1900s. After a long (colourfull?) career working in outback NSW and as he aged, his health suffered and he became estranged from his wife and immediate family. He died destitute on 1 July 1926 (aged 80) in the Rookwood State Hospital and Asylum for Men. His extended family saw him as the most significant and eminent of his Wall generation. He is buried in the Rookwood Cemetery. Notes and references 1845 births 1926 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian people of Irish descent