Wedding and death certificates transcription as promised.
Septimus Thompson and Rosa Maria Grimsley marriage certificate details in full:
Number: 5674
Date: 16 January 1889.
Place: Moor Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Groom: Septimus Thompson (bachelor) of South Melbourne, (born Newcastle,
England).
Occupation: Butcher.
Age: 27 years.
Present Address: Bay Street, South Melbourne.
Usual Address: Bay Street, South Melbourne.
Parents: William Thompson (farmer), Margaret Hewison Thompson nee Lister.
Bride: Rosa Maria Grimsley (spinster) of South Melbourne. (born Harrietville,
Victoria).
Occupation: Servant.
Age: 24 years.
Present Address: Bay Street, South Melbourne.
Usual Address: Bay Street, South Melbourne.
Parents: William Grimsley (Rank or Profession: Mason), Jane Elizabeth Grimsley nee
Harris
Minister: Nathaniel Kinsman (Church of England).
No information regarding time spent in the colony.
Their only child, Hilda, was born 7 months and 3 weeks after the wedding; most likely either premature or Rosa was pregnant at the time of the wedding.
Septimus Thompson death certificate details:
When and Where Died: 21st June 1897. Hospital. Gipps Ward. City of Melbourne.
County of Bourke. Melbourne.
Name and Surname. Septimus Thompson.
Rank or Profession: Butcher.
Sex and Age: Male. 40 years.
(1) Cause of Death: Phthisis. Exhaustion
(2) Duration of last illness: Not known.
(3) Medical Attendant by
Whom certified: Dr. W.E. Williams.
(4) When he last saw Deceased: 21st June 1897.
Name and Surname of Father
and Mother (Maiden Name), if
known, with Rank or Profession: Unknown.
Signature, Description, and
Residence of Informant: G. Lee, Messenger. Hospital, Melbourne.
Signature of Registrar, Date
and Where Registered: M. Clarke. 21st June 1897. East Melbourne.
When and where buried.
Undertaker by whom certified: 23rd June 1897.Melbourne Cemetery. Name
indecipherable (see attached screenshot).
Name and Religion of Minister
Or Names of Witnesses of Burial: Indecipherable (see attached screenshot).
Where Born and how
long in the Australian
Colonies, stating which: England. Not known how long in Victoria.
If Deceased Was Married;
where and at what age and
to whom: Single.
See middle two panels of the screenshot for the indecipherable .
