Tobias Victor Young, the firstborn son of Frederick and Charlotte (née Warnes) Young, was born on 28 February 1889 and died less than eight months later on 14 October 1889. He was laid to rest in ‘Grenier’s Cemetery’ on the following day. The undertaker was William Francis Lyon and the official witnesses to the burial were W and T Bruce.

Frederick Young and Charlotte Warnes were married in Brisbane on 5 July 1888. According to BDM records in the State Library of Queensland, their other children were: Florence Winifred (b. 14 October 1890 on the first anniversary of Tobias Victor’s death), Frederick Bertram (b. 18 October 1892), Claude Victor (b. 19 November 1893), Charlotte Louisa (b. 22 January 1896), Leslie Norman (b. 16 November 1897), and Eric Arthur (b. 25 October 1908).

One of these children, Gunner Leslie Norman Young, enlisted in the 3^rd Battery APA. on 17 August 1915 during World War One and sailed from Melbourne on HMAT Persic on 23 November 1915.

Frederick Young, the son of Robert and Maria (née Barker) Young, was born in Kenninghall, Norfolk, and came to Australia about 1887. He died on 15 February 1946 and was cremated at Mount Thompson Crematorium three days later.. The Young family lived at Sherwood where Frederick was a farmer.

Charlotte Warnes, at the time of the 1881 census in England, was living with her family on a farm at the Heath in Kenninghall, Norfolk, where her father and her four older brothers (including an 11-year-old) were ‘agricultural labourers’. In addition to Charlotte (13), the household was made up of: her parents William John (43) and Charlotte (née Harper 43); her siblings William John Jr (19), Walter (16), Albert (15), George (11), Arthur (9), Rosetta (6), Agnes S (2) and Charles William (1); and her nephew William G Warnes (2).

The three older brothers—William John Jr, Walter and Albert Warnes—migrated to Australia as free passengers on the Queensland Royal Mail steamer, the British India Steam Navigation Company’s 2800-ton Bulimba (Captain Clark), which left Plymouth on 11 January 1883 and, travelling via North Queensland ports, anchored in the Brisbane Roadstead on the evening of 14 March 1883. On the next day, as there had been cases of scarlatina among the passengers, the vessel proceeded to the Peel Island Quarantine Station where the passengers and their baggage were landed and the ship disinfected. Pratique having been granted on 19 March, the Bulimba, a ‘really fine specimen of Marine architecture’, entered the Brisbane River with the assistance of the tug Boko on the following morning and berthed at Messrs Parbury, Lamb and Raff’s wharf in Eagle Street.

A few years later, Charlotte herself came to Australia with other members of her family on the 1996-ton BISN vessel RMS. Merkara (Captain George Phillips), part of a complement of 478 passengers. The ship left the Royal Albert Docks, London, on 19 September 1887 and Gravesend on the next day. Having passed through the Suez Canal, the vessel called at Thursday Island, Cooktown, Cleveland Bay (Townsville), Bowen, Keppel Bay (near Rockhampton) en route to Moreton Bay which it entered on 15 November 1887. The Merkara and its remaining passengers were brought up the Brisbane River by the steamer Boko to Parbury, Lamb and Company’s Wharf, South Brisbane, on the following morning.

Charlotte, a 19-year-old domestic servant from Denbigh, travelled as a free passenger. Her parents and siblings, all from Norfolk, are listed as follows under the heading of remittance passengers: William John (aged 52, farm labourer), Charlotte (52), George (17, farm labourer), Rosetta (11), William George (8, presumably the grandson referred to in the 1881 census), and Charles William (7). As Agnes and Arthur are missing from this list, one might conclude that they had died.

Charlotte’s mother died on 6 November 1916; and her father, who lived beyond his 100^th birthday, died on 29 January 1940. Both were buried in the Lutwyche Cemetery on Brisbane’s north side (monumental section, GP1 57A 23).

Charlotte (née Warnes) Young passed away on 21 March 1952 and was cremated at the Mount Thompson Crematorium on the following day.