Bertha May Loats1

F, #6053, d. 17 April 1909
Last Edited26 Jan 2017
Married Name1907 Milgate1 
Marriage*1907 VIC, Australia;Groom=Herbert Milgate1 
Death*17 April 1909 Brooklet, near Minyip, VIC, Australia;
WOMAN SUICIDES.
Melbourne, Monday Night. — Mrs Millgate, wife ofHerbert Milgate, a well-known farmer at Brooklet, committed suicide on Saturday night by drowning herself in a dam near her residence.
Millgate missed his wife during the night, and with neighbors made a search for her, finding the unfortunate woman, in the dam.
Mrs Milgate was only 24 years old, and leaves a baby five months old.2 

Family

Herbert Milgate b. 15 Feb 1882, d. 1974
Child

Citations

  1. [S1246] VIC Marriage indexes.
  2. [S1565] Trove digitised newspapers, online http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/, Zeehan and Dundas Herald, Tuesday, April 20, 1909.
  3. [S1698] Ancestry Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922, online https://ancestry.com, Ellen Violet Milgate 1908.