Bridget KENNEDY

A girl named Bridget KENNEDY, aged 15 years, committed suicide at Lithgow last evening by hanging herself in the fowl-house. The girl had had an altercation with her mother.

From the 'Northern Miner' (Charters Towers) Saturday 5 April, 1884

Obituary - Tamar CASWELL

Mrs. E. E. Caswell  

The death occurred on June 18, at her residence, Coburn, Wonglepong, of one of the oldest pioneers of the Logan district, Mrs. Tamar Caswell, relict of the late Mr. E. E. Caswell. Mrs. Caswell, who was in her 87th year, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to Queensland in the sailing ship Agricola in 1853. She had very vivid recollections of the early pioneering days, when the blacks were numerous and troublesome; also of the disastrous flood in 1864, when she and her parents lost all their belongings in the deluge. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.  Caswell made their home at Woodhill, near Beaudesert, where they resided for many years, and reared a family of twelve children, all of whom are living, with the exception of one son. There are also 27 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Caswell resided at Coburn, Wonglepong for over 40 years, and was predeceased by her husband nearly six years ago.   Her favourite hobby was crochet work, specimens of which are greatly admired and prized by her family and friends.

Her parents were listed as Peel WRIGHT and Mary Ann CHAPMAN.

 Obituary. (1935, June 22). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 17. Retrieved November 7, 2011, from TROVE 

ANOTHER OLD COLONIST GONE

One by one the old pioneers who have   helped to make Queensland history, and have seen the colony grow from its small beginning into the important position it now holds among the Australian colonies, are passing away. Another of them has just been claimed by death in the person of Mr. William Melton, who had attained the ripe old age of 80 years. He made his first acquaintance with Brisbane forty-seven years ago, having arrived in the barque Agrícola  in 1853. He at once settled down in South Brisbane, and has resided there ever since. In the earlier years he was employed with the late Captain T. Winship in assisting to build some of the first steamers which plied on the Brisbane River. Mr. Melton was a native of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He has left behind him the aged helpmate of his life and a family of three sons and eight daughters and many grandchildren to mourn their loss.

 ANOTHER OLD COLONIST GONE. (1900, September 4). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 3. Retrieved November 7, 2011, from TROVE   

Sad Death

Over the years I have moved house a few times and didn't always have a job to go to when I arrived. Fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of the future do play a large part in the way we react to the events of the day. It must have been quite a burden for Johann.

Johann was aged 35 when he arrived in Brisbane on the 26th of June in 1899. There was no date recorded for his death and no one knew the names of his parents.

He was buried in the South Brisbane Cemetery, Dutton Park Portion 2H, Grave Number 425 on the 8th of July, 1899.

Bessie BROWN (nee McGREGOR) came to keep him company in 1956.

Convicts on Pyramus 1832

These are some of the names of convicts mentioned in the journal of the ships surgeon, James Rutherford.

Jamima Chapman    22

Sarah Hodgekin    18

Bridget Verden    56

Jane Ray    34

Hannah Barber    19

Elizabeth Probin    31

Margaret Anderson    26

Margaret Williams    20

Susanah Davis    49

Sarah Drake    25

Ann Lawless    19

Catherine Furneough    22

Mary Kelly    27

Jane Hudson    25

Mary Burrel    39

Ann Trolop    26

Margaret Jones    24

Ann Sheeley    28

Eliza Hobbs    19

Hannah Helly    35

Susan Davis    49

Eliza Hurry    25

Mary East    20

Ann Stephenson    19

Eliza Moss    26

Margaret Anderson    26

Mary A Burns    20

Margaret Carrol    18

Ann Bird    38

Ellen Crowley    17

Mary A Brown    24

A list of these people and what ailed them can be seen at this address.

Transmission by Death

Government Notices
Transmission by Death  
Real Property Acts of 1861 and 1877

Richard Edward MAY              2/4/1940
Thomas John WHITMORE            4/6/1940
John FLYNN                     28/4/1938
Fred BOOTH                     30/1/1939
David FRANZESKAKIS             17/8/1935
Theodore George FRANZESKAKIS   3/12/1938
Denis Joseph BARLOW             6/6/1940
Charles STEWART                27/3/1939
Lancelot Salisbury BAGSTER     15/3/1940
Ellen SAVERY                    3/5/1940
Mary CARBY                     30/7/1940
Daniel O`DONOGHUE              18/5/1939
Annie Margaret Sophia PRICE    13/1/1940
George Ishmael CHANT           27/1/1916
Caroline TODD                  22/6/1940
Agnes Elliott MURPHY            4/2/1940
Edward HEYWOOD                 12/6/1940
Benjamin Thomas HARRIS         14/7/1939
Conrad SCHAUMBURG              3/11/1939
Doreen SLEEMAN                 19/1/1940
George Thomas GOODWIN         17/12/1939
Mary KATER                     18/7/1930
James EVANS                    18/5/1937
William Warrington WOOD         7/4/1938
William WOOD                  13/11/1936
George Arthur Victor ORR       28/4/1940
Christian TERKLESEN             2/3/1940
Thomas Edward DIXON            25/2/1938
Mary Eliza AGNEW               14/6/1940
Anne McCULLOUGH                15/1/1940
Mary Jane SMYTHE               25/4/1940
Jeanette Annie MOFFATT         12/4/1940
John Suter McDONALD             8/3/1940
William Henry HARRISON         21/7/1939
George Aaron PONTING            5/8/1939
Edward Hector McKAY            31/3/1940
Catherine CLAIR                10/1/1940
Henry READY                    14/5/1940
Edward Cureton TOMKINS          7/6/1931
Caroline Maria DUSTAN          21/3/1940
Bertram Algernon
    Sheppard DUNSTONE         23/12/1939
Ana Catrina CHRISTENSEN        22/6/1940
Susannah DUNTON                 6/5/1940
Louise Florence MARTIN         23/6/1940


The Courier-Mail               21/9/1940

VARDON

An obituary which appeared in the Croydon Mining News on the 24th of July, 1913. Guess they didn't have a lot to say about this politician.