Ethel Stirling, Free Settler "Rockingham" 1830

https://eastperthcemeteries.com.au/explore/stories-and-people/107-b...

Marriage and first birth before online registrations.

BDM WA Registered Births of Children: 1841 Sarah Maria; 1843 Edmund John; 1846 Laura Hannah; 1848 Frederick Robert; 1857 Levi James; 1859 Baldwin King

The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth WA) Wed 5 Oct 1887; DEATHS:

STIRLING.— At her residence, Beaufort street, Perth, October 4, 1887, ETHEL, the beloved wife of Edmund Stirling ; aged 68 years. Deceased arrived at Fremantle in the ship Rockingham, in the year 1830.

BDM WA: Death 1887/581; Stirling, Ethel, Aged 68.

Buried East Perth Cemeteries; Church of England Grave number 379 with her husband: Stirling, Ethel, died 4 October 1887; buried 5 October 1887, age 68 years.

Inscription:

In Loving Memory Of Ethel, The Beloved Wife Of Edmund Stirling, Who Died 4 October 1887, Aged 68 Years; "Thy Will Be Done"

Also

Amelia Elizabeth, The Beloved Eldest Daughter of Edmund Stirling, Who Died 16th April 1887, Aged 49 Years; "In Steadfast Hope In Christ"

Also

Edmund Stirling, Born In Norfolk, England, August 19, 1815, Died At York, W.A. November 2 1897; "O Lamb Of God I Come"

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The Possum (Perth WA) Sat 8 Oct 1887

MRS. EDMUND STIRLING.

SINCE our last issue another old colonist has gone to swell the ranks of the great majority — one who has had more to do with the vicissitudes incident to Press life in a young colony than falls to the lot of womankind in general. We refer to Mrs. EDMUND STIRLING — the helpmeet, for upwards of fifty years, of the oldest journalist now living on Australian shores—a veteran contemporary who for nearly half a century, directed the destinies of the old Inquirer, and made it the most successful press-and-type property ever launched in this portion of the Sunny South.

The subject of our notice, after a residence of fifty-seven years in this colony, passed peacefully away at her residence in Beaufort- street, last Tuesday evening, beloved by her children, grand-children, and great-grand- children, and universally revered by friends of every class throughout the length and breadth of the land.

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