Gabrielle Patricia McDONALD – nee Eggleston

aka  Gabby

late of Maryland

Wife to Andrew McDonald # 22289

NSW Police Academy Class # 242C

“possibly” a Rejoinee

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  26685

Rank:  Commenced training at Goulburn Police Station on Sunday 30 July 1989 ( aged 19 years, 5 months, 5 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed 25 January 1990 ( aged 19 years, 11 months, 0 days )

Constable – appointed  ? ? ?

Detective – appointed  ? ? ? ( YES )

Constable 1st Class – appointed  ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed  ? ? ?

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed  ? ? ?

Final Rank:  Detective Sergeant

Stations:  ?, Inner City ( Sydney ), Newtown Detectives, Balmain ( 8 Division ), Newcastle, Lake Macquarie L.A.C.,  Northern Region Professional Standards

Service:  From 30 July 1989   to   3 July 2013 = 23 years, 11 months, 3 days Service

Awards:  No Find on Australian Honours

Born:  Wednesday  25 February 1970

Died on:  Wednesday  3 July 2013

Cause:  Depression – Suicide – hanging – ON DUTY

Previous attempt in 2012 inside Newcastle Police Stn

Age:  43 years, 4 months, 8 days

Funeral date:  Thursday  11 July 2013 @ 11am

Funeral location:  Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church, Sandgate Rd, Shortland

Buried at:  Sandgate Lawn Cemetery, 116 Maitland Rd, Sandgate, NSW

Grave Location:  Lawn Cemetery 1, Row R, Grave 54

GPS:  Lat:  -32.8703445   Long:  151.709213

GABBY is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance – Canberra 

* BUT SHOULD BE.  Last checked 2 Aug 2019  24 Jan 2024

GABBY IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance – NSW Domain

Grave location:  [codepeople-post-map]

Late of Maryland

Gabrielle passed away on 03/07/2013.

Her funeral is proposed to be held at 11am on Thursday 11th Instant at Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church, 262 Sandgate Road, SHORTLAND.

Dearly loved wife of ANDREW, loving mother of JESSICA and JOSH. Loved daughter and daughter-in-law of CARMEL and NORM (dec’d) EGGLESTON, FRAN and WARREN McDONALD.
Sister and sister-in-law of PETER and MAREE, MEL and JULIE, MARIA and MARK, ANDREW and AREEYA, ANGELA and MARK, SUE and STEVE, PATRICK and CAROLINE, NICOLE and NIGEL, GREG and loved aunty of their FAMILIES.

The Relatives and Friends of GABRIELLE are warmly invited to attend her Funeral to be held in Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church, Sandgate Rd, Shortland on THURSDAY 11/7/13 Funeral Liturgy commencing at 11am. An interment will follow at Sandgate Lawn Cemetery.

http://pettigrew.com.au/upcoming-funerals/2013/7/11/mcdonald-gabrielle-patricia-gabby.html

Video:    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-11/family-of-nsw-policewoman-who-took-her-own-life/7587948

James BEATTY

AKA  ? 

Late of  ? 

“possible” relation in ‘the job’:    ?

NSW Belmore Barracks  Class #  ? ? ? 

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  ‘P‘ 1162

For the purposes of this website ‘P‘ = represents those Police joining Pre 1 March 1862 before the amalgamated of all other Policing Units in NSW. i.e. Mounted Police, Boarder Police, Native Police, Gold Escort Police, Water Police etc. 

Rank:  Commenced Training as a Probationary Constable – appointed 5 February 1858 ( aged 22 years, 4 months, 15 days ) 

Constable – appointed 18 February 1858

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Detective – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed 1 June 1869

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 April 1883

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 1st Class – appointed 1 April 1884

Final Rank: =  Sergeant 

Stations:  Darlinghurst ( 3 Division ), Hill End ( Mounted Police Gold Escort ), Lambing Flat, Parramatta ( 1st Class Constable ), Orderly to the Inspector General of Police – Sydney, Parramatta ( Senior Constable ), Windsor ( O.I.C. ), Campbelltown O.I.C., Ryde O.I.C., Penrith O.I.C. ( J District )( Easter 1888 – Death )

Service: From  5 February 1858   to   11 January 1890   =  31 years, 11 months, 6 days Service

Retirement / Leaving age: = 54 years, 3 months, 21 days 

Time in Retirement from Police: Zero

Awards:  No Find on Australian Honours system

 Born:   Monday 21 September 1 835  Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

Died on:  Saturday 11 January 1890

Age:  54 years, 3 months, 21 days

Organ Donor:  N/A

Cause:  Murdered – Stabbed – On Duty

Event location:  Outside of Penrith Police Station, NSW ( site of the current Station )

Event date:  Saturday 11 January 1890

Funeral date:  ? ? ? TBA

Funeral location:  ? TBA 

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: St Stephen’s Anglican Cemetery, High St, Penrith, NSW

Grave location:  Plot K18

Grave GPS: 

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at:  Penrith Police Station, Penrith, NSW 

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument:

JAMES IS mentioned on the National Police Wall of Remembrance – Canberra

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May they forever Rest In Peace

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On 11 January, 1890 outside the Penrith Police Station, the sergeant had occasion to speak to an Indian vagrant whom he had earlier asked to leave town.

