Emma Jane LYE [5422] 4073
- Born: 1878, , Victoria, Australia
- Marriage (1): Thomas Simpson SHUTTLEWORTH [5394] on 2 Sep 1903 in , Victoria, Australia 5283,5284
- Died: 1939, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia at age 61 5290,5291
- Buried: 1939, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia
 Find a Grave ID: 144934141. WikiTree ID: Lye-142.
General Notes:
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Fri 9 Jun 1939 Page 9 COUNTRY NEWS TOCUMWAL (N.S.W.).-Mrs. Thomas Shuttleworth, aged about 70 years, has been missing since Thursday morning. With her husband she came into Tocumwal to do some shopping, and as she did not return a search was made. Tracks were discovered over a steep part of the Murray River bank. It is feared that she has been drowned.
Browse The Murrumbidgee Irrigator (Leeton, NSW : 1915 - 1954) Tue 20 Jun 1939 Page 3 OBITUARY
OBITUARY
TRAGIC DEATH OF MRS.E. J. SHUTTLEWORTH
THE funeral took places on Sunday in Tocumwal, of Mrs. Emma Jane Shuttleworth, mother of
three well-known Leeton residents, whose death occurred last week in tragic clrcumstances.
It appears that Mrs. Shuttleworth who was 62 years of age, wandered away from home suffering from loss of memory, and her body was found on Saturday in the Murray River. Two daughters, Elsie (Mrs. Beattie), Emily (Mrs. Hunter Boyd) and one son, Mr. Frank Shuttleworth, reside in Leeton. The deceased lady is also survived by her husband and two other daughters and two sons,
May (Mrs. Balcombe) Finley, Betty (Mrs. Chambers) Melbourne, George (Berrigan), and Keith (Tocumwal). The cortege, which followed the remains to the Presbyterian portion of the Tocumwal cemetery, was a large one, and the Rev. A. I. McNaughton, late of Leeton, officiated at the graveside. The pall-bearers were Messrs George Shuttleworth (son), Boyd (son-in-law), Beattie (son-in-law), Frank (son), Balcombe (son-in-law), George (nephew)
Emma married Thomas Simpson SHUTTLEWORTH [5394] [MRIN: 1689], son of William SHUTTLEWORTH [3630] and Elizabeth SLATER [3629], on 2 Sep 1903 in , Victoria, Australia 5283.,5284 (Thomas Simpson SHUTTLEWORTH [5394] was born on 21 Jan 1856 in Talbot, Vic, Australia 5285, christened on 30 May 1856 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,5286 died in 1949 in Tocumwal, NSW, Australia 5287 and was buried in 1949 in Tocumwal, NSW, Australia 5288.)
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