Jane Saunders' mother was Margaret Carroll who first married John Saunders and later married William Turner.
Jane married Edward Richard Brigden (born Waterloo, Sydney) in Mudgee in 1878. Their children were:
- EDWARD ERNEST - born 1878, died 1954 (in NZ)
- LILY MAUD - born 1880, married John Copas in 1901 in Wellington, later married Albert Thompson in 1910 in Mudgee. She died in Botany aged 71 in 1952.
- WILLIAM OLIVER - born 1883 - died 1902*
- HARVEY/HARRY W - born 1885
- FREDERICK O - born 1887
- HILDA D - born 1889 married Mr James G Yates in 1918 in Sydney
- ELSIE M - born 1891, married Edgar H Deves/Deaves in Sydney in 1920
- IVY C - born 1893 married Mr Val Taylor in Gulgong in 1911
- ESTELLE/STELLA - born 1895
- CLARICE R - born 1900
In 1905, Jane's husband died when his coach overturned, leaving her to raise their large family. Jane Brigden died in 1942 in Sydney. Obituary below.
Jane Brigden (seated) with Cedric Martin and Roy Brigden (Harry Brigden's son)
1913 - WHAT IS A PRIVATE HOSPITAL? APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION.MUDGEE, Wednesday.An interesting case under the Private Hospital Act was heard by Acting Judge Hamilton at the Mudgee Quarter Sessions to-day. Jane Brigden appealed against a conviction at the Gulgong Police Court on January 6 last, by Mr. W. S. Arnott, P.M., for keeping a private hospital against the provisions of theAct. Mr. Colin Davidson, instructed by Mr. F. S. Stacy appeared for the appellant; and Mr. O'Reilly in support of the conviction.Appellant's case was that the house kept by her was only a boarding house, but the Crown case was that as lying-in patients had been treated there, the place came under the Act, which described a private hospital as any building, tent, or place (other than institution wholly or in part supported by the State) inwhich medical or surgical or lying-in cases are received and lodged and a charge made for such treatment, attendance, or care. Appellant contended that as boarders brought their own nurse and doctor, the place did not come under the Act.Mr. O'Reilly, however, submitted that the Act did not state that a charge for treatment must be made by the same person who lodged the patients. The fact that they were treated and a charge made for treatment, no matter by whom, constituted a breach of the Act.Mr. Davidson supposed a case in which a person sick in an hotel sent for a doctor without reference to the hotelkeeper, and a doctor treated him and made a charge, and if that were done twice in one month, the hotel would be a private hospital within the meaning of the Act, according to the Crown argument.His Honor thought it depended on whether the house was intended for the purpose of treatment. He reserved his decision.
1942 - DEATH Mrs. Jane BrigdenTHE death occurred in Sydney recently of an ex-Gulgong resident, Mrs. Jane Brigden, at the residence of her daughter at 515 Bourke Street, Surry Hills. Deceased was the widow of the late Mr. E. R. Brigden, who years ago lived in Mudgee, and was employed at the late Mr. Cameron's cordial factory.He afterwards came to Gulgong to establish a similar factory here. He later went to Cobbora where he took over the hotel. Leaving Cobbora he became licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Gulgong. It will be remembered that he was killed when conveying a team of Gulgong footballers home from Mudgee in a horse-drawn waggonette.The late Mrs. Brigden, who was 82 years of age, will be remembered by friends at Mudgee, Gulgong and Cobbora, who will regret to learn of her passing. She was an aunt of Messrs. Alf and Roy Brigden, of Gulgong.Our sympathy is extended.
1942 - BRIGDEN.—February 8, at her daughter's residence, 515 Bourke Street, Surry Hills, Jane, wife of the late E. R. Brigden, of Gulgong, loving mother of Edward, Lily, Willie (deceased), Harry, Fred, Hilda, May, Ivy, Stella, and Clarice, aged 82 years.
Jane Brigden aged 82 with her granddaughter, Marjory Brigden
(daughter of Harry and Rachel Brigden).
(daughter of Harry and Rachel Brigden).
Source: Lorraine Bertram
