This unknown pioneer died about 1905 and is buried at Mount Morgans in Section A, Plot number 58.

Ada Mary Onslow and William Burrows were married 9 January 1893 in Victoria (Marriage Registration 1175/1893). Their family of 8 children consisted of five boys and 3 girls. one of each of which were stillborn. Others were: Harold William born 4 May 1893, Victoria; Stella Nina born 1896 in Victoria; Irene Daphne born 1897 in Victoria; son Searle Albany born 1899 in Albany, Western Australia; an unnamed male 1900, Albany; Norman Sydney born Leederville, in 1905; Stanley Roy born 19 June 1906 in Guildford. Ada died in 1920 in Perth and William died in 1928 at Leederville.

The deceased in New Zealand for 47 years before moving to Western Australia. His parents married on 5 February 1833, in Hull, Yorkshire. They had six children, of which William was the fifth. The others were: George born 1833; John Thomas born 1836; Maria Elizabeth born 1837; Elizabeth H born 1839; Sarah A born 1844. John Caley, a farmer who was born in 1795, died in 1845, leaving 6 children under 12 years of age to be cared for by his wife. In 1861, William was a carter and farmer for his mother, who died 18 January 1892. It is not known when William emigrated to Australia.

Alexander Campbell was found dead near Redcastle on the old Menzies-Mt. Margaret road. At the inquest, evidence showed that the deceased had been struck by lightning and a verdict to that effect was returned.

James Campbell was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1872, his wife, Ellen, in Laura, South Australia. They married 28 December 1895 in Broken Hill, New South Wales (Marriage Registration 1823/1896 Broken Hill). Their son, James, was born on 12 August 1897, an unnamed female in 1899 in Malcolm and finally little William. Their eldest son died in 1968 in Perth. Ellen Campbell died on 6 September, 1901, a few weeks after the birth of little William. On 26 October, the Laverton newspaper reported: "The infant son of Mr. J. Campbell, aged four and a half month, died here on Wednesday morning. The cause of death was gastro enteric. Dr Crutchley refused to grant a certificate of death and an inquiry will be held on Friday. The body was interred in the local cemetery on Wednesday afternoon." On 9 November 1901 the same newspaper stated: "Coronial Enquiry November 4 The finding of the jury in connection with the inquiry held concerning the death of the child William Campbell was that the child died through natural causes, and that no blame is attached to the foster parents in any way." The enquiry was held at Mt Morgans on 25 October 1901. The name of the foster parents is unknown.

The child's older brother, Ernest Frederick, was born at Mt Morgans in 1905 (Birth Registration 3980.1905, Mt Morgan). The children's parents were married at Mt Morgans in 1903 (Marriage Registration 1021/1903). The little girl was stillborn after a prolonged labour. The deceased child was buried in Section C, Plot #4 at Mt Morgans Cemetery.

At the Coroner's Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Walter Thomas Clabburn, the Coroner, Warden Burt, was assisted by a jury of Messrs White, Colreavy and Johnston, who viewed the body at the morgue on Tuesday 18 February at 3pm.  Warden Burt then presided over the proceedings at the Court House, Morgans.

William Clarke accidentally fell a distance of 30ft. into the open cut on the Westralia Mount Morgans mine, Mt. Morgans, on Friday night. He died the next day from the injuries received.

Known as Jack.

The child's siblings were Walter William born in Malcolm in 1901 (Birth Registration 3098/1901, Malcolm), Winifred Gabel born in Mt Morgans in 1904 (Birth Registration 3773/1904, Mt Morgans) and Raymond Graham born in Boulder in 1907 (Birth Registration 266/1907, Boulder).

The children's parents were married in Malcolm in 1900 (Marriage Registration 923/1900, Malcolm). William Hugh was born in South Australia in 1876 and his wife born in Queensland in 1877.

Little Harold John was buried in Section A of the Mt Morgans Cemetery, plot number 52.

On Thursday, 24 November, an inquest was conducted into the death of the deceased, at which Mr JB McFarlane stated he was a partner with the deceased in the Bow Bells quartz claim, from which they had a crushing two weeks ago.

The deceased came into Mt. Morgans and was drinking for four days. He returned to camp the previous Sunday and worked all day Monday. In the evening he seemed peculiar and said people were talking about him and that his friends in Morgans seemed to ignore him. The following morning he went to work in the drive, where he was putting down a winze. Some time later, the deceased fired a charge of dynamite. At noon, McFarlane returned to the surface and, not seeing Davies, called him. Not getting a reply, he went below but could not find him. Accompanied by Henry Stephens and James Williams, McFarlane went to Davies' camp, where they found the deceased dead in the bough shed with a shot gun lying at his feet. A piece of thick twine was attached to the trigger. There was a wound in about the centre of the body.

McFarlane found two papers in the camp which he believed were written by the deceased. One was bidding his wife and family farewell and asking their forgiveness for committing the rash deed. The other was an unwitnessed will leaving his interest in the mine to his son. Mr James Williams gave similar evidence. Dr Crutchley, who had held a postmortem examination, said the deceased had consulted him and he, the doctor, had found Davies' mental condition was not normal, owing to excessive drinking.

The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died by a gunshot wound self-inflicted while temporarily insane. Davies' widow and children were widely known and highly respected in Morgans and the district. The deceased was one of three children born to John and Ann Davies. He had two older sisters, Martha and Charlotte. He had lived in Victoria for 8 years before moving to Western Australia. Prior to that, he had lived in New South Wales.

David Davies was born in Llanddausant, Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1861. In 1883, he married Margaret Warren, who was born in 1862 at Lambton, New South Wales. The couple began their family in 1883 with the birth of William Stanley. Next came Clarice Hilda in 1885; Cecil Warren in 1888; David in 1889; Rhoda in 1893; Vida Warren in 1896 and a fourth daughter, Idris Morgan. Her birth was registered by her older brother, William Stanley, who was, by that stage, 21 years of age.

The deceased spent 12 years in Victoria and 14 years in New South Wales after migrating to Australia.

His youngest son, William, also died at Mt Morgans in November the following year, when he was killed by a fall of earth.  Young William's story also appears in this website.  Father and son are buried together in Section C, Plot 18 of the Mt Morgans Cemetery.

The deceased had just gone on afternoon shift when the accident happened, a fall of earth crushing him.

Mrs Davis' husband was the engineer on the Millionaire Mine. Mrs Davis joined her husband at Mt Morgans just 2 months before her death.