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201	Marriage 11832/1943 HAWTIN ERNEST EDWARD CHALLIS RITA GRACE ORANGE Service Record Name HAWTIN, ERNEST EDWARD Service Australian Army Service Number NX112447 (N197790) Date of Birth 27 Feb 1909 Place of Birth BLAYNEY, NSW Date of Enlistment 8 Aug 1942 Locality on Enlistment ORANGE, NSW Place of Enlistment BATHURST, NSW Next of Kin HAWTIN, SAMUEL Date of Discharge 29 Jun 1945 Rank Private Posting at Discharge 2/2 AUST HOSP SHIP WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War No He died 28 Nov 1983 Victoria	Rita Grace Challis
202	FORSYTH Dorothy May Death notice 04FEB1981 Death 69 Sydney Morning Herald 24FEB1981 Death Index NSW 3372/1981 FORSYTH DOROTHY MAY GEORGE FREDRICK ELIZA JANE	Dorothy May Chamberlain
203	Name: Margaret Forsyth Father's name: William Chambers Spouse Name: Robert Mcellister Spouse's Father's Name: Edward Robert Mcellister Marriage Date: 09 Nov 1891 Marriage Place: Pinkerton Plains Registration Place: Barossa, South Australia Page Number: 503 Volume Number: 169	Margaret CHAMBERS
204	Possible death CHANDLER Edward Ernest Death notice 25MAY1961 Death 93 late of Mona Vale Sydney Morning Herald 26MAY1961	Edward E Chandler
205	Death TOEPFER EDITH 44751/1968 THOMAS ZILLAH WYONG	Edith Chapman
206	Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009 Name: Elizabeth Forsyth Death Date: 29 Jun 1954 Death Place: Romsey Occupation: Widow Grant Date: 2 Jun 1955 Grant: P	Elizabeth CHAPMAN
207	Death TOEPFER MARGARET 100095/1989 THOMAS ZILLAH ???? TOEPFER Margaret Death notice 29APR1993 Death 85 late of Palm Beach Sydney Morning Herald 01MAY1993	Margaret Chapman
208	The Sydney Morning Herald Tue 28 Sep 1926 Page 12 MRS. MOSES WALKER The death occurred on Saturday, at her residence, St. Albans, Orchard-road, Chatswood, of Mrs. Moses Walker, in her 79th year. Born at St. Albans, Hawkesbury River, on January 14, 1818, she came from a family of old identities of that district, her father being William George Chapman, who,in the early days ran trading vessels between Hawkesbury River and Sydney, and also carried on a general store at St. Albans. She had resided in Chatswood for 38 years. Her husband, four sons, and two daughters survive her, also 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The funeral took place yesterday, the remains being interred in the Methodist portion of the Northern Suburbs Cemetery.	Sarah Chapman
209	Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1917 Name: Sarah Eliza Chapman Birth Registration Date: 1871 Birth Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: William Chapman Mother Maiden Name: Sherman Reference Number: 11672 Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 Name: Sarah Elizth Chapman Spouse Name: Archd Forsyth Marriage Place: Victoria Registration Place: Victoria Registration Year: 1905 Registration Number: 6259 Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988 Name: Sarah Elizabeth Forsyth Death Registration Year: 1930 Death Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: William Chapman Mother Maiden Name: Sherman Reference Number: 10897 Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001 Name: Elizabeth Chapman Gender: Female Notice Type: Marriage Marriage Date: 18 Sep 1905 Father: W H Chapman Spouse: Archibald Forsyth Publication Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009 Name: Sarah E Forsyth Death Date: 21 Sep 1930 Death Place: Moonee Ponds Occupation: Married Grant Date: 31 Oct 1930 Grant: P Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current Name: Sarah Elizabeth Forsyth Death Date: 23 Sep 1930 Cemetery: Fawkner Memorial Park Burial or Cremation Place: Fawkner, Moreland City, Victoria, Australia	Sarah Elizabeth CHAPMAN
210	CHAPPELL Cecil Frederick (Mac) Obituary 1925-2016 Death 90 at Forster, formerly of Coonabarabran Coonabarabran Times 07APR2016	Cecil Frederick (Mac) Chappell
211	Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918) Wed 6 May 1914 Page 4 DEATH OF MR ALEXANDER CHRISTIE. The death of a very, old resident of the district in the person of Mr Alexander Christie, J.P., occurred at midnight on Monday at his residence, South Hamilton. The late Mr. Chris- tie, who had reached, the advanced age of 87 years, was a native of Garvald, East Lothian, Scotland, and arrived in Melbourne in 1852 by the sailing vessel Koh-i-nor. He fol- lowed the occupation of carpenter for some years until the passing of the first Grant Land Act, under which occupation licences were issued, when in company with his brothers John, Richard and Peter, he took up land at Byaduk. The brothers were par- ticularly successful in pastoral and agricultural pursuits, and their names have become familiar for their breed- ing of high-class sheep. The deceased also took an active interest in muni- cipal affairs, being for many years a member of the Dundas Shire Coun- cil, of which he was several times president. He retired about twenty years ago, but up to, a recent period he was an active member of the magistracy. The late Mr. Christie had been married three times, his first wife being a Miss Fortune, who had come out from Scotland, but who, unfortunately, suffered death from sunstroke. After some years he married a second time, but was again unfortunate in losing his wife. Then, about 29 years ago, he married Miss Euphemia Forsyth, sister of Mr. Wil- liam Forsyth, of Rowchester Park, and this lady survives him. He was an intelligent and great reader, but latterly the injury to his sight caus- ed by a bush fire some years ago at Byaduk, when his eyebrows and eye lashes were severely burned, preclud- ed his enjoyment of the daily paper. Out of a family of six brothers and three sisters Messrs. George Christie, of Gray-street, and John Christie, of Byaduk, and Mrs. Wm. Anderson, of Koroit, are the only surviving mem- bers. The funeral cortege will move from deceased's late residence at 2;30 o'clock this afternoon for the Hamil- ton cemetery.	Alexander Christie
212	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living
213	Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Thos Stodart Clark Birth Date: Abt 1905 Birth Place: Balranald, Victoria Registration Year: 1905 Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: Donald Clark Clark Mother: Robina Stodart Registration Number: 294 Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945 Name: Thomas Stodart Clark Birth Date: 20 Dec 1904 Birth Place: Bairnsdale Victoria Year Range: 1939 - 1948 Enlistment Place: East Brighton Victoria Service Number: V358016 Next of Kin: Ivey Clark Series Description: B884: Army Citizen Military Forces Ryerson Index CLARK Thomas Stodart Death notice 02JUL1973 Death at Roseville, NSW The Age (Melbourne) 03JUL1973 CLARK Thomas Stodart Death notice 02JUL1973 Death Sydney Morning Herald 03JUL1973	Thomas Stodart CLARK
214	Did not marry CLARKE Catherine Anne Death notice 02DEC1995 Death 86 late of Rooty Hill, formerly of Naremburn Sydney Morning Herald 04DEC1995	Catherine Anne Clarke
215	possible Marriage 18067/1950 CLARKE DAVID HENRY CURRY MOYA FRANCES CHATSWOOD Ryerson Index CLARKE David Henry Death notice 07JAN1974 Death late of Concord West Sydney Morning Herald 09JAN1974 Possible son death CLARKE David Henry (Leo) Death notice 25APR1982 Death 68 late of Penrith Sydney Morning Herald 27APR1982	David Henry Clarke
216	The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 4 June 1945 p 10 CLARKE. - June 2, 1945, at St. Vincent's Hospital, David Henry Clarke, of 66 Regent Street, Redfern, beloved husband of Lily Jane Clarke and dear father of Cath, Dave, Bob (deceased), Vonnie (Mrs. A. T. Bressington), Frank, Lila (Mrs. Jack Smith), and John, and brother of Mrs. J. Dwyer, Mrs. Colter (de- ceased), Mrs. Yates, Sister Mary Matthew (Bathurst), and Sister Mary De Britto (deceased), aged 68 years. R.I.P.	David Henry Clarke
217	Death CLARKE Edward Henry Funeral notice 02NOV2001 Death 79 late of Kyogle Northern Star (Lismore) 05NOV2001 CLARKE Edward Henry Probate notice 12FEB2002 Publication late of Geneva Northern Star (Lismore) 12FEB2002 CLARKE Edward Henry Probate notice 16JAN2002 Publication late of Geneva Northern Star (Lismore) 16JAN2002 Possible Death Father?? CLARKE Edward Henry Funeral notice 14FEB1969 Funeral late of Kyogle Northern Star (Lismore) 14FEB1969 ??? WW2 Service Record Name CLARKE, EDWARD HENRY Service Royal Australian Air Force Service Number A1168 Date of Birth 18 Aug 1922 Place of Birth BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND Date of Enlistment 30 Oct 1941 Locality on Enlistment KYOGLE, NSW Place of Enlistment BRISBANE, QLD Next of Kin CLARKE, EDWARD Date of Discharge 13 Mar 1961 Rank Leading Aircraftman Posting at Discharge 2 Aircraft Depot WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War No	Edward Henry Clarke
218	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living
219	Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Myrtle Beatrice Holder Name: Myrtle Beatrice Holder Death Date: 20 Jul 1956 Death Place: Queensland Father's Name: Charles Henry Clark Mother's Name: Louisa Kew Registration Year: 1956 Registration Place: Queensland Registration number: 003785 Page Number: 1183 ????Burial Myrtle Holder Birth unknown Death Aug 1956 Burial Taroom Cemetery Taroom, Banana Shire, Queensland, Australia Plot Section Protestant, Grave 256 Buried 21/08/1956	Myrtle Beatrice Clarke
