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The Register News-Pictorial,
Friday 5 July 1929
(Adelaide, South Australia)
Old Moonta Resident Dead
MOONTA, Thursday.— Mrs. Rachael Dunstan (86), one of the town's oldest
residents, died at the home of her daughter (Mrs. H. Quick) at Moonta
Mines yesterday. She was born at Redruth, Cornwall, landed at Port
Adelaide from the ship Art Union in 1864, and proceeded direct to Moonta.
There survive two sons— Messrs. E. Dunstan (Mile-End) and A. P. Dunstan
(Adelaide), and two daughters —Mrs. H. Quick and Mrs. A. L. Goldsworthy
(Moonta Mines).
Transcriber's note: Moonta is a town located on the Yorke Peninsula
of South Australia, 165 kilometres (103 mi) north-northwest of the state
capital of Adelaide. It is one of three towns known as the Copper Coast
or "Little Cornwall" for their shared copper mining history. Moonta
Mines is one of the hamlets surrounding Moonta.
The Advertiser,
Friday 5 July 1929
(Adelaide, South Australia)
One of Moonta's oldest residents, in the person of
Mrs. Rachael Dunstan, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. H.
Quick. Moonta Mines, on July 3, at the age of 86. She was born in
Redruth, Cornwall, and came to Australia in the ship Art Union, landing
at Port Adelaide in August, 1864. She proceeded almost immediately to
Moonta where she had since resided. She was the widow of Joseph Dunstan.
Two sons (Ernest Dunstan, of Mile-End, and Albert P. Dunstan. Adelaide),
and two daughters (Mrs. H. Quick and Mrs. A. L. Goldsworthy, both of
Moonta Mines) survive.
The Barrier Miner,
Wednesday 22 August 1923
(Broken Hill, New South Wales)
FIRE AT MOONTA
6-ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED
Moonta, Wednesday.
This morning a six-roomed house, owned by Mrs. Rachael Dunstan, widow,
of Milne-street. Moonta Mines, was totally destroyed by fire. Albert
Dunstan, a son of the owner, after getting his breakfast, left for work
at 6.30 a.m. Half an hour later a neighbor noticed smoke issuing from
the roof of the house. He gave an alarm of fire and the brigade was
quickly on the spot, but, assisted by a strong northerly wind, the fire
got beyond control. Mrs. Dunstan, who is 80 years of age, Mrs.
Goldsworthy, her widowed daughter, and a granddaughter were asleep in
the house at the time. Mrs. Dunstan was carried out just before the
ceiling in the bedroom collapsed. Some furniture and a piano which were
in the front room were saved, but everything else was destroyed. The
property was not insured.
Contributed by Judy Holman
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