Agatha Katherine Cockle
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ca. February 1863 — 17 November 1863
Agatha Katherine Cockle (29A)
Headstone
Fragment of Agatha Katherine Cockle's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2012.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 17 November 1863
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2012
Inscription
Agatha Katharine
fourth daughter of James Cockle
Chief Justice of Queensland
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Note the differences in the spelling of the middle name between the inscription and the death registration.
THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF QUEENSLAND.
We understand that James Cockle, Esq., of the Middle Temple and Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law, has been selected by Sir Roundell Palmer (we believe, upon the recommendation of Chief Justice Erle and other high judicial authorities) to be the first Chief Justice of Queensland. In compliance with the recommendation of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, and in the spirit of the resolutions passed by the Queensland Parliament in the session of 1862, the choice was left absolutely to Sir Roundell Paleor, the present Solicitor-General of England, whose character as a scholar and statesman, as well as a lawyer, is well known. Mr. Cockle was to leave England by the overland mail of December, so he may be expected to assume his office about the middle of February. Mr. Cockle is a Master of Arts of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took honors of the highest class, having been a Wrangler. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He is a practising barrister of above sixteen years' standing. We understand that the new Chief Justice is married, and has a family.
Death registration: Agatha Katherine Cockle
Death date: 17/11/1863
Mother's name: Adelaide Catharine Wilkin
Father/parent's name: James Cockle
Registration details: 1863/B/1398
DEATHS.
On the 17th November, 1863, at Brisbane, in her ninth month, Agatha Katharine, fourth daughter of His Honor James Cockle, the Chief Justice of Queensland.
Sir James Cockle - State Library of Queensland. James Cockle was a mathematician and lawyer and was the first Chief Justice of Queensland from 1863 to 1879.