220	Did not marry???	Robert James Clarke
221	Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Maud Cleland Birth Date: 10 Jun 1909 Birth Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1909 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia Father: Alexander Cleland Mother: Sarah Rolfe Page Number: 4677 Registration Number: 004717	Maud Cleland
222	Colin was in squadron 455 and was shot down during an attack on ships in van Helden harbour holland. on the 25th September 1944. He is buried in Bergen-op-zoom cemetery. His full name is Colin Edwin Abbott Cock. He was born in Northam in 1918 to Leah and Edwin Cock. He married a Molly Lois and she lived in Walcott st at the time of his death	Colin Edwin Abbott Cock
223	The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld. : 1874 - 1954) Mon 25 Oct 1948 Page 2 COCKERILL.-At Eventide Home on 23rd October, 1948, Albert Edward Cockerill (Charters Towers) in his 63rd year. Albert Edward Cockerill Birth unknown Death Feb 1946 Burial North Rockhampton Cemetery Norman Gardens, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia Plot ROMAN CATHOLIC Sec 8 Row 4 Grave No 40	Albert Cockerill
224	Birth Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Angeline muriel Cockerill Birth Date: 6 Jun 1919 Birth Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1919 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia Father: Albert edward dawson Cockerill Mother: Maud may Hilder Registration Number: 009911	Angeline Muriel Cockerill
225	aka Totty Marriage Index, 1788-1950 Name: Celia Cockerill Spouse Name: Alfred Darr Marriage Date: 28 Jun 1932 Registration Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1932 Registration Number: 001726 Page Number: 473 Celia Darr Birth unknown Death unknown Burial Mount Morgan Cemetery Mount Morgan, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia	Celia Cockerill
226	Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954) Saturday 10 May 1952 p 6 DESERTED BY HUSBAND Married nine years ago when she was 16 years of age, Norma Ivy Cockerill, of Ewingsdale, New South Wales, petitioned Mr Justice J. A. Sheehy in the Supreme Court yesterday for divorce from Colin Albert Cockerill, a stock- man in the Northern Terri- tory, on the grounds of deser- tion. The action was unde- fended. The plaintiff stated that when she lodged the petition she lived at Zonia Downs, near Julia Creek, North-west Queensland. She and the de- fendant were married at Eids- vold on June 3, 1943, and they lived at Cracow where her husband was a stockman. They left Cracow late in 1945 be- cause her husband was tired of the job there and wanted other work. They stayed in Rockhampton a few months while he did fencing. They then moved to the Toowoomba district where her husband looked after racehorses. She asked him to settle down and provide a home for her. However, in February, 1947, they moved north to Charters Towers and then after a few months, they went to Prairie, near Hughenden, and her husband took a posi- tion as stockman on a station. He wanted to move again after a few weeks. She asked him to have some consideration for her and the children and set- tle down. He stayed, but com- menced to drink heavily. Witness said she and the children were living on en- dowment and Â£1 or Â£2 her husband gave her .When she told him she must earn some money he said he didn't care. She did washing for people in Hughenden and then was a cook on a station. When she saw her husband she again asked him about providing a home, but he was content to let things continue as they were. She returned to Hughenden about September, 1947, and there commenced an association with another man. Since then she had worked on various stations in the Rich- mond and Cloncurry districts. Witness said she last saw her husband in November, 1949. He could not write, but someone else had written a letter from Camooweal for him asking to see the children. They met at Julia Creek. During 1951 she wrote to her husband telling him that if he did not intend to make a home for her and support her she would start divorce proceedings. His Honour granted an order nisi returnable after three months, the plaintiff to have custody of the two children. The defendant was ordered to pay the costs. Mr P. Connolly (instructed by Messrs Swanwick, Murray and Roche) appeared for the plaintiff.	Colin Albert Cockerill
227	Birth Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Dardanella Cockerill Birth Date: 17 Nov 1916 Birth Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1916 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia Father: Albert Cockerill Mother: Maud may Holder Registration Number: 014365 Death Name Dardanella Cockirill Death Date 08 Aug 1917 Death Place Queensland Father's Name Albert Cockirill Mother's Name Maud May Holder Registration Place Queensland Registration Number 003341 Page number 373 Dandenella Cockerill Birth unknown Death 9 Aug 1917 Burial South Rockhampton Cemetery Allenstown, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia Plot CE Row 22X Burial No 5109 Age-9 months COD-PNEUMONIA	Dardanella Cockerill
228	Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Gorden Alexander Cockerill Birth Date: 7 Aug 1910 Birth Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1910 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia Father: Albert Edward Dawson Cockerill Mother: Maud May Holder Page Number: 4775 Registration Number: 008017 Possible aka Dick married Hilda May ??? Dick and Hilda had child Dorthy Name: Gordon Alexander Cockerill Death Date: Nov 1968 Cemetery: North Rockhampton Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Norman Gardens, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia Plot CHURCH OF ENGLAND Sec A Row F Grave No 25	Gordon Alexander Cockerill
229	John Allen Cockerill Birth unknown Death Apr 1981 Burial North Rockhampton Cemetery Norman Gardens, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia Plot CHURCH OF ENGLAND Sec 4 Row 19 Grave No 53 Service Record Name COCKERILL, JOHN ALAN Service Australian Army Service Number QX25719 Date of Birth 24 Mar 1922 Place of Birth TAROOM, QLD Date of Enlistment 8 Jan 1942 Locality on Enlistment THANGOOL, QLD Place of Enlistment ROCKHAMPTON, QLD Next of Kin COCKERILL, MAUD Date of Discharge 14 Jan 1942 Rank Private Posting at Discharge AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War No	John Allen Cockerill
230	Other possible descendants from Electoral rolls Gordon Francis Williams Julie Ann Mary Maud Williams Birth unknown Death Jun 1989 Burial North Rockhampton Cemetery Norman Gardens, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia Plot ROMAN CATHOLIC Sec 12 Row 18 Grave No 41	Mary Maud Cockerill
231	William Cockerill Birth unknown Death Oct 1947 Burial North Rockhampton Cemetery Norman Gardens, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia Plot METHODIST Sec 12 Row 8 Grave No 30 Morning Bulletin Friday 10 October 1947 p 6 FUNERAL NOTICE THE relatives and friends of Mrs W. Cockerill, wife; Mr and Mrs H. W. Cockerill, Sarina, Mr and Mrs T. C. Cockerill and Lesley, Gladstone, sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren; Mr and Mrs J. H. Denney, Neville and Mervyn, Marlborough, son-in-law, daugh- ter and grandsons; Mr and Mrs J. H. Rudolph, Mr and Mrs J. T. Rudolph and family, Mr and Mrs F. L. Rudolph and family, Mr J. Rudolph, Mr and Mrs J. O'Connell and family, Mr and Mrs A. E. Ireland and family, Mr and Mrs R. J. Barlow and family, Yeppoon, Mrs A. Armitage, brothers-in-law, sis- ters-in-law, nephews and nieces; are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral of their deceased beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother-in-law and uncle, the late Mr WILLIAM COCKER- ILL, of Yaamba, to leave Lutton Bros funeral parlour, this Friday Afternoon, at 4 o'clock, for the North Rockhamp- ton Cemetery. LUTTON, BROS, Funeral Directors. Telephone No. 3020.	William Cockerill
