G'day all, I was just going through a handwritten death certificate for a distant relative of mine, David Mulcahy who died 25 DEC 1888 in Alpha. Under the cause of death column is something odd. It firstly says Dysentery, then under that (where the length of illness should go) is written something like: "Oscar Bauche prescribed medicine" The first word is the hardest to read. It is definitely "O??ar" but I could be wrong about the letters where the "??" is. Could it be the name of a person? Had a look for someone of that name around Alpha and found nothing. Has anyone come across some sort of old timey prescribed medicine like that? I can send a snapshot of the actual writing in a private e-mail to anyone who wants a closer look. Thanks ... -- Stephen Nicholson, Wollongong

1870-1879 Electoral Rolls MULCAHY, David, Toowoomba, 1877, Residence, Russell Street, 65 MULCHAY, David, Toowoomba, 1878, Residence, Ruthven Street, 78 MULCAHY, David, St. George - Balonne, 1879, Residence, St. George, 80 David does not appear in the 1860-1869 Rolls that i can see. I could not find a Oscar BAUCHE/BANKE Bev -------------------------------------------------- From: "Stephen Nicholson" <ogbo1@bigpond.com> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:06 PM To: <AUS-QLD@rootsweb.com> Subject: [AUS-QLD] A strange old medicine? > G'day all, > > I was just going through a handwritten death certificate for a distant > relative of mine, David Mulcahy who died 25 DEC 1888 in Alpha. > > Under the cause of death column is something odd. > > It firstly says Dysentery, then under that (where the length of > illness should go) is written something like: > > "Oscar Bauche prescribed medicine" > > The first word is the hardest to read. It is definitely "O??ar" but I > could be wrong about the letters where the "??" is. > > Could it be the name of a person? Had a look for someone of that name > around Alpha and found nothing. > > Has anyone come across some sort of old timey prescribed medicine like > that? > > I can send a snapshot of the actual writing in a private e-mail to > anyone who wants a closer look. > > Thanks ... >

Hi there Bev, thanks for the info that you've sent through. The Electoral Rolls make sense - esp. ending with him being in St. George in 1879. Didn't know he'd been in Toowoomba. A few years later he married his wife west of St. George in Isisford 1883, and it was after that they moved to Alpha. As for him not being in the earlier rolls, he'd only just immigrated from Ireland. Alas no immigration records for him or his wife Julia O'Doherty that I can find. No naturalisations either. They both came from County Cork. I think I'd seen the Brand information before, and it seems to indicate that for a while he was blacksmith at Alpha Farm, outside of Alpha. Around the same time in 1886 he moved into Alpha itself, took over a Wheelwright and Blacksmiths business, but not long after ran the local Commercial Hotel. Also thanks for the Will information, but I may not bother getting it as died intestate so there is probably little of interest there. I know that Julia inherited the lot. Cheers ... -- Stephen On 1 Apr 2014, at 7:34 AM, B. Edmonds wrote: > > 1870-1879 Electoral Rolls > > MULCAHY, David, Toowoomba, 1877, Residence, Russell Street, 65 > > MULCHAY, David, Toowoomba, 1878, Residence, Ruthven Street, 78 > MULCAHY, David, St. George - Balonne, 1879, Residence, St. George, 80 > > David does not appear in the 1860-1869 Rolls that i can see. > > > I could not find a Oscar BAUCHE/BANKE > > Bev