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25.01.2022 Cemetery Symbolism The Square and Compasses are the symbol of the Freemasons, the world oldest fraternity. Both the Ballarat Old and New Cemeteries are literally littered with this symbol. A testimony to the influence this benevolent society had on the Goldfields. Courtesy N. Buchanan
25.01.2022 BURIED ST KILDA CEMETERY JOHN BRANSCOMBE CREWS (1815-1905), politician and businessman; Chartist; first Mayor of Prahran; printer; baker; confectioner; auction...eer; estate agent; known as ‘King’ Crews; was said to have had as many retirements from Prahran Council as a prima donna. John Branscombe Crews (1815-1905), politician and businessman, was born at St John's, Newfoundland, the second son of Charles Crews and his wife Mary, née Branscombe. At three he went with his family to Newton Abbot, Devon. From his father he learnt the printing trade, a skill he later employed in the Chartist cause. He migrated to Victoria in 1852. After a year with the government printer he became a baker and confectioner for five years and then set up as an auctioneer and estate agent. He took a prominent part in the Land Convention of 1857. Early in 1858 he was returned to the Legislative Assembly at a by-election in St Kilda and soon became a leading spokesman for the democratic 'Convention' group of members. He was defeated at the 1859 election and several times later, but represented St Kilda and South Bourke in 1864-65 and 1868-77. For most of this time he was a follower of (Sir) James McCulloch. 'King' Crews sat on the Prahran Council in 1856-60, 1862-69, 1873-76 and 1884-87; he was the first mayor in 1863 and was said to have had as many retirements as a prima donna. The building of Prahran Town Hall and the division of the city into wards were largely the result of his efforts. He was also captain of the Prahran Fire Brigade and active for twenty years on the Central Board of Health. As president of the Victorian Permanent Building Society in 1866-84 he lost over 4500, although he managed to keep the society from bankruptcy. He was a magistrate, an active Orangeman and a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites and of the Independent Order of Oddfellows; in 1875 he was appointed to the royal commission on friendly societies. He was a prominent Wesleyan and his support of total abstinence was reflected in his interest in several suburban 'coffee-houses' in the 1880s. Crews married Sarah Weatherdon at Newton Abbot in 1839; they had one daughter. After his wife's death in 1890 he married in 1891 a widow, Sarah Stone of Melbourne. Although reputed to have been charitable and generous he was criticized at times for combining private and public business too keenly. He died at his home in Prahran on 29 September 1905, aged 89, and was buried at St Kilda. His portrait is at the Prahran Town Hall. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/crews-john-branscombe-3288 https://dt-hs.blogspot.com/2017//john-branscombe-crews.html https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/component//details/24/439 Photos: SLV
25.01.2022 Just a few examples of some beautiful monumental sculptures and marble carvings within our cemetery, look out for them on your next walk around our cemetery
25.01.2022 BURIED ST KILDA CEMETERY ALFRED FELTON (1831-1904) businessman and philanthropist; Chemist: Felton Grimwade & Co; the Melbourne Glass Bottle Works (ancestor o...f Australian Glass Manufacturers Ltd); The Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda; The Felton Bequest, National Gallery Victoria; Wealth!! Get it spent"; After his death his will gained him more renown than he had ever sought in life. Alfred Felton was born on 8 November 1831 at Maldon, Essex, England, the fifth of ten children of William Felton, currier, and his wife Hannah. He was probably apprenticed to a chemist before migrating to Victoria in 1853. He is said to have made money carting goods to the goldfields before establishing himself as a merchant in Melbourne. In 1857 he was a commission agent and general dealer and in 1861 a wholesale druggist in Swanston Street. In 1867 Felton bought the wholesale drug house of Youngman & Co. in partnership with its manager, Frederick Grimwade. Renamed Felton, Grimwade & Co, the firm expanded rapidly in the next twenty-five years, and although the depression of the 1890s reduced both its trading and manufacturing activities it remained the largest drug house in the colony and a sound and profitable business, with subsidiary interests in drug houses in New Zealand and Western Australia. The two men also founded other enterprises: in 1872 the Melbourne Glass Bottle Works (ancestor of Australian Glass Manufacturers Ltd) and an acid works which was merged in 1897 with Cuming Smith & Co.; in 1882 the Adelaide Chemical Works Co., in partnership with the principals of Cuming Smith & Co., and the Australian Salt Manufacturing Co., the only failure among their ventures; and in 1885 J. Bosisto & Co., in partnership with Joseph Bosisto founder of the eucalyptus oil industry in Australia. Felton also bought two large estates, Murray Downs and Langi Kal Kal, in partnership with Charles Campbell, senior partner in Cuming Smith & Co. When Felton died on 8 January 1904 his assets were valued at more than 500,000. Shrewd and upright in business, Felton was mildly eccentric in his private life and opinions. Although probably self-educated, he had a strong interest in literature and the arts, and the bachelor rooms in the St Kilda Hotel in which he spent his last twenty years were crowded with books, pictures and objets d'art. He sought no public office, and his many benefactions were usually discreet and anonymous, though he did not shun public controversy in his warm support of the Australian Church, founded by Charles Strong. After his death his will gained him more renown than he had ever sought in life: it established a trust fund, originally of 383,163 but later increased to more than 2,000,000, under the control of a Felton Bequests' Committee of five. Half the income was to be given to charities, especially those for the relief of women and children, and the other half spent on works of art for the Melbourne National Gallery, works judged 'to have an artistic and educative value and be calculated to raise or improve the level of public taste'. In its first sixty years the committee spent 1,237,000 on works of art, to the inestimable benefit of the gallery's collection. A portrait by Sir John Longstaff from a photograph is in the National Gallery; it shows Felton in old age, in amiable mood on a seat in his partner's garden at Caulfield. Read more here: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au//desirable-things-the-private-/ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/felton-alfred-3508 https://www.eqt.com.au/philanthro/the-alfred-felton-bequest https://www.theage.com.au//the-bequest-of-a-century-200401 Photos: NGV Photos of Felton’s personal book and painting collection taken by Nicholas Caire who is also buried St Kilda Cemetery.
25.01.2022 BURIED ST KILDA CEMETERY WILLIAM BAYLES (1820-1903), businessman and politician; Minister for Customs; Mayor, Melbourne; the shipping firm of Bayles & Co; Laun...ceston and Melbourne Steam Navigation Co; pastoralist; ‘sterling honesty of purpose'; 'faithful and conscientious’. William Bayles was born on 1 November 1820 at Hunderthwaite, Yorkshire, England, son of William Bayles, farmer, and his wife Elizabeth. In 1846 he arrived in Van Diemen's Land and was a shipping merchant in Launceston until 1852 when he established in Victoria the shipping firm of Bayles & Co., remaining part-owner and agent for the Launceston and Melbourne Steam Navigation Co. A flair for financial matters enabled Bayles to retire in 1865. He invested in Moyne Falls station near Macarthur in the Western District and by the late 1870s owned 14,427 acres (5838 ha). In 1861 Bayles was elected to the Melbourne City Council and in 1862 became chairman of the finance committee, retaining the post until his death. He was mayor in 1865-66 and the magnificent fête he gave the citizens was long remembered. He was appointed alderman in 1869 and acting mayor in 1900. In 1864 Bayles successfully contested the Villiers and Heytesbury seat in the Legislative Assembly. His campaign stressed the identification of his interests with those of the electorate, the need for assisted immigration, reform of the Legislative Council and his opposition to payment of members. Though a free trader he favoured revision of the tariff. Bayles served the constituency well and on 1 January 1868 the Banner of Belfast (Port Fairy) praised his 'sterling honesty of purpose' and the 'faithful and conscientious discharge of public duty which has characterised his career'. However, as minister for trade and customs in (Sir) Charles Sladen's stopgap ministry from May to July 1868 Bayles was 'twitted with being one of those gentlemen who are ready to join any ministry for the sake of office'. He denied this charge, maintaining that he accepted office to straighten out the difficulties connected with the Darling grant, a solution to which could only be found in compromise. Bayles retired from politics early in 1880 but remained active in other spheres. His financial ability was often called upon by the city council and in 1886 he was liquidator of the South Suburban Gas Co. He was chairman of directors of the Union Trustee Co. A generous supporter of the Toorak Presbyterian Church, he was on its board of management for many years. He suffered a stroke in 1901 and in his last years lived quietly. He died on 8 October 1903 at his home, Yar Orrong, Albany Road, Toorak, survived by his wife Isabel, née Bursh (Buist), whom he had married on 11 July 1854 in Tasmania, and by three sons and two daughters. His son Norman Bayles has been profiled earlier on this page. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bayles-william-2953 https://trove.nla.gov.au//ren/nla.news-article35567160.txt https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108513092# Photos: SLV
24.01.2022 Hello to All of our Facebook friends. We have great news from the Cheltenham Friends Group Our new website and database are now live on the web, so please chec...k it out at our usual link: www.focrc.org We hope you enjoy the new look, as you scroll down the web pages will reveal themselves. We welcome any feedback The Committee are very happy to be moving into the 21st Century, and would sincerely like to thank Ross Jackson for the early stages, and James Sheron of Itinfinity for the later stages of development.
