Edmund Morris Lockyer
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ca. 1810 — 28 June 1872
Edmund Morris Lockyer (29A)
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Fragments of Edmund Morris Lockyer's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2012.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 28 June 1872
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as E. M. Lockyer
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2012
Inscription
In me…
of
Edmund Morris …er
Died 28th June …
Aged 62 ye…
The Lord gave and …
hath taken away; blessed be
the name of the Lord. Job i.21
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Death registration: Edmund Morris Lockyer
Death date: 28/06/1872
Mother's name: Sarah Morris
Father/parent's name: Edward Lockyer
Registration details: 1872/B/7341
A COUPLE of very serious accidents occurred on board the barque Tyra on Tuesday night, to Mr. and Mrs. Lockyer, the former of whom, on behalf of the Customs, is stationed on board the vessel at present lying alongside Brown's wharf, where she is dischaging her cargo of cocoanut oil. Mr. Lockyer, hearing a noise on deck, came up from the cabin for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, and, the night being dark, he did not perceive that a portion of the hatch had been removed, the result being that he fell into the hold and received very serious injuries. Mrs. Lockyer, who followed her husband up from the cabin met with a similar mishap, and was also seriously injured. The accidents, it appears, originated in the first instance through some young urchins getting on board the vessel, with the intention it is presumed, of appropriating to themselves some of the cocoanuts. It is sincerely to be hoped that the young thieves may be found out, as the lesson they will surely receive should be amply sufficient to deter others from following their example.
FUNERAL. — The Friends of the late Mr. E. M. LOCKYER (late Tide-Waiter H.M. Customs) are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral ; to move from his late residence, Birley-street, Spring Hill, THIS DAY (Saturday) at 1 p.m.
6395 G. B. PETRIE, Undertaker.
Edmund Morris Lockyer, who died on June 28, 1872, aged 62 was a son of Major Lockyer, who came up the Brisbane river in a whale boat in 1825, and wrote a full description of all he saw. Among the men with him were two red-haired soldiers, at whose fiery ringlets the blacks were much astonished. Lockyer and his party camped one night at the mouth of Oxley Creek, and in his diary he says "Emu’s were running about all night making an intolerable noise." As emus do not move at night, and make very little noise at any time, Lockyer evidently referred to the stone plover, usually known as the curlew. Lockyers name is handed down to us by Lockyer's Creek, at Gatton, one of the tributaries of the Brisbane river.