Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Patrick Joseph GURRY
Age at Death25
Date Of Death8 March 1912 : Reg 34/1912 Boulder
Place Of BirthKapunda, South Australia
OccupationUnderground Miner
The Evening Star, 08 March 1912
The Evening Star 1912
Kalgoorlie Miner
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Kalgoorlie Miner 09 March 1912
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Western Argus, 14 March 1916
Boulder Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Boulder Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Golden Horseshoe GM, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Struck by a falling rock in the mine.
Place Of Burial
Boulder Cemetery, Western Australia. RC Section Gr 16B
Submitted by
John Pritchard - Volunteer
MSW
Single
District
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Richard GURRY - married Joanna (Jane) Kennedy in Kapunda, South Australia in 1883. He was born in C1841 and he died at Kapunda in South Australia on 30/09/1928 aged 87 years. He lays at rest with his wife Jane and daughter Jane in the Light cemetery, at Kapunda, South Australia.
Mother
Joanna 'Jane' KENNEDY - married Richard Gurry in South Australia in 1883. Jane was born in C1857 and passed away on 14/02/1926 in Kapunda, South Australia aged 69 years. She lays at rest with her Husband Richard and daughter Jane in the Light cemetery, at Kapunda, South Australia.
Other Information
• Patrick lived with his uncle at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and worked together with his Brother Richard to support his elderly parents and his dependent siblings in South Australia
• Coronial inquiry into death of Patrick Joseph Gurry – see newspaper clippings.
• Patrick was born in Kapunda in South Australia in 1886.
• Patrick had the following siblings:
1. Richard Gurry born in 1884 in Kapunda, South Australia, and was killed in action in France during WW1 on 31/08/1916. He has no known grave apart from at the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux. Richard was also a miner in Kalgoorlie before his embarkation for WW1 from Fremantle on the HMAS Hororata on 26/04/1915.
2. Honora (Nora) Gurry born in 1887 in Kapunda, South Australia, who married John James Lithgow in Boulder, Western Australia in 1910. Nora passed away in 1958 in the Boulder district at age 70. John Joseph Lithgow passed away in the Boulder district in 1956 at age 72. Both Nora and John lay at rest in the Boulder Cemetery, Western Australia at Roman Catholic plot 1209.
3. Elizabeth Gurry born in 1889 in Kapunda, South Australia who married John H Moon in 1909 and lived in Ora Banda in Western Australia. John passed away on 01/05/1930 and lays at rest in the Roman Catholic section of Kalgoorlie Cemetery
4. Mary Gurry born in 1893 in Kapunda, South Australia.
5. Catherine Gurry born in 1894 in Kapunda, South Australia
6. Jane Gurry born in 1897 in Kapunda, South Australia and passed away prematurely on 10/11/1912 in Kapunda, South Australia, aged 15.5 years.