The man suddenly leapt at Sergeant Beatty, stabbing him five times.

Local people and Constable William Moseley then pursued the offender and cornered him however the man threw a brick which struck the constable in the chest.

Constable Moseley then drew his service revolver and shot the offender, wounding him.

The constable and locals then threw themselves on the offender and he was arrested.

The offender died later that night.

Unfortunately, the wounds inflicted upon Sergeant Beatty also proved to be fatal.

The sergeant was born in 1835 and joined the police force on 5 February, 1858. In 1862 he became a member of the newly-formed New South Wales Police Force. At the time of his death he was stationed at Penrith.

Source:  Beyond Courage:

James BEATTY’s mother died five days before his own demise.

James had previously suffered a knife wound to the head during the course of the Gold Field Riots at Lambing Flat, NSW.

The Launceston Examiner of 11 January, 1990 provided the following news of the tragedy.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.  A terrible tragedy was enacted this afternoon at Penrith. A coloured man, a stranger in the town, was observed by Sergeant Beatty to be throwing stones at passers-by.

The officer warned him to desist, and was in the act of arresting him when he drew a knife and stabbed Beatty in the chest, the weapon going completely through his body.

Beatty called out, and Constable Mosley came to his assistance, armed with a revolver.

Mosley [Moseley] fired at the coloured man, who was in the act of running away, but missed. A second shot, however, took effect, and the fugitive reeled and was about to fall, when a young man named Zolliner [John Zahnliter] seized him.

Both men rolled over on the street, and the coloured man drew the knife again and stabbed Zolliner.

He was ultimately seized and taken to the lock-up.

Sergeant Beatty, who is not expected to recover, has had his dying depositions taken. Zolliner‘s wound is not serious.

www.ccansw.org.au/index.php/newspublicblog/news/blogs/102-general-/1494-sergeant-james-beatty

On 10^th January 1890 Sergeant James Beatty, a long serving officer in the NSW Police Force was fatally stabbed in High Street Penrith. Sergeant Beatty was buried with full police honours in St Stephen the Martyr churchyard cemetery, Fulton Lane, Penrith.

“About 1.30pm on 10 January 1890, Sergeant James Beatty had occasion to interact with an itinerant Cingalese named James in High Street, Penrith outside the Convent of the Sisters of St Joseph. During that interaction the Sergeant was stabbed in the chest.

In the meantime, the offender was contained by townspeople pending the arrival of Constable Moseley who shot the offender. A good Samaritan named John Zahnliter was also stabbed during the melee. Sergeant Beatty died of his wound on the evening of 11 January 1890. He was survived by his widow Margaretta, four sons and two daughters.”

St Joseph’s Convent, High Street Penrith (now Officeworks)

Penrith City Council Library Local Studies collection

On 3^rd September, 2012, as part of the 150^th Anniversary of the NSW Police Force, a commemorative service was held at Sergeant Beatty’s gravesite to honour his sacrifice, the event a joint venture between Council and Penrith Local Area Command.

 Sergeant Beatty’s monument was in a dilapidated and damaged state. Council arranged and funded the restoration of the monument to its former glory by master stonemasons, Monuments in Memoriam who are based at Rookwood Necropolis. All restoration work was in accordance with the National Trust of Australia (NSW) Guidelines for Cemetery Conservation, the Burra Charter and Penrith City Council’s LEP.

 Since 1982, Penrith City Council has been the trustee of this significant churchyard cemetery which dates from 1838 with full responsibility for its care and maintenance. The Public Domain Amenity and Safety two man cemeteries crew, maintain five cemeteries, Penrith, St Marys, Emu Plains, Castlereagh and St Stephens.

 In preparation for the occasion an intensive clean up of the cemetery took place with staff from the City Presentation Group – Parks, Public Domain and Cemetery Operations spending a day in the cemetery. The heritage nature of the cemetery and fragility of the monuments meant that whipper snipers could not be used and all trimming around and inside monuments was by hand.

