Cowain, William Laughton
[Passenger list, "KOOMBANA" 37, compiled 02 April 1912, Adelaide Steamship Company. Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, 0186/N46/634]
Fremantle-Derby Cowan, W.L. Adelaide S.S. return half.
[Passenger list, "KOOMBANA" 37, compiled 04 June 1912, Adelaide Steamship Company. Broome Historical Society]
List of passengers known to have been bound for Derby.
From Fremantle [saloon]
...
Cowan William L. Had return half. Teamster for Kimberley
Pastoral Co. Derby. Has sister at Cottesloe
Beach (Mrs. McGillivray) and relations at
Mentone, Victoria.
["The Passengers", The West Australian (Perth, WA), Wednesday 03 April 1912, page 7]
FOR DERBY.
Saloon.
...
Mr. W. L. Cowan.
...
["Particulars Of Passengers", The Register (Adelaide, SA), Wednesday 03 April 1912, page 7, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59056485]
Particulars of Passengers.
The following details have been gleaned in reference to some of the passengers whose names appear in the above list:--Capt. Pearson, wharfinger at Derby. Mr. T. Forrest, a local carrying contractor, took his wife south some time ago and settled on a farm. It is believed he was returning to sell out his bullock team. Mr. A. C. Piper, manager of Meda Station, 40 miles out from Broome, Mr. George Piper, manager and financial director of Go-Go Station, Fitzroy River. Mr. Deane Spark, licencee of a wine saloon at Derby, Mr. W. L. Cowan, bullock teamster on the route from Derby to Fitzroy River, 210 miles. Mrs. Sack, it is considered, will probably be the wife of Mr. Daniel Charles Sack, formerly of Adelaide, who keeps the Derby Hotel. The lady, whose maiden name was Louisa Honeg, resided before her marriage on the Parade, Norwood. Mr. Fred Sack, of St. Peters, says that she was the sister of his first wife. She visited Adelaide some time ago, and was a frequent traveller. He had no precise information that she was the lady indicated in the message, for some or his brother's sons might have married since the last letter he had received. Messrs. Main and Pitches, station hands, Mr. F. W. B. Clinch, a cattle buyer from the south. Mr. W. P. Milne, is resident of Wyndham. Miss S. Skamp, a teacher, of Broome. Mr. and Miss Gilham, possible wife and daughter of Mr. G. Gilham, warder, of Broome.
AB notes:
Brief reference: "Mr. W. L. Cowan, bullock teamster on the route from Derby to Fitzroy River, 210 miles."
["In Memoriam", The West Australian (Perth, WA), Thursday 20 March 1913, page 1]
...
COWAIN.--In loving memory of our dear brother, William Laughton, who was lost in the ill-fated Koombana on or about March 20, 1912.
Also our dear mother, who died at Cottesloe Beach on December 20, 1911.
God called them home; it was His will;
But in our hearts we love them still.
Their memories are as dear to-day
As in the hour they passed away.
--Inserted by their loving brother and sister in-law, son and daughter-in-law, John and Nellie.
AB notes:
William had a brother John, married
His mother had died in December
