Outback Graves Markers

William Edgar GILLARD

Burial Location:Yundamindra  (details...)
Occupation: Blacksmith
Place of Death: Murrin Murrin
Date of Death: 24 November 1906
Age:33 years
Cause of Death:Dehydration & Dysentery
OGM Ref#: 0353
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
Monument Style: Outback Grave Marker
REF 0353

REF 0353

Biography

The deceased left £495 to John Thomas McNamara.

Parents:Margaret McGRATH and Robert Dyer GILLARD (clerk)
Spouse:Ethel May HILL
Marriage Details:1903, Kookynie; Marriage Reg.No.547/1903; district Kookynie
Children:William Robert April 1904 (Birth Reg.No.2020/1904; district Yundamindra), David Michael 23 May 1905 (Birth Reg.No.5252/1905; district Perth)
Birth Details:1873, Richmond, Victoria; Birth Reg.No.5072/1873; district Richmond
Death Certificate:70/1906; district Mt Margaret
Comments:Gillard was a good man, a very strict Catholic and made his wife promise to bring the children up as Catholics.
His wife, Ethel was born in 1885 in Adelaide and married again to Fletcher William HOGARTH (1866-1931). They had twins, Keith and Ethel, born 31 December 1910, and Garry, born March 1919.