Outback Graves Markers

Edward COFFEY

Burial Location:Kathleen Valley  (details...)
Occupation: Hotelier
Place of Death: Yellow Aster Hotel, Kathleen Valley
Date of Death: 03 January 1906
Age:44 years
Cause of Death:Unknown
OGM Ref#: 0625
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
Monument Style: Large solid stone cross on top of a small plinth, resting on a larger plinth at the head of the grave. Grave is surrounded by a tall iron fence with ornate top on each post.

Inscription

IHS
........ (Illegible)
Memory of
EDWARD
(Three more lines unable to be read)

This is a photograph Ref 0625 Edward Coffey Kathleen Valley Cemetery

Ref 0625 Edward Coffey Kathleen Valley Cemetery

This is a photograph of Plaque number 625 for Edward COFFEY, at Kathleen Valley

REF 0625 EDWARD COFFEY KATHLEEN VALLEY

Biography

Edward Coffey was the proprietor of the Yellow Aster Hotel at Kathleen Valley.  He was taken seriously ill and the Reverend Dean Drayne was called to his bedside.  The following day he took a turn for the worse and gradually sank into his death.

The deceased was well-known throughout the East Murchison Goldfield and had been in occupation of the Yellow Aster Hotel for a number of years.
Mr Coffey left a wife and three young children.
Edward Coffey left his estate to Catherine Helen Phillibent Coffey.  It was valued at £413 9s. Id.
 
Parents:Father: Michael COFFEY
Spouse:Catherine Helen Phillibent UNKNOWN SURNAME
Children:John Edward Prendergast born 1898 at Bardoc (Birth Registration 91/1898); Kathleen Mary born 1902 at Claremont (Birth Registration 353/1902), possibly one other child, details unknown.
Birth Details:Born circa 1862, possibly in Ireland
Death Certificate:4500002/1906, East Murchison