232	The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Saturday 26 July 1913 p 16 SOUTH SEA PIONEERS. DEATHS OF MR. AND MRS. KOLBE. Cable news has been received from the Riviera of the deaths of Mrs. E. E. Kolbe of Ralum, New Britain, and her husband, Mr. Paul Kolbe, two of the most prominent planters and traders of the South Seas. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kolbe had gone to Europe in search of health. Mr. Kolbe died on the 15th inst. from Bright's disease and heart failure, and his sudden decease evidently accelerated Mrs. Kobe's death, which took place from heart failure on the 21st inst. "Queen Emma," as she was affectionately called throughout the Western Pacific, was one of the most notable figures in South Sea circles. She was born in Samoa, being the daughter of Mr. J. M. Coe, the first American Consul there. After her first marriage with Mr. Forsayth she engaged in trading pursuits in the Pacific, finally settling in New Britain, in its earlier days, long before the establishment of any settled Government, being, in fact, the pioneer of planting in the Western Pacific. One of her earlier achievements was the rescue of the survivors of the ill-fated "Marquis de Ray" expedition at New Ireland. These unfortunate castaways owed their lives entirely to "Queen Emma's" high spirited and prompt action in rescuing and conveying them to her home at Mioko, Duke of York Group, where she cared for them until they were sent to Australia, where many of them still reside. Mrs. Kolbe was the founder and head of the firm of E. E. Forsayth, of Ralum, New Bri- tain, whose trading interests and plantations extended throughout the German New Guinea protectorates. She married Mr. Paul Kolbe about 1895, and in 1910 she sold out her inter- ests to the Forsayth Gesellschaft, and retired from business, settling in Mosman. She has left one son, Mr. J. M. Forsayth, of Neutral Bay. QUEEN EMMA. Amongst the most successful traders of an early period were the German South Sea skipper Hernsheim and Mrs. Forsayth commonly known as "Queen Emma." Starting in a small way, they gradually widened their nets of operation, scattering traders over a considerable part of the Archipelago, and founding respectively the now so important trading concerns "Hern- sheim and Co." and "Forsayth and Co.," both of which in a material degree have contributed to the development of German New Guinea. Hernsheim as well as Queen Emma, accumulated immense wealth, while the latter, in addition, gained fame. Probably no name is so well known in the Pacific as that of Queen Emma, and it can truly be said that her life is one of the most interesting romances of the South Seas. The Samoan race is renowned-the men for their harmonious build, the women for their natural charm-and thus it needs no apology that the young Ameri- can Consul, Mr. Coe, shortly after having taken up his duties in Apia, fell in love with a little Samoan maiden. Emma was their second child. She is said to have grown up to be the cleverest and prettiest girl in Samoa. After having been educated in San Francisco she married a Britisher, Mr. Forsayth, by whom she had a son. Later on she fitted out a schooner and went in search of pastures new. Passing through the Solomon Islands, she arrived at the Duke of York Group, where she com- menced trading with the natives. Some time later she went to New Britain, and, in spite of the ferocity of the native popu- lation, effected a landing close to where Herbertshohe later on sprang into being. From the chiefs, she bought, for a few trivialities in the usual kanaka trade, an extensive area of land, the purchase of which Emma registered at the office of the American Consul in Sydney, and upon which in time arose the first cocoanut plantation in German New Guinea. When the Germans took possession of the Archi- pelago they recognised Mrs. Forsayth's legal right to all land acquired by her. Subsequently Mrs. Forsayth married the handsome German ex-officer, Herr Kolbe, in years much her junior. In 1912 Queen Emma sold most of her interests in the Island to a syndicate in Hamburg for £175,000. Her achievement in the pos- session were recognised by the German Government and colonists in New Britain giving her a most magnificent "send off" before she, with her husband, embarked upon what proved to be their final trip to Europe. Both died in Monte Carlo with but a day between them. The mystery surrounding their sudden death probably never will be disclosed. A remarkable career was thus ended, to which was given the finishing touch by their bodies being cremated, and their ashes interred at the same place in New Britain where Emma, 33 years earlier, had landed a young and charming woman.-"Rabaul Record." The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) Saturday 2 August 1913 p 32 Cable news has been received from the Riviera of the deaths of Mrs. E. E. Kolbe. of Ralum, New Britain; and her husband, Mr. Paul Kolbe, two of the most prominent planters and traders of the South Seas.. "Queen Emma," as Mrs. Kolbe was affec tionately called throughout the Western Pacific, was one of the most notable figures in South Sea circles. Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918) Thursday 20 June 1918 p 6 Visiting Melbourne is Mrs. Kaumann, a wealthy woman who has an extensive cocoa nut plantation near Rabaul, New Britain. This visitor is a descendant of Queen Emma, the Samoan, who married a rich merchant, and who afterwards made herself a large fortune by obtaining grants of land from the natives, and establishing plantations and trading stations in the islands of the North-West Pacific. In a wonderfully pretty bungalow, decorated all the year round with the bougan villea creeper, and perfumed by the frangl panni blossoms in the garden, Mrs. Kaumann frequently entertained the late Sir Samuel Pethebridge and his staff officers. Last week she called on Lady Pethebridge to" express her undying regret that the wise adminis trator was lost to the inhabitants of New Britain. The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954) Saturday 23 October 1954 p 2 (Note: some of the detals in this account apear incorrect and in in conflict with other facts about Queen Emma's life) POOR QUEEN EMMA by GEORGE BLAIKIE THE American Government selected Mr. Coe in the early 1850s as a young man likely to succeed in its consular service, and sent him to Samoa. He was a steady type of chap designed by nature to resist the complications often brought on by swaying palms, grass skirts, and the fermented juice of the fruit of the coconut. I cannot tell from this distance whether Mr. Coe was affected to any de- gree by the palms and the liquor, but what the grass skirts did to him makes classic reading in the annals of the US Consular Service. Before anyone, includ- ing Mr. Coe himself, knew what was to do, he had taken to himself a dusky Samoan wife. Hav- ing one, he later got him- self another one. From the second union sprang six little females, who ran round in sarongs and spoke with an Ameri- can accent. The pick of the bunch was Emma. Even when she was very small, the oldest inhabitants agreed that she was the prettiest creature who had ever lived in Samoa. Emma was sent to America for a mite of education, and returned home, aged 15, a most sophisticated young crea- ture. Every male from 15 to 80 wanted to marry Emma. Wealthier individuals were prepared to give Mr. Coe as many as a dozen cows and a couple of hundred coco- nuts in return for his fair daughter. Penniless citi- zens were eager to kidnap her. None of these proposi- tions appealed to Mr. Coe, who plotted to get Emma a rich European husband. He had no great bother arranging for a planta- tion owner, Mr. Forsayth, to marry Emma, in 1871, when she was 16. THIS was a very satisfactory arrangement for Mr. Forsayth, but as far as Emma was con- cerned, it was a poor show. The marriage quickly became wobbly. You can gauge something of the situation, perhaps, by the fact that Mr. Forsayth took to fishing as a hobby. This hobby proved fatal to Mr. Forsayth. One day, when out on the deep, he fell overboard and stayed there. Emma's father, Mr. Coe, immediately rushed forward to organise a second respectable mar- riage, but his so beautiful daughter neatly fore- stalled him. A rugged ex-miner from New Zealand named Farrell had opened a saloon in Samoa. He had none of the late Mr. For- sayth's respectability and had no interest in deep- sea fishing. But he did have a quick eye for a pretty young widow with an inclina- tion to roguishness. The pair soon had Mr. Coe rushing round pro- testing violently. He felt that his poor, foolish, and innocent little daughter needed protection from the wicked New Zealand saloonkeeper. No one at the time gave a thought to providing protection for the rugged Farrell. But then, at the time, no one dreamed the power hidden behind Emma's beautiful smile. Before Farrell knew it, he found that he had sold his saloon, invested in a small steamer, and was trading with the na- tives of the Duke of York Islands. Sharing his hardships and the profits was Emma. In 1879, the steamer sailed into Rabaul Har- bor. Emma liked the look of the place and told Mr. Farrell that they would settle there. From this moment, the tradition of “Queen Emma of New Britain” began to grow. She established the first coconut plantation in German New Guinea. The natives bowed before her and Mr. Farrell wasn't far behind. She imported large quantities of pink cham- pagne and, if anyone worth entertaining turned up, she would throw a series of lavish parties that would stop Rabaul dead for days, even weeks. Even if no one turned up, she would still run her parties. It didn't take her long to convince herself that she was indeed a queen. She imported a team of tough native boys from Bougainville to work for her. A local native woman called at the “palace” selling taro roots. Queen Emma didn't want any that day and sharply told the visitor to go disap- pear into the jungle. The woman didn't wish to leave empty-handed and, in retiring helped herself to a portion of washing off the “royal” clothes line. Emma, in running a business-like eye over her domain, noted the gap on the line. She shouted