Eliza ASH [15457]

  General Notes:

Isaac & Eliza CAMPLIN arrived in Adelaide as Government Emigrants on 25 May 1855 aboard ship Punjab.

1900 SA Death 273/60 CAMPLIN Eliza, Isaac CAMPLIN (DH) Adelaide (resided: Kensington)


Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) Sat 27 Jan 1894 Page 16
LONG-LOST RELATIVES.
Home Enquiries.
[From Lloyd's Weekly newspaper.]
Camplin (Mrs. Eliza), nee Ash, left England about thirty-nine years since to go to Port Adelaide, Australia; last letter from Adelaide Creek in 1867. Sister Sarah would be glad of any news.



The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922) Mon 29 Oct 1900 Page 3
The Adelaide Hospital authorities reported to the City Watchhouse on Saturday that Eliza Camplin had died at the institution from the effects of poison. The coroner was informed, and an inquest will be held this morning.


Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) Sat 3 Nov 1900 Page 36
SUICIDE BY POISONING.
The city coroner (Dr. W. Ramsay Smith) held an inquest on Monday morning at the Adelaide Hospital on the body of Eliza Camplin, who was admitted to that institution on Friday evening suffering from the effects of opium poisoning, and died on the following morning. Thomas Camplin, woodcarter, of Bridge-street, Kensington, identified the body as that of his late mother, who was about 68 years of age. Deceased had been living with him for about a fortnight, and for two weeks prior to that had been in the Adelaide Hospital. On Friday evening last, she refused to take her tea, and afterwards she called out to them from the back verandah, 'Good-bye, good-bye, all.''' Witness asked her whether she was silly, and she said she had drunk all the poison, and when asked what the poison was, told them it was the lotion which had been given for her complaint. He sent for Dr. Borthwick, who attended to her, and on the doctor's advice he conveyed deceased to the Adelaide Hospital. There had been no quarrel between his wife and deceased that evening. William Frederick Hammer, dispensing chemist at the Adelaide Hospital, deposed to having dispensed the liniment to deceased on the prescription of Dr. Bickle. It consisted of 3 oz. of tincture of opium and 8 oz. soap liniment. The bottle, which was similar to that produced, was labelled poison in two places. Dr McDonald, resident medical officer at the Adelaide Hospital, stated that deceased was attended to promptly on her arrival at the hospital, and the usual treatment for opium-poisoning was resorted to, but deceased succumbed at 11.30 o'clock on Saturday morning. After further evidence the jury, without retiring, returned a verdict that deceased came to her death by administering to herself, with intent to kill, a dose of liniment containing opium.

Eliza married Isaac CAMPLIN [15456] [MRIN: 5692]. (Isaac CAMPLIN [15456] was born circa 1827, died on 5 Jan 1903 in Eastwood, Adelaide, South Australia and was buried on 7 Jan 1903 in West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia.)