Fragile heritage cemeteries are protected by the grasses that grow around and inside the monuments. Plans of Management are currently being prepared for the cemeteries under Council’s control and the consultant’s recommendation for St Stephens is that we should avoid overly detailed or manicured works. The Cemetery should look old, avoid pristine maintenance and maintain the wild character of the grasses within the grave enclosures.

The commemorative service to honour the memory of Sergeant James Beatty was attended by Andrew Scipione APM, Commissioner of Police, Nick Kaldas APM, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Field Operations), Ben Feszczuk APM, Local Area Commander, former Commissioner of Police, Tony Lauer APM, Hon David Bradbury MP, Stuart Ayres MP, Beatty family descendants, Councillor Greg Davies, Mayor of Penrith, Councillor Ross Fowler OAM, Alan Stoneham, General Manager, Barry Husking, Director, David Burns, Group Manager – City Presentation, managers Yvonne Perkins and Barbara McGee, council officers and police personnel.

Mary Thorne, Cemeteries Project Officer

Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 – 1962),

Thursday 12 February 1948, page 6

Miles O’GRADY

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  ?

Rank:  Constable

Stations:  Nerrigundah

Service:  From  15 June 1863  to  9 April 1866 = 2+ years Service

Awards:   ?

Born:  ? ? 1841

Died on: 9 April 1866

Cause:  Shot – Murdered

Event location:  Nerrigundah

Age:  25

Funeral date:   ?

Funeral location:   ?

Buried at:   ?

[alert_green]MILES IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_green]

On the morning of 9 April, 1866 Thomas Clarke and his gang of bushrangers appeared at Deep Creek near the Gulph Goldfields and spent the day robbing passing travellers. At nearby Nerrigundah, 19 km west of Bodalla, Constable Patrick Smythe was performing his duties alone. Sergeant Nelson Hitch was absent at Braidwood Court and Constable O’Grady was in bed seriously ill with ‘colonial fever‘ (probably cholera). When Clarke learned of the police situation at Nerrigundah he led his gang into the township. Upon their arrival they held up Wallis’ Hotel and Pollock’s Store. Mrs Pollock (wife of the local gold buyer), however, threw the keys to the safe into the street and the gang spent considerable time searching for them in the darkness.

News of the events reached Constables Smythe and O’Grady at the police barracks and, against the wishes of his colleague, Miles O’Grady arose from his sick bed and dressed in his uniform. The two constables then set out to engage the bushrangers although O’Grady was very ill, and was having difficulty walking. As they approached Wallis’ Hotel, the police spotted the bushrangers and O’Grady fired, killing bushranger William Fletcher. In the ensuing gun battle O’Grady was shot in the side and as both police fell back, the gang ran to their horses and escaped. O’Grady was carried to the police barracks where he died a few hours later in great pain.

The Mercury newspaper dated 16 April, 1866 announced the constable’s unfortunate death from the wounds received, informing its readers that “Additional news respecting Clarke’s gang states that they burned down a settler’s homestead near Moruya and robbed Pollock’s station [store?]of £800, and several others of smaller amounts! Constable O’Grady has died of the wounds he received. The ringleader has been identified as Tommy Clarke. The Government is now taking steps to outlaw all connected.”

The constable was born in 1841 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 15 June, 1863. At the time of his death he was stationed at Nerrigundah.

 

 

The Kiama Independent & Shoalhaven Advertiser ( NSW )    Thursday  29 November 1866  p 3 of 4

The Bushranger Thomas CONNELL. – This prisoner, who was arrested by sergeant Byrne on Wednesday last, was charged at the Braidwood police court on Monday with the murder of constable O’Grady, at Nerrigundah, on the 9th of April last, and remanded to Moruya, there to be dealt with. Yesterday morning he was forwarded under escort of the police to Nelligen, en route to Moruya. – Braidwood Dispatch.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/106006894

 

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At 1pm on 9 April,2016, a commemorative service and presentation will be held at the re furbished monument at Nerrigundah to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the murder of our brother, Miles O’GRADY, by members of the Clarke gang bushrangers. There will also be a presentation by the Moruya and districts historical society at 2pm. There will be a detachment from the mounted police as well as a flag party.

If interested the contact for this is A/Supt Greg Flood at Far South Coast LAC on 02 44789910.

 

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Bushranger shootout in Nerrigundah commemorated with NSW Police flag ceremony

ABC South East NSW

By Bill Brown

Posted Tuesday  3 May 2016 at 5:49pm

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/video/201605/Nerrigundah%20shootout%20mid.mp4

Well before anyone had heard of Ned Kelly, a gang of bushrangers robbed and murdered across an area from present day Canberra to the south-east coast of NSW.

