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John Morris PRIOR

Burial Location:Menzies Cemetery  (details...)
Occupation: Miner
Place of Death: The Four Mile, Menzies
Date of Death: 14 August 1896
Date of Burial:15 August 1896
Age:24 years
Cause of Death:Acute Pleurisy Syncope
OGM Ref#: 2678
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
This is a photograph of plaque number 2678 for JOHN MORRIS PRIOR at MENZIES

REF 2678 JOHN MORRIS PRIOR MENZIES

Biography

The deceased died intestate and subsequently, Letters of Administration were to be granted to Mary Ann Prior, his mother, a widow, of View Street, Bendigo.  It is believed the deceased had a brother named Stanley.

John Morris' father, Johann Melchior Prior, was born 1843 in Merkel, Hesse Cassel, Prussia.  His wife was born about 1845 in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Wales.  She arrived in Hobart on 20 January 1853 on the Derwent Water.  The couple married in 1866 in Sandhurst, Victoria, where their twelve children were born.  They were: Louisa born 1867; Emily Elizabeth born 1869; Wilhemina Edith born 1870; John Morris born 1871; Beatrice Elizabeth born and died in 1873; Maud Agnes Mary born 1874; James Ernest born 1876; Robert Norman born 1878; Adelaide born 1880; Gerald born and died 1881; Stanley born 23 December 1882; Irene born 1887.

John Melchior Prior died 12 March 1889 at View Street, Sandhurst.  His widow died 24 September 1909 in Bendigo.

It was reported in late August 1896, that John Morris Prior left for the west in February 1896. He spent some time in Coolgardie, and about six weeks before his death, he went on to Menzies, where he was employed at the Menzies Consolidated, under Mr. Weekley, the well known Bendigo mining manager. On Tuesday last, his relatives received a letter from him, in which he stated that he was in the best of health. The following Friday morning, however, his brother-in-law, Mr. Walter Reynell, got a telegram stating that he was dead. The cause of death was pleurisy. 

 

Parents:Mary Ann (nee WILLIAMS) and Johann Melchior PRIOR (Baker)
Birth Details:Born 1871 in Bendigo, Victoria; Birth Registration 19360/1871, Sandhurst
Death Certificate:482/1896