When Joseph Robert Capper was born on 21 February 1865, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, his father, Matthew Capper, was 34 and his mother, Mary Mills, was 11862. He married Emma Rebecca Ley on 20 March 1891, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 26 May 1945, in his hometown, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, Holland Park West, Queensland, Australia.
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End of transportation to Western Australia.
British troops withdraw from Australia.
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
English: occupational name from Middle English capper(e), capier ‘cap maker’, an agent derivative of Old English cæppe ‘cap’.
Dutch, see Kapper .
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