John Warn

Warn Family – Mortis Street

• Family consisting of 2 young children and their parents that died in 1872

  • John Warn (died aged 28)

  • Marcella Warn (died aged 24)

  • Matilda Mary Warn (died aged 3 years)

  • John Ernest Warn (died aged 20 months)

• John Warn (father) was a grazier around Crookwell and worked alongside his brother, Henry, who lived with them. Henry was not present the night of the family's death

  • Marcella's family owned and ran the Argyle Inn, situated where Newo House is located

• The family had purchased "Young Waverly", a race horse, from out west. The horse was stolen by the bushranger Ben Hall and his gang in 1865, before it was killed in a shootout.

• John, Marcella, Matilda Mary, and John Ernest all died overnight on a cold night. After they had closed the windows and door, the family lit a small charcoal fire in a dish, as their house lacked a fireplace. The family died overnight from the resulting carbon monoxide fumes.

• Footstone has a cut down tree on it to symbolise the family tree dying out all at once