24.01.2022 THOMAS GILBERT (17871873) 1836 PIONEER, FIRST COLONIAL STOREKEEPER, POSTMASTER AND SUPERINTENDENT OF WEST TERRACE CEMETERY Thomas Gilbert was born in 1876 in... The Tower Hamlets (Middlesex), England, to William Gilbert (17551819) and his wife Anna (née Couchman). The Gilbert family were makers of mathematical and optical instruments since the time of Gilbert's grandfather John Gilbert (16851749) whose work had been presented to Sir Isaac Newton and The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. The business was initially based in The Tower Hill area in London, and later in Leadenhall Street in London. Their experiments for the improvement of glass were so extensive that the English government assisted them by a suspension of the excise supervision so that their large outlay should not be increased by the payment of duty. Thomas Gilbert was apprenticed to his father and worked as an instrument maker and optician in the family business. After William Gilbert's death Thomas and his brother William Dorner Gilbert (17811844) went into partnership and did a lot of work for the East India Company, but in 1827 W&T Gilbert was involved in a scandal relating to their work for the Company and the firm went bankrupt in the following year. In 1834 Thomas Gilbert became a member of the South Australian Association. From then until his arrival in South Australia he devoted his entire time and invested money in bringing into action Edward Gibbon Wakefield's plan for the colonisation of South Australia, together with (Sir) George Kingston, John Brown, Richard Hanson, Robert Gouger, Dr. George Everard and others. On 3 March 1836 Gilbert was appointed Colonial Storekeeper and on 19 March Gilbert, Captain Thomas Lipson, George Kingston, Dr. Wright and a large party of surveyors and labourers set sail in the barque 'Cygnet'. They arrived at Kangaroo Island on 10 September of that year, where they remained until they were sent by Colonel William Light to Holdfast Bay. Gilbert was present at the proclamation of the Province of South Australia on 28 December 1836. In 1837 he was appointed Postmaster by Governor John Hindmarsh. Gilbert's storehouse (the Colonial Store), the first post office in South Australia and his residence were initially huts in the northern Adelaide Park Lands. Gilbert was also one of of the earliest magistrates of South Australia and in 1847 was appointed the first Superintendent of West Terrace Cemetery on a salary of 50 per year. Gilbert retired from the position of Postmaster on 31 December 1851 and like Captain Thomas Lipson, the subject of last week's post on this Page, he was awarded a life pension of 200 per year. Of him it was written that perhaps no man in South Australia had a larger circle of attached friends, and he was really beloved by all who had the pleasure of his intimate acquaintance. Gilbert never married and he died in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, on 30 May 1873 at the age of 86. The Evening Journal wrote on the day of Gilbert's death that he was a man of sincere though unobtrusive piety, and it will occasion no surprise to those who knew him best that his mind to the last was in a tranquil and happy state. Had he lived to the 30th of next August he would have completed his 87th year. Gilbert's funeral took place two days later. The procession began at his residence and proceeded to St. Paul's Anglican Church in Pulteney Street where the funeral service of the Church of England was conducted by Dean Russell. Afterwards the cortege proceeded to the West Terrace Cemetery (Road 3 Path 13 Site 35 West) where the burial service was read. The funeral was well attended and those present included the Acting Governor Sir Richard Hanson, Sir Henry Ayres, Sir George Kingston, Sir John Morphett, the Hon George Stevenson M.P., Dr. George Mayo, James Frew, John Brown and other leading colonists. Thomas Gilbert was a member of the Street Naming Committee and, a founding member of the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association established in London in 1834, and a founding member of the Freemasons South Australian Lodge of Friendship No. 613, having been initiated into the Order at the first meeting of the Lodge held in 1834 at the South Australian Association in London. He was elected Master of the Lodge of Friendship on 14 August 1838 and served a number of terms as its Master. Gilbert Street and Gilbert Place in Adelaide are named after him, as are the Gilbert Valley and Gilbert River in the mid-North of South Australia. The headstone at his grave site is inscribed erected by a few colonists in token of their sincere admiration of his honorable and generous qualities as a public officer and faithful friend. Photo credits: Thomas Gilbert circa 1860 State Library of South Australia [B 7031]. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
24.01.2022 The private commemorations for; - 3870 Private Norman Donald McPhee and his brother 119 Private William James Oliver McPhee, both of Brunswick, Victoria, who ha...d both been employed as box makers at the time of their enlistment, and who were both to lose their life during 1916. Private Norman McPhee had enlisted on the 13th of July 1915 and was allocated to reinforcements for the 8th Battalion 1st AIF with whom he embarked for Egypt with on the 23rd of November, and following his arrival, and a brief period of hospitalization he was then shipped to France. After his arrival he was officially taken on strength with his Battalion on the 26th of May 1916. His Unit was moved to Belgium where he was Killed in Action on the 29th of June, just over a month after he arrived in the trenches. Following his death, Norman was officially interred within Berks Cemetery Extension, Wallonie, Belgium. He had been aged 29. Private William McPhee had enlisted on the 22nd of July 1915 and had been allocated to the newly raised 32nd Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 18th of December 1915. Following his arrival in Egypt William's Battalion was shipped to France where they arrived on the 23rd of June 1916. Like his younger brother he too was Killed in Action within a month of his entering the front line, when his Unit was committed to the battle of Fromelles. William was hit by an exploding shell on the 20th of July, but in William’s case there was no possible hope in recovering his body for official burial. William is commemorated at the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France. William had been aged 31. Back in Australia these brother’s grieving parents had their two sons privately commemorated at the McPhee family’s collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
24.01.2022 John Center, Scotsman, bagpipe maker of international renown, photographer, Brunswick businessman, buried at Coburg Cemetery. https://www.thebagpipemuseum.com/Center_John.html
24.01.2022 Out with the old and crumbling and in with the fresh and new (trees, that is)
23.01.2022 STORIES FROM THE CEMETERY # 11 John Jack Hutton 1st Contingent Tasmanian Mounted Infantry, Boer War. Jack was born at Barrington in 1874, the son of Scottis...h immigrants. He grew up to be a skilled axeman and a prominent athlete particularly over one mile distances. His family had moved to West Ulverstone by 1899 when Jack, along with several other local men, volunteered to join the 1st Contingent of Tasmanian Infantry to fight with the British forces in South Africa. The First Contingent arrived in South Africa in November 1899 and was converted to a mounted infantry contingent in February 1900. On 9th February, during an encounter with Boers, Jack was captured and sent to a POW camp at Waterval along with Charlie Brothers from North Motton. Two other Tasmanians (Alfred Button of Evandale and Atherly Gilham of Ulverstone) plus a journalist died during the fighting while others were wounded. Somehow Hutton became confused with Button and Jack Huttons parents were erroneously told that their son had died. For Jack and Charlie conditions inside the camp were deficient with poor quality food, rationing and disease taking their toll. When word spread amongst the prisoners that they were to be transferred to another camp with even worse conditions, Jack took his chance to escape. Using a pair of smuggled wire-cutters he cut through a section of barbed wire and crawled to freedom. Walking only during the night, he arrived at the Australian infantry camp two days later. His comrades were stunned to see him as they all believed he was dead. Even more astounded was his brother Len Hutton who arrived shortly after with the First Tasmanian Imperial Bushman contingent. Jacks letters home were published in the North West Post and Advocate newspapers and detail his capture, prison experiences and escape. He also then joined brother Len with the Imperial Bushman for a time and wrote to his mother: you would laugh to see Len and I getting our meals ready! Its the fun of the world to see us. Of course I am used to it now, but it was rough on him for a start. Bully beef and biscuits are not very nice to start with until you get used to them. We are having splendid health so far. In fact I have had good health right through. Of course some of the bullets have come rather close to be pleasant; sometimes I can hardly tell how they miss a fellow so often. One thing I can tell you I have heard far sweeter music in my life than the whistle of these Boer bullets and the screech of their shells When the local men from the First Tasmanian Mounted Infantry contingent arrived back in Ulverstone in December 1900 they were treated to a banquet and entertainment provided by the town. Jack was met at the train and carried shoulder high by his friends. Jack returned to working in the bush. Tragically in May 1904, while scrubbing at Upper Castra, a tree that he was felling kicked back and pinned him against a stump. He was killed instantly just a few days shy of his 30th birthday. His family now mourned him for a second time. The funeral that followed was led by 3 mounted troopers from the Boer War with a procession of approximately 400 people walking from his parents house to the Ulverstone Cemetery. His parents and sisters later moved to New Zealand where they joined two of Jacks brothers (Len and one other). A 1926 editorial in the Advocate newspaper lamented the loss of lives to accidents in the bush and recalled ; poor, ever smiling and happy Jack Hutton who, after going right through the Boer War, was killed by a tree whilst scrubbing. Jack was one of the best all round athletes that we have had: he was a fine mile runner, and a smart axeman, a good man with the gloves and just when he was at his best he fell, another victim to the bush There is no headstone to commemorate Jack Hutton at the Ulverstone Cemetery and even the location of his grave is unknown. Sources: Trove for newspaper articles (NW Post, Tasmanian Mail, Weekly Courier, Advocate newspaper), Tasmanians in the Transvaal War by John Bufton, Ulverstone cemetery records (grave receipts).