for her big, tough Solomon Islanders. Several of them came running. “I have been robbed,” she told them. “A wicked, local, native woman has stolen some clothing off my line. You go catch that woman. The great Queen Emma had spoken. Her slaves hotfooted away into the bush. She got her piece of linen back. The story soon tra- velled widely in New Bri- tain. There was wide pity in the jungles for the local woman who had been caught by the Solo- mon Islanders. A few afternoons later, Queen Emma felt she had earned a little siesta. Emma awoke suddenly. Her room was full of fierce-looking jungle types. She tried to scream, but a big, black hand clamped over her mouth. Vines were bound round her ankles and wrists. A thick piece of bam- boo was produced and passed between her shackled wrists and ankles. At a sign, bearers stepped forward and took hold of the ends of the pole. Emma was lifted from her elegant bed and, in the manner of a captured pig, carried out of her palace. The significance of the transport was obvious. Emma was destined for the cookpot as punish- ment for the sentence she had passed on the thiev- ing woman taro seller. The last of her captors were disappearing into the jungle when Mr. Farrell turned up by chance and demanded his wife's release. The raiders dropped their dinner and accele- rated away to parts un- known. Queen Emma thus was saved to continue her peculiar destiny. Farrell died about 1890. Emma immediately set- tled her crown more squarely on her head and began to really go ahead. She turned on bigger pink champagne dinners than ever. She developed a fleet of trading ships that traded widely throughout the Pacific. To aid her in her enterprises, she brought a team of her relatives over from Samoa. Her all-time peak was reached around 1900. She was then 45, tremendously wealthy and still beautiful. Men were still her willing slaves, as they had always been. Then, as is always the case in a story like this, a man turned up who didn't start performing back flips when she fluttered her eyelashes. He was Herr Kolbe, an ex-German Army officer. Kolbe was young, calcula- ting, an expert with horses and women and flat broke. Queen Emma was en- tranced by his looks. She immediately flashed him her No. 1 eyelash flutter. Herr Kolbe, whose sophistication had been deve- loped in the best salons in Europe, regarded her as though she were a speckled trout. His look- expertly calculated - stopped just short of a sneer. Quite soon she was almost out of ammunition and Herr Kolbe was still standing fast. Before coming to grips with that galling problem, she decided to make one more effort. She jingled her money-bags. Ha! What was this! Did she see the proud Prussian give ground just one millionth of a millimetre? Experimenting further along these lines, she soon found that she had the perfect secret weapon in her bank. Herr Kolbe was a man of considerable honor. He could not share her life outside the blessings of the married state. Herr Kolbe then raised another point of honor. He could not become married to a woman while the shadow of a debt hung heavily over his so beautiful blonde head. Queen Emma's business sense began to collapse. She appreciated his predicament and settled all his debts. Now only one thing stood between Herr Kolbe and marriage. That was the small matter of a marriage settlement. Emma broke down again and agreed to leave him half her wealth. From there on, Herr Kolbe found the going fairly easy. IF the marriage was to be a proper one, it would have to take place in Berlin. Queen Emma sold all her interests to a Hamburg syndicate for £175.000 (maybe half a million pounds in modern money). If only shrewd Pappa Coe had still been around he might have been able to make a few illuminating comments of what seemed to be cooking without Queen Emma's knowledge. But he was absent, and Herr Kolbe was doing the advising. The couple were wed in Berlin in 1912. Even if the marriage hadn't been made in heaven, its foundation hard cash was secure. Indeed, for a year or so, things went quite nicely. Then, when Mr. and Mrs. Kolbe were having fun at Monte Carlo, a very young, beautiful, and determined German woman arrived to create a problem for them. Just what happened is far from clear. It is evident that the German girl considered she had considerable claim on Herr Kolbe. It is possible that she considered herself his wife. Seemingly Herr Kolbe was not prepared to haggle over the matter. He preferred to let bygones be bygones. The present was good enough for him. I gather the German lady then shot him on the general pretext that he had done her wrong. All this was too much for Queen Emma, who died a few months later. It seems a pity, in a way, that young Mr. Coe wasn't sent to some unromantic consular post in, say Lapland, rather than to exotic tempting Samoa. Then there wouldn't have been any Emma to get into bother. NEXT WEEK - “The Third Ambassador”. SOUTH SEA PIONEERS. DEATHS OF MR. AND MRS. KOLBE. Cable news has been received from the Riviera of the deaths of Mrs. E. E. Kolbe of Ralum, New Britain, and her husband, Mr. Paul Kolbe, two of the most prominent planters and traders of the South Seas. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kolbe had gone to Europe in search of health. Mr. Kolbe died on the 15th inst. from Bright's disease and heart failure, and his sudden decease evi- dently accelerated Mrs. Kobe's death, which took place from heart failure on the 21st inst. "Queen Emma," as she was affectionately called throughout the Western Pacific, was one of the most notable figures in South Sea circles. She was born in Samoa, being the daughter of Mr. J. M. Coe, the first American Consul there. After her first marriage with Mr. Forsayth she engaged in trading pursuits in the Pacific, finally settling in New Britain, in its earlier days, long before the establishment of any settled Government, being, in fact, the pioneer of planting in the Western Pacific. One of her earlier achievements was the rescue of the survivors of the ill-fated "Marquis de Ray" expedition at New Ireland. These unfortunate castaways owed their lives entirely to "Queen Emma's" high spirited and prompt action in rescuing and conveying them to her home at Mioko, Duke of York Group, where she cared for them until they were sent to Australia, where many of them still reside. Mrs. Kolbe was the founder and head of the firm of E. E. Forsayth, of Ralum, New Bri- tain, whose trading interests and plantations extended throughout the German New Guinea protectorates. She married Mr. Paul Kolbe about 1895, and in 1910 she sold out her inter- ests to the Forsayth Gesellschaft, and retired from business, settling in Mosman. She has left one son, Mr. J. M. Forsayth, of Neutral Bay. Queen Emma Of The South Seas Queen Emma Eliza Coe was born Sept, 26 1850 in Apia, Samoa. Queen Emma is well known in the South Pacific for establishing vast coconut plantations in Papua, New Guinea, in the 1880s. Soon after birth, the Malietoa family, in Solemn ceremony, named Princess Tui Malietoa Coa, of the royal line. This gave her title to certain lands, and to status and privileges to which she clung all her life. She inherited the warm blood of her highborn Polynesian mother and the shrewdness of her American father, Jonas M. Coe in the 1850s. In her early life and loves, her Polynesian traits prevailed, but in her mature years, when she became Queen Emma of New Guinea, Coe qualities generally shaped her extraordinary career. Born of Samoan royalty and an American trader, Queen Emma's tale mirrors European quests in the Pacific in the 19th Century. Emma was to rise to prominence, an awed queen of the European South Pacific. A princess, Emma was second of twenty children to American Jonas Coe and his Samoan wives. Her father was anointed the American commercial agent in Samoa in the 1850s. Emma was blessed with connections, a good education and jaw dropping good looks. Stunning, the young Emma was also headstrong, choosing her men and her future with shrewdness. The people of the area were in awe of her power in the early days of the European Pacific and accolade her "Queen." Emma came of age surrounded by her large family as European influence was permeating Samoan culture. On her father's knee she learned commerce. It was time now also for her schooling and soon marriage. To finish school Emma was sent to Sydney and later San Francisco. In 1869, at age 19, Emma was home in Samoa with her formal education complete. Expected to marry, she showed her first signs of fierce independence, that became her hallmark. She thought marriage silly. Yet, with her beauty and her allure, European men in Samoa thought otherwise. It didn't help that she was known to perform "Samoan style." Concerned, her father ordered her to marry respectable, handsome, American Captain Henry James Forsayth. She became pregnant straight-away. It was an unhappy marriage. Captain Forsayth died in New York in 1873. A widow at 23, Emma kept his surname and her American Passport. In 1874 Emma Forsayth-Coe was a nubile 23. Into the picture strode Colonel Albert Barnes Steinberger, sent by President Ulysses S. Grant to check the progress of