Thankyou everyone who for their help so far!! I am going to list out all the info I have on them.
BERTHA MURLESS ORPHANAGE DOC:
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HISTORICAL BIRTH IMAGE: EDITH EMILY
Where and where born - 24th April 1890, Hlugh St Adavale (*Difficult to read, could be hlush st
Father - (Name) Harry Murless (Occupation)Labourer (Age) 23yrs (Birthplace) Adelaide, SA
When and where married - Illegitimate
Mother - (Name) Sophia Bowles (Age) 32 yrs (Birthplace) Bathurst N.S.W
Informant - Certified to in writing by Harry Murless, Father, Adavale
Witness - Mr O'Keeffe
HISTORICAL DEATH IMAGE: BERTHA MAY SHADWELL
When died and where - 6 August 1949, Brisbane Hospital
Name - Bertha May Shadwell
Cause of death- _____ of uterus (duration of illness) 3 weeks
Father - Henry Murless
Mother - Helen Bowles
Whitnesses to burial/cremation - *names are incredibly difficult to make out*
Where born and how long in the state - Charters Towers Queensland, since birth
If deceased was married - (Where) Brisbane, Queensland (at what age) 19 yrs (to whom) Richard James Shadwell.
10 May 1897 - THE MORNING BULLETIN (ROCKHAMPTON) *FOUND ON TROVE*
Ellen Murless was sentenced by the Mutta-
burra Bench to three months' imprisonment
in Rockhampton Gaol for being an idle and
disorderly person. There also arrived by the
same train Bertha May Murless, six years
of age, a daughter of the last-named prisoner.
She was ordered to be sent to the reformatory
at Toowoomba for a term of seven years.