23.01.2022 The final resting place for; - 4198 Private John James Thompson of South Melbourne, Victoria who before enlisting for War Service on the 13th of July 1915 had b...een employed as a box maker. John was allocated to reinforcements for the 23rd Battalion 1st AIF, and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 7th of March 1916. From Egypt John would be shipped to England, arriving on the 12th of June, and from here he was sent to France where he entered the Bull Ring at Etaples on the 17th of September. By the 1st of October John had formally joined his Battalion who were by now in the trenches of Belgium, and would remain on duty until the 20th of December when he was sent to hospital suffering influenza. On the 1st of January 1917 John was sent back to England for further treatment where he was diagnosed as having contracted tuberculosis. There would be no improvement in Johns health and he would be embarked for his repatriation to Australia as an invalid, departing England on the 17th of March 1917. Having returned to Australia, John was to be further hospitalised at the 5th Australian General Hospital (Melbourne) and the 11th Australian General Hospital (Caulfield), during which he received his official discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry into civilian life on the 23rd of June 1917. John would receive on going treatment for the TB he had contracted whilst on service at the Military Sanatorium Macleod, but his health continued to deteriorate with his passing occurring on the 11th of September 1922. Following his death John was formally interred within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
23.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 27th Oct 2020 we remember: 5 people BALZARINI Domenico Age 29 Miner 27/10/1915 Youanmi GM Youanmi https://www.wavmm.com/listing/domenico/ see articl...e BORLINI Pietro Age 20 Miner 27/10/1915 Youanmi GM Youanmi https://www.wavmm.com/listing/pietro-4/ see article HOLT Russell Oroya Age 33 Miner 27/10/1939 Mt Barker GM Norseman https://www.wavmm.com/listing/russell/ see article LEIPOLD George Fredrick Age 51 Miner 27/10/1915 Niagara GM Niagara - Buried Kookynie Cemetery WA https://www.wavmm.com/listing/george-fredrick/ see headstone and article MANLEIN Louis Age 47 Miner 27/10/1919 Burbanks Birthday Gift GM Coolgardie - Buried Kalgoorlie Cemetrery. https://www.wavmm.com/listing/manlein/ see headstone
23.01.2022 DIED THIS DAY and buried St Kilda Cemetery JANET CHARLOTTE MITCHELL (1896-1957), Journalist, writer, banker, musician, Hawaii; Harbin, China; Japanese invasion... of Manchuria...Manchuria is a volcano, Harbin is the centre of the crater. Janet Charlotte Mitchell (1896-1957), was born in Melbourne on 3 November 1896, the youngest of four daughters of (Sir) Edward Mitchell and his wife Eliza Fraser, daughter of Dr Alexander Morrison, principal of Scotch College, Melbourne. She grew up at Scotch College and in family homes in East Melbourne and at Mount Martha and Mount Macedon, educated by governesses. The academic and literary tastes of Dr Morrison influenced his granddaughters, as did their parents interest in welfare organizations such as the Red Cross. Extended European tours finished their education, some visits being made in conjunction with Edward Mitchells appearances before the Privy Council in London. Janet Mitchell became a licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1917 and graduated B.A., University of London, in 1922. She was education secretary of the Young Womens Christian Association, Melbourne, in 1924-26 and directed the thrift service of the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales in 1926-31. Active in the League of Nations Union, in 1925 and 1931 she was an Australian delegate to conferences of the Institute of Pacific Relations in Honolulu and Hangchow, China. In the early 1930s Janet Mitchell was in a unique position to report the Japanese occupation of Manzhou (Manchuria), an event now regarded as the forerunner of World War II. She watched as Japanese troops marched into the strategic city of Harbin and observed the League of Nations remain impotent as Japan occupied the Chinese province. Her opportunities in journalism, hard-won and precarious, flowed from her participation in international organisations but she turned to senior roles in education for intermittent financial security. Her life story illustrates the difficulties highly qualified and dedicated women faced in pursuing careers in the period between the wars. She went on to Harbin at some risk to report the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, an experience which formed the basis of her only novel, Tempest in Paradise (London, 1935), which was dedicated to her cousin Chinese Morrison. An autobiography, Spoils of Opportunity, followed in 1938. In 1933 Janet Mitchell was acting-principal of the Womens College, University of Sydney, and in 1936, after journalism in London and semi-official work with the League of Nations in Geneva, she became warden of Ashburne College in the University of Manchester, resigning in 1940 for health reasons. She was assistant in youth education, Victoria, for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1941-55. Delicate from childhood, she lived at Armadale, Melbourne, until her death on 6 September 1957. A convert to Catholicism, she was buried in St Kilda. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biograp/mitchell-janet-charlotte-7799 https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-699389202/view https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/184340756 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2132388 https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=598116821 https://www.academia.edu//Australian_journalist_reports_fr
23.01.2022 enjoying the sun
23.01.2022 DIED THIS DAY and buried St Kilda Cemetery FREDERIC RACE GODFREY, (1828-1910), squatter, businessman, politician, Melbourne Club, Felton Bequest, SSB, preservat...ion of Wilsons Promontory, pioneer of irrigation, Boort Station, Aboriginal Protection Board, the Loddon blacks best friend. Frederic Race Godfrey (1828-1910), squatter and businessman, was born on 11 May 1828 at Bellary, India, son of Colonel John Race Godfrey and his wife Jane Octavia, ne Woodhouse. He was educated at Exeter Grammar School and at 19 migrated to Port Phillip to become the partner of his brother Henry who in 1846 had taken up Boort station, 64,000 acres (25,900 ha) in the Loddon district, where he was the first white settler. In 1850, by converting a swamp into Lake Boort, Frederic became a pioneer of irrigation. He had close contact with the local Aboriginals, one of whom described him as the Loddon blacks best friend. Later as vice-chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board and as a commissioner reporting on the Aboriginals in 1877 he defended them as intelligent, industrious and honest. While at Boort he sold much stock to the Bendigo goldfields. On 29 April 1854 at St Kilda he married Margaret Lilias, daughter of David Chambers; they had five sons and four daughters. In 1863 Godfrey sold Boort, moved to Mount Ridley, Craigieburn, and, because he claimed that his tenure in Victoria was threatened by the land laws, bought Pevensey station near Hay in New South Wales. He lived at Mount Ridley for seventeen years, sending stock to the Melbourne markets. He was also active in local government as president of the Merriang Shire Council and member of the Broadmeadows council. In 1874-77 he represented East Bourke in the Legislative Assembly. His rule in politics was to support measures rather than men, thus avoiding party loyalties and attempting to exercise his individual judgment. Godfrey moved to St Kilda in 1880 and became a founding director of the Trustees, Executors and Agency Co. Ltd, Melbourne, serving as chairman in 1895-1909. In 1890 he was appointed an honorary commissioner of the Savings Bank. An aspect of his agricultural interest was his original membership of the old Port Phillip Farmers Association which merged into the Royal Agricultural Society. A prominent Anglican, he was a member of the Church of England Association; he had been appointed the first lay canon of St Pauls Cathedral in 1869 and held other church offices. He showed varied interests as a member of the Melbourne Club for fifty-eight years and its president in 1887, as a justice of the peace, president of the Melbourne Hospital Committee in 1887-1904, commissioner of the State Savings Bank from 1890, member of the committee of the Felton Bequest in 1904-09, founder and vice-president of the Philatelic Society of Victoria in 1892 and a member of the royal commission on charitable institutions in 1890-91. Interested in natural history, he became a member of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria in 1863 and served as its elected president for several years. With Albert Le Souef he established the Government Reserve at Gembrook for the Acclimatisation Society and acted also on the committee for the preservation of Wilsons Promontory. Godfreys first wife died in 1895 and on 3 October 1898 at St Johns Church, Darlinghurst, Sydney, he married Marian, daughter of Richard Walker; they had no children. Godfrey died at St Kilda on 11 September 1910. His enterprise and industry showed that he loved Australia and endeavoured to foster a true British spirit of strict honour and industry and patriotism to God, King and Country. Read more here http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/godfrey-frederic-race-3624 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10459977 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Race_Godfrey Henry Godfrey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Godfrey_(pioneer) Photos: SLV. Henry Godfrey, photo bottom right (Thomas Chuck).
23.01.2022 A historic military graveyard in Sydney has been restored in a joint project between the Office of Australian War Graves and Rookwood Cemetery. The ‘Old Army’ ...Anglican Section was established in 1888 and contains the graves of 112 army personnel who served in conflicts ranging from the Boer War to the Vietnam War. This site originated in a time when service men were farewelled with elaborate military funeral processions that arrived by mortuary train. The recent refurbishment has included landscaping, and irrigation, new grave plaques, seating and interpretive signage. Among those interred was is Trooper Charles Turner, 41, who joined the 2nd Remount Unit. Sadly he died from meningitis before embarking for Egypt in 1915. To find out more, go to: https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au///rookwood-old-army-section
22.01.2022 The shade of a tree, a perfect place on a day like today
22.01.2022 Floral tributes at a funeral are an every day means of expressing sympathy. Flowers, real or otherwise, placed on monuments are an extension of this notion and... are to be found in any cemetery, including Waverley Cemetery at Bronte. Have you wondered about the flora that is part of the monumental decoration? Have you looked closely? I took quite a few images at the Cemetery this afternoon and would encourage you to take the time to look at the details of the monumental floral decoration. Such decoration is symbolic. For example; ivy represents hope and immortality; the rose encapsulates the brevity of life; the poppy depicts deep and eternal sleep; forget-me-nots speak for themselves; daffodils which bloom in Spring represent renewal; the passion vine is the Passion of Christ; the Rose/Shamrock/Thistle indicate country of origin - England, Ireland, Scotland; the everlasting wreath speaks of immortality, never to be forgotten; lilies are for innocence and purity. The list goes on. There are numerous websites which describe such floral associations with Victorian and Edwardian cemeteries. [Photos Credits: Gregory Ross} See more
22.01.2022 The private commemoration for; - 275 Lance Corporal Robert Henry Moore of West Melbourne, Victoria who prior to his enlistment for War Service on the 23rd of D...ecember 1915 had been employed as a plumber and copper-smith. Robert was allocated to the 3rd Pioneer Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for England on the 6th of June 1916, and by the 24th of November he was sent over to join his Unit in France. Just over a year after his being shipped to England, Robert was with his Unit when it was committed to be in support of the capture of Messines in Belgium. Robert’s death occurred during this action on the 8th of June 1917, and his body was recovered for burial and he was formally laid to rest within the Strand Military Cemetery at Ploegsteert, Wallonie in Belgium. Lance Corporal Robert Moore was aged 37 at the time of his death, and back in Australia his sacrifice during 'The Great War' was privately commemorated at his family’s collective grave within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
21.01.2022 George and Harriet Bird arrived from England in 1852. They purchased mixed farming land in Scarsdale and named it Rotherwood. They later moved to Smythesdale an...d named their home Woodbine Cottage. George was one of the councillors for the Borough of Browns and Scarsdale. Their son John married Mary Anne Tucker and raised 10 children on their property in Scarsdale. John was a member of the Smythesdale Cemetery Trust. George Melbourne Bird, their son, was an active member of the community and also a member of the Smythesdale Cemetery Trust. See more
21.01.2022 The final resting place for; - 4487 Company Quartermaster Sergeant Joel Reginald Eade of Essendon, Victoria who prior to his enlistment for War Service on the 1...2th of July 1915 had gained employment as a jackaroo. Joel was allocated to reinforcements for the 6th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 28th of January 1916. Having arrived in Egypt Joel was transferred over to the newly formed 57th Battalion on the 1st of April and days after this was taken on strength with the 58th Battalion. Having had some minor medical treatment for an ingrown toenail, then gout and shortly afterwards blurred vision Joel was evacuated sick due to influenza on the 15th of May, and was admitted into the 3rd Australian General Hospital at Abbassia where his health further deteriorated and it was reported he had suffered a psychological breakdown, which at the time was termed as neurasthenia. Classed as no longer fit for service in the field, Joel was repatriated back to Australia, departing Egypt on the 24th of June, and following his arrival in Melbourne he was admitted into the 11th Australian General Hospital (Caulfield) on the 22nd of July for further treatment. On the 15th of October Joel received his formal discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry back into civilian life. Joel’s health was permanently damaged by his service in The Great War, with his premature death occurring on the 20th of January 1917, at the age of 22. Joel's passing was speculated to have been due to the effects of rheumatic fever, which he had suffered prior to the War, but was seen as having been worsened by his War Service, and had caused him to have a weakened heart. Following his death, CQMS Joel Reginald Eade was interred within his family’s collective burial site located in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
20.01.2022 Recently Gunnedah Shire Mayor Jamie Chaffey attended the unveiling of the restored grave of Gunnedahs first Mayor, Thomas Breen. The restoration and installati...on of an information sign was initiated by the Gunnedah and District Historical Society and completed by members of Rotary West. Born in Ireland in 1839, Thomas Breen came to Gunnedah in 1878 as the licensee of the Imperial Hotel. In 1885 he was elected first mayor of the Municipality of Gunnedah. His tenure as mayor was short but colourful, with factional disputes seeing him voted out of office after just three months and culminating in a fist fight in the chambers.
