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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ernest William Adams: Birth: 1894 in Killed in School Boy Accident.

  2. Leslie Wield Adams: Birth: 1898.


Notes
a. Note:   The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Monday 8 October 1945, page 6 OBITUARY
 Mr A. W. Adams
 The death took place at Hobart on
 Friday of Mr Andrew Wield Adams,
 chartered accountant." He was in his
 79th year.
 Coming to Tasmania from Cumberland
 (England) in early youth with
 his father, Mr Joseph Adams, he' entered the legal firm of Dobson, Mitchell,
 and Allp'ort, and served for
 many years as clerk. .
 He subsequently became accountant
 to Simmons, Crisp, and Simmons
 (now Simmons, Wolfhagen, Simmons,,
 and Walch).
 In 1910, he began accountancy on
 his own. In 1919, with Mr C. A.
 Bennetto, he established the accountancy
 firm of Adams, Son, and
 Bennetto, having associated with
 him his son, Mr Leslie Adams,- now
 of Imperial Chemical Industries, Melbourne.
 -
 He "was one oL.the original councillors
 of the Chartered Institute of
 ?Accountants In Australia. He retired
 from business in 1939.
 He married in 1893 Miss Elizabeth
 Jarvis, of Hobart. He is survived by
 his wife, son, and brother. Mr Joseph
 Adams, until recently Deputy
 Commissioner of Taxes in Victoria
 Another brother, the late Mr John
 Adams, for many years was secretary
 of the Hobart Marine Bd.
 A skilled accountant and auditor
 he had the esteem and confidence of
 his professional colleagues and wat'
 the trusted adviser of many of Hobart's
 big business and industrial
 concerns.
 He was a devotee of the arts and a
 proficient water colourist.
 The cremation will take place at
 Cornelian Bay today.


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