Where does the information come from that Joseph worked on Canning Downs?
He would have been rather old by the late 1880s to take up that kind of work.
The Warwick Argus Sat 31 Mar 1900
OBITUARY- We regret to record the death this week of an estimable old townsman in the
person of Mr. Joseph Irwin, who passed away at his residence, Canning-street, early on
Thursday morning. Deceased, who had attained the age of 76, had been ailing for
some time past and in the opinion of his medical adviser the only hope of relief lay in
an operation, which, however, the old gentle man steadily refused to undergo. Latterly
his condition became more critical and the suffering more intense, but nevertheless the
end came unexpectedly on Thursday, when the deceased passed quietly away.
Mr. Irwin had been a resident of Warwick for 15 or 16 years, and leaves a widow and grown
up family of five-three daughters and two sons, one of whom is Mr. J Irwin railway
station-master at Harrisville, near Ipswich, and until recently in charge of the station at Swan Creek
He was a relative of the Rev.J. Irvine Knippe, D.D., of Maryborough.
The funeral took place yesterday, the burial service being conducted by the Rev. C. J. Legate.
