Thomas Probert gave his life trying to save drowning boy

By Michelle Nichols, Hawkesbury Family History Group
Updated September 23 2016 - 2:27pm, first published September 22 2016 - 10:23am
Final resting place of Thomas Probert and Albert Fitzpatrick. They lie together in the one 
grave at St Matthew’s Anglican cemetery - the one leaning to the right. Picture: Michelle Nichols
Final resting place of Thomas Probert and Albert Fitzpatrick. They lie together in the one grave at St Matthew’s Anglican cemetery - the one leaning to the right. Picture: Michelle Nichols

LATE one afternoon in April 1874, nine year old Ossory Arthur Stanton Fitzpatrick and his older brother Albert Edward Horatio Fitzpatrick, 11, went for a swim near the mouth of South Creek, a popular swimming spot on the outskirts of Windsor.