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Emma Caroline (Unterrheiner) Cook (1874 - 1945)

Emma Caroline Cook formerly Unterrheiner
Born in Nambucca, New South Wales, Australiamap
Wife of — married 1899 in Bowraville, New South Wales, Australiamap
Died at age 70 in Bowraville, New South Wales, Australiamap
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Biography

Emma Caroline Unterrheiner was the daughter of Adam Unterrheiner and Barbara Borger and was born on 7 August 1874[1] at the old homestead on Bowraville, Macksville road, where her parents, settled in the early days of the history of the Nambucca[2].

In 1899 at Bowraville, when 24 years of age, Emma married Thomas Clarkson Cook.[3][4]

Emma and Thomas lived on a farm near Macksville and had 6 children, consisting of two sons and four daughters. They are: Mrs. Lyall Best (Tuncurry), Mrs. A. J. Jarrett and Mrs R. D. Walsh (Merewether, Newcastle), Mrs. W. Simpson (Bowraville), Mr. Geoffrey Cook (Bowraville), and Mr. Thomas Cook. At the time of Emma's passing there were 19 grandchildren.[2]

Emma died on 26 July 1945[5], at Bowraville, NSW, near her brother's home. Emma had just rowed across the river to her brother's home to deliver a parcel when she collapsed as she was returning to the boat.[2]

Emma was buried on 27 July 1945 at Macksville Cemetery, in the Roman Catholic Section. [6][7]


Sources

  1. New South Wales, Births, Deaths & Marriages, Registration No: 13173/1874
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 OBITUARY. (1945, July 25). The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales (Taree, NSW : 1898 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved October 28, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171983057
  3. New South Wales, Births, Deaths & Marriages, Registration No: 2991/1899
  4. The Raleigh Sun (Bellingen, NSW : 1898 - 1918) Friday 19 May 1899, page 2
  5. New South Wales, Births, Deaths & Marriages, Registration No: 14955/1945
  6. Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Friday 27 July 1945, page 4
  7. https://austcemindex.com/inscription?id=7616654




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