Amelia FAULKNER [517] ¹⁰⁶⁹

  General Notes:

John Rawson was the husband of Amelia's Aunt Hannah Faulkner. Hannah died in June 1877 of diarrhoea. Presumably Amelia took over the care of Hannah and John's children John Frederick b. 1870, Annie b. 1873, James Alfred b. c. 1875 and William Hunter b. 1877 and married John Rawson.

John and Amelia were married at the Wesleyan Parsonage, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong by Richard Fitcher. Witnesses to the marriage were George Faulkner, and Anna Dalton.

Sleepwalker Drowned
WAGGA, Monday.- Amelia Rawson (76) was found drowned in Wollundry Lagoon in the centre of Wagga. She is believed to have walked in her sleep. She was the wife of John Rawson (95), who since his retirement from farming has made generous gifts to the Wagga Hospital and the Wagga and Lockhart Methodist Churches.

Sleepwalker Drowned. (1933, July 3). Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 13, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article 48436155

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN LAGOON.
WAGGA, Sunday.

The body of Mrs. Rawson, wife of Mr. John Rawson, retired farmer and grazier, was found in the Wollundra lagoon, near the Becwith street bridge, to-day. Mrs. Rawson, who was 78 years of age, left her home in Kincaid-street, early this morning. The place where her body was later found is half a mile from the home. Mrs. Rawson had recently been in bad health.

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN LAGOON. (1933, July 3). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved May 13, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news -article16987813

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser (NSW : 1910 - 1954) Tue 4 Jul 1933 Page 2
DEATH OF MRS. JOHN RAWSON. DEATH OF MRS. JOHN RAWSON. THE FUNERAL.
Though for some years a resident of Wagga, Mrs. John Rawson was always regarded as belonging to the Lockhart district, seeing that for 40 years she was the sharer and the bearer in the hardships and successes which marked the life of her husband, Mr. John Rawson, J.P., on his extensive grazing property, "Ingelby," a few miles from Milbrulong. When the Rawson family commenced life there, the Milbrulong district was one dense, pine scrub, and younger generations can scarcely imagine what difficulties those who pioneered the district in those days had to contend with. Happily, Mr. Rawson, now past his 93rd birthday, still lives, but his partner for fifty years has now to be numbered amongst the great majority, having parsed the allotted span of three score years and ten by six years. In a distressing visitation of that calamitous sickness of the mind which had assailed her more than once, she escaped from the loving care or those who tended her and her lifeless body was found in the cold waters of the lagoon at Wagga on Saturday morning.
Thus was ended a life which had made many fine contacts in the web and woof of human existence, for she was an excellent wife, an ideal step-mother for the young family, which through her marriage with Mr. Rawson, a young widower, had become her great responsibility, a first-rate neighbour, a good friend, and a woman most hospitable to strangers. She had an affectionate connection with the Methodist Church throughout her life, was a great admirer and supporter of the Salvation Army, a strong advocate of the C.W.A., and she shared her husband's generosity with many other religious and charitable works, not- ably the hospitals. The funeral took place at Lockhart on Monday. A service was conducted in the Methodist Church at Wagga, in the forenoon by the Rev. Arthur J. Gould, the Wagga Circuit Minister, who, on his arrival at Wagga recently, had the pleasure of renewing a warm friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Rawson, established in the years when Mr. Gould was minister at Lockhart, and when the Rawson's were residents at "Ingelby."

The service was largely at tended, amongst those present being the Mayor of Wagga (Ald. E. E. Collins, M.L.C.), the president and directors of the Wagga District Hospital Board, besides other leading townsmen and representatives of public bodies. Captain Packer (Salvation Army officer) took part in the service. The minister delivered an address of a most touching char- acter, in which he emphasised that the manner of her death was an accident for which blame was attached to no one, but her whole life and character recalled to all her faith- fulness as a loving wife, a good mother, a staunch churchwoman, and the doer of good works. The remains were brought by motor hearse to the Methodist portion of the Lockhart cemetery, where several members of the Rawson family have been interred.

