Death certificate for William Turner, husband of Catherine Brennan.
The places to write are numbered but this is what I assume they mean
2 Mar 1908 Brookong, Lockhart (that would be date and place of death)
William Turner, farmer
male 66 years
Deceased bodies found in building that had been destroyed by fire .... etc. H Barnaby Coroner.
Parents James Turner, carpenter/wheelwright; Mary Rounsevell
Certified by John J Turner Son, Lockhart, witness's name obscured.
Methodist (religion, but there would not have been a Methodist section of the cemetery) 7 Mar 1908 Lockhart (burial date)
Rev J Hoonborn (?) Church of England (I know William is buried in the C of E section of Lockhart cemetery)
R. V Griffin
John Wallis (witnesses?)
Willunga Sth Aust (place of birth; the following would be where he had lived)
Sth Aust 16 years
Qld 17 years
Victoria 19 years
NSW 14 years
Queensland 33 years Catherine Brennan (where married, for how long, to whom)
A list of the 5 sons living, none deceased.
The wife of a cousin, Pauline Turner, has been researching the family for many years and produced a booklet, "Cornwall to Australia: James and Mary Turner and family". Some of the documents and the reference to them selling up in Victoria and moving to NSW are in that. I remember my grandfather telling me his parents had died in a house fire on Brookong station.
Pauline must have seen Catherine's death certificate, although it was not reproduced in her book. She says it lists her religion as Catholic, her son was the informant (probably John since he was the informant for William at the same time).
Pauline says that William and Catherine moved from Queensland and took up a selection at Narraport in Victoria, not far from Birchip, in 1880. Droughts crippled his crops, rabbits were moving into the area and there was an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia in 1892 which she thinks might have been killed some of his stock and been the last straw. So he sold his land and held a clearing sale without reserve in 1893. He moved to Brookong Station and took a labouring job and was living in a cottage on the station when the fire engulfed their house.
Pauline has done an excellent job so if you have an interest in the family I could put you in touch with her if you like.