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Arrival date: 'Shipping Intelligence', The Age, 12 January 1859, p.4.
Grace was buried in the same plot, WES*A****185*, as her children Emma Catherine (1864) and John (1867), in the Melbourne General Cemetery. Her husband Gabriel lay dying in the Melbourne Hospital when Grace died.
Gabriel was buried in the same plot, WES*A****185*, as his wife Grace (1868) and children Emma Catherine (1864) and John (1867), in the Melbourne General Cemetery.
Emma Catherine Blewett was buried in plot WES*A****185* at the Melbourne General Cemetery in 1864, to be followed by her brother John (1867), mother Grace (1868) and father Gabriel (1869), all buried together.
Gabriel was working on a building site on Wellington Parade in East Melbourne and fell 20 feet from scaffolding. Suffering from severe head and spinal injuries he was admitted to Melbourne Hospital that day, and unlike perhaps luckier men who fell from scaffolding and died instantly or within days, Gabriel Blewett took seventeen long months to die in hospital. Crumpled in a heap, he’d probably been hauled off the ground by his colleagues and bundled into a cab, exacerbating the spinal damage, resulting in paraplegia. There was no inquest into his death. (Had he died immediately of his injuries there would have been an inquest.) He was attended by surgeon William Gilbee (patient records).
VIC BDM death certificate 606/1864, age 8 months, Emma Catherine Blewitt [sic].