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Richard ROWLANDS

Burial Location:Kookynie  (details...)
Occupation: Miner
Place of Death: Cosmo Street, Kookynie
Date of Death: 20 December 1912
Date of Burial:22 December 1912
Age:49 years
Cause of Death:Supposed Mordus Cordis
OGM Ref#: 1985
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
This is a photograph of plaque number 1985 for RICHARD ROWLANDS at KOOKYNIE

REF 1985 RICHARD ROWLANDS KOOKYNIE

Biography

Richard Rowlands was found dead in a vacant house in Cosmo street, Kookynie, on the morning of Saturday 21 December. Not much was known of him except that he came from Leonora some three weeks previously, where he had been an inmate of the Government Hospital, suffering from heart trouble. It was the finding of the Justice who held a Magisterial Inquiry at Kookynie on 20 December 1912, Mr J.C. Harvey, Acting Coroner, that the deceased died of a "supposed Mordus Cordis". The deceased is buried in the Non-Conformist portion of the Kookynie Cemetery.

Birth Details:Circa 1863, Wales
Death Certificate:14/1912, North Coolgardie
State Records Office: ROWLANDS, Richard - Kookynie AU WA S2323 cons5790 1912/308 Item 1913-03-07 - Part of INTESTATE FILES (PUBLIC TRUSTEE)