Thomas Fullerton (1854 - 1865)

Born 11 Feb 1854 in Forest Creek, Victoria, Australia

Died 13 Nov 1865 at age 11 in Hill Plain, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Thomas Fullerton has Irish ancestors.

Birth Thomas was born on 11 February 1854 at Forest Creek near Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. He was the son of William Fullerton and Mary Dunne. ^[1]

Death Thomas died on 13 November 1865 at Hill Plain near Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. ^[2][3]

In December 1865 the Brisbane Courier had reprinted an inquest report from the Deniliquin Chronicle:

"I take the following report from a Deniliquin paper, as it relates to a subject in which not only the faculty but all heads of families must feel an interest. Medical science has not yet reached perfection, great as its triumphs are: "On Tuesday last the Police Magistrate attended at Hill Plains to hold an inquiry respecting the death of a lad aged thirteen years, named Thomas Fullerton, who had been found lying dead in his bed on the previous day by Mr. Clancy, sheep overseer to Mr. Hogg, of Mathoura station. The first witness examined was Bridget Fenelon, a married woman and sister of deceased, who deposed that on Sunday evening last she was milking a goat, and her brother held the animal by its horns; the goat giving a plunge forward struck deceased either in the breast or stomach, from which he appeared to suffer somewhat; he ran a few yards after the goat, and then laid down and complained of sickness, and remained drowsy the whole of the evening afterwards. On Monday, she finding him no better started for Deniliquin, and, on her return in the afternoon, found he was dead. John Clancy, the overseer deposed that being in the neighborhood on Monday, and requiring the assistance of deceased, he went to the hut believing deceased to be asleep, and found him on the bed dead and his body cold. A. W. F. Noyes, Surgeon, of Deniliquin, who attended the inquiry for the purpose of making the post mortem, deposed that he had done so, and found that the cause of death was hydatids in the heart, and that no marks of violence likely to arise from the butting of a goat were noticeable on the body. This is the second death which has been attributed here within a twelvemonth or so to that very obscure form of disease - hydatids. The former was a girl of about sixteen years, who died in the hospital, and the organ in which the hydatids were found was the brain, some four or five hundred being discovered in one side of that organ. The professional gentlemen engaged considered the features presented by that case exceedingly singular, and those of the present are viewed as being still more extraordinary and unusual. Some of the hydatids were attached to the heart, and one, which was taken out, was found floating in the blood contained in the left ventricle. The lad appears to have occasionally been subject to fainting fits, and those are supposed to have been produced by the interference of this organic growth with the action of the valves of the heart. The subject as affecting the human frame is exceedingly obscure, but the infrequency of its known occurrence commends itself to the notice of the professional man." ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Name: Thomas Fuller. Birth Date: Abt 1853. Birth Place: Forest Creek, Victoria. Registration Year: 1853. Registration Place: Victoria, Australia. Father: William Fuller. Mother: Mary Dunne. Registration Number: 335. Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
2. ↑ Name: Thomas Fullerton. Death Date: 1865. Death Place: New South Wales. Registration Year: 1865. Registration Place: Deniliquin, New South Wales. Registration Number: 3511. Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
3. ↑ Name: Thomas Fullerton. Death Year: Abt 1865. Inquest Date: 14 Nov 1865. Inquest Place: Hill Plain. State Archives NSW; Series: 2922; Item: 4/6614; Roll: 343. Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Original data: New South Wales Government. Registers of Coroners’ Inquests and Magisterial Inquiries, 1834–1942 (microfilm, NRS 343, rolls 2921–2925, 2225, 2763–2769). State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.
4. ↑ NEWS AND NOTES. (1865, December 1). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 3. Retrieved January 28, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1283199