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Cause of death - double pneumonia and exhaustion
John died a week before Christmas, and nine weeks after his first and only child was born.
Grace was still married to William Lenderyou when she married Gabriel Blewett in Melbourne in 1862. The marriage to Gabriel was bigamous (this was known in the Blewett Morgan family and was, for Gabriel's sister Elizabeth at least, a bone of contention). William Lenderyou was living with his parents in Helston, Cornwall, when the 1861 census was taken. Grace had already emigrated to Victoria in October 1858 with her youngest brother William Arthur, without her husband in tow. William Arthur married in Fitzroy on 9 April 1862 (VIC BDM 1878/1862), six days later, and Grace was one of the witnesses. Their marriages appear one after the other in the marriage register.
The name Godfrey presumably comes from one of the witnesses at Grace and Gabriel’s remarriage in 1865, William John Godfrey.
An Edward Blewett was listed as ratepayer and owner of a property in King William Street Fitzroy in 1858. This Edward Blewett and Gabriel Blewett (unclear whether Gabriel senior or his son) were listed as ratepayers on a property in King William Street Fitzroy for which Edward Blewett was still listed as the owner in 1859. This predates Edward Blewett's apparent arrival in Australia in late 1859, and begs the question, did he arrive in Melbourne before his father and brothers (in 1853, at the age of 16 or 17 - feasible?), and perhaps return to England before the 1859 voyage with his mother and sister. I have no evidence (yet) for this possibility. Or for reasons unknown perhaps the Blewetts in Melbourne registered a house in the name of their absent youngest son/brother. In 1860 and 1861 Gabriel Blewett was listed as the ratepayer and owner of the same property. The 1861 record notes the property's number as 63. It is the same property in all four records for 1858-1861, as the neighbouring property in the same records is owned by John Levy.
Could this Edward Blewett be another related Blewett? Perhaps a brother of the elder Gabriel? Longshot.
Henry Pocock was fifteen years older than Elizabeth and a very recent widower, with a married daughter and fifteen-year-old son; no doubt he wanted another domestic to look after his house and son. Elizabeth still had her children Gabriel, 8½, and Fanny, 2½, to look after. Elizabeth’s use of the surname Morgan at her father’s inquest three months after marrying suggests that the marriage may already have fallen apart in that short space of time.
Gabriel Blewett was a juror at the inquest held in Fitzroy, 3 January 1860, into the death of Michael John Kelly, a ten week old baby who was accidentally suffocated in his parents' bed. By the evidence of the signature it appears to have been the younger Gabriel.