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Subject: Prior Spunner Palmer
Date: 1900
Total Images: 9
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My grandfather Prior Spunner Palmer was the owner of Glenalvah and Lliskillan Tea Plantions in the 1880s.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
My grandfather Prior Spunner Palmer was the owner of Glenalvah and Lliskillan Tea Plantions in the 1880s.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
With his eldest child Otho (my uncle) at Somerset Estate, Nanu Oya, 1899
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
Photo Taken : 1899
His wife Leslie Ann Gason (my grandmother) with Otho at Mousa Ella Estate, April 1899.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
Photo Taken : 1899
With Otho in Ireland.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
A photo from his album denoting Lindula.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
Another photo of Lindula.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
Transcript of newspaper article describing the death of James Dodwell Palmer - born 1845 and killed in a horse riding accident on the Dimbula Road aged 33 on 28th April 1878. James was the original owner of the properties which his younger brother Prior Spunner Palmer then inherited.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
They seem to have visited a Boer prison camp in Ceylon in around 1900 almost as though it was a Sunday outing to view a spectacular sight.
Submitted By : Simon Prior-Palmer
Photo Taken : 1900
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