ANTONIO GERONOVICH

Antonio Geronovitch was naturalized in Australia Victoria in 1866 he was from Ragusa
Austria which is the Ancient City of Dubrovnik in The Republic of Croatia.

He came to Victoria in about 1854 and also went to Redcastle to try his luck with the
gold and is stated to be one of the men who pioneered the Redcastle Goldfields.

We believe he also had some luck as he was granted a publicans liscence for "The All
Nations Hotel" at the Redcastle bench in June 1863. He was in patnership with a
james Kerr but bought him out on the 24/2/1869.Antonio ran the "All Nations Hotel"
until it closed at about the end of 1879.

He died on 20th May 1880 at the age of 53 years. Their was an inquest into his death:

Magisterial Inquiry held at redcastle on the Seventeenth day of may 1880 before
William Youle, one of Her Majesty's Justices of The peace for the Midland Bailiwick of
The Colony of Victoria, touching the death of Antonio Geronovitch and on view of the
body.

Mary Geronovitch Deposed:

Antonio Geronovitch has been complaining for several days.

On Monday week he complained of cold shivers and went to bed. He got up again the
next day and sat on the sofa wrapped in blankets, sat about two hours and retired to
bed. Before going back to bed he said "I am done, my lungs are gone."

I wanted to send for a doctor but he would not consent, saying it was no use, he was
to far gone.

For sometime he has been very low spirited, on account of his not succeeding in
obtaining anything from his prospecting efforts.

My late husband was a native of regusa in Austria and was 53 years of age.

Mary Geronovitch.

Charles Robinson

I am a legally qualified medical practitioner residing at Heathcote.

I have made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, Antonio
Geronovitch.

On opening the chest I found acute inflimation of the pericardeum and of the heart.

The former contained a large quantity of turbid serum with flakes of lympth floating in
it.

It was lined with a layer of lympth and the heart itself was covered with lympth.

The inflimation I have mentioned was the cause of death.

Charles Robinson

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I am of the opinion that the deceased Antonio Geronovitch died at Redcastle from
acute inflimmation of the pericardium and the heart

WM Youle J.P.

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He was married to a Mary Botrill who was from England who was 25 years of age when
they got married, Antonio was 35. They married in Sandhurst Victoria.

They had three children that we know of all girls Christina born in 1865 but died ten
weeks after her birth. Marion Elizabeth who was born in about 1864 had also died
some time after he 17th birthday and before the burial of Mary and Anetta Jane
Geronovich who was the youngest and born about 1868.

A Daniel Neilson of Redcastle witnessed Mary's death and it is stated in the certificate
that he was the son in law.

Antonios parents were Luke Geronovich and Maria Seegovitch and Lukes' occupation
was listed as a farmer , from Ragusa Austria which is today Dubrovnik in the Republic
of Croatia.