A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
[[Category: Clermont, Queensland]]
[[Category: Mount Morgan, Queensland]]
[[Category:Colony of Queensland (1859-1900)]]
[[Category:Mount Morgan Cemetery, Mount Morgan, Queensland]]
== Biography ==
}'''Agnes Ida Barnham''' was born on January 24, 1880 in Clermont, Queensland, Australia.''Birth '' Queensland Government (Australia) Births, Deaths, Marriages https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/ accessed: 21-January-2024 Details: Agnes Ada Barnham, Birth Date: 24 Jan 1880, Registration number: 1880/C/691, Mother: Mary Anne Slater, Father/parent: William Henry Barnham She was the daughter of William Hnery Barnham and Mary Anne Slater.
Agnes and '''[[Rebetzke-26|Ferdinand Rebetzke]]''' had a son Arthur William Barnham Rebetzke (1901-1963)
She resided in Mount Morgan in 1908.
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Agnes died on June 8, 1913 in Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia. ''Death '' Queensland Government (Australia) Births, Deaths, Marriages https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/ accessed: 21-January-2024 Details: Agnes Ida Barnham, Death Date: 08 Jun 1913, Registration number: 1913/C/3153, Mother: Mary Ann Slater, Father/parent: William Henry Barnham
She was buried in the Mount Morgan Cemetery, Mount Morgan, Queensland.FindAGrave: database and images, memorial page for Agnes Ida Barnham; Born: 24 Jan 1880 Queensland, Australia; Died: 9 Jun 1913; Cemetery: Mount Morgan Cemetery, Mount Morgan, Queensland; }; maintained by: BB; created by: BKGeni; accessed: 26 Jan 2024
Newspaper Article: Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954) Sat 28 Jun 1913"Trove, National Library of Australia", Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954), Sat 28 Jun 1913, Page 10 : MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY, [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53303971 Trove Article] (accessed 21 January 2024)::"MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY. A magisterial inquiry was held on Wednesday before the Police Magistrate into the cause of death of Agnes Ida Barnham, better known as Mrs. Rebetzke, which occurred at the Mount Morgan General Hospital on the 8th instant. Sergeant R. McKenzie examined the witnesses. Ferdinand Rebetzke stated that he was a miner employed at the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company's mine. The de ceased had lived with him for about fourteen years. For the last three years they had resided at Baree. On the 3th instant witness knocked out work at 3.30 p.m. and got home about 4.30 p.m. The deceased was there. There was about a shilling's worth of beer in the house. The deceased usually had beer in the place when witness returned from work. The deceased and witness drank the beer. Between five and six o'clock they had tea together. After tea witness said to the deceased ' You go and pay the grocer." to whom they owed £2 2s. The deceased left the house and returned about half-an-hour later. He then went with her to the Golden Spur Hotel. She had a hurricane lamp in her hand. Witness had a large empty beer bottle, which held a shilling's worth of beer. They went into the hotel and had a drink. The deceased paid for the drinks. Witness left the bottle with the licensee, Mrs. Bridget Doyle, with the intention of getting her to fill it and calling for it later. The lantern was also left at the hotel. The deceased and witness then went to the School of Arts, where there was a concert. The School of Arts was about 200 yards from the hotel. They remained in the School of Arts about half-an-hour. The concert part was then over and dancing was commencing. Witness was asked to leave the building when the dancing commenced owing to his being under the influence of liquor. The deceased was at this time on the verandah of the School of Arts. Witness said to her " What about a drink ?" The deceased, a man named Frederick Stratford, and witness went to the Golden Spur Hotel, where they each had a drink. The deceased paid for the drinks. A man named Peter Sebastian joined them in the bar. Witness did not know where the deceased was then. He did not hear the deceased ask him to come home. He did not see Mrs. Doyle leave the bar. While witness was in the bar Mrs. Doyle informed him that the deceased was lying on the ground near the step of the hotel and siad "You had better go and pick her up," Witness left the bar and saw the deceased lying on the ground near the steps, about 3ft. from the bottom step. Witness spoke to her, but she did not answer him. He then tried to pick her up. He thought Stratford and Simonds helped him. They carried her into one of the bedrooms of the hotel. He remembered seeing Mrs. Doyle bring a lamp out to where the deceased was lying. He did not see a hurricane lamp beside the de- ceased. He looked at the deceased when she was on the bed, but could not see any injury to her, and he thought she was in a drunken sleep. Mrs. Doyle then suggested that he should ring up a doctor. He went to the Baree Post Office and tried to arouse the inmates. The Postmaster, Mr. McGladdery, called out "What do you want ?" Witness said " I want to ring for a doctor. A woman is sick.'' The Postmaster did not come out. Witness then returned to the hotel and told Mrs. Doyle that he could not get Mr. McGladdery to understand him. He then asked Mrs. Doyle if he could leave the deceased at her hotel that night. He said " She is only drunk. She will be all right in the morning. She has been that way hundreds of times " Mrs. Doyle gave him permission to leave her there. Sebas- tian and witness then left the hotel and went home, taking the big bottle full of beer. That was about eleven o'clock or a few minutes after. About half-past seven o'clock on the following morning he went to the room at the hotel where he had left the deceased lying on the bed. He had a look at her. He spoke to her, but she did not reply. She appeared to be in the same condition as when he left her the night before. He saw Mrs. Doyle, and she said "Go and get a cab and a doctor to attend to the woman." Instead of doing that, he went and had a drink at the hotel. Mrs. Doyle served him. About this time he saw Constable J. McCarthy at the hotel. He did not remember trying to get a cab. He was too drunk for anything. Constable McCarthy asked him to go home and get some clothes for the deceased. He went home and got the clothes. When he returned to the hotel he found that the deceased had been taken away from the hotel to the Mount Morgan General Hospital. On the morning of the 8th instant he was informed that she had died that day at the Hospital. He did not know how the deceased came to be lying at the bottom of the steps. He thought that she might have fallen down the