A headstone in Wingham Cemetery marks the final resting place of Algar Bunyard. He died in Taree on 22 July 1910 of cirrhosis of the liver, aged 47 years.1
Algar was born in England in 1863. He migrated to Australia and found employment with Louis Uhde, a pork butcher in Sydney. In 1886 he was convicted of embezzling money from his employer and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.2 However, within a few months he regained his freedom, leading to questions in parliament.3
In 1887 Algar set up in business in New Zealand, but his marriage in 1888 to Catherine Wilson of Wellington, New Zealand, took place in Brisbane.4 Returning to the bride’s homeland, the couple managed hotels then, following the death of their daughter Frances in 1894, they moved to Western Australia circa 1900 where Algar managed hotels in Fremantle before leaving to undertake “a tour of the world”.5
World’s end became Sydney, where, in the mid 1900s Algar was managing Larkin’s Hotel in George Street, before moving on again, this time to Wingham where he is posthumously noted as licensee of the Wingham Hotel in 1910.6
After her husband’s death, Cath returned to Western Australia. She died in New Zealand in 1918 while on a visit to her brother.7
Author: Penny Teerman
References:
1 Manning District River Hospital Admission Register for 1910: Entry No. 186
2 Daily Telegraph (Sydney) Wednesday 11 August 1886 Pg 3 and Saturday 14 August 1886 Pg 1
3 Daily Telegraph (Sydney) Friday 13 May 1887 Pg 6
4 Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages – 1888/B/12556
5 The West Australian Friday 3 August 1906 Pg 4
6 NSW Government Gazette Wednesday 24 August 1910 (Issue No. 131) Pg 4659
7 Northern Champion Wednesday 19 June 1918 Pg 2
