Jessie Lamont
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ca. 1821 — 4 January 1872
Jessie Lamont (29A)
Headstone
A fragment of Jessie Lamont's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 4 January 1872
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as Jessie Lamont
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72.
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In the Insolvent Estate of Archibald Lamont, of Mudgee, in the Colony of New South Wales, storekeeper.
WHEREAS the Estate of Archibald Lamont was, on the 11th day of April, 1861, placed under sequestration by order of the Honorable Samuel Frederick Milford, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, I hereby appoint a First Meeting of the Creditors of the said Insolvent, to be holden before me, at my Office, Supreme Court House, King-street, Sydney, on Thursday, the 16th day of May next, to commence at 11 a.m., for the proof of debts against the said Estate; and a Second Meeting to be holden before me, at the same place, on Monday, the 20th day of May, to commence at 2 p.m., for the further proof of debts, and for the election of a Creditors' Assignee, if required.—Dated at Sydney, the 27th day of April, A.D. 1861.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER PUREFOY,
Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates.
Official Assignee—John Morris.
1383 6s.
Death registration: Jessie Lamont
Death date: 03/04/1866
Mother's name: -
Father/parent's name: - Lamont
Registration details: 1866/B/3113
DEATH.
LAMONT.—On 3rd April, at her residence, Staffa House, Brisbane, Jessie Lamont, aged 51 years, widow of Archibald Lamont, Esq., late of Mudgee, New South Wales, after a short but severe illness. Sydney and Mudgee papers please copy.
Jessie Lamont, a widow, died on April 3, 1866, aged 51. THE STONE RECORDS :
"Take comfort Christians when your friends In Jesus, fall asleep.
Their better being never ends, Why then dejected weep ?
Why inconsolable, as those To whom no hope is given ?
Death is the messenger of peace, And calls the soul to Heaven."
(This is the 53rd. Paraphrase.)
One of the daughters, Marion Flora, died on May 23, 1873, aged only 29. She was the wife of James Chapman, father of Ebenezer Chapman, now a builder in Fortitude Valley. Jessie Lamont lies in the Presbyterian ground, near to Margaret Elizabeth Bethune, wife of David Lachlan Brown, head of the firm of D. L. Brown and Co.