Catherine Wright

  General Notes:

Usual residence at time of marriage Cambridge St, West End
No occupation noted at time of marriage

http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Search/ItemDetails.aspx?ItemId=447929 (accessed 30th Jan 2016)
Item ID447929
Previous System LocationSRS334/3/2740
Parent Item
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Transfer ID4006
Record TypeFile - estates, mentally incapacitated persons
Item FormatFiles
DescriptionGRANSDEN, Catherine
Departmental Numbers8832
Preferred CitationQueensland State Archives Item ID447929, Insanity file
Start Date1/11/1937
End Date14/11/1937
Date Statement
Date Notes
Series
Series ID: 334
Protective Management Files

Death certificate shows that Catherine Gransden died at the Goodna Mental Hospital.

The Goodna Hospital for the Insane, situated at Wacol, Queensland, was a State run facility. The Goodna Hospital for the Insane was previously known as the Goodna Asylum for the Insane.
http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/qld/biogs/QE00598b.htm (Accessed 30 Jan 2016)

Death 14 November 1937
Catherine Gransden, Housewife
Female, 67 years
Cause of death, Dysentry, Toxaemia and Heart Failure. Medical Attendent, P. F. V. Brown? 14 Nov 1937
Father- Samuel Wright- Draughtsman
Mother, Eliza Ann Jefford

Informant- Edwin James Gransden, husband 5 Spudr Street (unable to clarify) Red Hill
Basil F. R. Stafford, acting Medical Superintendent, Goodna.
Registered 17 Nov 1937, Brisbane
Buried 16 Nov 1937, Cleveland Cemetery. C. H. Bruppo for Connor and Bruppo?
Minster S. Roberts, Congregational. Witnesses K. W. Holzappe and T Gosdon
Born- Acton Middlesex, England. In Australia for about 50 years in Queensland
Married, Brisbane (Congregational?)- 23 years to Edwin James Gransden
No children

  Noted events in her life were:

• Death Register: Death Certificate, 14 Nov 1937, Goodna Mental Hospital, Ellerton Drive & Wolston Park Road, Wacol QLD 4076. ⁸²³

Catherine married Edwin James Gransden, son of Edwin Gransden and Rebekah Elphick, on 4 Apr 1893 in Congregational Church, Brighton Road, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia.⁸¹⁸ (Edwin James Gransden was born on 19 May 1864 in Crocodile Creek, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia,⁸¹⁹ died on 4 Jul 1938 in Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia and was buried on 5 Jul 1938 in Brisbane Crematorium, Old, Australia.). The cause of his death was Cerebral Haemorrhage.

  Marriage Notes:

Edwin is noted as bachelor on his marriage certificate and Catherine as spinster.
Witnesses to marriage- Charles and Caroline Aulsebrook
Name of celebrant- W. Bradley
Registrar- C. J. Whitley, 26 May 1863, Brisbane

Edwin noted as Bacholor, Catherine Wright as Spinster
Edwin, birthplace noted as Crocodile Creek, Queensland. Catherine Wright birthplace noted as Acton, Middlesex, England.
Edwin occupation- Overseer, Catherine occupaion- Private Life
Age at time of marriage- Edwin 28, Catherine 23
Usual Residence, Edwin- Tartha, Moonie River, Catherine- Cambridge Street, West End
Parents name- Edwin- Edwin Gransden and Rebecca Allprick with father occupation noted as Carpenter.
Catherine's parents- Samuel Wrigh, occupation Draughtsman and Eliza Ann Jefford
Rites used- Congregational Church


GRANSDEN_WRIGHT.- On the 4th April at Brighton Road Congregational Church, by the Rev. William Bradley, Edwin James Gransden, adopted son of William Dockerill, of Tartha Station, Moonie River, to Catherine Wright, stepdaughter of Henry Beresford of West End.
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866-1939) Saturdaythe 15th of April 1893.