steps. He did not push her down nor did he interfere with her in any way. He did not see anyone about who could have interfered with her. For the last three years the decease had drunk to excess. For a week previous to being found lying outside the hotel she had been suffering from a severe cold. About a week previous to the 5th instant she told him that when coming from the Great Northern Hotel and returning home she had fallen down a gully and hurt her right knee. His son told him that his mother had fallen and that she was drunk at the time. He had never illused the deceased. The deceased was thirty-three years of age. Her father's name was William Barnham and her mother's name was Mary Ann Slater. She was born at Clermont, Queensland. She was a single woman. Samuel Jabez Richards stated that he was a legally qualified medical practitioner and Government Medical Officer at Mount Morgan. About nine o'clock on the morn- ing of the 6th instant he was called to Baree by the police, and at the Golden Spur Hotel he was shown the woman known as Mrs. Rebetzke. She was in a semi-conscious state. There were no visible marks of injury upon her. She vomited whilst he was present. He was unable to say definitely what was the matter with her and ordered her removal to the General Hospital. He was informed that she died there on the 8th instant. At the request of the police, he performed a post-mortem examination of her body. There were a few small marks on the body which showed plainly after death owing to the whiteness of the skin. The principal mark was a bruise about 2 inch long on the right shoulder behind. He should judge this was about two or three days old. This mark would be more visible at the time of his examination than at any previous time. There was no mark of violence on any part of the body ordi- narily exposed. He examined the skull and found a fracture inside the base running across the floor of the cranial cavity. This fracture had ruptured some blood vessels on each side and this blood by pressing on the brain, had caused death. He knew the steps leading up to the Golden Spur Hotel. Assuming that the deceased fell down the steps, it would have been quite possible, with the injury described, for her to have walked some distance. It would have been possible for her to have walked to the spot pointed out to him as the place where she was found lying about 8 ft. from the bottom of the steps. He produced a certificate of the cause of death. He examined the ground about where the deceased was found. There were some waterworn stones there. A fall upon the stones could have caused the contusion of the muscles at the side of the head over the fracture such as he found at the post-morten ex- amination and still leave no visible outer mark on the skin. Peter Perros, sometimes called peter Sebastian, a labourer, gave evidence corroborative of that of Rebetzke. Bridget Doyle, licensee of the Golden Spur Hotel, also gave evidence. She testified that she found the deceased lying on the ground about 12 ft. from the bot- tom of the steps of the hotel. There was no one on the verandah at the time who could have interfered with her in any way, and witness came to the conclusion that she must have accidentally fallen down the steps. When Rebetzke failed to get on the telephone witness consented to his leaving the deceased at the hotel. Witness took off the deceased's boots and made her comfortable. Before witness went to bed at half-past twelve o'clock she had a look at the deceased, who ap- peared to be sleeping. She looked at the deceased again at half-past two o'clock in the morning. She seemed to be still sleeping. Witness again saw her about half-past five o'clock and spoke to her. The woman opened her eyes and looked at witness, but did not speak. About half past six o'clock witness took her some tea. The woman sat up in bed and drank the tea. Witness spoke to her, but received no reply. When Rebetzke came to the hotel later witness told him that he had better get a doctor and a cab. The man went away and came back and said he could not get a cab. Witness then sent for Constable McCarthy and he arrived at the hotel a few minutes later. Shortly after Dr. Richards arrived and by his orders the deceased was removed to the Mount Morgan General Hospital. Rebetzke and perros were all the time under witness's observation, and it was impossible for them to have interferred with the deceased. She had known the deceased and Rebetzke for about two years. The deceased was of drunken habits. She had never heard of Rebetkze ill-using her. Frederick Stratford, a labourer ; John George Stephenson, a labourer; and Alfred Williams, a labourer, also gave evidence. John Elsworthy, a telegraph messenger, was also examined. He testified to see ing the deceased going after Rebetzke when the concert was over and noticed her stagger and go down on her knees. He thought she was drunk , she was staggering. Alfred Jones, a miner, was also examined. He said that he had known Rebetzke and the deceased for some time and he believed that they lived happily together. Arthur William Rebetzke, son of the first witness, gave evidence as to his mother's doings on the day and night in question. He also said that when his father returned home about twelve o'clock that night he stated "Your mother was nearly killed. She fell down the steps." His father and mother never quarrelled. He had never seen his father strike his mother. His mother was "boss" of the house. She never struck his father except when they were fooling. James McCarthy, police constable, testified to the removal of the deceased from the hotel to the hospital. He said that there were nine treads on the steps of the hotel. The steps were at an angle of about forty-five degrees. There was a rail on either side of them. The steps were about 5 ft. wide. Each tread was about 6in. wide. The last tread was about 9 in. from the ground. The veran- dah was about 6 ft. from the ground. On the ground where the deceased was found there were some waterworn stones, some of which protruded above the ground. Detective Lipp and witness had made full inquiries and could not find any suspicious circumstances connected with the case. William Henry Lipp, detective, gave evidence of a similar character. He said that he had no reason to suspect that the woman's death was the result of fould play. The deceased had drunk continu- ally for five years to his knowledge. She was mostly under the influence of liquor. The inquiry was then closed. Mount Morgan, 27th June, 1913. "
== Research Notes ==The Couple never officially married, however she was known as Mrs Rebetzki.
== Sources ==
A Research Guide to the Genealogy of the Barnum/Barnam/Barnham Family Worldwide
AncientFaces - Family History Photos
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