Percy Harkness Carne (1856 - 1887)

Born 1856 in Tumut, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Died 21 May 1887 at about age 31 in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Percy Harkness Carne (1856-1887)

Percy Harkness Carne was born in 1856 at New South Wales, Australia. He was the son of Thomas Carne and Eleanor Kennedy. ^[1]

Percy Harkness Carne passed away 21 May 1887 at Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. ^[2]

Death Notice

"Family Notices" The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) 24 May 1887: Page 1 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13657570>.

CARNE. — May 21, at Bronte, Deniliquin, Percy Harkness Carne, of Corowa, solicitor, second son of the late Thomas Broughton Carne.

Obituary

"THE LATE MR. P. H. CARNE." The Corowa Free Press (NSW : 1875 - 1954) 27 May 1887: Page 2 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234844055>.

THE LATE MR. P. H. CARNE,

It is with extreme regret we announce the death, at Deniliquin, on Saturday last, of Mr. Percy Harkness Carne, for many years past the leading solicitor in the Corowa district. Although the sad news had been heralded by the long and wasting illness from which Mr. Carne suffered, the news of his death, which reached Corowa on Monday morning, came with all the force of an unexpected blow.

In Corowa Mr. Carne had formed so many close friendships, had takes so prominent a place in the social and business life of the town, that the sudden severance of the tie was almost a public calamity. And although it was his lot to die among friends and relations, in the midst of faces that had watched the promise of his youth and brightened the dawn of his manhood, it was hard for those whom years of association had taught to regard the deceased more as a brother than as a friend to realise that he had other relationships, and that in truth he had not died away from "Home."

Brief as were the tidings of Mr. Carne's death, it was only too easy a task to trace the progress of his illness from its source to the closing scene of all. A year ago, an attack of typhoid fever, following hard on the news of his father's death, reduced a frame, never robust, to a shadow. Medical skill combated the disease, and dragged the sick man back almost from the brink of the grave; but the ordeal had been a fearful one, and his constitution shattered by disease, and enfeebled by mental anxiety, was ripe for the seeds of death. In the first days of his convalescence, so soon almost as he could move about unsupported, Mr. Carne threw himself once more into the arduous work of his profession. Long nights of watching and overwork had their inevitable result. A cold, at first neglected, settled on the lungs, and from that day until the end came his life was nothing but one long struggle with the inevitable.

It is not necessary here to dwell on the details of Mr. Carne's brief career. Cut off at the age of 31, his life was too short for stirring events, and yet long enough for more than the average share of work. Mr. Carne was born at Tumut, articled to Messrs. Fleming and Bradley, of Albury and made his first start in the office of Mr. C. H. Roope, at Corowa. Before long he exchanged his position for that of a partner, and on the subsequent opening of a branch at Hay, he purchased the Corwa business, which he conducted until his death. To show how constantly the business was in his thoughts, and how its cares penetrated even into the hushed repose of the sick-room, it may be mentioned that barely a fortnight ago he com pleted arrangements for taking into partnership Mr. E. R. Nicolson. The issue of this journal which contains the third announcement of the change of style contains also this obituary.

"De mortnis nil nisi bonum;" Trite adage ! There are some men of whom we could not, if we would, write evil. And of this man we can only say that his life was in all things honourable and just, and that beneath his mantle of reserve heat a warm and generous heart —

. . . . . We have lost him ! He is gone

We know him now: All petty jealousies

Are ended; and we see him as he moved,

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: NSW, Australia BDM Index 51/1856 V185651 159 CARNE PERCY HARKNESS (parents) THOMAS BROUGHTON & ELLEN
2. ↑ Death: NSW, Australia BDM Index 10610/1887 CARNE PERCY H (parents) THOMAS B & ELLEN K (Reg. DENILIQUIN)

See also:

• Birth: NSW, Australia BDM Index 51/1856 V185651 159 CARNE PERCY HARKNESS (parents) THOMAS BROUGHTON & ELLEN

• Death: NSW, Australia BDM Index 10610/1887 CARNE PERCY H (parents) THOMAS B & ELLEN K (Reg. DENILIQUIN)