Chapter 6.5
Adam Mosman 1848-1884
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Adam Mosman (c. Mosman Library) |
Like his brother, Adam was also a prospector and, according to Jupiter, was a member the party that found gold at Charters Towers in December 1871. After that he seems to have returned to back to Squatting and in 1879 bought a half share in Delta Station near Roma.
He may have also been prospecting as a newspaper advertisement in 1884 shows he had been camping out with others he didn’t know and left behind one of his horses at the camp. The honest person who made the camp took out a newspaper advertisement which asked for his address so he could pay for the horse!
Adam must have became a gold miner as well as a squatter because a couple of years later he lost his arm in a mining accident. This must have been especially traumatic as just before the accident, at 34, in September 1883 he had married 19 year old Emily Adelaide Finch the youngest daughter of the late Jacob Finch (ex convict) and Elizabeth Finch née Grow who arrived as a free unaccompanied assisted settler when she was only 19.
Seeking better medical treatment he travelled to England, possibly at Hugh’s expense. On the way home via San Francisco in January 1884 he developed a bacterial infection, erisipelas, which caused his premature death at age 34.
We don’t know if Emily went with him to England. She moved to Sydney and remarried eighteen months later in Darlinghurst, when she was 21.
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