American interest in Samoa. After many affairs with local girls, Emma included, he managed to secure from Emma some land in "a pillow arrangement," much to Jonas Coe's anguish. It was prime land overlooking Pago Pago Harbor. Emma had agreed to forfeit it to Colonel Steinberger, who was keen on making sure American interests were well served. He departed with Emma's deed in fist. Stupidly smitten, Emma then followed Steinberger back to America. In 1875 Steinberger returned with a letter from the president that he was to become the American Consul of Samoa. Emma was with him on the return voyage, which strengthened his stead, as she was a Samoan princess. Steinberger met with Emma's grandfather, King Malietoa, and the Samoans were happy with the guns that Steinberger presented them with. This strengthened his rule. But the Colonel's rule was short. Other Europeans despised the American, who had appeared suddenly with Princess Emma to establish American sway. A revolt against Colonel Steinberger started to brew. An Englishman named Foster was first to make the feelings of the other Europeans apparent. The jealous Europeans kidnapped King Malietoa, sending spies to nearby Fiji with letters of dissent against Colonel Steinberger. The Samoans, however, were very happy with Steinberger, who had started to pass laws forbidding Europeans from grabbing Samoan lands. The whole affair came to a violent head. With other Europeans, backed by troops from British Fiji, they captured and deported both Americans - Steinberger and Jonas Coe - defeating the king and installing British rule. Emma had to flee. She left with another of her lovers, Captain Thomas Farrell. The Steinberger affair was a coup d' etat that saw Emma move to New Britain for a life that was to see her remembered as "Queen Emma of the South Seas." Emma went into business with Capt. Farrell in the Bismarck Archipelago (northeast of Papua, New Guinea, in the South Pacific), where they made extensive investments in plantations. Emma was 28 when she arrived in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, after fleeing Samoa. Papua, New Guinea, is blessed with a ethereal climate and rich soils - ideal for growing coconuts for copra (dried coconut) and oil. In 1878 Emma and Farrell were the first Europeans to set foot in the area. They established their base, at first in the Dukie of York Islands, between New Ireland and New Britain. Then they moved onto the mainland, new present - day kokopo. Savagery surrounded them, with cannibals lurking everywhere and fetid malarial jungles in the background. Emma witnessed the success of copra plantations in her native home of Samoa so she decided now the time was ripe to bring copra to New Britain. Captain Farrel was unsure as it takes eight years for a coconut tree to bear fruit. They had been in the area already for three arduous years. If it was not for new blood arriving from Germany to build Rabaul they might have given up. Simple trading of goods with the new migrants was working but the real wealth was in the rich soils and the promise of copra bounty. It was Emma's masterstroke when she planted the first of her copra plantations that was to see her retire to wealth. After Farrell's death, Emma alone managed the property and commercial enterprises with great ability and signal success. Simple trading with Germans in the area, however, was not enough for headstrong Emma. She dreamed of a day when vast coconut plantations would bring her opulence. She secured lands from friendly cannibal chiefs, who were gradually coming under the spell of civilization, eschewing their flesh-hungry ways. Three thousand acres of plantations on the prime land of the Gazelle Peninsula were hers. Rabaul was now the capital of German New Guinea, with thousands pouring into the place each day and grand buildings being built. In 1880 marauding parties came into the area capturing their victims alive. To prevent escape, they cut off their feet, searing the stumps over a fire so they would not prematurely bleed to death. In this, lingering agony those destined for the cannibal feast were thus kept until required, then tortured until merciful death overtook them. At one village a man and wife from enemy territory had been captured. The man was promptly killed and the wife added to the chief's harem. At the wedding feast she helped eat her husband. People-hungry cannicals circled Emma in her quest to establish her fortune. In New Ireland there arrived several hundred colonists from the ill-fated expedition of Marquis de Ray. The ships landed about three hundred miles south of Emma's trading post on New Ireland's southern tip. A pure disaster, Emma had to deal with the consequences. Marquis de Ray had promised his countrymen a new start in a place he knew nothing about. He had taken monies, loaded ships and sent them sailing for distant New Ireland. Conditions were grim. Starvation, malaria and cannibals ravaged those who came to this god forsaken land. Emma was the only person who could help. She rescued a few who managed to survive and dealt with the painful truth that was now reaching Europe. The affair was a turning point in the region's history as it brought New Ireland and New Britain to the attention of European authorities and a cannibal tabloid hungry public. By 1895 queen Emma had acquired in various islands over a hundred and fifty thousand acres of plantations. Her products were sold at large profit in Australia and Europe, transported in a fleet of her own vessels. Waited on by a thousand servants, she possessed the largest tropical mansion in the South Pacific, sponsored legendary parties frequented by the king and Lily Langtry, who bathed in champagne, and had the honor of serving a twenty-eight course dinner on golden crockery to the German Navy. In her final years Queen Emma had established herself as a monarch and fabulously rich trader. With her second husband and son she made a tour of the world in 1898, being received with marked attentions. As if by some uncanny twist of good luck, and a demonstration of amazing intuition, she sold all in 1913 for several million pounds cash. She retired to gorgeous Mosman, Sydney. A year later Germany was brought into World War I. Australia invaded the Gazelle Peninsula requisitioning Emma's former lands. She died on July 21, 1913, in Monte Carlo, after a devastating car accident with her then husband August Kolbe of Stade, Germany, who was 15 years her junior. She married (1), at Apia, Samoa, Oct 27, 1869, Henry James Forsayth, born at Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, son of Capt. William and Sarah (Ely) Forsayth; he was a mariner and died on Long Island New York, in 1873. Children Amy Rose Forsayth born at Apia, Sept 15, 1870, died there January 5, 1875; Jonas Mynderse Coe Forsayth born Apia, June 14, 1872, was educated in Europe and was involved in the management of his mother's interests in Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago. She married (2), August Carl Paul Kolbe, born at Stade, Germany, July 5, 1865, son of Felix and Lina (Stolting) Kolbe. He was formerly a Lieutenant in the German service, and after marriage was involved in the management of the plantations in the Bismarck Archipelago. They had no children. FATHER: JONAS MYNDERSE COE Born 12 Feb 1823 in Troy, Rensselaer County. NY. USA. MOTHER: LE 'UTA MALIETOA Born Jan 1829 in Salesatele, Samoa. Marriage 1 Henry James Forsayth. Born in Mauritius. Married 27 Oct 1869 in Apia, Samoa. Children: 1. Amy Rose Forsayth born 15 Sept 1870 in Apia, Samoa. 2. Jonas Mynderse Coe Forsayth born 14 June 1872 in Apia, Samoa. Marriage 2 August Carl Paul Kolbe. Born 5th July 1865 in Stade, Germany. Married in Samoa. (We have investigated Queen Emma's place of rest.....and have successfully communicated with her. Queen Emma is Jeanette's mothers Great cousin). ID: I5518 •Name: Emma Eliza Coe •Prefix: Queen •Sex: F •Birth: 26 SEP 1850 in Apia,Samoa •Death: 21 JUL 1913 in Monte Carlo,Monaco •Note: Queen Emma Eliza8 Coe (Jonas Mynderse7, Edward Morris6, Rev. Jonas5 D.D., Hon. John4, Lieut. Samuel3, Capt. John2, Robert1) was born Sept. 26, 1850, in Apia, Samoa. Queen Emma is well known in the South Pacific for establishing vast coconut plantations in Papua, New Guinea, in the 1880s. Pacific Publications, Sydney, Australia, in 1973 published R. W. Robson's book "Queen Emma: The Samoan-American Girl who Founded a Commercial Empire in 19th Century New Guinea." Soon after birth, the Malietoa family, in solemn ceremony, named her Princess Tui Malietoa Coe, of the royal line. This gave her title to certain lands, and to status and privileges to which she clung all her life. She inherited the warm blood of her highborn Polynesian mother and the Yankee shrewdness of her American father, Jonas M. Coe. In her early life and loves, her Polynesian traits prevailed; but in her mature years, when she became Queen Emma of New Guinea, Coe qualities generally shaped her extraordinary career. Born of Samoan royalty and an American trader, Queen Emma's tale mirrors European quests in the Pacific in the 19th Century. Emma was to rise to prominence, an awed queen of the European South Pacific. A