Austin Hellier Madge (1850-1877). Photographer W Farey Of Kettering.
Austin Hellier Madge was born in 1850 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. His father was Thomas Hellier Madge and his mother Mary Madge (Nee Woolley).
One of five children, the family lived in Kettering where his father was Rector. In Jul 1866 at 16 years old Austin was apprenticed into the Merchant Navy, four years later being promoted to second mate, then first mate in 1876 age 26.
Sadly on the 31st August 1877 at his home at 4, Alfred Road, Claughton, Birkenhead Austin died at the age of only 26 years, of congestion of the brain for six days. Often following a trauma congestion of the brain was when blood built up in the brain. His family were with him when he died.
Austin Hellier Madge (1850-1877)
I have cleaned up the marks and added colour to the copy of the photo.