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David A FORSYTH
1881 - 1959

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• Birth	1881	Balmain, NSW
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 May 1959	Fairfield, Sydney
  Buried	Rookwood Catholic NSW M2 18, 1267
  Person ID	I25	George Allen Forsyth Family 12 Oct 2018
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	David Aitken FORSYTH,   b. 13 Sep 1856, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ,   d. 27 Mar 1906, Queensland, Australia
  Mother	Alice HAWKER,   b. 6 Feb 1860, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 29 Apr 1889, Menzies St., Petrie Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  Married	22 May 1878	Queensland, Australia
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet

  
  

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  Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: David A Forsyth Birth Date: 1881 Birth Place: New South Wales Registration Year: 1881 Registration Place: Balmain, New South Wales, Australia Father: David A Forsyth Mother: Alice Registration Number: 4331 Death FORSYTH DAVID AKIN 14506/1959 CARPENTER 78 YEARS FAIRFIELD LIVERPOOL Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current Name: David A Forsyth Death Date: 2 May 1959 Cemetery: Rookwood Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria Burial or Cremation Place: Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia ???? Web: Queensland, Australia, Prison and Reformatory Indexes, 1824-1936 Name: David A Forsyth Age: 8 Gender: Male Birth Year: abt 1883 Record Date: 26 Sep 1891 Filename: Reformatory School for Boys Admission Registers 1871-1906 Number: 590 Item ID: 532416 Digital ID: 7080 Page: 28 The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Sat 13 Jun 1891 Page 3 ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. David Forsyth, a child only 8 years of age, was brought before the bench at the City Police Court yesterday morning, charged as a neglected child. It appeared from the evi- dence of Richard Kenyon, a member of the Salvation Army, that about seven weeks ago a young man brought the little fellow to the Salvation Army Barracks, and requested that he should be admitted into the Rescue Home. The young man explained that he had found the lad playing about on the river, bank, and was afraid he might get drowned. He brought him to the Salvation Army people because he did not wish to hand the boy over to the police as a neglected child. Young Forsyth did not conduct himself well in the Rescue Home. He was remanded for a week to give the police an opportunity of getting hold of his parents, who are said to be residing in Ipswich. The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Fri 26 Jun 1891 Page 2 ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. ........ It will be remembered that a few days ago a small boy named David Forsyth was brought before the City Police Court as a neglected child. It then transpired that the lad had been found by a person residing at Kangaroo Point playing about on the bank of the river, and fearing he might get drowned took him to the Salvation Army officers, who took him to their Home, but as he did not behave himself in a proper manner there he was brought before the bench to be dealt with as a neglected child. Mr. Thompson, who has charge of the Boys' Home, interested himself in the lad, and took care of him pending the result of the proceedings. The beuoh eventually found the little chap "guilty," and ordered him to be detained at the Industrial School at Lytton for a period of five years. It was understood, however, that the sen- tence was only a formal matter, and that after certain formalities had been gone through the little fellow would be " apprenticed out" to Mr. Thompson, who had expressed a strong desire to havo charge of him. At that time Mr. Pinnock said he would issue a warrant for tho arrest of the father, who had left Brisbane, charging him with the desertion, and if the police succeeded in finding him, he (Mr. Pinnock) would see if he could not make him pay for the support of the child. Senior-constable Barber, armed with Mr. Pinnock's warrant, found the father, David Forsyth, on Wednesday morning about six miles from Helidon and arrested him. The father said, " I didn't desert him. I left Brisbane because I had scarcely any clothes to my back, or boots to my feet. As soon as I got work and clothes I got a friend to write to Brisbane about my boy." He also offered, before being arrested, to give the senior constable some money for the boy, but of course the officer did not aocept it. He (the father) was brought before the bench yesterday, when he consented to an order being made com- pelling him to pay the sum of 5s. 10d. per week towards his son's support. He was discharged upon signing the order.