princess, Emma was second of twenty children to American Jonas Coe and his Samoan wives. Her father was anointed the American commercial agent in Samoa in the 1850s. Emma was blessed with connections, a good education and jaw dropping good looks. Stunning, the young Emma was also headstrong, choosing her men and her future with shrewdness. The people of the area were in awe of her power in the early days of the European Pacific and accolade her "Queen." Emma came of age surrounded by her large family as European influence was permeating Samoan culture. On her father's knee she learned commerce. It was time now also for her schooling and soon marriage. To finish school Emma was sent to Sydney and later San Francisco. In 1869, at age 19, Emma was home in Samoa with her formal education complete. Expected to marry, she showed her first signs of fierce independence, that became her hallmark. She thought marriage silly. Yet, with her beauty and her allure, European men in Samoa thought otherwise. It didn't help that she was known to perform "Samoan style." Concerned, her father ordered her to marry respectable, handsome, American Captain Henry James Forsayth. She became pregnant straight-away. It was an unhappy marriage. Captain Forsayth died in New York in 1873. A widow at 23, Emma kept his surname and her American passport. In 1874 Emma Forsayth-Coe was a nubile 24. Into the picture strode Colonel Albert Barnes Steinberger, sent by President Ulysses S. Grant to check the progress of American interests in Samoa. After many affairs with local girls, Emma included, he managed to secure from Emma some land in, "a pillow arrangement," much to Jonas Coe's anguish. It was prime land overlooking Pago Pago Harbor. Emma had agreed to forfeit it to Colonel Steinberger, who was keen on making sure American interests were well served. He departed, with Emma's deed in fist. Stupidly smitten, Emma then followed Steinberger back to America. In 1875 Steinberger returned with a letter from the president that he was to become the American Consul of Samoa. Emma was with him on the return voyage, which strengthened his stead, as she was a Samoan princess. Steinberger met with Emma's grandfather, King Malietoa, and the Samoans were happy with the guns that Steinberger presented them with. This strengthened his rule. But the colonel's rule was short. Other Europeans despised the American, who had appeared suddenly with Princess Emma to establish American sway. A revolt against Colonel Steinberger started to brew. An Englishman named Foster was first to make the feelings of the other Europeans apparent. The jealous Europeans kidnapped King Malietoa, sending spies to nearby Fiji with letters of dissent against Colonel Steinberger. The Samoans, however, were very happy with Steinberger, who had started to pass laws forbidding Europeans from grabbing Samoan lands. The whole affair came to a violent head. With other Europeans, backed by troops from British Fiji, they captured and deported both Americans - Steinberger and Jonas Coe - defeating the King and installing British rule. Emma had to flee. She left with another of her lovers, Captain Thomas Farrell. The Steinberger affair was a coup d'état that saw Emma move to New Britain for a life that was to see her remembered as "Queen Emma of the South Seas." Emma went into business with Capt. Farrell in the Bismarck Archipelago (northeast of Papua, New Guinea, in the South Pacific), where they made extensive investments in plantations. Emma was 28 when she arrived in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, after fleeing Samoa. Papua, New Guinea, is blessed with a ethereal climate and rich soils - ideal for growing coconuts for copra (dried coconut) and oil. In 1878 Emma and Farrell were the first Europeans to set foot in the area. They established their base, at first in the Duke of York Islands, between New Ireland and New Britain. Then they moved onto the mainland, near present-day Kokopo. Savagery surrounded them, with cannibals lurking everywhere and fetid malarial jungles in the background. Emma witnessed the success of copra plantations in her native home of Samoa so she decided now the time was ripe to bring copra to New Britain. Captain Farrell was unsure as it takes eight years for a coconut tree to bear fruit. They had been in the area already for three arduous years. If it was not for new blood arriving from Germany to build Rabaul they might have given up. Simple trading of goods with the new migrants was working but the real wealth was in the rich soils and the promise of copra bounty. It was Emma's masterstroke when she planted the first of her copra plantations that was to see her retire to wealth. After Farrell's death, Emma alone managed the property and commercial enterprises with great ability and signal success. Simple trading with Germans in the area, however, was not enough for headstrong Emma. She dreamed of a day when vast coconut plantations would bring her opulence. She secured lands from friendly cannibal chiefs, who were gradually coming under the spell of civilization, eschewing their flesh-hungry ways. Three thousand acres of plantations on the prime land of the Gazelle Peninsula were hers. Rabaul was now the capital of German New Guinea, with thousands pouring into the place each day and grand buildings being thrown up. In 1880 marauding parties came into the area capturing their victims alive. To prevent escape, they cut off their feet, searing the stumps over a fire so they would not prematurely bleed to death. In this lingering agony those destined for the cannibal feast were thus kept until required, then tortured until merciful death overtook them. At one village a man and wife from enemy territory had been captured. The man was promptly killed and the wife added to the chief's harem. At the wedding feast she helped eat her late husband. People-hungry cannibals circled Emma in her quest to establish her fortune. In New Ireland there arrived several hundred colonists from the ill-fated expedition of Marquis de Ray. The ships landed about three hundred miles south of Emma's trading post on New Ireland's southern tip. A pure disaster, Emma had to deal with the consequences. Marquis de Ray had promised his countrymen a new start in a place he knew nothing about. He had taken monies, loaded ships and sent them sailing for distant New Ireland. Conditions were grim. Starvation, malaria and cannibals ravaged those who came to this godforsaken land. Emma was the only person who could help. She rescued a few who managed to survive and dealt with the painful truth that was now reaching Europe. The affair was a turning point in the region's history as it brought New Ireland and New Britain to the attention of European authorities and a cannibal tabloid hungry public. By 1895 Queen Emma had acquired in various islands over a hundred and fifty thousand acres of plantations. Her products were sold at large profit in Australia and Europe, transported in a fleet of her own vessels. Waited on by a thousand servants, she possessed the largest tropical mansion in the South Pacific, sponsored legendary parties frequented by the king and Lily Langtry, who bathed in champagne, and had the honor of serving a twenty-eight course dinner on golden crockery to the German Navy. In her final years Queen Emma had established herself as a monarch and fabulously rich trader. With her second husband and son she made a tour of the world in 1898, being received with marked attentions. As if by some uncanny twist of good luck, sheer acumen and a demonstration of amazing intuition, she sold all in 1913 for several million pounds cash. She retired to gorgeous Mosman, Sydney. A year later Germany was brought into World War I. Australia invaded the Gazelle Peninsula requisitioning Emma's former lands. She died July 21, 1913, in Monte Carlo, after a devastating car accident with her then husband August Kolbe of Stade, Germany, who was fifteen years her junior. She m. (1), at Apia, Samoa, Oct. 27, 1869, Henry James Forsayth, b. at Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, son of Capt. William and Sarah (Ely) Forsayth; he was a mariner and d. on Long Island, NY, in 1873. Children: Amy Rose Forsayth, b. at Apia, Sept. 15, 1870, d. there Jan. 5, 1875; Jonas Mynderse Coe Forsayth, b. at Apia, June 14, 1872, was educated in Europe and was involved in the management of his mother's interests at Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago. She m. (2), August Carl Paul Kolbe, b. at Stade, Germany, July 5, 1865, son of Felix and Lina (Stolting) Kolbe. He was formerly a lieutenant in the German service, and after marriage was involved in the management of the plantations in the Bismarck Archipelago. They had no children. R.W. Robson, "Queen Emma: The Samoan-American Girl who Founded a Commercial Empire in 19th Century New Guinea" (Sydney, Australia: Pacific Publications, 1973) ISBN 085807012X •Change Date: 18 FEB 2010 at 18:42:04 Father: Jonas Mynderse Coe b: 12 FEB 1823 in Troy,Rensselaer County,NY USA Mother: Le'uta Malietoa b: JAN 1829 in Salesatele,Samoa Marriage 1 Henry James Forsayth b: in Mauritius• Married: 27 OCT 1869 in