BAXTER, Joseph Houghton, 51 Park St., Kelvin Grove. The Relatives & Friends of Mr. & Mrs. A. G. Baxter, Mr. & Mrs. S. Baxter, Mr. & Mrs. E. Crabb. Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Baxter, Mrs. E. West & Families are respectfully advised of the death of their beloved Father, Father-in-law, & Grandfather. The Funeral is appointed to leave his late residence, 51 Park St., To-day (Monday), at 10 o'clock, for Toowong Cemetery, arriving 10.20.
Family Notices (1945, March 12). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), , p. 6. Link to TROVE
BAXTER. The -Relatives and Friends of Mr. Joseph H. Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. West and Family, Mr. and Mrs. E. Crabb and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Baxter and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Baxter and family and Mr. and Mrs. S. Baxter are invited to attend the funeral of his beloved Wife and their Mother, Mother-in-law and Grandmother, Mary Ann Baxter, to leave the Residence, 51 Park Street, Kelvin Grove, To-morrow (Friday) Morning, at 10 o'clock, for interment in the Toowong Cemetery,
Family Notices (1939, July 6). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 16 (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS). Link to TROVE
BAXTER. In loving memory of my dear Wife and Mother, Mary Ann, who departed this life on July 6th.
Sleep on beloved and rest.
Inserted by her husband, sons, daughters, daughter-in-law and sons-in-law.
Family Notices (1941, July 5). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 16 (LATE WEEK END). Link to TROVE
Baxter, Letitia, late of Grenier-street, Toowoomba, wife of Thomas, Baxter; died December 10, 1910 , realty £670, personalty £134. Probate granted to Thomas Baxter, husband of deceased. Groom and Lavers (by Crouch and Eden), solicitors.
PROBATES AND ADMINISTRATIONS. (1911, March 23). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 3. Link to TROVE
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Josiah DENT
When his wife Eliza died, she was interred with him
TOOWOOMBA POLICE COURT, Thursday, Feb. 14th. Before his Worship the Mayor.
Josiah Dent appeared on summons charged by Constable Maloney, with having, on the 18 th instant, made use of obscene language in the public streets. Defendant admitted the charge, but pleaded drunkenness as an excuse. Fined £2, and in default of payment one month's imprisonment.
LOCAL AND DOMESTIC. (1861, February 28). The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser (Toowoomba, Qld. : 1858 - 1880), p. 3. Link to TROVE
Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs General Advertiser newspaper
Thursday, January 20, 1887
        In our obituary columns this morning is announced the death of one of the first settlers in the Toowoomba district - indeed, we believe we are justified in stating that he was the oldest resident of this town.
The late Mr. Josiah DENT was an old identity, and he carries us back to the period when the present site of Toowoomba formed a part of a Gowrie sheep station, and when only about 30 or 40 splitters and fencers were located on the Main Range. Mr. DENT was a useful man in his way.
He leaves a grown up family of sons and daughters to mourn their loss. He died on Tuesday of bronchitis after an illness of ten days and at the ripe age of 71 years.
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Mercury Newspaper article index 1836.
Commitments to the County Gaol, Josiah DENT and John ROGERS, Charged with stopping Benjamin BULL on the King's Highway in the Parish of Floore, and robbing him of a silver watch, &c. See article.
Summer assizes Josiah DENT, 19, and John ROGERS, 18, charged with stopping Benjamin BULL on the King's Highway, at Floore, and robbing him of a silver watch, a purse, and a shilling. See article.
TOOWOOMBA'S FIRST CITIZEN
Toowoomba in 1849 had a population of one - when Josiah Dent pitched his tent at The Swamp. To-day Dent street, Toowoomba, runs where Joseph boiled his billy, built the first bark hut and later the first wooden house. To-day the population is over 29,000.
TOOWOOMBA'S FIRST CITIZEN. (1940, February 8). Queensland Country Life (Qld. : 1900 - 1954), p. 11. Link to TROVE
Monday, September, 4th.
