Family Tree

of Trudy Mae COWLEY

This page last updated:  10-Oct-2003

Abodes     Aliases     Baptism     Birth     Burial     Children     Death     Education     Marriage     Siblings

Abodes

According to the census taken at Epping Forest on 5 January 1842, Emily was living with her parents and siblings, along with three other adult males, in an unfinished wood hut at Epping Forest, the property of David GIBSON Esquire.

Yet, according the census taken the next year at Fairfield Saw Pits on 3 January 1843, Emily was living with her parents and siblings, along with one other adult male, in a completed wood dwelling at Epping Forest, the property of John GIBSON.

Thus, in the intervening year the wooden hut had been completed and two adult males had moved out.  The property obviously belonged to the GIBSON family who owned a lot of property in the Campbell Town area.

Burial

Emily was buried on 27 July 1899 at Oatlands.  The funeral was held at her daughter’s residence at 2 pm.  She is buried at the Uniting Church cemetery, Oatlands in the same grave as her husband and son, Robert.  The tombstone inscription reads:

In
Memory
of
Thomas Presnell
who died 18th June 1887
aged 58 years
He has gone to his rest and his
troubles are o'er
He is free from all sorrow and pain
and the ills of this life which he
patiently bore
Will never distress him again
Also the beloved
wife of
Thomas Presnell
who died 25th July 1899
aged 61 years

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Death

Emily died on 25 July 1899 at Spring Valley, Oatlands aged 63 (or 61) years of cardiac disease.  The medical attendant was Dr S G Jamieson.  The informant was John TREWAIUE, undertaker of Oatlands.  Emily's death was registered on 27 July 1899 by the undertaker.

Her death notice in The Mercury of 26 Jul 1899 read:

PRESNELL – On July 25, at Spring Valley, Oatlands, Emily, relict of the late Thos. Presnell, Mount Seymour, in the 61^st year of her age.  Funeral will leave her daughter’s residence on July 27 at 2 pm.

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Marriage

William Thomas PRESNELL married Emily HILL on 16 September 1856 at Campbell Town.  William was of 'full age', a bachelor and a labourer.   Emily was aged 18 and a spinster.  

They were married at St Luke's Church, Campbell Town by William BRICKWOOD according to the rites and ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland by Banns.  

Witnesses to the marriage were Peter HILL [Emily’s father] and Harriett GREEN [William Thomas' sister]. 

William Thomas made his mark (x) on his marriage certificate.

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