Paynesville Cemetery, Mt Magnet - Photo Kevin Coate (Sept 2005)
Ernest Anton HARBORDT
Age at Death24
Date Of Death11 February 1899 : Reg 1318/1899
Place Of BirthRichmond, Victoria
OccupationMiner
Kalgoorlie Miner, Friday 17 February 1899, page 3
Inscription on grave
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Lady Maud GM, Paynesville, Mt Magnet, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Struck by a dislodged rock.
Place Of Burial
Paynesville Cemetery, Western Australia - 1st Burial
Submitted by
David McMillan & Eric Chamberlain - volunteers.
MSW
Single
District
Mt Magnet
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Anton Harbordt : Anton HARBORDT was born in 1843, the son of Marie and Anton. He married Ann WATTS on 24 December 1864 in Richmond, Victoria. They had 13 children in 24 years. He died on 11 November 1907 at the age of 64, and was buried in Kew, Victoria.
Mother
Ann (nee Watts) : When Ann WATTS was born on 16 August 1847 in Richmond, Victoria, her father, James, was 34, and her mother, Mary, was 35. She married Anton HARBORDT on 24 December 1864 in her hometown. They had 13 children in 24 years. She died on 16 May 1920 in Caulfield, Victoria, at the age of 72, and was buried in Kew, Victoria.
Other Information
Story: The First Death at Paynesville
Came from Hawthorn, Victoria.
Harbordt, Ernest. "More Lonely Graves of Western Australia" (2000) Coate, Yvonne & Kevin. Hesperian Press. Page 163.
Ernest HARBORDT, who died 11 Feb 1899 aged 24yrs, at his gold mining lease 416, Paynesville east of Mt Magnet. Buried by Walter Missingham, in the presence of Thomas Duncan and James F Ryan. Death certified by his friend, Archibald Morton.
He was a single miner who had been in Western Australia for 3 years. The verdict of the Coroners enquiry was that the deceased came to his death from a blow on the head caused by a rock fall in the water shaft being sunk on the Lady Maud Lease.
Family Notice:- HARBORDT.— On the 11th February, accidentally killed at Mount Magnet, West Australia. Ernest, the dearly beloved second son of Anton and Annie Harbordt, of Melville street Hawthorn, aged 24 years.
