I'm trying to find the death of Charles Plunkett Cowdroy who was born in 1867 Wagonga in Australia. I can see he bought and sold land. He death doesn't appear in the nsw bdm index but on the 26 Nov 1892, the Sydney Morning Herald has an order of the court against his estate.

Does this mean he could have died in another place and the NSW government still picks up the estate duty? Since I can't find his death, could I be cheeky and just record it as 1892 somewhere?

jhan - 2019-12-25 12:50:00

https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au
A Charles Cowdroy death at 40 Bushby Street on Christmas Day is reported in the Singleton Argus of 20 February 1892
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/82446810
Story is probably from UK.

www.gro.gov.uk
COWDROY, CHARLES Age 0
GRO Reference: 1892 D Quarter in CAMBERWELL Volume 01D Page 521
But this is a year later than Christmas 1891. Something fishy.

Edited by stock at 4:46 pm, Wed 25 Dec

stock - 2019-12-25 16:46:00

Correction: The street was Busby.
Illustrated Police News, London, Saturday, Jan. 9, 1892 has a coroners report of the death of Charles Cowdrey, aged 34, artificial florist, lately of 25 Church row.
Age 34 in 1891 = born about 1857. Too old for your man?

stock - 2019-12-25 17:22:00

New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes 1891 (via Ancestry) has a Wagonga property title issued to Charles P Cowdroy.

stock - 2019-12-25 17:35:00

stock wrote:

Correction: The street was Busby.
Illustrated Police News, London, Saturday, Jan. 9, 1892 has a coroners report of the death of Charles Cowdrey, aged 34, artificial florist, lately of 25 Church row.
Age 34 in 1891 = born about 1857. Too old for your man?

Yes and the Charles Plunkett was into land transactions although he was so young. He was born to Charles Collas Cowdroy and Mary Susan Atfield, they had nine children, Charles Plunkett was the eldest. Both his parents were still alive in 1892. You would think they would put a notice in the paper.

jhan - 2019-12-25 17:45:00

Ahha.
20th Feb 1892 London
Charles Cowdroy staggered into the house of a friend named George Nottage, a cabinet maker, at 10 Busby-street, on Christmas Day, very drunk. He was placed on the bed, and the dinner was proceeded with Cowdroy snoring loudly meanwhile. After dinner the party made merry and singing was indulged in. About 6 o'clock a young widow, to whom Cowdrey. was engaged, endeavored to rouse him by tickling his feet, but as this proved ineffectual other means were resorted, and it was then discovered that he was dead. Death was due to apoplexy ?

jhan - 2019-12-25 17:59:00

jhan wrote:

He death doesn't appear in the nsw bdm index

Consider this as a possibly fractured transcription of old handwriting:
familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au
CAWDSAY CHARLES P 4960/1892 Father UNKNOWN Mother UNKNOWN
DUBBO (20/7/1892)

stock - 2019-12-25 20:41:00

Thanks for that, now i have a choice. I wonder why though, a young man would have no relatives listed? Curiosor and curiosor.

jhan - 2019-12-25 21:16:00

Dubbo is a long way from his home area (700 km by Google's fastest route today from Wagonga ) and maybe he was visiting or had just moved there and the locals may not have known him that well. Can't find any item in the Aussie papers either.
"Cawdsay" is clutching at straws but it's one possibility when there aren't many apparent. AUD35!! might give you some insights.

Edited by stock at 9:42 pm, Wed 25 Dec

stock - 2019-12-25 21:41:00

Yes, but London is even further from home and he would have had to spend some time there to meet a young women and become engaged.

jhan - 2019-12-25 22:23:00

I don't think the London fellow is your man. He is in the 1891 England census and wasn't born in Australia and the age isn't a good fit.
Odds are that "Cawdsay" is your man.

stock - 2019-12-25 22:54:00