20.01.2022 INTERRED ST KILDA CEMETERY GERTRUDE EMILY JOHNSON OBE (1894 1973); Australian coloratura soprano and founder of the National Theatre in Melbourne; Dame Nelli...e Melba; British National Opera; a natural and affecting actress. Johnson was born in 1894 at Prahran, Melbourne. She was the second child of George and Emily Johnson. George, lawyer and professor of music and both parents had been born in Victoria. Gertrude was educated at Presentation College Windsor. On the advice of Dame Nellie Melba, Johnson enrolled at the age of 17 in the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music as a student of Anne Williams. In 1915, she followed Williams to Melba's new women's singing school at the Albert Street Conservatorium, East Melbourne (later the Melba Memorial Conservatorium). Johnson was accepted into Melba's classes, and the relationship developed to the point where Melba gave Johnson her own personal cadenzas, a valuable professional asset. The director of Albert Street, Fritz Hart, had a particular interest in Mozartian opera and was responsible for introducing Johnson to what was to be the core of her repertoire. Through introductions from Melba, Johnson begun touring outback Queensland and New South Wales in 1917 with Count Ercole Filippini's troupe, and in 1919 to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and New Zealand with the Rigo Grand Opera Company. By 1921 she had sailed to London and started singing with the British National Opera Company. Soon she was singing roles such as Micaela in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust and the Princess in Holst's The Perfect Fool at Convent Garden. She also had an extensive recording career with Columbia Records. Miss Johnson sang on the initial BBC radio broadcast of live opera performances. Johnson's engagement to Dr. Pullar-Strecker, a distinguished specialist in mental and nervous diseases, broke down and she returned to Melbourne in 1935, a woman of independent means, and retired from singing. Distressed at the lack of training opportunities in Australia for upcoming artists, she founded the National Theatre. Included was an opera, drama and ballet school. The National Theatre company grew rapidly, and protected from international competition during World War II, managed to produce 15 operas through this period. After the war the company continued to tour nationally, and in 1954 gave a Royal Command Performance at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in front of Queen Elizabeth II. The success of the performance and subsequent season led to the founding of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, which in turn ironically led to the decline of the National Theatre as a performing company. In an effort to stem the decline, a building fund for the National Theatre was established. Two fires in premises occupied by the National Theatre sapped morale, until finally a permanent home was found in the former Victory Cinema in St Kilda. The new premises finally opened in 1974. In 1951 Gertrude Johnson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work as Director of the National Theatre. In 2005 she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women posthumously.[1] Gertrude Johnson died on 28 March 1973 at Malvern and was cremated. Her ashes were interred in her mother’s grave at St Kilda Cemetery. She never married. Her estate, valued at $117,000, was put towards scholarships for students at the National Theatre schools and continues today. From 2008 a new opera school opened in Melbourne (The Opera Studio, now Gertrude Opera) under Linda Thompson with the aims of continuing Miss Johnson's works (her own National Opera School merged with the Victorian College of the Arts in 1980). From 2009 a Scholarship called "The Gertrude Johnson Fellowship" has been awarded to a student at Gertrude Opera Studio continuing her legacy. She was such a charismatic and inspirational character that she has become the central character in a novel. Vissi d’arte was written by Joanna Stephen-Ward and the character Harriet Shaw is based on Gertrude Johnson, although Gertrude was a far kinder person than Harriet Shaw. The rest of the characters are fictional. Vissi d'arte is set in Melbourne and many of the scenes take place in The National Theatre in St Kilda. Read more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Johnson http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/johnson-gertrude-emily-10629 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/141425329 https://liveperformance.com.au//gertrude-johnson-obe-1894/ Photos: SLV; National Theatre, St Kilda.
19.01.2022 The final resting place for; - 2514 Private Claude Phillip Hancock of Clifton Hill, Victoria who prior to his enlistment for War Service on the 17th of April 19...16 had been employed as a bricklayer and was aged 22. Claude was allocated to reinforcements for the 46th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for England and further training on the 7th of September. Having been made ready for the trenches Claude was shipped over to France on the 16th of July 1917, where he was officially taken on strength with his Unit in the field on the 4th of August. Claudes service would be continuous until he was wounded by gas on the 16th of July 1918, and was removed from the front lines for hospitalisation, following which he re-joined his Battalion on the 12th of August and would continue to serve until Wars end. On the 16th of April 1919 Claude arrived in England to commence his repatriation back to Australia which he was embarked for on the 2nd of June. Having returned back to Australia on the 19th of July, Claude would undergo hospitalisation for gas poisoning at the 5th Australian General Hospital (Melbourne) and would receive his formal discharge from the 1st AIF on the 27th of October 1919 having been deemed medically unfit. This was officially attributed to injuries he sustained when he was gassed the year previously. Claudes premature death occurred on the 19th of July 1926 with this being cited as due to his War Service. Following his passing Claude was formally interred within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
19.01.2022 Corporal John French VC was a Rat of Tobruk. He had served in Britain, Egypt, Libya, and Syria before fighting in New Guinea during the Second World War. On... 4 September 1942, Corporal Frenchs company came across enemy positions near Milne Bay and was held up by intense fire from three machine-gun posts. Ordering his section to take cover, he successfully assaulted two positions with grenades. He then attacked the third with a sub-machine gun but died from wounds in front of the enemy gun pit. In part, his citation for the Victoria Cross read: By his cool courage and disregard of his own personal safety, this non-commissioned officer saved the members of his section from heavy casualties ... John French is commemorated at the Bomana War Cemetery in a grave cared for in perpetuity by the Office of Australian War Graves on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. #LestWeForget #TYFYS #OneInAMillion
18.01.2022 Smythesdale Cemetery Trust is thrilled to announce the launch of our Tribute to the ‘Woman of the District interpretive panels’. Including Jane Liddell, who whe...n she died was referred to as one of Piggoreet’s oldest and most respected citizens she was 41! If you’re looking for something to do come and visit us and stroll around. We have 9 panels featuring women plus many impressive headstones and additional interpretive panels providing a self-guided tour that you will find an enjoyable experience. The Smythesdale Cemetery Trust gratefully acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government and Public Record Office Victoria for making this project possible. See more
17.01.2022 Convict Settlement Tour In Depth tour of the historic Georgian settlement of Kingston. Walk through the cemetery & hear the history of interesting convict & colonial headstones https://www.pinetreetours.com/tours-1 #NorfolkIsland #PinetreeTours #Tours
16.01.2022 LEONARD MASSEY (19091939) POPULAR VOCALIST AND DRUMMER AND SAXOPHONIST IN THE JOHN MARTINS DANCE BAND Leonard ('Len') Massey was born in 1910 in Broken Hill,... New South Wales, to Archie Gordon Massey (18851963) and his first wife Harriett Adelaide (née Grieves) (18831968). He was one of five children of the couple. The family moved to Adelaide sometime after 1914 and lived at 8 O'Connell Street in New Hindmarsh (now West Hindmarsh). Len Massey was a popular instrumentalist. He was a drummer and saxophonist and played in the dance band of the John Martins department store from its beginning. He was also a crooner and the busiest vocalist in Adelaide. The West Coast Sentinel newspaper described him as a master of music, melody and mirth and the Port Pirie Recorder newspaper called him Adelaide's Idol of vocalism, drumming, and saxophone. Massey's dance band had a radio show on 5CL called Half-an-hour of Rhythm at 8 pm on Monday nights. Massey's sister Joyce was a vocalist with the Hawaiian club and was also heard regularly on the radio. In July 1937 Massey was prosecuted by the police for driving without lights at night. Massey blamed it on a faulty car battery but the Magistrates Court fined him. On 28 December 1939 Massey was fatally injured when he lost control of his car on the Mount Barker Road below the Eagle on the Hill Hotel and hit a tree. Massey received medical treatment at the scene of the accident and was taken by ambulance to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he died of his injuries shortly after his admission. A passenger, Miss Hocking, escaped injury. At a coronial inquest held on the following day evidence was given that just before approaching a sharp bend in the road, the car had been traveling at 40 to 50 miles an hour. The Coroner found that the accident was caused by Massey trying to negotiate the bend too fast. His death had been caused by a fractured skull and cerebral injuries. No other vehicle was involved in the accident. Massey was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery (Wakefield Section Path 8 Site 18 West) and a drum-shaped memorial made of pink marble was erected as a tribute to this popular local musician. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters #GraveHour Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
16.01.2022 Awesome news from our Premier today. From November 22nd up to 50 people can gather for outdoor gatherings. That means our Alberton Cemetery Walking Tours will ...be back to normal. Tours will commence at 5:30pm. Our next tour is on November 28th. Hope to see many of those who been waiting to take a tour book their spots! Just press the message tab or call Sandi on 0403819183. See more
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14.01.2022 The Ballarat New Cemetery -1865. The Ballarat New Cemetery is not "New". It was officially gazetted in 1865, 9 years after the "Old" Ballarat cemetery (1856). T...he death rate during the Gold Rush was so high that the Old Cemetery filled up very quickly. It was decided another, much larger cemetery would be needed moving forward. Courtesy N. Buchanan
