Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mary Faulkner, died Glebe 1852

Wondering if the Mary Faulkner who died in 1852 might possibly be Maria Faulkner, I ordered her death certificate from Births, Deaths and Marriages New South Wales.

The information on her death certificate is scant. She had lived in Glebe, in Sydney. She was fifty. And her burial on 21 August 1852 was in Sydney South Circuit, County of Cumberland - possibly the old Devonshire Street cemetery. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. B. Chapman, a Wesleyan minister. Her "quality or profession" is not stated, nor is the cause of death.

Going by her age and religion, she may have been the Mary Faulkner from Sussex who arrived on the Roxburgh Castle in 1839, aged 37.

Her exit from this world did not warrant a death or funeral notice in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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