The Clarke Gang have been dubbed “the bloodiest bushrangers”. They shot and wounded some of their victims, and killed others, and they’re suspected of killing all four of a police special squad sent from Sydney to track them down.

On April 9 1866 they killed Constable Miles O’Grady in a shootout in the then thriving mining town of Nerrigundah, which is now a quiet, isolated settlement of about 30 people, connected to the world by a public telephone.

Very little is left now of the many hotels, shops, houses and shacks that supported thousands of miners who came to the town during its 1860s gold rush, but a stone memorial to the murdered policeman stands proud.

The community and around 200 visitors gathered at that memorial on the 150th anniversary of the shootout to attend a NSW Police flag ceremony to honour Constable O’Grady.

The author of a book about the gang, Peter Smith, said that if bushrangers were measured by how violent they were, and how many people they murdered, then the Clarke Gang were at the top of the scale.

“They were a lawless lot that started off taking horses out of paddocks and returning the horses and claiming the rewards,” said Mr Smith.

“They drifted further into crime, then highway robbery, then full-scale bushranging.”

By the time they rode into Nerrigundah in April 1866 they had a fearsome reputation.

“They were an amalgamation of families that started in the area south of Braidwood,” Mr Smith said.

“The whole area south of Braidwood had a reputation for many years as a lawless area.”

The core of the gang comprised their leader Thomas Clarke and his brother John, together with their uncles, Pat and Tom Connell.

By 1865 Thomas Clarke had warrants issued for his arrest — for crimes that he denied.

He calculated that the police case was weak and he would avoid a conviction and so he surrendered at Braidwood. But the police by now regarded him as a notorious bushranger and were preparing cases that would see him imprisoned for a very long time.

Then when Clarke heard that he would be transferred to Goulburn Gaol and his trial heard there, he escaped from Braidwood Gaol.

“There was no return after that. He had to become a full-time bushranger,” Mr Smith said.

The gang came to Nerrigundah after travelling well south to the Bega races. Horse races were always an opportunity to steal another racehorse or perhaps someone’s winnings.

On their return north they held up the road leading into Nerrigundah, about five kilometres from town, robbing travellers as they came by. They shot and wounded one and beat up another.

Meanwhile, Constable O’Grady was severely ill in bed with what was then called colonial fever, his sergeant was away in Moruya, and the one remaining policeman was a newly arrived recruit, Constable Patrick Smythe.

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Once they were outlawed … they could be shot by anybody. There was no reason to surrender.

Peter Smith, author of The Clarke Gang

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“It’s difficult to know that they really intended to come into Nerrigundah in the first place,” Mr Smith said.

“When they found out that the place was basically unprotected, it’s probably when they thought they’d come into town.”

Leaving two of the gang to guard their captives, the gang rode into town. With them was a new member of the gang, William Fletcher. It was to be his only day as a bushranger.

They rode to one of the hotels and began taking captives and robbing them.

Mr Smith said the hotel was across the road from Pollocks Store where there was “probably 200 or 300 ounces of gold, which in present days would be worth a million dollars or more”.

Word got to O’Grady on his sick bed a little further down the road, and with Constable Smythe they made their way up the road to confront the bushrangers.

The publican of one of the other nearby hotels, Mrs Jones, tried to stop O’Grady as he was so ill he was staggering.

His response was, “I will do my duty.”

The two Constables confronted the gang outside the hotel. The bushranger William Fletcher was the first to be shot, and then Constable O’Grady was shot, and the gang fled the town.

“Once they’d murdered a police constable they were outlawed,” Mr Smith said.

“Once they were outlawed it meant that they had no rights. They could be shot by anybody. Basically they were already condemned to death. There was no reason to surrender. They were committed.”

The Clarke Gang would eventually be tracked down but not until after more robberies and more killings. Tommy Clarke and his brother John would get a one-day trial and then were hanged.

Ever since that day in Nerrigundah, Constable Miles O’Grady has been a police hero.

Speaking after the NSW Police flag ceremony, Detective Superintendent Kevin McNeil said, “The poignant moment in his death is when O’Grady is staggering and Mrs Jones says ‘Don’t go’ and he says ‘I will do my duty’. And from that point on he’s doing his duty for the people of New South Wales”.

“He knew what he was confronting. This Clarke Gang was very famous. He knew all about the Clarke Gang. Later on they killed four police at Jinden Station near Braidwood. That’s how violent they were.

“That was the moment, yet he still went out there because other people were at risk, to protect their life and property.”

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-03/nerrigundah-clarke-gang-ogrady-bushranger-shootout/7379516

 

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