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- [S66] Information: Keith Skinner.
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- [S215] Information: Grant Flanagan, E-mail 10 Jan 2004.
- [S306] Baptism: NSW, Orange, Holy Trinity Church 3 Nov 1857 to 30 Jun 1984 [SAG], Vol.1 Page 201.
- [S3617] _Births, Deaths and Marriages, NSW, Lilly Allsop; Birth; Index; 28657; 1883; Orange.
Mother given as Sarah. No father shown.
- [S3617] _Births, Deaths and Marriages, NSW, Lillian Allsopp; Death; Certificate; 14664; 1896; Orange.
- [S998] Newspaper: Australian Star, Inquest at Lucknow; Article; 16 November 1896; Page 5; Viewed; 29 August 2021; http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227523575.
Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Monday 16 November 1896, page 5
INQUEST AT LUCKNOW.
Orange, Monday.
An inquest was held on Saturday after noon at Stibbard's Hotel, Lucknow, before Mr. J. L. King, Coroner, touching the death of a girl named Lillian Allsopp, aged 13 years, last May, who died about 6 o'clock that morning after giving birth to twins, one stillborn. Dr. Goode, Government Medical Officer, made a post-mortem examination of the body. He found that deceased had suffered from broncho-pneumonia for some time. This was borne out by a statement made by a neighbour, who told him that deceased had been suffering from a very bad cough for some time, and that after delivery she had a bad fit of coughing, which lasted for nearly two hours. The jury returned the following verdict : — "We find that the said Lillian Allsopp, at the residence of her mother, Sarah Allsopp, at Lucknow, in the colony, of N.S.W., on November 14, died from natural causes, in accordance with medical testimony."
- [S999] Newspaper: Truth (Sydney, NSW: 1894-1954), Youthful Degeneracy; Article; 22 November 1896; Page 3; http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169756103.
YOUTHFUL DEGENERACY,-
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Mother of Twins at 13 1/2 Years of Age A Live Baby Girl and a Dead Baby Boy-Death of the Mother Remnants of a Criminal Charge Quashed by the Attorney-General.
One of the most astounding disclosures of youthful immorality cams before the Coroner for Orange last week. The Western Advocate gives the following report of the inqust, which clearly shows that the law is very lax in looking after the morals of young Australian girls :
It will be remembered that at the Quarter Sessions held in June last before Judge Docker, Lillian Allsopp was prosecutrix in a case against a young an named Charles Bell for criminal intimacy with her in February last. The jury disagreed after being locked up all night. The accused Bell was then remanded until the next sessions, bail being allowed, self in £100 and two sureties of £50 each. A few days subsequently it was made known that the Attorney-General had refused to file a bill against him.
On the 14th instant an inquest was held at Stibbard"s Hotel, Lucknow, by the Coroner, J. L. King, Esq., to inquire into the death of Lillian Allsop, a girl aged 13 years and ix months, who died on Saturday morning after giving birth to twins, one being still-born.
Inspector Ford examined the witness.
Sarah Allsopp, mother of the accused, said : I do not know where my husband is I am separated from him; I hae seen the body of the deceased, Lillian Allsopp; She was my daughter, and was 13 years of age last birth-day, in May; I remember my daughter charging Charles Bell with carnally knowing her in June last at the Quarter Sessions ; the jury disagreed; my daghter has beenliving with me from that time up to her decease ; she was taken ill on Friday night and was confined of a female child (alive) at half-past 1 on Saturday morning ; at twenty minutes past 2 a.m. she Was confined of a male child (still-born) Mrs.Parker and Mrs. McMurtrie were present; I was in the house when both children were born; Mrs. McMurtrie acted as midwife; I know Mrs. Ellen Davis; she is a sister-in-law of mine ; she was not present; there was no doctor in attendance ; I called in Dr McGregor at 6 o’clock; she was not dead then, but died be-fore the doctor arrived'; I am the mother of seven children.
Mrs. McMurtrie, widow, at Lucknow, said : I have acted as midwife for four years in Lucknow ; , I have seen, the body of deceased; I wa called in to see the deceased at the residence of her mother; I delivered her of a female child at half-past 1; afterwards at 20 minutespast 2 I delivered her of a still-born male child; I did the best I could for her ; no doctor was present at the births; every precaution was taken up to the time the children were born. She showed no dangerous symptoms'; all arrangements had beenmade for the birth'; a few days before her legs Were terribly swollen it looked almost like dropsy ; I remained with her after the birth of the last child ; the doctor arrived about 10 minutes after she died ; he had been preiously sent for; I laid the body about but'; there were no marks of violence on it; the deceased did not make any statement to me, the first born child is still alive.
Ellen Davis, wife of Henry Davis, farmer, said l know the deceased; I saw her about Tuesday or Wednesday last; she then appeared to be pregnant, she said, 'Did you see the fall, Aunt?' I said, 'No, Lilly, I did not; ' she said she struck at the children, and fell’ ; she did not complain of any pain; I did not see her again until she was dead; no' t one was present when she made the statement to me.
The inquest was adjourned for twenty minutes for the attendance of the doctors, who were making the post mortem examination After resuming, Dr Robert Donald Macgregor said: I am a legally qualified medical practitioner, practising at Lucknow. I was called on about 6 a.m. on Saturday to see the deceased, and arrived about twenty minutes latr; she was then dead; I had not previously attended her ; she had been recently delivered of two children; one was alive and the other dead ; I made an examination, and from that I am of opinion that she was properly treated ; on the clothes there were isigns that there had been comparatively little haemorrhage; I thought that a clot might have found its way into the pulmonary '|i artery, but could not give the cause of death ; I reported the matter to the police; the birth was not premature ; I think i is improbable that any fall she may have had affected the birth ; I declined to give a certificate as to the cause of death in consequence of not having treated the deceased previous to her death.
Constable Burton, stationed at Lucknow, said the death of Lillian Allsopp was re-ported to him about 7 o’clockon Saturday morning; be reported it to Inspector Ford ; be was present with Drs. Goode and Macgregor at the post-mortem examination. Dr. Goode, Government Medical Officer, said : I have held a post morem examination on the body of the deceased by direction of the Coroner; the death was caused by collapse consequent on parturition supervecing on the hepatised state of the lungs, . caused by broncho-pneumonia, from which she must have been suffering forsome time ; this is borne out by, statement of a woman living next door, who has just told me that the deceased was suffering from a very bad cough for some time, and that soon after delivery she took a bad fit of coughing, which lasted for nearly two hors. A fall and over-exertion might have caused pre-mature delivery; I believe deceased received proper care during the confinement.
The jury returned the following verdict, in accordance with the medical testimony: 'We find that the said Lillian Allsopp, atthe residence of her mother, Sarah Allsopp, . at Lucknow, in the Colony bf New South Wales, on the 14th day of November,1896, died from natural causes.' [The remains of mother and child were buried in the Orange cemetery on Sunday afternoon. The uneral was a lengthy one].
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