14.01.2022 THE Clan Ranald Mass Grave.At The Cemetery in Edithburgh, South Australia on the Yorke Peninsula Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, you'll find what is believe...d to be the largest mass grave in Australia. When the turret steamer Clan Ranald was shipwrecked off Edithburgh in 1909, 40 of the 64 men on board lost their lives. The bodies of 5 British officers and 31 Lascar (Filipino & Indian) seamen were recovered and buried at the Edithburgh Cemetery. Iit was reported that the locals in town were putting their own cupboards and furniture apart to get wood to make coffins. The 31 Lascar seamen were buried in one large grave which was previously marked as ‘names unknown’ until the 100th anniversary when a plaque was unveiled listed the name of each seaman. Photo from A Album & List of Big Things you can see, in South Australia. on the South Australia, Australia's Best Kept Secret. Facebook Page. See that album via the following link: https://www.facebook.com/pg/South-Australia-Australias-Best-Kept-Secret-1545235929030075/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1555004051386596 See more
13.01.2022 Local artist Brendan Nicholl has been creating some beautiful paintings today around our cemetery
13.01.2022 Just finished today, a lovely seat in memory of a loving daughter by her family. A much needed addition and a wonderful memorial.
13.01.2022 The Sunday Mail November 15, 2020 (by Miles Kemp) featured an article detailing the story of Kate Cormack Brown who died in tragic circumstances after a lengthy... battle with melancholia. This story came as a result of Wilderness School year 11 students Ella Hazeldine and Havana George who after lengthy research discovered there was no recognition for Kate as one of the Brown sisters, the founding sisters of Wilderness School. Wilderness School today is one of Adelaide’s most prestigious girl’s schools. Established by Margaret Hamilton Brown in 1884 with younger sisters Kate, Ethelwyn (Winnie), Annie and Mary (Maimie) all becoming involved in the school. Kate, the second child of James and Mary Brown, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland 8 February 1860. She came to Australia in 1863 with her mother and older sister Margaret following her father who had arrived earlier. She qualified as a teacher in 1879 and was appointed to the Advanced School for Girls. She suffered a nervous breakdown in 1882, from which she appeared to recover after treatment. By 1890, she had joined her sister Margaret as a teacher at Wilderness School. In July 1890, Kate was diagnosed with ‘melancholia’, now known as ‘depression’, the treatment at the time was rest and travel. On several occasions she spent time at the Temperance Hotel in Aldinga for rest and recuperation. Her last visit there was a 9 week stay in 1891. On the day of her return, she took her own life in horrific circumstances which came as a surprise to her treating doctors who saw no signs of suicidal ideation. Kate was buried in what has become the Brown Family plot 1258 Path 1 South. Had Kate lived today, she would have received expert medical help and support in dealing with her condition. A carob tree dedicated to Kate will soon be planted in the school grounds. To Ella and Havana the planting of the tree will recognise Kate’s life which was so tragically cut short. Each branch will represent her accomplishments, both as a woman and an educator, so that she will never again be forgotten. The girls also hope that future generations of students will gaze on the tree and be reminded to check on the mental health of their friends. See more
13.01.2022 The private commemoration for; - 968 Sergeant Sidney Herbert Oakley of North Melbourne, Victoria who prior to his enlisting for War Service on the 22nd of Febru...ary 1916 had been employed as a salesman. Sidney was allocated to the 37th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for England and further training on the 3rd of June. Sidney was promoted to Sergeant on the 21st of November, the day prior to his being sent over to France, and his service in the field, aside hospitalization for mumps from the 26th of December to the 17th of January 1917, would be continuous. Sergeant Oakley was with his Battalion when it was committed to the capture of Messines in Belgium, and it was during these operations that he was seen by informants to have been ‘Killed in Action’ by gunshot fire on the 8th of June 1917. It was believed that Sidney had received a temporary field burial, but over the course of the War, the location of this became lost. Due to Sergeant Oakley having no known grave, he was instead officially commemorated on the Walls of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. Back in Australia, the supreme sacrifice made by Sidney during the ‘Great War’ was privately commemorated at the Oakley family’s collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
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12.01.2022 HAND HOLDING A CROSS SYMBOL OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND THE ETERNAL LIFE OF THE SOUL The headstone memorial to Hanorah ('Norah') Neville (née Flynn) in the W...est Terrace Catholic Cemetery (Catholic Old Area Grid F8 Site 15) features a female hand clutching a cross, symbolising the Resurrection of Christ and the eternal life of the soul. The carving was executed by local sculptor and monumental mason Frederick Herring. Hanorah Flynn was born in Ireland in 1846. She married John Francis Neville (18401920) and had three children, John Flynn (1864), Patrick Joseph (18731946) and Mary (18761876). Mary was born on 18 January 1876 and lived for only one hour before her death. Her mother's death was untimely too. Norah Neville died on 18 January 1880 at the age of 32. John Neville was born in Clare County, Ireland, in 1840 to Patrick Neville. He arrived in South Australia on the ship 'Stamboul' on 31 January 1858. He was one of the oldest members of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society and one of the foremost subscribers to the Catholic weekly newspaper The Southern Cross. After Norah's death Neville married Margaret Boyce, a daughter of Thomas Boyce, at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Norwood on 3 February 1882. The couple had five children, Mary (Mrs. Timothy Ahern) (1882), Bridget Theresa (Mrs. Angus Thomas Lavington Smith) (18841945), Thomas (18871933), Margaret Eleanor (Mrs. John Phillip Cunningham) (18901969) and Kathleen (Mrs. John Thomas Taylor) (18921966). John Neville died on Anzac Day, 25 April 1920, at the age of 80 and was buried near Norah. His second wife Margaret died on 4 October 1930 at the age of 74 and was buried with him. Patrick Joseph Flynn died on 7 November 1946 at the age of 72 and was buried with his parents. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters #TuiSnider #GraveHour Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
12.01.2022 Convict Settlement Tour ‘In Depth’ tour of the historic Georgian settlement of Kingston. Walk through the cemetery & hear the history of interesting convict & colonial headstones https://www.pinetreetours.com/tours-1 #NorfolkIsland #PinetreeTours #Tours
12.01.2022 EARLY CREMATIONS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA: JOHN (JACK) ELLIOTT (18421907) EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURER AND BROKEN HILL PIONEER The following is an abridged version o...f the biography of John (Jack) Elliott published in The Advertiser in February 1902. If ever that combination of bulldog pluck and tenacity, indomitable perseverance in the face of enormous difficulties, and ready and cheerful recuperation after repeated knock-down blows as regards both purse and person, which is designated British grit, is to be found in any man, unquestionably that man is "Jack" Elliott, the well-known pioneer of mining settlements, who was as familiar a figure on the Barrier fields in the early days of the silver tinds there, as subsequently at Coolgardie, when the more precious yellow metal was being dug for in that then flourishing locality. It is not too much to say that his name is a household word in Australian mining circles. He has all his life been a man of stirring adventures in various parts of the world, "or moving accidents by flood and field," and his thrilling history would afford material for such a story as the late Robert Louis Stevenson could have enchanted the world with. During his extraordinarily varied career Jack has again and again been in danger of losing either his limbs or his life. His existence has been full of startling incidents, and many of these have been of the most unpleasant nature. Veritably he has been a man of many haps and mishaps. He has been in perils by land and perils by sea. But since he first joined die Royal Navy as a boy before the mast in 1855 and started his adventurous career by chasing slave-ships on the African coast Jack Elliott has never shown the white leather or allowed himself to be discouraged by the buffets of fickle Fortune. He was wounded, in the taking of the Taku fort by the British in 1859, and afterwards was engaged in hunting down pirates in Chinese waters. Having returned to England, his native land, and purchased his discharge, he voyaged to North America in a merchantman. In 1860 he first came to Australia, arriving at Sydney, whence he made his way to Adelaide. Ever since that date Jack Elliott has been off and on connection with South Australia. At one time, while engaged as a stevedore at the Port, lie had a narrow escape from being fatally stabbed by a cowardly sailor. Elliott brought his powerful list into play just in time, and reduced his assailants nice to a pulp. The point of the knife scratched the skin over his heart. Many such adventures has he had. Many scars on his still stalwart frame testify to the battles he has survived. His roving spirit ever taking him to sea, he voyaged to South America in the ship. On the voyage back to England the provisions ran short on board the ship, and the crew, of which Jack was a member, were all but starved. For 100 days they were on half rations. For refusing to proceed any further in this disabled vessel they were, on arriving at Bristol, rewarded with imprisonment, in addition to having to pay heavy costs. Elliott next made his way from England to Australia again, his wages as seaman on the ship Eastern Empire amounting to the princely figure of 1/ per month. This was in 1886. He visited the Crocodile diggings in Queensland, but failed to "strike a patch" there. A subsequent ramble throughout the Australian colonies ended for the time in Adelaide, but the rover was soon off again this time to the Palmet diggings in Queensland. This dangerous journey involved a tramp of 200 miles north from Cooktown, and the result was blank. He got back to Adelaide dead beat and ill but recovered his health, and after a spell of stevedoring at the Port, started hotel-keeping, first at Clarendon, afterwards in the Young Queen in the city. A trip to England followed for the purpose of obtaining expert attention to his eyes, and, returning through America, Elliott again became a boniface in the South Australian capital, the Sturt Hotel being his venture this time. We next hear of him prospecting on the Mount Brown gold diggings in 1881, and thence he went to Quorn, where he leased the Criterion Hotel. Here he had his right leg nearly burned off by the untimely ignition of some rum which he was tapping. This serious accident, of which he still feels the effect, crippled him for 18 months, but a voyage to England literally set him on his legs again. His next move was to Denver