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The Dead
at Gundagai The Goulburn
Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser 31 July 1852 |
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The following list of persons who perished in the recent flood at
Gundagai, has been supplied by the Rev. Mr. Brigstooke:-
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Hannah Sophia Lindley,
publican's wife, George Lindley, Emma Lindley, Thomas Lindley, Anna Sophia
Lindley; o
Daniel Morrissy,
stonemason; o
William Walker, labourer: o
John Macnamara,
labourer; o
Catherine Thatcher, married,
Honora Thatcher, married, Mary Ann Thatcher, John
Frederick Thatcher, Alfred Thatcher, William Thatcher, Geo. Thatcher, Louisa
Thatcher; o
Allan M'Kenna,
schoolmaster, Elizabeth M'Kenna, his wife, Joseph M'Kenna, John M'Kenna, Martha M'Kenna, William M'Kenna,
Justus M'Kenna; o
Richard Hunt, Sarah Hunt,
his wife, Emily Hunt, Richard Hunt, Caroline Hunt, John Hunt; o
Anne Farrell, servant at
Lindley's; Mary Ann Smart, ditto; o
Ann Connolly, married; o
James Flynn, Ellen Flynn; o
John Scott, butcher, Mary
Ann Scott, his wife; o
William Luff,
squatter; Gerald Hemphill; publican, Ann Hemphill, his wife, Jane Hemphill,
Rebecca Hemphill, James Hemphill, Ann Hemphill; o
James Saxenby,
watchmaker, from Braidwood; o
Patrick Gormly, labourer, Mary Gormly, his wife, Jeremiah Gormly, Patrick
Gormly, Sarah Gormly; o
Mary Scott, married, Henry
Scott, her infant; o
John Morris, horsebreaker, John Morris, junior, David Morris; o
John Williams, labourer; o
John Perston,
from Bathurst, gent,; o
a shepherd, name unknown
(old and lame); o
James Minahan,
puntman; o
John Sacks, storekeeper, a
German; o
George Ross, Mary Ann Ross,
William Ross; o
Mary Ann Doyle, Charles
Edward Doyle, Robert Thomas Doyle; o
John M'Kinnon,
labourer; o
William Eggerton,
tailor, Catherine Eggerton, his wife; o
Mary Brennan, o
Julia Brett, o
John Haslem,
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Henry Castleton, o
John Perkins, labourer, from Goulburn;
Gundagai.-" Wonderful are the ways of Providence." Amidst
the awful visitation by which so many lives have been swept into eternity, it
is consoling to hear that many of them had received the "Bread of
Life" on the previous Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Magennis, the worthy pastor of
Yass, writes as follows:- "I cannot describe the
awful destruction of life and property in this district. Thank God the
greater number of Catholics who perished in the flood at Gundagai received
the Holy Communion on the previous Sunday. I was at the Tumut and Gundagai
districts during the awful scene, and I shall never forget the tragedy."
We are happy to find that liberal subscriptions are being made
throughout the Colony for those who suffered by the recent floods. Collections will be made in the Catholic Churches of' the city on next
Sunday, and in the other churches through the country on such Sundays as
shall appear best calculated to promote this most charitable object. Freeman's
Journal. |