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| Sidney Walter Spark |
| Family
Name: |
Spark |
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| Given
Names: |
Sidney Walter |
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| DOB |
1852 approx.
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DOD |
22 November 1901 |
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of Birth: |
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Place
of Death: |
Townsville, Qld |
| Age
at Death: |
49
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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LSA 1874
LRCP Edinburgh 1875
LRCS Edinburgh 1875
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Speciality:
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| Spouse:
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Sara Theresa O'Brien b.1850 m.1876 Richmond, Vic d.1879 Melbourne, Vic
Janet Smith m.1880 Aramac, Qld d.1950 Melbourne |
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| Came
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1875
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1875 Vic
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Wood's Point, Vic 1876 (Argus)
Aramac, Qld 1880-1886 (Medical Registers)
Townsville, Qld 1889-1890 (Medical Registers)
Melbourne, Vic 1897
Sydney NSW 1899 |
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| Positions
Held: |
Medical Officer, Aramac 1879 |
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| Notes:
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Registered Qld 1879
His father was S. J. Spark, paymaster-in-chief, RN (Argus)
His first wife died at Melbourne in 1879 from overdose of morphia. She had not heard from her husband since he left Victoria and was taking it to make her sleep (Morning Bulletin) |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in August 2005 with information supplied by Gillian Arnot Smith of Qld and in January 2012 with information from Christine Laskowski |
| References: |
Medical Board of Victoria. Register of Medical Practitioners for 1876 [registered 3 December 1875 LSA 1874 LRCP LRCS ed 1875]
Victorian Births, Deaths, Marriages
Qld Registrar Indexes
Qld Blue Books 1880
Married. Argus 19 February 1876 [Sidney Walter Spark, physician &c, of Wood's Point, only son of Sidney J. Spark RN of Paris to Sara Theresa O'Brien]
Officers of Health. Argus (Melbourne)9 June 1876
S.W. Spark to be acting health officer for Port Phillip. Mercury (Hobart) 9 April 1877
Government Gazette. Argus (Melbourne) 29 June 1878 [S.W. Spark public vaccinator for the district of Sunbury resigned]
Facts and scraps. Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 23 July 1879 [inquest at Melbourne into the death of the wife of Dr Sidney Spark]
Marriages. Queenslander 4 September 1880 [Sidney Walter Spark physician and surgeon of Aramac to Janet Smith]
Dr S W Spark resigned as medical officer at Aramac. Capricornian (Rockhampton) 12 February 1881
Suspicious death. Advertiser (Adelaide) 23 April 1897 [in Melbourne, Dr. S. W. Spark and partner "Professor" Davis committed to trial for manslaughter]
Melbourne. Horsham Times 1 October 1897 [Crown not prosecuting Professor Davis "cancer specialist" and Dr Spark over death of cancer patient]
Cancer [advertisement]. Sydney Morning Herald 27 March 1899 [Dr. Sidney Spark cures without surgery, Wynyard Square]
Deaths. Argus (Melbourne) 23 December 1901 [on 22nd November at Townsville, Sidney W. Spark physician and surgeon only son of the lat S. J. Spark, paymaster-in-chief, RN, aged 49 years]
Deaths. Argus (Melbourne) 31 May 1950 [on May 27 Janet, widow of Dr S W Spark...mother of Audrey...and Sidney Walter in her 91st year] |
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