Person:Joseph Holwell (1)

On 1 February 1898 The Sydney Morning Herald recorded that Joseph Holwell had nominated for the position of alderman in the local municipal council.

Joseph Holwell retired from farming to become a produce merchant. In the 1901 Census Joseph and Mary Holwell lived in Bourke Street, Raymond Terrace, where Joseph ran his produce store on the corner of Bourke Street and King Street, beside the Williams River. The Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser noted on 21 June 1912 that Joseph Holwell intended to sell his store at auction.

Joseph Holwell died in Balmain, Sydney on 23 October 1919, aged 75 years. He was an inpatient at Callan Park Hospital. His obituary was published in the Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser on 31 October 1919:

Death of Mr. Joseph Holwell.— The death occurred in Sydney, on Thursday last week, of Mr. Joseph Holwell, an old and well known resident of the lower Hunter, where he was born about 74 years ago. He followed the occupation of a farmer on Nelson’s Plains in his earlier days, and later ran a produce business in Raymond Terrace. He was the father of Mr. W. Holwell, Sydney, Mr. T. Holwell, Ballina, Mesdames Palmer and W. Scott, Raymond Terrace. Mrs. Diamond, Mereweather, Mrs. MacDougall. Newcastle, and Mrs. Lynch, Sydney. Deceased was a brother of T. Holwell, Woodville, Mr. R. Holwell, Seaham, and Mr. A. Holwell, Woolbrook. The remains were brought to Raymond Terrace for burial, on Friday, the Rev. W.N. Wilson performing the rites.

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