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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining
Journal, DEATH OF MR. H. W. NANCARROW.—We regret to have to announce that on Thursday morning, Mr. H. W. Nancarrow, of East Lynne, died suddenly in his bed. He was in Wellington on Wednesday evening, and went home apparently in good health and ate heartily. He had been suffering for some time an affection of the heart and liver, and had been under medical advice in Sydney and Wellington. On Thursday morning early, he was lying on his back in bed, and was heard to moan. Mrs. Nancarrow tried to wake him, thinking he was dreaming, and thought he went off to sleep again. Shortly afterwards she lifted the sheet from his face to see if he was all right, and found he was dead. Dr. Barker had attended deceased, and, from his knowledge of the state of deceased’s health, gave the opinion that death was the result of heart disease. Mr. Nancarrow was a native of Cornwall, England, and came to the colony with his parents when about 14 years old. For a long time he lived in the Maitland district. He was one of the discoverers of the Cobar Copper Mine, and it was principally through his energy that the mine was brought to a success. He was long resident in Bourke, and about sixteen years ago bought the property known as East Lynne, on the Wellington Flat, where he resided ever since. He spent a deal of money in mining, but outside the twenty thousand or so made at Cobar he was not successful. Contributed by Bob Bolitho |