City, and in this and other centres of the silver mining districts in West America he met with numerous adventures of the hair-raising kind, which were to be expected in those days in the mining camps of Colorado, Nevada and Mexico. Warm in one sense these places undoubtedly were, but the climate, with the thermometer frequently below zero, was too severe for Elliott, and he gravitated back to South Australia once more. His restless energy found a vent in prospecting about Silverton in 1884, when silver was first known to be discoverable in that region, he having a strong faith in the future of the Barrier mining field. While thus engaged he lost all his cash through the failure of the Commercial Bank. But, no whit daunted, he started hotel-keeping at Broken Hill. His site was "jumped" and he left. He then made an essay to find minerals in the neighbourhood of Franklin Harbor in this State. This venture also proved unsuccessful, besides rendering him a cripple for three months through the loss of the use of his legs. Back again at the Silver City, he started his Denver City Hotel in Argent Street, was burned out in the great fire, which reduced half the town to ashes, and promptly rebuilt the hostelry, which then became a success. He sold this business, and took a trip round the world, returning to the colonies, only to find himself left once more by having guaranteed several losing concerns. When Coolgardie began to blossom into a place of importance Jack Elliott, despite several severe attacks of illness, once more came to the fore in the character of pioneer of a new mining settlement. In the face of enormous difficulties he built a hotel in Bailey Street, and gave it the old and popular name of "The Denver City". Here he soon gathered around him his many old friends who had migrated from the Barrier silver field, as well as a host of new acquaintances. The hotel became a leading establishment of the town, and Jack prospered accordingly. At this stage of his life, and when he was nigh upon three-score years of age, a terrible trouble came upon this man of many and mixed experiences. It seemed as if now at last the stalwart frame that had undergone so many hardships was to break down at last, the active, vigorous life was at last to come to a close. Recurrent attacks of excruciating pain, that utterly prostrated his whole physical system, showed that something was seriously wrong with the internal arrangements. The local medicos could give no relief, and all the leading doctors of Australia were tried in vain. Not until he had made his way to England once more, and came under the hands of great London specialists, was the cause of the trouble correctly diagnosed, just in time to save the patients life. A very difficult and dangerous operation (reported at length in "The Lancet" the leading English medical journal, of October 22, 1898, p.1055) resulted in the successful removal of a stone 2 in. long, 31 in. round, the size of a large walnut, and weighing 7 drachms, from the common bile duct. This was a rare surgical achievement (by the bye, it cost a pretty penny), which has excited considerable attention in the medical profession; so Elliott has become a man of importance even by the reason of his affliction. He was to be extraordinary even in that respect. While in England he witnessed the Queens Jubilee celebrations, and had the honour of shaking hands with the present King. The latter laughed heartily at some of Jacks racy reminiscences, told in his own inimitable style. It might be thought that Jack Elliott had about suffered enough hardship and ill-luck, and that the rest of his lifes voyage would be smooth sailing when he left England and returned to Adelaide a year ago, a sturdy convalescent. Alas, on his return to South Australia, after an absence of four years, he met unexpectedly with a cruel blow. His many friends in Adelaide, as well as in other parts, will all indeed be greatly grieved should so sterling a fellow as he has always proved himself to be, this hero of many adventures, find himself, though the state of his pecuniary affairs, once more compelled to set to "hard graft" to provide the means for passing the evening of his days in comfort after his life-long and ever-varying struggle with circumstances. But should the worst anticipations be realised, should the renewed ship have to set forth once more in search of a profitable cargo, there is no question that the voyage will be started and pursued with the same stout heart and cheery countenance which have always characterised Jack Elliotts ventures. If ever man deserves success he does. Fortune owes this born battler and thoroughly good fellow a good turn at last. John Elliott died at Adelaide on 16 May 1907 at the age of 65. In his will he directed that in the interests of science anatomical examination be made of my body as soon as possible after my decease by Edward Angas Johnson, surgeon of Adelaide and that my body be cremated in the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide. The cremation took place two days after Elliotts death at the West Terrace Crematorium and his ashes were interred in the Cremation Reserve next to those of Dr. Robert Tracey Wylde. #historysa Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. 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11.01.2022 The final resting place for; - 2347 Private Sylvester Patrick Cotter of Kensington, Victoria who had been engaged as a railway employee when he enlisted for War... Service on the 12th of July 1915. Sylvester was allocated to reinforcements for the 21st Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 29th of September where he was taken on strength with his Unit following the Gallipoli campaign on the 27th of January 1916. Shortly after this, Sylvester was transferred over to the 57th Battalion on the 4th of April, and days after this he was again transferred when he joined the 58th Battalion. Lastly he was sent to the 5th Pioneers on the 4th of May with whom he was shipped to France with, disembarking on the 25th of June. Sylvester’s service in France would be continuous until he was evacuated sick, suffering bronchitis and general debility and was admitted into hospital at Etaples on the 2nd of November. With no improvement in Sylvester’s condition he was shipped to England for further hospitalisation, and was cited as suffering nervous shock and suspected tuberculosis. On the 13th of November. After extended periods of hospital care and convalescence Sylvester was deemed as no longer fit for active service and began his repatriation back to Australia as an invalid on the 12th of May 1918. After his return to Australia, Sylvester was treated at both the 5th Australian General Hospital and the Military Sanatorium Macleod for pulmonary tuberculosis, and finally received his official discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry into civilian life on the 23rd of August. There was to be marked improvement in Sylvester’s health, and by the 18th of May 1921, as a patient of the Austin Hospital, he succumbed to the affects of illness, passing on the 18th of May 1921. Following his premature death, which was recorded as having been exuberated by his service during the ‘Great War’ Sylvester was formally interred within Melbourne General Hospital, Victoria.
11.01.2022 Grave 352/353 Samuel Thomas Hill 1858-1934 Priscilla Hill (nee Ling) 1864-1911
11.01.2022 THE OBELISK SYMBOL OF VICTORY OVER DEATH The obelisk is a monumental form dating back to ancient Egypt. The word 'obelisk' comes from the Greek 'obeliskos' vi...a the Latin 'obeliscus' and means a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramidal pointed top. Obelisks were destined to perpetuate the memory of Egypt's rulers, but few of them remain in that country as many were taken away as spoils and trophies of war. Rome has the most (13) and the largest. There are also three popularly known as 'Cleopatra's Needle', although they do not date from Cleopatra's time. One dating from the time of the Pharaoh Ramesses II is in Paris, and the other two are in London and New York City. Those are a pair that date from the time of Pharaoh Thutmose III. The obelisk that stands in the square (Piazza Montecitorio) in front of the Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament, was originally erected at Heliopolis, Egypt, by the Pharaoh Psammetichus II (595589 BC) in about 590 BC and was brought to Rome by Augustus to celebrate his victory over Cleopatra. Similarly, the obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, which is covered in hieroglyphics celebrating the glories of the Pharaohs Ramesses II and Merenptah (1312 BC), was taken by Augustus from Heliopolis after the conquest of Egypt. Obelisks are common memorials in South Australian cemeteries and symbolise victory over death. This example stands at the grave of John Alexander Gordon (18661930), his wife Maude (18691947) and their daughter Sydney (19011972) in the West Terrace Cemetery (Road 1 North Path 14 Site 21 West). John Alexander Gordon was born on 31 October 1866 in Gawler, South Australia, to John Johnstone Gordon (1842 1912) and his wife Helen Eliza (née Disher) (18461910). He was one of five children. Alexander's parent migrated from Scotland and arrived in South Australia on the ship 'Ormelie' on 12 March 1854. Gordon attended art school, passed his examinations with a grade of 'Good' in December 1887 and gained employment in the South Australian Railways. He rose to become the foreman pattern maker at the Islington workshops. On 7 July 1900 Gordon married Maude Margaret Reilly, a daughter of Thomas William Reilly, at Reilly's Norwood residence. The couple had one child, Sydney Kathleen Ellen, who was born on 18 April 1901. Gordon died on 18 July 1930 at the age of 63. His wife Maude died on 10 August 1947 at the age of 78. Sydney Gordon died on 17 July 1972 at the age of 71. Image credits: The obelisk at Alexandria (commonly called Cleopatra's Needle) lithograph by the Belgian artist Louis Haghe (18061885) from an original by David Roberts (17961864); the obelisk at Luxor by David Roberts. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters #TuiSnider #GraveHour Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
11.01.2022 The grave site of our state’s third Commissioner of Police, George Frederick Dashwood, has been newly refurbished by members of the South Australian Police Hist...orical Society. After receiving word that Dashwood’s grave site had been vandalised and was in urgent need of TLC, Historical Society member Ron Squire took to Facebook to fundraise, and recruit assistance to refurbish the site. Happily, the Society raised enough money to restore Dashwood’s grave site, and erect a story board detailing his achievements. The board will be placed near the grave site later this year. Born in London on 20 September 1806, Commissioner Dashwood moved to South Australia in 1841, following a stint in the Royal Navy. In 1847, he assumed the role of Commissioner of Police. During his tenure, South Australia Police officers were responsible not only for the South Australian Fire Brigade, but the postal service too. Society members cleaned debris from his grave site, repairing and erecting the headstone for Dashwood’s grave, as well as a cross on the grave of his wife Sarah. They also repaired their son Charles’ grave site. We sincerely thank the SA Police Historical Society for their efforts!
