William Stafford

  General Notes:

Witnesses to the burial were M.J. Morris Ernest Herbert Brown.
Birth Index Search No # /1842
Marriage Index Search No # 3871/1871
Death Index Search No # 12839/1911

Inscription on Headstone in Mount Kembla Cemetery.
"Our Dear Father,
My Peaceful grave shall keep
My bones till that sweet day
I wake from my long sleep
And leave my bed of clay
My Lord His angels shall
Their golden trumpets sound
At those most welcome call
My grave shall be unbound."

In Loving Memory of Our Dear Father William Stafford who departed this Life
30th July 1911.
Aged 69 Years.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 23 Apr 1843, Benares, Uttar Pradesh India.

• Occupation: Farmer/Miner.

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William married Jessie Jane (Janet) James, daughter of William Charles James (The Mad Scotsman) and Isabella Rose Munro, in 1871 in Wollongong, NSW Australia. (Jessie Jane (Janet) James was born on 21 Aug 1842 in Berkeley, Wollongong, NSW Australia and died on 29 Jun 1903 in Mount Kembla, NSW Australia.)