Fernando (Fernandez) Gonzales (Gonsalles, Gonsarlus)
Described as a pure Manila man of strong Spanish blood. He left Manila about 1848 to crew on a ship. He was imprisoned with some other members of the ships crew by the ships Captain.
He left Sydney in 1849 and joined the pilot service in Moreton Bay .He later worked for Andrew Petrie before settling at Amity Point and becoming a fishermen.
He is reported to have married an Aboriginal woman and had a family of four girls. However a Lizzie Gonzales is Mentioned by Thomas Welsby in "Early Moreton Bay ".
From Kathleen McGregor's Sail Away To Old Moreton Bay. Information On his imprisonment by the ships Captain.
He and the others had disobeyed orders to work. Although he and his companions were tried before the Sydney Court, they were meted no heavy penalty.
Welsby (in Thompson, 1967, Vol. 1, p. 380) reports an accident with gunpowder in the 1890's, where his own face & chest received severe powder burns. He was taken to Fernandez's hut and looked after for days ... wounds pricked with clean needles, the matter removed and the wounds brushed with feathers of the curlew and seagull, after having been dipped in the juice of bruised herbs taken from the nearest swamps.
Died at Dunwich Asylum Hospital of Tumour of the Bladder - aged 74 years.
Described as a pure Manila man of strong Spanish blood. He left Manila about 1848 to crew on a ship. He was imprisoned with some other members of the ships crew by the ships Captain.
He left Sydney in 1849 and joined the pilot service in Moreton Bay .He later worked for Andrew Petrie before settling at Amity Point and becoming a fishermen.
He is reported to have married an Aboriginal woman and had a family of four girls. However a Lizzie Gonzales is Mentioned by Thomas Welsby in "Early Moreton Bay ".
From Kathleen McGregor's Sail Away To Old Moreton Bay. Information On his imprisonment by the ships Captain.
He and the others had disobeyed orders to work. Although he and his companions were tried before the Sydney Court, they were meted no heavy penalty.
Welsby (in Thompson, 1967, Vol. 1, p. 380) reports an accident with gunpowder in the 1890's, where his own face & chest received severe powder burns. He was taken to Fernandez's hut and looked after for days ... wounds pricked with clean needles, the matter removed and the wounds brushed with feathers of the curlew and seagull, after having been dipped in the juice of bruised herbs taken from the nearest swamps.
Died at Dunwich Asylum Hospital of Tumour of the Bladder - aged 74 years.
Fernando (Fernandez) Gonzales (Gonsalles, Gonsarlus)
Described as a pure Manila man of strong Spanish blood. He left Manila about 1848 to crew on a ship. He was imprisoned with some other members of the ships crew by the ships Captain.
He left Sydney in 1849 and joined the pilot service in Moreton Bay .He later worked for Andrew Petrie before settling at Amity Point and becoming a fishermen.
He is reported to have married an Aboriginal woman and had a family of four girls. However a Lizzie Gonzales is Mentioned by Thomas Welsby in "Early Moreton Bay ".
From Kathleen McGregor's Sail Away To Old Moreton Bay. Information On his imprisonment by the ships Captain.
He and the others had disobeyed orders to work. Although he and his companions were tried before the Sydney Court, they were meted no heavy penalty.
Welsby (in Thompson, 1967, Vol. 1, p. 380) reports an accident with gunpowder in the 1890's, where his own face & chest received severe powder burns. He was taken to Fernandez's hut and looked after for days ... wounds pricked with clean needles, the matter removed and the wounds brushed with feathers of the curlew and seagull, after having been dipped in the juice of bruised herbs taken from the nearest swamps.
Died at Dunwich Asylum Hospital of Tumour of the Bladder - aged 74 years.
Described as a pure Manila man of strong Spanish blood. He left Manila about 1848 to crew on a ship. He was imprisoned with some other members of the ships crew by the ships Captain.
He left Sydney in 1849 and joined the pilot service in Moreton Bay .He later worked for Andrew Petrie before settling at Amity Point and becoming a fishermen.
He is reported to have married an Aboriginal woman and had a family of four girls. However a Lizzie Gonzales is Mentioned by Thomas Welsby in "Early Moreton Bay ".
From Kathleen McGregor's Sail Away To Old Moreton Bay. Information On his imprisonment by the ships Captain.
He and the others had disobeyed orders to work. Although he and his companions were tried before the Sydney Court, they were meted no heavy penalty.
Welsby (in Thompson, 1967, Vol. 1, p. 380) reports an accident with gunpowder in the 1890's, where his own face & chest received severe powder burns. He was taken to Fernandez's hut and looked after for days ... wounds pricked with clean needles, the matter removed and the wounds brushed with feathers of the curlew and seagull, after having been dipped in the juice of bruised herbs taken from the nearest swamps.
Died at Dunwich Asylum Hospital of Tumour of the Bladder - aged 74 years.
Gravesite Details
Headstone is made of sandstone and is unreadable.
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