Edward Humphrey Barlee
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ca. November 1862 — 31 January 1869
Edward Humphrey Barlee (29A)
Headstone
A fragment of Edward Humphrey Barlee's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2016.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 31 January 1869
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as E. H. Barlee
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2016
Inscription
Charles Haynes Barlee
who died on the 9th April 1861
aged two months
Amy Winifred Barlee
who died on the 17th March 1862
aged two months
and Edward Humphrey Barlee
who died on the 31st March 1869
aged six years and two months
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also
Edith Laura Barlee
who died on the 23rd Oct 1870
aged one year and two months
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MARRIED.
On the 10th instant, by special license, at St. John's Church, Darlinghurst, by the Rev. Thomas Haydon, Charles Haynes, second son of the late Rev. Edward Barlee, Rector of Worlingworth, Suffolk, and brother of the honorable F. P. Barlee, Esq., Colonial Secretary for Western Australia, to Amy Louisa, second daughter of the late Benjamin Laurence, Esq., of Hornsey Park, London.
Death registration: Edward Humphrey Barlee
Death date: 31/01/1869
Mother's name: Amy Louisa Lauren
Father/parent's name: Charles Haynes Barlee
Registration details: 1869/B/4911
The late Mr. C. H. Barlee, whose death is announced in our telegrams this week, was well known to old Brisbane residents as a Parliamentary shorthand-writer in the early days of the colony. He was cousin to Mr. F. P. Barlee, the Colonial. Secretary of Western Australia. As a genial and prolific writer, Mr. Barlee stood high amongst his fellow journalists, and many of us will remember his graphic sketches of the " Caboolture Hunt," for he was an ardent votary of the chase. His fugitive sketches, written whilst at Gympie, were also full of dry caustic humour. As with many other Queenslanders, Sydney did not improve his health, yet he made a gallant fight for success even there. His little brochure of " Once a Week," published in Sydney in 1878, was well written and edited, and showed the energy of the man and his talent as a litterateur. but it fell stillborn on a market which craved the more modern, successful, and sensational style of "weekly." Mr. Barlee's chief fault was an aptness to take offence at times when none was meant, and but for this he might have been a more successful man. He can, however, be ill spared from the ranks of colonial journalism.