Amelia Isabel Peake
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ca. 1849 — 22 April 1873
Amelia Isabel Peake (29A)
Headstone
A fragment of Amelia Isabel Peake's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2012.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 22 April 1873
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as A. J. Peake
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2012
Inscription
Sacred
to the memory of
Amelia Isabel Peake
Died 22nd April 1873
Aged 24 years
also her sons
Henry Frederick
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Death registration: Amelia Isabel Peake
Death date: 22/04/1873
Mother's name: -
Father/parent's name: William Buckland
Registration details: 1873/B/7773
BYGONE BRISBANE
The Paddington Cemetery.
Amelia Isabella Peake, who died on April 22, 1873, aged only 24, was the wife of Captain Peake, first Captain of the old Government steamer Kate, which finally sank in Moreton Bay. Two of Mrs. Peake's infants are buried with her. The ages 24, 25, and, 26, were the fatal periods for an appalling number of young wives. When his wife died, Captain Peake went to Sydney, and died somewhere in New South Wales.
One day in 1872, somebody saw two LARGE STRANGE FISH in the pond in the Botanic Gardens. Captain Peake had a seine net, and that, was taken down to the pond. The fish were caught, and caused great astonishment, as no one at the time. had seen anything like them. But the usual expert came along and found they were two specimens of the Ceratodus of the Mary and Burnett Rivers. Enquiries proved that they had been caught years before, in Tinana Creek, and been, sent down to the Gardens by the late R. B. Sheridan, then collector of Customs, in Maryborough. Then they were restored to the pond and vanished again into oblivion until the days of Curator McMahon, when one of his men a Teutonic gentleman, was cleaning out the pond, and caught a Ceratodus, then, weighing about 12lbs. The German merely remarked, "By shingo dis vos goot," and took it home and ate it. Next day he caught another, but McMahon happened to come along, and sent it up to Curator De Vis, at the Museum. De Vis, saw at once what the fish was, and sent it back to the Gardens, where it was placed in the pond, none the worse of the temporary absence. Finally that one and his mate were removed to the fountain pond at the south-west corner of the Gardens, and both were taken away by the flood of 1893, or 21 years after Captain Peake HAD HAULED THEM OUT in his seine net.
Kate (ship) - State Library of Queensland. Captain Peake on the Bridge of the Q.G. Steamer "Kate" in 1869.