Friday, August 16, 2024

AUSTRIAN HISTORY

AUSTRIAN IMMIGRANTS

  • HASDOVAZ, MATTHEW
  • SERSICH, GEORGIO
  • SPALATRINO, LOUIS
  • URAR, STEPHEN
  • VIZULIN, ANTONIO
LOCAL DEATHS TO 1910

15.10.1897
STEPHEN URAR, a miner aged 45 years, died from "BURN LEG ARMS DEUOD ULCERA PEROTONITIS" of 8 days duration. Informant was Julia May Burke, hospital matron. (NSW BDM 11954/1897)
Place of death: Gulgong Hospital
Place of burial: Gulgong (RC Cem)
BURKE JULIA MAY Glg Hos Matron
Born in Austria to a gardener [name unknown]
Length in Colony: 20 years (4 years in Victoria)
NOT MARRIED

10.08.1898
MATTHEW HASDOVAZ, an alluvial gold miner aged 63 years, died from "ACUTE PNEUMONIA & GANGRENE OF THE LUNG" of 7 days duration. Informant was  Julia May Burke, hospital matron. (NSW BDM 9620/1898)
Place of death: Gulgong Hospital
Place of burial: Gulgong
Born in Austria to PETERIE HASDOVAZ, a miller, and [mother unknown]
Length in Colony: 30 years (1o years in SA, and 10 years in Vic)
UNMARRIED

26.07.1902
ANTONIO VIZULIN, a miner aged 63 years, died from "MORBIS CORDIS" after only a few hours in hospital. Informant was E Gilroy, hospital matron. (NSW BDM 9432/1902)
Place of death: Gulgong Hospital
Place of burial: Gulgong (RC Cem)
Born in Austria to STEVE VIZULIN, a gardener, and ANTONIS VIZULIN 
Length in Colony: 35 years in NSW (6 years in NZ and 5 years in QLD)
Marital status: SINGLE

15.09.1907
GEORGIO SERSICH, a miner aged 79 years, died from "SENILE DECAY MORBIS CORDIS" of 3 months duration. Informant, W Sharrock (no relation) (NSW BDM 9254/1907)
Place of death: Gulgong
Place of burial: Gulgong
Born in AUSTRIA
Length in Colony: 50+ years
Marital status: SINGLE

NEWS ITEMS

1875 - [WARRANT]
A warrant has been issued by the Gulgong Bench, for the arrest of Louis Spalatrino, charged with unlawfully deserting his wife, Mary Ann Spalatrino is about 44 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, brown eyes, dark hair and whiskers mixed with gray, scratched over one eye; dressed in dark coat, light vest and trousers with brown stripe; an Austrian. Supposed to have gone to the Gurragong Gold Fields.