11.01.2022 THE SCROLL OF THE TORAH SYMBOL OF THE DECEASED'S JEWISH IDENTITY The Scroll of the Torah (Sefer Torah) is a uniquely Jewish symbol that refers to the first fi...ve books (Pentateuch) of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), also known as the Five Books of Moses. The word 'Torah' comes from a word that means to guide, teach or instruct. A Sefer Torah is a handwritten copy of the Torah on a long parchment roll that is used in the reading of the lessons in the synagogue as part of prayer services on the Sabbath (Shabbat) and other days. The Torah represents the birth of the Jewish nation, being a symbol of the Covenant between God and the Jews ("I will make you my people and I will be your God" Exodus 6: 7) and the giving of the Law to Moses, which comprises not just the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai), but all the legislation contained in the Five Books of Moses. The Scroll of the Torah is Judaism's most sacred and precious symbol and is called the 'Tree of Life' because its study leads to a good life. The Scroll of the Torah is prepared by a scribe who is a devout scholar and calligrapher. He works for a long time, writing on special parchment with a special quill and special ink. When it is ready it is rolled on two wooden pins. In the synagogue services it is placed on a table and unrolled. The Torah is read aloud in the synagogue throughout the year and on the feast called Joy in the Torah (Simchat Torah), the reading is completed and begun again at once. To celebrate the scroll is removed from the ark in which it is kept and processed around the synagogue. When used on a cemetery memorial, the Scroll of the Torah symbolises the deceased's Jewish identity. This example is in the West Terrace Jewish Cemetery (Row R Site 16) at the grave of Esther ('Essie') Phillips who died on 6 July 1906 at the age of 22. Essie was born on 25 June 1884 to Fishel Joseph Phillips (18541930) and his wife Rose (née Isaacs) (18571933). Fishel Phillips arrived in South Australia on the ship 'Trevelyan' on 26 September 1876 and married Rose on 21 May 1878 at the Odd Fellows Hall at Port Adelaide. The couple had six children: Isadore (18801880), Eva Sarah (Mrs. Morris Goldman) (18811969), Asher (18821923), Esther (18841906), Hilda Victoria (Mrs. Norman George Adey Stokes) (18861949) and Stanley Joseph (18981957). Fishel Joseph Phillips was born in January 1854 in Birmingham, England to Joseph Phillips Fischell (18091884) and his wife Rebekah (née Lesset) (18161897). He was one of six children. Fishel received his early education in Glasgow, Scotland. During his first 20 years in South Australia he was occupied as a commercial traveller (travelling salesman) in country towns, reaching as far north as Alice Springs. He employed a camel team as a means of transport, and because of that he was well known in the country towns as "Camel Phillips". Phillips met with many exciting experiences in the Outback and on one occasion went without food and water for two days. Eventually he settled in Adelaide, and with his brother Abraham Moses ('Abe') Phillips (18581923), established Phillips Bros, a furnishing and drapery business, at 17 Pulteney Street (Ruthven Mansions), Adelaide, and later at North Unley. Phillips became actively involved in the local Jewish community. He was a member of the executive of the Adelaide Synagogue for 23 years and served as its treasurer for 13 years. He was also involved with the Hebrew Philanthropic Society and was a founding member of the Adelaide Hebrew Benefit Society, occupying the presidency for 22 years. His greatest interest was the Chevra Kadisha, the Jewish religious society that is responsible for ensuring that the bodies of deceased Jewish persons are properly prepared for burial and protected from desecration until interred. He was largely, if not wholly, responsible for its establishment. When Phillips died, the Hebrew Standard of Australasia wrote that "work of this character the highest form of Gemelas Chased lay very near to his heart. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might' was, throughout life, his motto". "Mr. Phillips loved his School and his religion; for the perpetuation and advancement of which he ever esteemed it a high honour to labour. A discriminating toleration and a touching kindliness of heart were his outstanding characteristics. Of him it may with truth be said: 'Not in the greatest the good consists, But in the good the great exists'." Fishel Phillips died peacefully in a private hospital in Glenelg, surrounded by his wife and family, on 16 July 1930 at the age of 76. He was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery Jewish Cemetery (Row Y Site 7) and his funeral was attended by representatives of all the various institutions with which he had been connected. Rose Phillips died at Glenelg on 28 April 1933 at the age of 75 and was buried near her husband. Sources: Miriam Chaikin, Menorahs, Mezuzahs, and Other Jewish Symbols (Clarion Books, 1990). Credits: The Torah Scribe 1914 by Ephraim Moses Lilien (18741925). #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters #TuiSnider #GraveHour Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
11.01.2022 DIED 6 SEPTEMBER 1889 and buried St Kilda Cemetery SIR JAMES LORIMER KCMG (1831-1889), merchant, shipping agent, White Star Line; politicIan; minister of defen...ce; Bank of Australasia; Bank of New South Wales; Melbourne Chamber of Commerce; Melbourne Harbour Trust. Lorimer was born on 30 March 1831 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, to merchant Thomas Lorimer and Catherine, ne Walkin. He was educated at Haddon Hall Academy, and articled to a Liverpool softgoods firm which traded with Africa and America. He travelled to Victoria in 1853 on health advice and chose to stay. He married Eliza Kenworthy, the daughter of the United States consul in Sydney, on 4 March 1858, with whom he raised eleven children, ten of whom survived him. In 1869 he commissioned architect Leonard Terry to design a large Toorak mansion which he named Greenwich House. He died of pleurisy on 6 September 1889, leaving an estate of 60,000, and was buried in St Kilda Cemetery. Lorimer founded a merchant and shipping agency called Lorimer, Mackie & Co., in Victoria representing the White Star Line and later amalgamated with John Swire and Sons of London and Liverpool. He was appointed chairman of the local directors of the Bank of Australasia (succeeding Sir Francis Murphy) and was also a director of the Bank of New South Wales and the Northern and Southern Insurance companies. Lorimer was a member of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, and elected vice-president in 1864 and 186768 and president in 186870. He was a foundation member and first chairman of the Melbourne Harbour Trust supporting Sir John Coodes appointment to provide advice on improving Melbournes shipping facilities.When the Berry government came to power in 1879, Lorimer was dropped from the Trust but rejoined as a representative for Melbourne merchants and traders. Lorimer was prominent in free trade politics, helping to form the Free Trade League, becoming its president in 1865. He was elected to the Legislative Council for Central Province in 1879, and after a redistribution in 1884, was elected unopposed for Melbourne Province. In 1886, he was minister of defence under the GilliesDeakin government. He was appointed KCMG when he attended the Colonial Conference in London in 1887 with Alfred Deakin and Graham Berry. Lorimer was a member of the Scots Church Committee of Management and supported the liberal Charles Strong in his proposal for the separation of Scots Church from the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, but did not join the Australian Church. Lorimer Street in Port Melbourne which runs along the south side of the Yarra River wharves is named after him. The remains of the late Sir James Lorimer, K.C.M.G., were interred in the family ground in the St Kilda Cemetery. Owing to the wish of the deceased himself, as expressed shortly before his death, coupled with the wish of Lady Lorimer also, the funeral was quietly conducted. The cortege, which left Selcroft, the late residence of the deceased, at 3 oclock, consisted of the hearse, perfectly plain and closed, without any plumes, four mourning coaches, and about 20 private carriages. The mourning coaches were occupied by the sons of the deceased as chief mourners, a few intimate friends ol the family, and the gentlemen with whom Sir James had been most closely associated in his public life. In addition, there was the carriage of His Excellency the Acting Governor, in which Mr. Seymour-Fort represented His Excellency. Although heavy rain had fallen for an hour before the cortege reached the cemetery, a large crowd ot people had gathered there. The naval and military commandants having intimated that men of all ranks connected with the force who wished to pay their respects to the late Minister of Defence might be present at the cemetery in uniform, a large number of all ranks responded, several hundred men in uniform parading at the cemetery. The Naval Brigade, which under the direction of the late Minister bad been considerably increased in strength, and the Harbour Trust battery, which he was mainly instrumental in forming, turned out in specially strong bodies, the former having more than 100, and the latter about 60 men. Some 50 men of the Victorian Artillery were also present,and every branch of the Defence Force, not excluding the cadets, was represented by some of its members in uniform. The Naval Brigade formed a cordon abont the grave, and, with other forces, lined one of the walks from the cemetery gate, so that although a large number ot people had assembledsome from respect and some from curiositythe most perfect order and decorum were maintained. Read more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org//James_Lorimer_(Australian_poli http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lorimer-sir-james-4038 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139136054# Photos: SLV
