Frederick Charles Bawn

1852–1871

Baptised at a different church from most of his siblings, fined as a teenager for riotous behaviour, dead at eighteen.

Born: 1852 · registered Sydney · baptised St James’s
Died: 23 April 1871 · Sydney Infirmary · buried Balmain Cemetery, aged 18

Frederick Charles was born in 1852 (reg. 7/1852) and baptised, unusually for this family, at St James’s, Sydney, rather than St Philip’s.¹ At about sixteen, in August 1868, he was fined for riotous behaviour in Edward Street, alongside another youth, Joseph Shepherd — the heavier of the two fines, 40s. to the other’s 20s., fell to him.²

He died at the Sydney Infirmary on 23 April 1871, aged eighteen, and was buried at Balmain Cemetery by the undertakers J. & G. Shying & Co. — the same firm that had handled, two years earlier, the still-unidentified 1869 funeral of “Mr. George Bawn” discussed on his father’s own page. Whether that is a real connection, or simply the same family using the same undertaker twice, cannot presently be said.³

The Record

Sources & References

1
Birth and baptism

NSW BDM birth index, reg. 7/1852; baptism, St James’s, Sydney, age 0, father George Bawn, mother Ellen.
2
Riotous behaviour, 1868

“Water Police Court,” Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 1868: “Two youths, Joseph Shepherd and Frederick Bawn, convicted of riotous behaviour in Edward-street, were fined, the former 20s., the last-named 40s.”
3
Death, 1871

“Balmain Cemetery Revisited” transcription compilation, entry 01447: “Frederick BAWN, 18. Died at Infirmary Sydney... buried in 3 x 7 plot by J. & G. Shying & Co, Undertakers... Death registered in Sydney as BAWN, Frederick #588/1871.”