Reference:

Thomas Morgan, 67, laborer, died 6 October 1919 at District Hospital, Albury, of malignant disease of the gall ducts and omenitum [stomach cancer], asthenia [weakness] and heart failure - [duration] indefinite, 2 days. Father, John Morgan, stone mason. Mother, Elizabeth Blueart. Informant K. Walsh, matron, District Hospital, Albury, registered 9 October 1919. Buried 8 October 1919, Albury cemetery. James T Swain [undertaker], F. Bevan [minister] Church of England, E. Long and J. F. Monk [witnesses]. Born Penzance, England. [time in colony/state] - not known. [place married] - Broken Hill, NSW, [age at marriage] - 37, [spouse] - Angelina Mulville, [children of marriage] - no issue.

A very interesting death certificate, which long eluded me, as I had only been focusing on Victoria, and because the NSW Registry does not list the mother's maiden name in their index (most unhelpful - and their certificate purchase price is exorbitant). Age 37 at marriage suggests 1888, the year after Thomas returned to Melbourne and cracked it with Angelina and her new husband. Could he have married a second time? The death certificate states no issue. Surely Thomas knew he had a son. Perhaps he knew that his son John Morgan had predeceased him in 1915.

J.F. Monk (1858-1933) was a local contractor in Albury and possibly had a work relationship with Thomas, as employer, or fellow employee. E. Long may have been Mrs Ellen Long (1863-1923) of Albury. Ellen was known for her charitable and patriotic work. Perhaps she ran a boarding house and Thomas was her lodger? Perhaps she encountered him through her charity work, working at the hospital? It is comforting to think that people he knew attended his burial.