Apia,Samoa Children 1.Amy Rose Forsayth b: 15 SEP 1870 in Apia,Samoa 2.Jonas Mynderse Coe Forsayth b: 14 JUN 1872 in Apia,Samoa Marriage 2 August Carl Paul Kolbe b: 5 JUL 1865 in Stade,Germany •Married: in Samoa The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Saturday 19 September 1953 p 7 Queen Of The Islands By SIDNEY J. BAKER THE resemblance between the lives of the Pacific's two Queen Emmas is, in some ways, so close that their stories deserve to be told side by side. It is not so much that they were both named Emma or were queens, but that each in her own way, helped to change the course of Pacific history. An important point of similarity between them is that neither Emma of Hawaii nor Emma of New Britain was a queen in her own right. Emma of Hawaii was the granddaughter of one of the Pacific's first beachcombers an English sailor named Young who had been abandoned by his ship. Among the children with whom Young endowed Hawaii was a daughter named Fanny, who married George Naea, a native chief. Emma Naea was born to them on January 2, 1836. New Britain's Emma also had beachcombing antecedents. Her father was an American named Jonas Coe who, in 1853, set out from San Francisco for the Australian goldfields. When his ship called at Apia, (Samoa), Coe lost his interest in gold. Among his offspring was a brown-eyed half-caste named Emma. Jonas subsequently found himself a job as American consul at Apia and, in due course, be- came a respected local figure. Records say that both Emmas were beautiful, intelligent, charming. Both were given an American education, Emma of Hawaii at the first school established by U.S. missionaries in Hawaii, the other Emma in San Francisco. By another coincidence, both girls were married when they were 20, the honours going to Emma of Hawaii, who made a match with a drunken libertine named King Kamehameha IV. Emma Coe married a British trader named William Forsayth, who is reputed to have had an earnest interest in alcohol. FROM this stage the similarity between their lives is less evident, for Queen Emma of Hawaii dedicated herself to the service of others, while Emma Forsayth was doggedly devoted for most of her life only to herself. Where one gave her energies to the social development of her people, to the establishment of hospitals and improvement of education in Hawaii, the other sought little more than gratification of her personal whims and pleasures. Which probably explains why Emma Forsayth tired of her husband after a year or two of marriage and ran away with an ex-New Zealand miner named Thomas Farrell, who owned an Apia hotel. They settled first in the Duke of York group, a collection of islands lying between New Britain and New Ireland. In 1880, they moved to New Britain, and settled on Blanche Bay, close to where Rabaul now stands. There they commenced the planting and trading which ultimately led to Emma's vast wealth. Tom Farrell is reputed to have died about 1890. While doubtless a good businessman, Farrell lacked Emma's intelligence and shrewdness. In the early 1880s, Germany and Britain were taking interest in the New Guinea group, with the odds in favor of Germany since Whitehall refused to be bustled. Emma stepped in with a business venture which came to be known as the German New Guinea Development Company. Although it was not entirely responsible for German coloni- sation of areas known as Kaiser Wilhelmsland (North-east New Guinea), Neu Pommern (New Britain), Neu Mecklenburg (New Ireland) and Neu Lauenburg (Duke of York Islands), it hasten- ed this colonisation. And this colonisation, in its turn, cost many Australian lives after the outbreak of World War 1. Emma was never a woman to trifle with small deals. She lusted after notability and power. Into her Development Company were roped no lesser figures than the German Kaiser and his brother, Prince Henry. With such encouragement German capital was quickly forthcoming. As Emma had had foresight to purchase large areas of land from the natives in exchange for trinkets, is was scarcely likely that she could fail to benefit from this German interest in colonial expansion. Reports have it that one stretch of country near where Rabaul now stands she bought for a box of trade goods. Tanu or Mortlock Island became hers for 5lb. of tobacco, worth about 10/. Native chiefs in the French Islands sold her the whole group for £50. EMMA was something of a colonial pioneer in another way. She opposed German tactics of ill-treating the natives. She became their protector, an arro- gant, tempestuous protector at times, but opposed to physical cruelty. It was the first big step on the way to her apotheosis as a queen. By the middle of the l«90s Emma was undeniably a power. She had brought many of her relatives from Samoa to join her in her business operations. Her trading schooners ranged over the north-west Pacific. Her bungalow was crowded with suitors, admirers, friends and enemies, who, whatever their own feelings or whatever Emma's feelings towards them, found her home a gay nodal point in the wilderness of New Britain. Many men, wealthy and other- wise, tempted her to leave the island. They promised her the charms of Europe, homes on the Riviera, court life in Berlin. But Emma refused. Why, she asked, should it be necessary to go out into the world when the world came to her door? There was another and more important reason, of course, why she did not go. She was a half caste; and she felt in advance the shame and humiliation of curious European eyes. Here, in New Britain, she was a jewel in her own setting. Abroad . . . no, she shook her head. She preferred to remain. As she grew older her hair whitened. By the time she was 45 it was a thick white crown, contrasting with her olive skin and the intense brown of her eyes. Traders no longer laughed when they called her Queen Emma. The tradition had been established. The title had been earned in terms of hard cash, for she was immensely rich. The scale of entertainment at her bungalow became fabulous; meals of interminable courses, the choicest wines of France, gold-inlaid plate from the China coast, tapestries from India and Arabia, thick carpets, a special cooling system, books and bric- a-brac. She accepted them as a normal part of her life, just as she accepted the overtures of in- numerable admirers. She might have ended her life in the islands if she had not fallen in love. He was a German army cap- tain, nearly 15 years her junior, who had been drafted for a few years' service in Neu Pom- mern. He was as handsome as the hero of a novel, his dress impeccable, his manners perfect. Being a man of good taste in matters where others' feelings were concerned, he refrained from mentioning that he was al- ready engaged to a German girl whose quarterings included a trace of German royal blood. As Captain Heinrich Kolbe was a man of considerable means. Emma was assured that he was not interested in her for her money alone. In the New Year of 1910, to the accompaniment of a fireworks display and native festivities, Queen Emma became Frau Kolbe, thereby ensuring (though it was not apparent at the time) that she would not die of old age. Emma had always set herself against leaving her beloved island. Not even the knowledge that the Emperor and Empress were interested in her, that not- able German families whose heirs or relations had been her guests would welcome her, that her wealth would insulate her against the hoi polloi, could spur her de- sire to leave. But Herr Kapitan Kolbe had other ideas. When, at the end of 1911, his term of service in Neu Pommern was completed, told Emma that he would take her to Europe. She accepted his decision with little protest. Emma opened negotiations for the sale of her interests in the islands. These were brought by a Hamburg syndicate for £ 175,000; Emma was now worth about £500,000. In Berlin, their home was suitably magnificent. Emma found that her expectations of shame because she was a half-caste were unfounded. She enjoyed the favour of the Emperor and Em- press and, as a consequence, people who mattered in the im- perial court. The years passed ... 1912, 1913. Early in June, 1913, she and her husband set off to the Riviera to dodge the oppres- sive Berlin summer. They visit- ed Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo, where they lived in an ex- quisite world of wines, society, sunshine and roulette wheels. THEY were days full of music and laughter, a last fling at happiness as the world blundered into war. As "the Queen," Emma Kolbe had become a figure among Europe's social elite. Her photo graph appeared in illustrated papers, often in company with her husband. It so happened that one of these happy photographs came into the hands of a woman who had been a former friend of Cap- tain Kolbe. In fact, she had been engaged to him. It so hap- pened also that she was holiday- ing on the Cote d'Azur. Perhaps it was something less than a coincidence that one day she happened to meet Captain Kolbe in a secluded lounge of the Hotel Monaco. After a brief con- versation, they went out and en- tered a carriage which was wait- ing nearby. Now, whether Emma heard of this meeting by accident or whether her husband told her he was tired of being the spouse of an aged queen when there were younger females in the world, will never be known. The fact remains that, fo?? days before Kaiser Wilhelm ?? out to win the world, Captain Heinrich Kolbe, ex-officer of the Imperial Army, was shot through the head in his hotel suite and apparently died instantly. Frau Emma Kolbe was also shot through the head, but took 16 hours to die. In view of the fact that Europe had played her falsely, as she had once feared it would, it was per- haps justice that Emma's ashes should have been sent back to New Britain.	Emma Eliza Coe
