Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
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Birthabt 1880174
Death1956, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia174
Birth15 May 1879, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia728
Death11 Jul 1956, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia729
FatherSimeon Jacob FRANKEL (1840-1937)
Marriage1910, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia730
ChildrenValerie Frankel (1911-2008)
Yvonne Frankel (1914-)
Notes for Morris Edwin COHEN
Morrie died by drowning on the 30 March 1931, whilst boating with hist wo daughters in Salamander Bay, Tasmania, whilst on holidays, the rowing boat got caught in a ripe and tipped over, the two girls manager to swim ashore, but Morrie drowned. He had not been well, and suffered from a bad heart.
The Mercury (Hobart) on 15 July 1931 published the following:
The LATE MR. COHEN - The Scamander Tragedy Application for Probate MELBOURNE. July 12.
The manner in which Mr. Morris Edwin Cohen, retired iron merchant, of Ormond Esplanade, Elwood, aged 65 years, met his death is shown in documents filed with the application which was made to-day for probate of his will. The application is made on the presumption that testator is dead.
The executrix and the executor of the will, Mrs. Viva May Cohen and Mr. Arthur Phillips, solicitor, set out in an affidavit that to the best of their belief testator died on March 30, 1931. He left a will bearing date April 24, 1930. A joint affidavit by the widow, and by
Valerie Frankel Cohen and Yvonne Frankel Cohen, two daughters, sets out that on March 27, 1931, they all accompanied testator to Tasmania on a holiday. They took up residence at the Scamander Hotel, Scamander, and on the morning of Monday, March 30, testator obtained a boat from the proprietors of the hotel, and took his two daughters for a row on the river, which ran into the sea. There was a bar at the mouth of the river. Testator rowed the boat down the river to the sea. The tide was running out, and there was a very swift current at the bar. On the return journey the daughters found that they could make no progress against the current, and testator took the oars. In the meantime the boat was carried over the bar, and realising the danger of being swept out to sea the daughters jumped out of the boat, and called to testator to follow them. He jumped from the bow, and simultaneously a wave broke over the boat, which by this time was being swiftly carried out to sea.
The daughters struggled out of the water, but they did not again see their father. It had been reported to the deponents that human remains had been swept up from the sea recently, and that those remains would be the subject of an inquiry by the Coroner.
An affidavit by Dr. Henry Shannon set out that testator had a bad heart. The sudden immersion and the mental disturbance would be sufficient to bring about heart failure and immediate death.731
The Mercury (Hobart) on 15 July 1931 published the following:
The LATE MR. COHEN - The Scamander Tragedy Application for Probate MELBOURNE. July 12.
The manner in which Mr. Morris Edwin Cohen, retired iron merchant, of Ormond Esplanade, Elwood, aged 65 years, met his death is shown in documents filed with the application which was made to-day for probate of his will. The application is made on the presumption that testator is dead.
The executrix and the executor of the will, Mrs. Viva May Cohen and Mr. Arthur Phillips, solicitor, set out in an affidavit that to the best of their belief testator died on March 30, 1931. He left a will bearing date April 24, 1930. A joint affidavit by the widow, and by
Valerie Frankel Cohen and Yvonne Frankel Cohen, two daughters, sets out that on March 27, 1931, they all accompanied testator to Tasmania on a holiday. They took up residence at the Scamander Hotel, Scamander, and on the morning of Monday, March 30, testator obtained a boat from the proprietors of the hotel, and took his two daughters for a row on the river, which ran into the sea. There was a bar at the mouth of the river. Testator rowed the boat down the river to the sea. The tide was running out, and there was a very swift current at the bar. On the return journey the daughters found that they could make no progress against the current, and testator took the oars. In the meantime the boat was carried over the bar, and realising the danger of being swept out to sea the daughters jumped out of the boat, and called to testator to follow them. He jumped from the bow, and simultaneously a wave broke over the boat, which by this time was being swiftly carried out to sea.
The daughters struggled out of the water, but they did not again see their father. It had been reported to the deponents that human remains had been swept up from the sea recently, and that those remains would be the subject of an inquiry by the Coroner.
An affidavit by Dr. Henry Shannon set out that testator had a bad heart. The sudden immersion and the mental disturbance would be sufficient to bring about heart failure and immediate death.731