(Before the Police Magistrate.)
Josiah Dent, brought up on bail for being drunk; was fined 10s., or 48 hours in the lock-up.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH. (1865, September 6). The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser (Toowoomba, Qld. : 1858 - 1880), p. 3. Link to TROVE
AROSE FROM SWAMP
Toowoomba's Humble Beginning
IT is a long way back to the day in 1849 when Josiah Dent pitched his tent near The Swamp. A humble bush worker, Josiah did not know that he was the first citizen of Toowoomba - that busy Dent Street now crosses the site of his camp. He laid the 'foundation stone' of the city - his was the first tent, the first bark hut, and the first wooden house. On the site of his house now, stand the rest rooms of the Toowoomba branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association. The Darling Downs of those years boasted a population of only a few hundred, and the settlement of Drayton was the 'capital.' To-day the people of the Downs number 116,000, and Toowoomba's one-man tent has grown to the leading centre supporting 29,000.
AROSE FROM SWAMP. (1939, March 12). Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Qld. : 1926 - 1954), p. 16. Link to TROVE
Josiah Dent was charged with having feloniously stopped Benjamin Bull on the 4th of Nov. last, and robbed him of a silver watch, of the value of 15s. and a purse, containing 1s.
Benjamin Bull desposed that on the night in question he was drinking at a public house at Floore, in the same room as the prisoner. John Rogers was in company with Dent, and went out with him just before the prosecutor left. When on his way to Brockhall the prisoner Dent, and Rogers, threw him down; one of the prisoners (he does not know which) took the purse out of his pocket, and the prisoner, Dent, took the watch.
Cross-examined by Mr. Miller. - Was drinking at the public house from half-past four until he left, at half-past ten o'clock. Remembers a man blacking his face with soot at the public house. Asked nobody to go to the Dun Cow or the Royal Oak.
John Rogers comes out of prison to give evidence. On Nov. 4th., witness, the prosecutor, the prisoner, and several others, were at the public house, at Floore. Dent and witness left together. Prisoner proposed to witness to go together to the Brockhall road, and wait till Bull came back, that they might rob him. They did so; Dent knocked Bull down, and witness held him whilst Dent took from him his watch and purse.
Cross-examined by Mr. Miller. - Bull was very fresh; recollects his wanting to go up the chimney. Dent blackened his face, and asked him if that would not satisfy him without going up the chimney. Recollects the landlord threatening to turn Bull out. Dent knocked down Bull; witness had nothing to do with it; Dent did it, and took from the prosecutor the watch and the purse. Prosecutor invited witness and Dent to go to the Dun Cow and the Royal Oak; and they went, but the houses were shut up. Dent's father and Bull work together on the farm, and were old friends. Denies that Dent ran against prosecutor for a lark, and that he (witness) took advantage of his being down, and unknown to Dent, whipped out the watch. Was with prisoner when he was taken up at Brinklow.
In summing up, his Lordship dwelt with great force on the contradictions in the statements of the prosecutor and the accomplice-witness. The jury consulted for about five minutes, and found the prisoner Guilty. His Lordship desired the Sentence of Death to be Recorded, but stated that he highly disapproved of the mode of conducting the prosecution, and had been disgusted with the prevarications of the prosecutor; he should, therefore, recommend the prisoner to mercy.
When the Fairlie
arrived in Brisbane on the Monday, 7 August 1848, two of the passengers were Matthew ADLAM aged 20 and an ag-labourer and his wife Eliza also aged 20 years.
Matthew`s parents were Robert and Sarah and both were dead. Eliza`s parents were Phillip and Anne and both were still living.
Her son Alfred gave some information on her death certificate about date and place of birth.
Her obituary was reported in The Toowoomba Chronicle Thursday, 10 August 1899 and it was stated that she was a native of the Clarence River district and had lost her parents when she was a child and was adopted by Dr. Colin Buchanan.
