Alfred Owen Briggs b. 1869 Woodstock, Victoria, Australia d. 9 Jan 1903 Western Australia, Australia: The family of Lois Willis

1869 - 1903 (34 years)

Name	Alfred Owen Briggs
Born	1869	Woodstock, Victoria, Australia [1]
Gender	Male
Died	9 Jan 1903	Western Australia, Australia
Person ID	I899	Lois Willis
Last Modified	10 Jan 2017

Father	Thomas Briggs, b. 16 Sep 1847, Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia , d. 14 May 1916, 6 Vine Street, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (Age 68 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Oldroyd Sharp, b. 1848, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England , d. 17 Oct 1881, Kamarooka, Victoria, Australia (Age 33 years)
Married	25 Aug 1869	All Saints' Church, Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia [2]
	Thomas was a bachelor. He was born in Tasmania, and aged 21 years. He was a farmer at Woodstock. His parents were Thomas Briggs, farmer, and Mary Ann Davis. Elizabeth was a spinster. She was born in Wakefield, and aged 20 years. She was living at Tarnagulla. Her parents were Henry Sharp, farmer, and Jane Oldroyd. They were married by William R Carlton, Incumbent of All Saints, according to the rites of the Church of England, with the written consent of Henry Sharp Father of the bride. The witnesses were E H Crosslet and S Hayder.
Family ID	F135	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Margaret Meighan, b. Cal 1874, d. Dec 1903, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 29 years)

Married 1898 [3]

Children

	1. Violet Doreen Briggs, b. 1900, d. Yes, date unknown
	2. Thomas Keith Briggs, b. 1902, d. 1903 (Age 1 years)

Last Modified 3 Jan 2017

Family ID F3258 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Kalgoorlie Miner Friday 16 January 1903 Page 4
Drowned in a Shaft. '97 A coroner's jury found yesterday that Alfred Owen Briggs was accidentally drowned on the 9th inst. by falling into an unpro tected water shaft at Lakeside. Evi dence was given to the effect that Briggs was at the Lakeside Hotel on the night of the 8th inst. with Charles E. Colquhoum and Richard Jenkins. They left that house at midnight, and remained talking- outside for a quarter to half an hour, when they parted to go to their respective camps, which lay each hi a different direction. Briggs was slightly under the influence of liquor, and, according to his camp matejohn Cossens, while in that condition he was 'helpless on his feet.35 His camp was about 350 yards from the hotel, and, before he reached it, he had to pass a shaft containing 10ft. of water, and unprotected, on the road side, from which' it is separated by 8ft. or 10ft. Next morning his mate, who had gone to work at a quarter to 12.011 the pre vious night, returned home to find' Briggs absent, and he instituted a search which resulted in the discovery of the body in the water-shaft. It appears that cries, lasting- about a minute, were heard by different per sons, but no one investigated/ Messrs. J. Marshall (coroner), R. Harper, G. H. Nangle, and A. H. Goldstein (jury), conducted the inquiry, and Sergeant Stokes appeared for the police.

[S2805] Elizabeth Oldroyd Briggs death certificate.
[S1875] Thomas Briggs and Elizabeth Sharp marriage certificate.
[S3506] Family History Search, Victoria, Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria, ((https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj : 2016)), accessed 3 Jan 2017), marriage entry for Alf Owen Briggs and Margt Meighan/Meeghan; Registration no 1301 of 1898. (Reliability: 3).