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John Gilbert a'Beckett (known as Gilbert), born October 1886.
In his tenth
year he was thrown from his pony and killed at Berwick, Victoria, where
he is buried in Berwick (General) Cemetery.
His maternal grandmother, Emma
a'Beckett wrote of the incident, which happened on a January afternoon
in 1896, when she and her daughter, Minnie, were out riding in their carriage
while Gilbert rode on his pony alongside:
"Gilbert wanted us to go on quickly that the pony might canter and
kept telling us to look how he went. Minnie got out to walk part of the
way home. I watched Gilbert and in a moment the pony made a little shy
and Gilbert fell off. I expected to see him get up at once but he never
moved. Sam (the coachman picked him up and put him in my arms he never
moved or spoke again. We sent for Dr. Blume who said the base of the skull
was fractured and he died about three hours after the accident, at half-past
nine. May our darling be happy."