 1948, page 4

LAUNDER: On June 17, at his late residence, 16 Pakenham-street, Mt. Lawley Frederick Aubrey Launder, loved father of Fred. Edna (Mrs. Nelsons and 'Gwen (Mrs. E. Bmith); aged 70 years. LAUNDER: On June 17, at his late residence, 16 Pakenham-street. Mt. Lawley. Frederick Aubrey Launder, the loved father of Fred, father-in-law of Isobel and grand-father of Shane.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Friday 18 June 1948, page 1

LAUNDER : On June 17, at his late residence, 16 Pakenham-street. Mt. Lawley. Frederick Aubrey Launder, the loved father of Gwen (Mrs. Smith) father-in-law of Ern and grandfather of Gregory.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Friday 18 June 1948, page 1

LAUNDER: On June 17, at his late residence, 16 Pakenham-street, Mt. Lawley, Frederick Aubrey Launder the loved father of Edna (Mrs. Nelson), father-in-law of Fred.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Friday 18 June 1948, page 1

 

Name: Wilfred Aubrey Launder

Birth Year: abt 1907

Death Date: 10 Jan 1960

Age: 53

Death Place: Western Australia

Father's Name: Frederick A

Mother's Name: Florence N

Registration Year: 1960

Registration Place: Perth, Western Australia

Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery and Crematorium

Burial or Cremation Place: Karrakatta, Nedlands City, Western Australia, Australia

Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

Wilfred Aubrey Launder (1906-1960) ex Ancestry website