Not- withstanding that many town and district people were not acquainted with the occurrence, there was a large attendance at the graveside. The chief mourners included : Mr. John Rawson (widower), Mr. J. F. Rawson (step-son). Mr. J. A. Rawson (step-son), of Trundle; Messrs. A. Faulkner and Jas. Faulkner (brothers); Mrs. H. Stevens, of Trundle, and Miss Anna Faulkner, of Ballarat (sisters). The carriers were Messrs. Syd. Rawson, Wm. Rawson, J. Faulkner, C. H. Cornell, J.P., S. Ashley, and E. Howard. The pall bearers were Messrs. J. F. and J. A. Rawson, H. Rawson (of Bogan Gate), L. S. Castles, W. B. Davies, and R. Strusz. Amongst the general mourners present were: Cr. W. K. Day, Cr. J. J. Nolan (Shire President), F. W. Parker, J. P., A. G. Scott, J.P., H. W. Hodgson (Chairman Lockhart Urban Committee), R. L. Hodgson, A. C. Cowin, A. G. Krause (Milbrulong). A. G. Krause (Lockhart). H. Francis. C. Westman, J. W. Pinchbeck. S. Sly (Wagga), E. Sly (Brookdale), J. Henman (Wagga), J. Anderson (Wagga), W. J. Morton (French Park), J. Heckendorf, J. A. O'Connell, R. H. Parker (representing Mr P. W. McCarthy, solicitor), E. Hoffmann, H. T. Richter, B. L. Boyd, O. Boyd, A. B. Chapman, J. T. Lynch, E. P. Lynch, Mrs. E. P. Lynch, Miss Gough, Mrs. Mickan and daughters; Mrs. O. Haberecht, Messrs. D. Fraser (Wagga), J. A. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. J. Rynehart (Henty), Mr. and Mrs. F. Lloyd, T. Ilett, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ilett. P. C. Leach, H. Kelly. W. S. Alexander, H. Schirmer, Mrs. J. A. Schirmer, Wm. Smith, Geo. Smith, J. H. Dav, P. Suliivan, H. Steinholdt, M. Pollock,. E. Hall, S. Ilett, Mrs. John- son, Mrs. J. Heckendorf (represent- ing Lockhart C.W.A.), G. Schneider, H. Browne (Jackson's Waterholes), C. Westman. Rev. A. J. Gould officiated at the graveside, and delivered a fitting address on the life and character of the deceased. He was assisted by Rev. E. Tredinnick, the Lockhart Circuit Minister.

NUMEROUS WREATHS. A large number of floral tributes were sent, including tributes for- warded by Wagga District Hospital Board, Wagga Methodist Sunday School, Wagga Methodist Church Church Aid, Lockhart Methodist Church Aid, Lockhart C.W.A., Lockhart Methodist Trustees, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. J. Heckendorf, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hoffmann, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cowin, Mr. and Mrs. F, W. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Boyd and son, Mrs J. J. Hodgson, Mrs. W. Bond and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Howard and son, Mr. and Mrs. F. W Boyd and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. S. Ashley, Mr, and Mrs. J. Rynehart, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Richter, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Casperson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harris, Mr. and. Mrs. R. E. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Morrow, Mrs. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. H. Schirmer, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Alexander, Nurse Dickens, Mrs. Cannon and Misses Strusz, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ilett, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Haber, Messrs. T. and S. Ilett, Mr. and Mrs. J. Macklan, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Krause (Milbrulong), Mr. J. Strusz, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Anderson, Misses S. and A. Jones, Mrs. Reid, Mr. Wm. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Riach, Elsie and Will Camerson, and numerous tributes by members of the Rawson and Faulkner families.

The motor funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs. McIntosh Bros., of Wagga, and J. J. Nolan & Co., of Lockhart.
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  Noted events in her life were:

1. Obituary: Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, 3 Jul 1933, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Amelia had a relationship with [—?—] [532] [MRIN: 167].

Amelia next married John RAWSON [494] [MRIN: 166], son of John RAWSON 1 [553] and Mary HUNTER [550], on 31 Dec 1877 in Geelong, Vic, Australia.¹⁰³⁸ (John RAWSON [494] was born about 1840 in , , England and died on 24 Apr 1937 in Lockhart, NSW, Australia.)