Kate’s Notes: I want to add some additional notes here to the short death notice give for Mrs. Alexander Gilliland. Her death appears to have been caused by complications from childbirth, as she had given birth to a stillborn son just days before her death. I have included a short news item about the stillborn child.
   I also spotted the record of marriage in The Argus (Melbourne) of 16 November, 1857, which stated that Alexander L. Gilliland, of Londonderry, had married Anna Pickering of Tramere, Cheshire, England at Christ Church in Ballaarat. Unfortunately the marriage lasted but a year before her untimely death.

From The Argus
Melbourne, Victoria
11 December 1858

DEATHS.

   On the 6th last, at Smyth’s Creek, Mrs. Alexander L. Gilliland (late Miss Anna Pickering), after a short illness, attendant on recent confinement. Liverpool papers please copy.

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From The Argus
Melbourne, Victoria
3 December 1858

BIRTHS.

   On the 30th ult., at Smythe’s Creek, Mrs. Alexander Gilliland of a son, still-born.

-- transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2010