Reference:

Elizabeth Morgan, 70 years, died 1 November 1894 Hospital, Gipps Ward, City of Melbourne, County of Bourke, [??] Abbotsford, of senile debility, exhaustion (not known), P. P. Dowling, 1 November 1894. [Father/Mother] - not known. Informant A. Allen, Hall Porter, Hospital, Melbourne. Registered 3 November 1894, East Melbourne. Buried 3 November 1894 New Cemetery Melbourne. Witnesses of burial: M. Brennan, [??] G Clowes. [where born, how long in Australian Colonies, if married, issue] - not known.

This Elizabeth was aged 70, which was probably an approximation, as no other particulars were known. Our Elizabeth was a month or so off 68 in late 1894, so this could have been her (her father died at 70 and both her adult sons died at 69). I have examined all other possibilities in the 1890s and beyond and eliminated them all, leaving this as a real possibility. The inclusion of Abbotsford in the place of death, under the Hospital (where she actually died) may indicate her place of residence immediately before admission to the Melbourne Hospital, which fits what I know of Elizabeth.

She was buried on 3 November 1894, as so many paupers were, in an unmarked (pauper’s) grave in the ‘Other Denominations’ section of the Melbourne General Cemetery, with cemetery staff as witnesses – elderly Joseph Clowes, the longtime resident clerk, and Michael Brennan, 27 years caretaker of the cemetery, who stipulated for himself a flowerless funeral in 1901. (Joseph Clowes witnessed the burial of Frances Louisa Morgan, Elizabeth's granddaughter, and would also witness the burial of her daughter Fanny Morgan five years later.)

Question: Where were Thomas, Gabriel and Fanny in 1894?