Edward Power - NSW Coroner's Inquest

[majm]

Just posting a live link to provide some background re 1930s

https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/skint-making-do-great-depression

JM

[sparrett]

One of the news items mentions the death of Edward POWER's sister in Yorkshire just before the suicide.

Can you confirm that?  It would add to your evidence for confirmation.
Sue

[majm]

Agree with Sue,  here's that cutting.  https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46639681 Barrier Miner 30 January 1932.   Very sadly, I am assured by my ancient living relatives that this cutting is relating a familiar tragic story from that era.   

also notice that in the following cutting we learn that Edward had been at the camp for 2 months.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16836627 Sydney Morning Herald 26 Jan 1932

JM

[majm]

His birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2FCT-RVH

His Mum and her Mum
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWKS-5C4

Census https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWKS-5C7

JM

[sparrett]

also notice that in the following cutting we learn that Edward had been at the camp for 2 months.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16836627 Sydney Morning Herald 26 Jan 1932

JM

And this snip says 12 months. So one or the other!!

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46638849

Sue

[Ruth]

Thank you JM, Sue and Matthew for providing so much information and giving the context of this sad story. I've always assumed people emigrated from England to Australia in search of a better life so it's very useful to know the real social history of those times. Checking FreeBMD, Edward's younger sister, Emma Power, did die in 1931. He had also lost his father when he was 4. His poor mother!

Thanks all.