233	ID: I5497 •Name: Jonas Mynderse Coe •Sex: M •Birth: 12 FEB 1823 in Troy,Rensselaer County,NY USA •Death: 6 NOV 1891 in Apia,Samoa •Burial: Matautu,Samoa •Note: HON. JONAS MYNDERSE7 COE (Edward Morris6, Rev. Jonas5 D.D., Hon. John4, Lieut. Samuel3, Capt. John2, Robert1), born at Troy, NY, February 12, 1823, when a young man started on a mercantile career in New York City; but soon left there and went on a sailing vessel to the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific. He washed ashore on Samoa in 1838; his American whaler was caught in a tropical storm that was lashing the Navigators Island (now Samoa) and was smashed in the maze of coral reefs eastward of Savai'i Island. Clinging to a broken spar, he was thrown by giant waves across the reef into the quiet lagoon near Sapapali'i village, on the Savai'i eastern coast. Samoans dragged him ashore and carried him to two Tongan missionaries in the village. Sometime later, with a Malietoa bride (Le'utu Joana Taleatale), Malietoa goodwill, and little besides, the American became a trader, first at Mulinu'u, as a partner of John Wright, otherwise know as "Bigleg Johnny," and later at Matautu Point, at the other end of the Bay, where he built a big house. He permanently settled in Samoa about 1846 and engaged in business as an exporting merchant. European influence by the late nineteenth century, in these faraway islands, was becoming pervasive. Traders from across the world were now bringing European ways to this South Seas paradise. Religion, the whip and gin were becoming the order of the day. So too were land grabs, smallpox and cash - corrupting the once untouched Polynesian life. Jonas Coe was the only American who could speak fluent Samoan, so was knighted the American commercial representative to Apia. It was a task to which he brought much needed skill. The first American Commercial Agent in Apia 1864-1874, for over fifteen years he held the post of US Consul at Apia, Samoa, where he died Nov. 6, 1891. His first wife was Le'uta Malietoa, born at Salesatele, Samoa, about 1830, daughter of Lelei, a native chief of high rank. His second wife was Manuelua Saefaolu, a native of Samoa. His third wife was Litia Ahongalu, a native of Tonga. The father of eighteen children, his son William Prichard Coe became governor of Guam in 1899. And he was the father of the legendary Queen Emma Eliza Coe of the South Seas. • Ancestry Hints for Jonas Mynderse Coe found on Ancestry.com Father: Edward Morris Coe b: 29 SEP 1796 in Lansingburgh,Rensselaer County,NY USA Mother: Mary Ann McCullen Marriage 1 Le'uta Malietoa b: JAN 1829 in Salesatele,Samoa•Married: 1847 in Apia,Samoa Children 1.Maria Miller Coe b: 27 JAN 1849 in Apia,Samoa 2.Emma Eliza Coe b: 26 SEP 1850 in Apia,Samoa 3.Edward Henry Coe b: 5 NOV 1852 in Apia,Samoa 4.Mary Ann Coe b: 6 NOV 1854 in Apia,Samoa 5.William Pritchard Coe b: 12 APR 1857 in Apia,Samoa 6.John Coe b: 24 MAY 1859 in Apia,Samoa 7.Ann Murray Coe b: 7 MAY 1861 in Apia,Samoa 8.Phebe Clotilda Coe b: 5 JUN 1863 in Apia,Samoa Marriage 2 Saefaolu Manuelua b: in Vaimoso,Samoa•Married: in Apia,Samoa Children 1.Caroline Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 2.Grace Forsayth Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 3.Mary Ann Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 4.Elizabeth Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 5.Josephine Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 6.Laura Sophia Coe b: 29 OCT 1865 in Apia,Samoa Marriage 3 Litia Ahongalu b: in Tonga•Married: in Apia,Samoa Children 1.Mary Eliza Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 2.Nellie Lydia Coe b: in Apia,Samoa 3.Robert Jonas Coe b: 1887 in Apia,Samoa 4.Adeline Coe b: in Apia,Samoa	Jonas Mynderse Coe
234	COHEN Robert Lawrence Francis Death notice 16JUN1967 Death at Artarmon Sydney Morning Herald 17JUN1967	Robert Lawrence France Cohen
235	Divorced 1937	Bertha Alma Edna Cole
236	COLGRAVE Thomas Stewart Funeral notice 10JAN1977 Funeral late of Goonellabah Northern Star (Lismore) 10JAN1977 COLGRAVE Thomas Stewart Probate notice 03MAR1977 Publication late of Goonellabah Northern Star (Lismore) 03MAR1977	Thomas Stewart Colgrave
237	SPRINGETT Zena Death notice 30OCT1993 Death late of Newport Sydney Morning Herald 06NOV1993	Zena Colless
238	Death 3508/1950 CONNELL SIDNEY GEORGE GEORGE HENRIETTA CONCORD CONNELL Sid Death notice 04MAR1950 Death at R.G.H., Concord, late of Neutral Bay Sydney Morning Herald 07MAR1950 CONNELL Sidney George Death notice 04MAR1950 Death 49 at R.G.H., Concord Sydney Morning Herald 06MAR1950	Sidney George Connell
239	Cemetery Index Forsyth Alice Maud 11 May 1951 nÃ©e Conroy; dau/Thomas & Sarah Matilda; w/Joseph Glen Innes General RCB Glen Innes Examiner (NSW : 1908 - 1954) Fri 11 May 1951 Page 1 OBITUARY MRS. A. M. FORSYTH The death occurred in the Glen Innes District Hospital this morning of Mrs. Alice Maud Forsyth, of 155 Wentworth Street. She was predeceased by her husband. Surviving brothers are Thomas Conroy (Windsor), Patrick Conroy ('Harroville'' Glen Innes). John Conroy (Young), and the Rev. Father Conroy, of Wagga. Sisters are Mrs. Mahony (Croydon), Mrs. Cassidy (Glen Innes) snd Mrs. Robinson (Ashbury, Sydney) . The funeral will take place to morrow morning to the Roman Catholic portion of the Glen Innes cemetery, after a service in St. Patrick's Church at 11.30 o'clock. Rev. Father Brennan will officiate and Albert O'Hara has charge of funeral arrangements.	Alice May Florence Conroy
240	Ryerson Index CONWAY Lewin Wiles Death notice 02APR1982 Death Sydney Morning Herald 05APR1982	Lewin Wiles Conway
241	CONWAY Reginald Charles (Reg) Death notice 03JAN2009 Death 84 Sydney Morning Herald 07JAN2009	Reginald Charles Conway
242	Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Clarice May Cook Name: Clarice May Cook Father's Name: Arth Cook Mother's name: Wina Mckay Forsyth Birth Place: Freeburgh, Victoria Registration Year: 1891 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 33324 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Clarice Mary Cook Name: Clarice Mary Cook Death Place: Williamstown, Victoria Age: 20 Father's Name: Cook Arth Mother's name: Wmina Forsyth Registration Year: 1912 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 8117 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892	Clarice Mary Cook
243	Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Arthur Earl McMi Cook Name: Arthur Earl McMi Cook Father's Name: Arthur Cook Mother's name: Williamena Forsham Birth Place: Will, Victoria Registration Year: 1893 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 36316 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Arthur Earl Mcmi Cook Name: Arthur Earl Mcmi Cook Death Place: Caulfield, Victoria Age: 67 Father's Name: Arthor Mother's name: Minnie Forsyth Registration Year: 1960 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 11516 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1893	Arthur Earl McMillan Cooke
244	Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Jas Roy Cook Name: Jas Roy Cook Death Place: Williamstown, Victoria Father's Name: Arth Mother's name: Willamina Forsyth Registration Year: 1894 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 15383	James Roy Cooke
245	Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Osyth Vic Bright Cook Name: Osyth Vic Bright Cook Father's Name: Arth Cook Mother's name: Wilhelmina Forsylh Birth Place: Williamstown, Victoria Registration Year: 1890 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 28734 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Osyth Victoria B Hawkins Name: Osyth Victoria B Hawkins Death Place: Boro, Victoria Age: 73 Father's Name: Arthur Cook Mother's name: Wilhelmina Forsythe Registration Year: 1963 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 18894 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1890	Osyth Victoria Bright Cooke
246	Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Wm Arth Cook Name: Wm Arth Cook Death Place: Wmsown, Victoria Age: 2 Father's Name: Cook Arth Earl McMillars Mother's name: Glasys Annie Lapthorne Registration Year: 1918 Registration Place: Victoria Registration number: 15099 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1916	William Arthur Cooke
247	Death 8337/1957 FORSYTH AGNES CHRISTINA JOHAN LUDIWIC BELINDA SYDNEY FORSYTH Anges Christina Death notice 30MAY1957 Death late of Rose Bay Sydney Morning Herald 31MAY1957	Agnes Christina Coombe, nee Peterson
248	aka Betsy	Elizabeth Cooper
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