The death occurred suddenly at his residence in Haydon Street, Murrurundi, on Sunday morning,12th March, of a well-known resident of the town and district, in the person of Mr. Robert Eli Hawkins. Deceased was a native of Gundy, where he was born 61
years ago, and was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hawkins, who were also well-known about these parts. The deceased came to this district with his parents
when a young man, and in 1920 married Miss A. Watson. He eventually went in possession of a property at Timor and carried on grazing pursuits until several
years ago, when his health became impaired and it was found necessary to lease the property. Coming to Murrurundi, he bought a home, where he lived up to the time of his death. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters (Dorothy and Ruth) and two sons (Jack and Ivin Hawkins).
Quirindi 'Advocate.
The Scone Advocate 31st march 1950

This might be his birth:

Name: Arthur R Hawkins
Birth Date: 1868
Father's name: Robert Hawkins
Mother's name: Susannah
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1868
Registration Place: Brisbane Water, New South Wales
Registration Number: 7599

Death
Name: Arthur Roland Hawkins
Death Date: 1939
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's name: Robert
Mother's name: Susannah
Registration Year: 1939
Registration Place: Murrurundi, New South Wales
Registration Number: 23231

This might be the marriage of Arthur Roland Hawkins parents

Name: Robert Hawkins
Spouse Name: Susannah Knight
Marriage Date: 1866
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Brisbane Water, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1866
Registration Number: 1700

Thankyou for your help. Much appreciated.

BRISBANE WATER.
A correspondent of the S. M. Herald supplies
the following description of the Brisbane Water
District :
Brisbane Water is the north arm of Broken
Bay, and is entered by a very bad bar which
faces the south, and is principally caused by the
southerly winds breaking upon what is called the
long beach. The water in the channel at the
bar is not deeper than four feet at low tide, and
even the small ketches which come here are fre-
quently obliged to pole themselves along. From
the bar to where you suddenly open the fine
sheet of water named the Broadwater, the scenery
is something like the lower part of the Parra-
matta River. The Broadwater gives the idea
more of an inland fresh water lake than of an
arm of the sea ; the high ground round the lake
is broken into separate hills, and consequently
not like a coast line, and the shore everywhere
dips gently into the water, so that there are no
cliffs. The Broadwater is nearly three miles
in diameter each way, and is, without
exception, the prettiest lake scenery I
have seen in the colony. The average
depth of the lake is not more than twenty feet,
and the rise and fall of the tide about three
feet. In a straight line across to the sea the
distance is fully five miles, and from Gosford,
the township, which is at the head of the Broad-
water, the distance to the bar is eight miles.
Broken Bay itself is a wide, open, shallow bay,
of not much greater average depth than there is
in Brisbane Water. The entrance to Pitt
Water is on the south side of Broken Bay, ex-
actly opposite the bar of Brisbane Water, and
the opening to the Hawkesbury River is in
the centre of Broken Bay. The end of Pitt-
water is about twelve miles from Manly Beach.
Gosford, the township of Brisbane Water, is
composed of two small villages, a little more
than a mile from each other, and contains
nearly four hundred inhabitants. Exactly be-
tween the two towns a long narrow point, called
Long Nose, of an equal height of forty feet, and
about two hundred yards wide, runs straight into
the centre of the bay for nearly a mile, and
at the end of the point is the Protestant grave-
yard. A more beautiful spot for a cemetery
it is impossible to imagine ; there is
no house near, there is no sound to break the
silence except the splashing of the water and
the sighing of the wind through the trees.
Kincumber Lake is a small salt water lake, the
entrance to which is two miles below the Broad-
water, to the left hand, as you proceed to the
bar. There is a considerable population at
Kincumber, between the village and the neigh-
bourhood fully eight hundred inhabitants, and
to the credit of the people there is not one
public-house, although it is by no means a poor
neighbourhood ; for at Kincumber there are four
shipbuilding yards, where sailing vessels of 200
tons and under are constantly building. There
are altogether nearly three thousand inhabitants
in the police district of Brisbane Water, of whom
230 are electors on the electoral list, and there
are only four public-houses in the district
there were seven two years ago, but three of
them have since closed.
The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser 2nd March 1867

The death occurred in town on Sunday evening last of the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alf. Hawkins, of Timor. The little fellow had been in delicate health for some time, the sad event not being unexpected.
The Scone Advocate 25th January 1916

Timor
It is with deepest sympathy and
sorrow that I have to chronicle the
death ot Mrs. Ruby Evelyn Bat-
terham, wife of Mr. Harold Batter-
ham, of Timor, and daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Hawkins, of
Timor Station, which sad event
took place in the Murrurundi Hos-
pital during the small hours of
Saturday morning last. During
her illness, Nurse Osborne and Dr.
Oliver were in attendance ; but she
grew gradually worse, and then, as
an only hope, an operation was
performed, and it was thought' for
a day or two all was well ; but all
were startled with the sad and
awful tidings of "no hope what-
ever". In answer to her pleading,
Dr.Farrell, of Quirindi, was wired
for, but on his arrival, a glance
told him that human aid was of
no avail. Besides a sorrowful and
grief-stricken husband, to whom
one eand all extend our sincere-
est and heartfelt sympathy, is an
an infant son but a fortnight old.
The Bad circumstances, surrounding
Mrs. Batterham's death alone.
makes the sympathy doubly sin-
cere the loss t felt more keen.
With but a few hours notice,
people journeyed from far and near
to attend the last rites, and follow
the remains to their last resting
place, on Saturday afternoon
in the Church of England Ceme-
tery, where they wore in-
intered, the Rev. H. S. D.
Portus officiating at the grave side.
Many wreaths and crosses of
flowers were laid on the grave, as
but a token of the deepest sym-
pathy."'ln the midst of life we
are in death."

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Thankyou Kathco, this is very helpful.