Joseph William Saville
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ca. 1837 — 7 March 1869
Joseph William Saville (29A)
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A fragment of Joseph William Saville's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig.
- Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 7 March 1869
- Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as J. W. Saville
- Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
- Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72.
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Death registration: Joseph William Saville
Death date: 07/03/1869
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Registration details: 1869/B/4881
A Mr. Joseph Saville, a farmer of Oxley Creek, died suddenly yesterday. It seems that, in the morning, he had gone out stock-riding on a young and restive horse, ond about 4 o'clock, p.m., he was found lying on the Ipswich-road, a little distance beyond Mr. Macdonald's public-house, in a dying-state. He was removed to Brisbane, but death ensued before he reached the ferry on the other side of the river. The deceased was unconscious from the time he was found till his death, and the cause of his death is at present unknown. A post mortem examination and a magisterial inquiry will be held this day. The deceased leaves a wife and family.
SUDDEN DEATH.
AN inquiry was held on Mar. 8, touching the death of Joseph Saville, aged 32, a timber-getter, who was picked up in a dying state on the Ipswich-road, and died while being conveyed to town. The following is an abstract of the evidence taken:—
Charles Catchpole stated he saw the deceased Joseph Saville on the previous afternoon, about 3 o'clock, trying to mount a newly broken-in horse, in Freeman's paddock, at Oxley Creek; after some difficulty he succeeded and rode down the road; the horse went quietly enough until witness lost sight of it; Saville was not quite sober then ; witness saw deceased again about an hour after, about half a mile from where he saw him start; he was then lying on his back by the side of the road, insensible and speechless ; witness went after Saville's horse and found him half a mile further on the road; the horse had on his saddle and bridle, but the latter was broken.
James Campbell Moffatt deposed he was a chemist, living in Edward-street; had known deceased for the last five years ; witness was at his father's house at Oxley on the Sunday evening about 5 o'clock, when some one came and told him that a man had been thrown off his horse; went immediately to where deceased was lying, near M'Donald's public-house; he was lying on his back, breathing stertorously; witness loosened the deceased's neck cloth, belt, and everything tight about him, and dashed cold water in his face, which seemed to revive him a little, but did not restore him to consciousness; he was insensible from the time witness saw him first until he died ; a spring cart happened to be passing; a mattress was put into it and the deceased laid on it; in that manner he was taken to the Plough Inn in South Brisbane; but he continued in the same state all the time; they waited there at the request of deceased's wife for Dr. Hancock, who had been sent for; before the doctor arrived witness felt deceased's chest and found there was no pulsation; the cart was then moved on to Dr. Emmelhainz, who examined deceased with a stethoscope and found that he was dead; Dr. Hancock came up immediately after; witness was of opinion that Saville had died before the cart moved from the Plough Inn.
George Freeman, a mate of the deceased in the timber business, was examined, but his evidence was unimportant. He said, however, that the horse the deceased was riding at the time of the accident was a troublesome one to mount; the deceased was a bad rider, and that very little liquor used to affect him.
Dr. Hancock deposed to having seen the body of the deceased, Joseph Saville, in the spring-cart, at Dr. Emmelhainz door, in South Brisbane, as described by the witness Moffatt; Saville had been dead about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour; witness had made a post mortem examination at the morgue that morning, when he found a fracture of the vertebra, which accounted for his death ; a fall off a horse on to a hard road would occasion the fracture of the neck which was the cause of death.
IN CHAMBERS.
Before His Honor Mr. Justice Lutwyche. IN THE GOODS OF JOSEPH WILLIAM SAVILLE, LATE OF OXLEY, TIMBER GETTER, DECEASED, INTESTATE.
Mr. BUNTON, from Mr. Wilson's office, applied that letters of administration might be granted to Elizabeth Saville, the widow of the deceased. The goods were sworn under £55.
Administration accordingly.
MARRIAGE.
WOOD—SAVILLE.—On the 2nd June, at Goodna, by the Rev. J. W. Henry, Mr. Noah Wood, of Oxley, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. James Miller, of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and widow of Mr. Joseph Saville, late of Oxley.