The BOURNE family, NSW - COMPLETED WITH THANKS

[deeiluka]

Dee or anyone, where would Bev be able to find the Inquest or the full Coronial report this would have to have some of the required details?

Neil

I have not had a lot to do with NSW records, so don't feel qualified to help with your question, Neil. However, Bev could check out http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/ ansd see if she can find out what records they hold.

I have had Inquest results from Victoria and they were full of information.

In my experience it is not uncommon for deaths which required an inquest not to be on the indexes.  Can't imagine why and it sure makes genealogy harder.    Judith

Maybe again it is because the body wasn't able to be positively identified, Judith.....be good if someone could answer that for us all, wouldn't it?


Dee   

[Neil Todd]

Umm might be going off on the wrong tangent BUT.

Birth 1834 William A Bourne V1834212 18/1834  The parents were ALFRED and  MARY. They also have several more children recorded. Who knows may be lucky.

Neil  

[bevj]

Thank you all for your interest.

I have read the inquest report and a lot of other info on Trove and it's quite clear that although many of the victims' bodies were too badly disfigured or burned to be identified, the Bournes were positively identified.
I found the following:
'As fast as the bodies are brought up they are put in roughly-made coffins after being identified if it be possible to identify them........  At first an inquest was held on each body, a jury being sworn in time after time,  but the coroner thinking this hardly necessary wired to the Attorney General and he repiled that it was only requisite to hold an inquest on one body so that the dead are now buried without further inquests.'

Thanks Neil, I haven't come across an Alfred Bourne but the age is about right, certainly I'll look into that one.

Bev

[judb]

There are some on-line trees for this family.

I think this may be his marriage:

3246/1862, registered at Wollongong
O'Harvey (sic)    BOURNE
Mary TAYLOR

Judith

[sparrett]

Here is a daughter early in the marriage

REG 15011 IN 1863  BOURNE  JESSIE M
  Father OTTAWAY
  Mother MARY
  WOLLONGONG

Sue   

[~MERLIN~]

Following Neil's reply #10 & Bev's original post that the BOURNE's & OTTAWAY's came from Kent:

BOURNE Alfred age 23yrs arrived 1839 on the Strathfieldsaye with his wife & a daughter.
Native place: Appledore Kent England
Occupation: Farm Labourer/House Servant - Protestant
Son of Richard and Elizabeth Bourne. Hus of Mary

BOURNE Mary age 23yrs
Native place: Brookland Kent England
Occupation: General Servant - Protestant
Dau of Richard and Elizabeth Sutton. Wife of Alfred

BOURNE Elizabeth age 3yrs - Protestant
Dau of Alfred and Mary Bourne

Their are several births registered to them after their arrival up until 1860 in the parish records of:
Sydney, St Phillip's, Church of England
Sydney, St James', Church of England
Australian Agricultural Company; Dungog; Eldon; Stroud; Uffington, Church of England
Alnwick; Butterwick; Clarence Town; Middlehope; Raymond Terrace; Seaham, Church of England.

They should be available online at the NSW BDM but if they aren't let me know & I can list them from another resource I have 

[sparrett]

Jessie married

REG 4427 IN 1881 BLACKWELL JOHN O
    To BOUREN (sic) JESSIE M
    WOLLONGONG


The couple had a number of children registered at WOONONA in the following years.

Sue

[judb]

Bevj - your request was for finding the BOURNE family's arrival and later lives. 

Do you want earlier information?  I see Ottaway BOURNE on censuses 1841, 1851 at Lenham, Kent (or close by).  So it would seem that he emigrated some time between 1851 and 1863.

Judith.

[sparrett]

Regarding JESSIE M. BOURNE nad her husband JOHN OLIVER BLACKWELL.

When the couple moved to Victoria, another child was born.

BLACKWELL Wm Bradley  Jno Oliver
Mother Jessie Maria BOWEN (sic)
Birth PlaceKBURRA
Year 1895
Reg. Number 22156

At least 2 of their children were with them at KORUMBURRA and married there.
 JESSIE and JOHN can be traced on the Electoral Roll where JOHN O was a miner in KORRUMBURRA and spent some time in the city area as a Boarding House keeper or Labourer

JESSIE MARIA died in Vic.

BLACKWELL Jessie Maria
Father Bowen Wm Ottaway
Mother Mary  TAYLOR
Death Place DNONG
Age 63
Year 1926
Reg Number 9443

Sue