Ravenswood Hotel

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Integer congue malesuada eros congue varius. Sed malesuada dolor eget velit pretium. Etiam porttitor finibus. Nam suscipit vel ligula at dharetra John Thomas was born in Wales in 1815 and arrived in Western Australia, with his parents, on the Gilmore, 15 December 1829. In 1832 he took up farming in the Kelmscott district where he and his partner William Gaze were attacked by a group of aboriginals under their famous leader Yagan. William Gaze died of his wounds, and John gave up farming shortly after to become a fisherman. He soon owned his own boat, the Emma and, when this was wrecked on the Abrolhos islands, he built a larger schooner, the Empress. He married Elizabeth (nee Cooper), and they had seven children, who helped run the family’s farming property Ravenswood. After his previous property was damaged in the 1862 floods, Captain John Thomas constructed a large two-storey house at Ravenswood. This property was later to become Ravenswood Hotel. In 1876, Captain Thomas retired to Fremantle, leaving the residence in charge of his son, John Frederick Thomas.It has not been established exactly when the residence was first used for accommodation for traveller, but it appears likely that this was during the 1880s and it was probably known as Ravenswood Hotel from this time.John Thomas died in 1907. In November 1907, Alfred Edward Thomas, applied for a licence to convert the place into a wayside inn. He described the place as follows:

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• ✓ Live events
• ✓ Function spaces
• ✓ Indoor and outdoor
• ✓ garden

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