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 Bowden,
Brompton and Hindmarsh
Who’s who in Bowden, Brompton and
Hindmarsh? I have come across some of the early residents of the district:
- Deaths at Josephine’s Gasworks Hotel: my e-book investigation into suspicious deaths at this
Brompton hotel. You will find the Gasworks Hotel stuck mostly in 1851-74 – you can
read about its early publicans. You can also read a little about the characters in
the e-book.
- You can also read about the odd case of
Man
Sells Wife at the Land of Promise Hotel, Hindmarsh in 1847 –
it is not all that it seems.
- Read about the Brompton ropemaking
business of Tamlin and Coombe by following links from James Coombe, Ropemaker.
- Follow me on twitter @GasworksHotel for
occasional snippets of the goings on in the district, city, South Australia, other colonies and
the world – usually from the newspapers of 150 years ago.
- Follow these links for more on early
residents: Samuel Coombe, Richard Coombe
and Thomas Coombe and families, John
Robins Rundle and Family, including Elisha Rundle and Edward
Hamence.
- Kym has headstone photos from Hindmarsh Cemetery. Not all burials are listed there as some graves no longer
have in situ headstones. There is a burials book available on
microfilm at many family history libraries and after finding the plot
number there, I can help you locate a grave site using a copy of an old cemetery
plot map provided by the library of the City of Charles
Sturt.
I commend these other writings to your
attention:
 Deaths at Josephine’s Gasworks Hotel
A Victorian Investigation
Immerse yourself in Victorian intrigue
and the world of publican Josephine. A story never before told. A suspicious death,
a coroner’s inquest, a Supreme Court verdict of fraud and a family cut out of
a last minute will. Did Josephine kill him and another three men? Climb
aboard the investigative journey. Includes a readers’ guide for book groups.
The author brings together, for the first
time, the case that Josephine may have murdered four men at her Victorian era
Gasworks Hotel – two of them husbands.
This is a story highly evocative of the
times – the language; the social norms. It is mostly a story about ordinary
people, although some of the characters rose to great heights in South Australia as premier, police
commissioner and city coroner. The conclusion, however, is anything but
ordinary.
This is the true story of Josephine. From
1863 to 1874 she was the publican at the Gasworks Hotel in Brompton,
an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Was she also a serial
killer?
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continue reading about the book.
Gasworks Hotel, Brompton and Josephine
Rundle
I am searching for a possible photograph
of the Gasworks Hotel, Brompton, Adelaide, South Australia
and its publicans in the 1860s or 1870s. The hotel, in Chief Street, is now known as the Gaslight
Tavern and was originally called the Brickmakers’ Arms. The period
of my main interest for the Gasworks Hotel is 1863 to 1874, during
which time the following people were licensees:
* Robert Laundy Ingham
* Josephine Ingham
* Thomas Coombe
* William Thomas
* Eliza Thomas
* Josephine Coombe
* Elisha
Rundle
This period and all of these publicans
are the subjects of my book Deaths at Josephine’s Gasworks Hotel.
I am especially interested in a
photograph of Josephine Rundle (also know by her previous married names of
Ingham and Coombe). Checks of major and regional libraries and museums have
uncovered none. Josephine Rundle was also publican at the Golden Cross Inn
Balhannah 1877 to 1880 and in two hotels in Aberdeen, Burra, 1880 to 1883.
Keywords:
Josephine Mary Bridget Rundle, Josephine Mary B. Rundle, Josephine M. B.
Rundle, J. M. B. Rundle, Josephine Mary Rundle, Josephine M. Rundle, J. M.
Rundle, Bridget M. Rundle, Bridget Mary Josephine Rundle, Josephine Mary
Bridget Guilfoyle, Josephine Mary Bridget Guilfoyle Coombe, Golden Cross Inn
Balhannah, Aberdeen Hotel, Royal Exchange Hotel, Bon Accord Hotel, Burra.
1877-80 Balhannah, 1880-83 Aberdeen, 1883-86 Josephine Cottage
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