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Josiah DENT
01 - Nov - 2014
[[00744]] McDOUGAL, Alexander, parents James McDOUGALL & Elizabeth MONTGOMERY
McDOUGALL.In loving memory of our dear mother, Agnes McDougall, who departed this life, at Mount Crosby, on February 14, 1912.
Gentle in mind, patient in pain,
Our dear loved one left us heaven to gain ;
With actions so noble, loving, and kind,
Few in this world her equal could find.
Not gone from memory, not gone from love,
But gone to the Father's home above.
(Inserted by her loving son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. McDougall and family.)
McDOUGALL.In loving memory of our dear grandmother, Agnes McDougall, who departed this life, at Mount Crosby, on February 14, 1912.
Short was her time from life to death ;
Not a word to her loved ones did say ;
Her eyes closed in death, as a babe in its sleep,
And she silently passed away.
(Inserted by her loving grand-children, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Howie and family.)
McDOUGALL.In loving memory of our dear grandmother, Agnes McDougall, who departed this life, at Mount Crosby, on February 14, 1912.
Softly at night the stars are gleaming
Upon a silent grave,
Where sleepeth without dreaming
One we loved but could not save.
Fond thoughts may linger round our hearts,
And tears may often flow ;
But to that sad and lonely grave
Our thoughts sill ofttimes go.
(Inserted by her loving grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Mrs. W. H. Greasley and family.)
Family Notices (1913, February 14). Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), , p. 4 (Daily). Link to TROVE
On Thursday, 13 August 1908,  in Bundaberg, a Susan Radford aged 76, applied for and obtained a pension of ten shillings per week. At this time she had been in Australia for 51 years.
RADFORD. At her Residence, Princess Street, East Bundaberg, on the 13th. August, 1923, "SUSAN." Aged 91 years.
Deeply Regretted.
The Friends of the late MRS. W. RADFORD, also the friends of her Family, are respectfully invited to attend her FUNERAL, which will move from her late residence, Princess Street, East Bundaberg, THIS DAY, at 3 p.m. for interment in the General Cemetery.
Family Notices (1923, August 14). The Bundaberg Mail (Qld. : 1917 - 1925), p. 2. Link to TROVE
The funeral of the late Mrs. Susan Radford, whose death, at the age of 91 years, occurred at her residence East Bundaberg, on Monday last took place to the General Cemetery yesterday afternoon, and was well attended by relatives and sympathising friends.
The burial scrvlce was read by Rev. B. P. Walker, and the funeral arrangements were conducted by Messrs. F. C. Brown and Co. Several floral tributes were placed on the grave.
PERSONAL. (1923, August 15). The Bundaberg Mail (Qld. : 1917 - 1925), p. 5. Link to TROVE
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John RADFORD
The ship Parsee on which the Radford family arrived in Australia sailed from England on Monday, 14 November 1856. A total of 28 passengers died on the voyage and only four of those were older than four years of age.
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John RADFORD
FUNERAL-The friends of the late Mr. THOMAS RADFORD are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, to move from his late residence Constance street, Fortitude Valley, THIS DAY (Thursday) at 3 p. m.
Family Notices. (1875, March 4). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 1. Link to TROVE
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John RADFORD
01 - Oct - 2013
[[00749]] JOHNSON, Jane, father unknown and unknown mother
At the time of her wedding Jane could not write and on the register she only made her mark. As was the case in the early days her place of birth and parent information was not recorded.
RADFORD. In loving memory of Jane Radford, who departed this life on 1st March, 1919.
Gone, but not forgotten.
Inserted by her loving daughter and grand- children.
Family Notices (1921, March 1). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 4. Link to TROVE
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John RADFORD
Also at the same address in 1934 were, Cynthia Beryl May, Music  Teacher, Douglas Halford,  Compositor, Errol Warren,
Labourer & Hannah, Home Duties.
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Josiah DENT