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Johnson Vivian was a native of Camborne in Cornwall and had been living in Mannum for six and a half years before his death in 1917 (source:  Trove obituary).  He emigrated to Queensland in 1870 and lived there briefly before moving to Moonta where his son (the staff sergeant) was born.

John Peter Vivian (father of the three WW1 brothers) died in Mannum in 1922.  According to his Trove obituary, his father James Peter Vivian arrived in Sydney as a free settler on the ship Navarino (port of origin Gravesend in Kent, England) afterwards travelling overland with sheep to South Australia.  Some descendants disagree, saying he was the English convict James Vivian who arrived on the ship Claudine in 1829.  In either case, these men were both English, not Cornish.

So there doesn't appear to me to be a connection between the two families.

Yes, it's a mystery what became of him and I don't think it is possible to know.  I've searched for deaths under Dearlove without any success and the closest one I could find is the following:

Name    John James
Death Age    79
Birth Date    abt 1819
Death Date    17 Jan. 1898
Death Place    Hobart, Tasmania
Registration Date    1898
Registration Place    Hobart, Australia
Registration Number    115

This man was buried in a pauper's grave in the Cornelian Bay cemetery in Hobart.  The 19th century Tasmanian death certificates are very sparse with no parents named and only perhaps place of birth.  Being a pauper, the informant probably wouldn't have known anyway.

Okay - thanks.

I also think that the Mary Louisa Young who married Bruce Gunn was likely to have been the mother of Thomas Cannon's two sons.  There is a Trove report on the death of "Mary Cannon" in 1897 on Middle Island.  Her body was transferred to Beaconsfield for an inquest.

Bruce Gunn died in 1927 and is buried in the Villa Car cemetery.  However his wife Mary doesn't appear to be buried with him.  Also, Ancestry trees do not record a death or buried for Mary Gunn which is interesting, except one who says she is the woman who died in 1897 on Middle Island.  Bruce and Mary had one child, a girl named Florence, who died as in infant in 1887.

Assuming Mary Gunn was the "Mary Cannon" who died on Middle Island, what happened to her body after the inquest at Beaconsfield?  It is not in the cemetery at Beaconsfield.

Hi Dianna,

Difficult to find the child.  Do you know anything more about Margaret Young?  Where did you find her name?  I found the following birth record, no father recorded, which is a possibility:

Name    Alexander Young
Birth Date    1860
Birth Place    New South Wales
Registration Year    1860
Registration Place    Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
Mother    Margaret
Registration Number    2770

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