Joseph Griffiths

Description

Native of Chester, England

Departed this life aged 33 years

Joseph Griffiths has the headstone with the earliest date, although it should read 1860 instead of 1859. The headstone must have been made years later and the year confused.

Joseph arrived at Port Phillip from Liverpool in July 1851,before gold discoveries were announced. He and his family were living at Brown's Diggings by late 1859 where he died on 7th March 1860 of typhoid fever. Joseph and Agnes Griffiths ran the Clydesdale Boarding House, but Joseph was also a miner. After Joseph's death, Agnes remarried and continued to run the boarding house, and descendants were buried at Smythesdale until 1920.