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Alured Tasker FauncePrint Page
27-February-2017
Photographs supplied by Sandra Brown
The plaque commemorates Alured Tasker Faunce, a senior magistrate in the Queanbeyan District, who collapsed and died during a cricket match in 1856.
Location
Address: | 39 Rutledge Street, Christ Church Anglican, Queanbeyan, 2620 |
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State: | NSW |
Area: | AUS |
GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -35.354918 Long: 149.237382 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
Monument Type: | Plaque |
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Monument Theme: | People |
Sub-Theme: | Government - Colonial |
Dedication
Front Inscription
Source: MASacred to the memory of Alured Tasker Faunce, Esquire
Formerly Captain of Her Majesty`s 4th or King`s Own Regiment, and for nearly twenty years Senior Magistrate of this District, who died suddenly on the 26th April 1856
Aged 47 years.
This tablet is erected by the inhabitants of Queanbeyan and its vicinity, as a mark of the respect and esteem in which he was held in the community amongst whom he so long resided.
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