11.01.2022 BURIED ST KILDA CEMETERY JOHN TWYCROSS (1819-1889), wool merchant, fellmonger and tanner; collector of fine arts; 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition; k...nown affectionately as Top Hat Twycross; ‘Had I known what this place was like', he wrote back to England, 'the largest lump of gold in the land would not have brought me out'. John Twycross was born in 1819 at Eversley, Hampshire, UK to James Twycross born Godalming, Surrey and his wife Mary née Howell. By the 1840s, James Twycross and his sons were well established as fellmongers, tanners and woolstaplers, dealing in the processing of animal hides and the sale of wool. A decade later, James Twycross & Sons had expanded still further. The business was thriving, with James Twycross employing 43 workers. A further 36 men were employed through the firm's branch in Bradford. John Twycross, now in his late twenties, played an active role as a tanner at the Twycross tanneries on Barkham road, Wokingham. James died on 3 December 1862 at the age of 67, to 'the irreparable loss of his sorrowing family'. For five years, his sons would carry on the family business, both in England and Australia, before son John Twycross decided to commence his own commercial ventures in Melbourne. 34-year-old John Twycross arrived in Melbourne aboard the steamship Harbinger on Friday, 23 December 1853, with his brother James and sister Anne Sophia. In the ship's hold was a pre-fabricated house they had brought with them from England. The Twycrosses had come to settle in Australia. The siblings soon rented a small, three-roomed weatherboard cottage in Richmond. Arriving in summer, John found Melbourne's climate unbearable. Hot northerly winds swept the baked ground, filling the air with dust high above the trees so that even during the day it was as dark as night. 'Had I known what this place was like', he wrote back to England, 'the largest lump of gold in the land would not have brought me out'. In Australia, John Twycross and his brother James commenced business as general merchants, catering to the demand for products essential to life in a new colony. After several years in Australia, both Anne and James returned to England. John Twycross stayed in Melbourne, and prospered. From mid-1867, John Twycross ceased to be the Melbourne representative of the family firm of James Twycross & Sons, choosing instead to pursue his own commercial interests. He opened a sheet lead and pipe factory in A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, employing manager Richard Coop to run the business. He also purchased a rope factory in Arden Street, North Melbourne, which was managed by foreman James Payne. In 1871, John Twycross listed himself in Melbourne's trade directories as a wool merchant for the first time, an indication that his commercial interests had turned back to the family's original line of work in England. In all likelihood John had probably been involved with the wool trade for some years, for in 1869 J. Twycross & Sons had been recorded as one of the principal importers of Australasian wool, having brought in almost 1,400 bales. By the time of the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition, after almost thirty years working as a merchant, fellmonger and tanner, Twycross was looking towards retirement. He saw the opportunity to pursue his great passion for art collecting. The 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition was an event like no other the colony had seen. For a collector such as John Twycross, the vast array of paintings, ceramics, glassware and other decorative arts on offer was an opportunity not to be missed. After his marriage in 1871, John and his family moved into a grand, single-storey, 13-room brick house they had built on the corner of Glenhuntly road and Beavis street in Caulfield. They called it Emmarine. Part of the reason for the family's move may have been to afford more room to John Twycross' growing collection of art works. By 1869 he had already amassed a collection of sufficient size to enable him to loan 17 paintings to the Exhibition of Works of Art, Ornamental and Decorative Art held at the Melbourne Public Library. Melbourne's National Gallery was only eight years old when it held its first loan exhibition: Works of Art, Ornamental and Decorative Art. Opened by Sir Redmond Barry in late March 1869, the exhibition included 17 works from the collection of John Twycross. In 1873, John Twycross became a life member of the Victorian Academy of Arts (later the Victorian Artists' Society). The following September he was appointed an office bearer of the Art Union of Victoria; established in 1871, it was based on the popular British Art Unions where for a small subscription fee members were entered into a lottery to win works of art. But it was the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition that provided a rich and unique opportunity for John Twycross to expand his collecting habits. The 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition was the last major opportunity for John Twycross to either exhibit, or buy further works for his collection, though his awareness of his ailing health probably discouraged him for any major new acquisitions. He died the following May, a little over three months after the Exhibition closed at the end of January 1889.. Throughout the 1880s, John Twycross began to disperse his collection through a number of auction sales. John Twycross died 9 May 1889 and is buried at St Kilda Cemetery. Read more here: https://museumsvictoria.com.au//visions-of/the-collectors/ Photos: Museum Victoria
10.01.2022 The private commemoration for; - 6354 Sapper James Henry Benson Furr of South Melbourne, Victoria had been employed as a tinsmith when he enlisted for War Servi...ce on the 29th of August 1915 at the age of 18. James was allocated to reinforcements for the 2nd Field Company Engineers 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt on the 20th of March 1916, and from here he was shipped off for further training in France. Sapper Furr was officially taken on strength with the 6th Field Company Engineers following his arrival in the trenches of Belgium on the 2nd of October 1916. Aside a short bout of sickness and leave, James’s service in the field was continuous until he was evacuated seriously sick on the 13th of December 1917. Diagnosed as suffering from the effects of pleurisy and with his condition only worsening, James was sent to England for further hospitalization and was admitted into the Empyolta War Hospital at Exeter on the 1st of March 1918. James succumbed to disease and died whilst still a patient on the 26th of March 1918, with his death being cited as caused by tubercular pleurisy. James was accorded a full military funeral when he was laid to rest within Exeter Higher Cemetery at Devon in England. Back in Australia Henry’s grieving parents had their son’s supreme sacrifice made during ‘The Great War’ privately commemorated at his family’s collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
10.01.2022 ADAM GUSTAVUS BALL (c.18211882) ADVENTURER, ARTIST, ENGINEER AND POET Adam Gustavus Ball was born on 7 April 1821 in Dublin, Ireland, to Major Marcus Benjami...n Ball (17891841) and his wife Elizabeth (née Feltus) (17891838). Major Ball was the eldest son of the Rev. John Ball and had a distinguished military career. He was educated at Winsford in Cheshire, England, and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1807 he entered the British Army as Ensign, in 1809 was promoted to Lieutenant in the 39th Regiment of Foot, and in 1814 he became Captain of the 40th Regiment of Foot. In 1822 he retired on half-pay as Captain of the 72nd Regiment of Foot and in 1837 he was given the rank of Brevet Major. Adam Ball was Major Ball's third son and one of four children. He was trained as a civil engineer at Trinity College, Dublin, but while still in his teens he had decided to emigrate to Australia. In 1839 he arrived in Sydney and immediately began working as a civil engineer. He remained in New South Wales until 1847 when in company with 'Beardy' Ray, he made the journey overland to Adelaide with a herd of 2,000 cattle. Beardy Ray got his name from the fact that his beard almost reached to his knees. On 22 February 1866 Adam Ball married Ellen Sutter, the daughter of William Sutter, at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church on North Terrace, Adelaide. The couple had two daughters, Albina Ilean Mary (1868) and Bessie (1871). Ball spent several years as a surveyor in the South East and in exploring in the different parts of South Australia until he was injured in a severe accident. He was known on every outlying sheep and cattle station for his genial disposition and his skill with a pencil, as Ball was a well-known amateur artist whose pencil sketches of stirring bush and camp scenes, such as kangaroo hunting and cattle mustering rendered him worthy to occupy a foremost place among the really good artists South Australia possessed. Ball exhibited with the Society of Arts at Adelaide in 1859 and 1860. Many of his sketches were reproduced as photographs by Townsend Duryea and G.J. Freeman in the 1860s and early 1870s and sold well. Many originals survived, including two large watercolours of a kangaroo hunt in the National Library of Australia. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds the watercolours 'The Cattle Run' (c.1865) and 'Dog Chasing a Kangaroo' (1860), and two pencil drawings captioned 'Ah! By the By! Do you want many wool bales this season?' Ball submitted an elegant design for the monument to explorer John McKinlay to be erected in Gawler, but was unsuccessful in the competition. Ball was also something of a poet. In 1861 he penned the following lines underneath a pencil drawing, inspired by the death of his contemporary, the explorer Robert O'Hara Burke (18211861): WHEN I AM DEAD, PLACE A REVOLVER IN MY HAND, AND LEAVE ME UNBURIED AS I LIE There's a mournful sound on the desert winds borne, Sad, broken and wild is the burden they bear, Weep, weep for the brave, who have perished, forlorn, And in Victory's moments, were led to despair, The palm of proud Honor, its green branches waving, Oh Erin, thy dauntless Son snatched from afar, Where, Ocean, Thy shores, Carpentaria laving, In loneliest grandeur, reflected Her star. Ah, sad grows my heart, as I ponder Thy story, In thy fate still Thy Country's wild emblem I see, As the Sun from the dark clouds there bursts in his glory, Thy Valor undunted, sheds lustre o'er Thee. In 1866 he submitted to The Observer newspaper the following poem inspired by Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to find the North-West Passage: LINES ON THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION Ye gallant men who lie entombed afar. And shrouded deep in everlasting snow. Where Winter sternest rolls his iron cat O'er ice-imprisoned oceans still'd below. No list'ning ear ere heard Your tale of woe. No pitying eye your weary march beheld. No kindred hand to help, none to bestow The last sad rites that man to man can lend When the soul's stay on earth is at an end. Oh! who can tell your agony, your pain, In that oft-dreaded yet expected hour, When met wind-drifted o er the wintry main Opposing ice-fields with resistless power; And as the passing step. the wayside flower, Crush'd your strong ships, of man the proudest boast, Then left yon naked to the storms that hour. Keen, life-destroying, round that hideous coast Where the sun's warmth in boundless cold is lost. Gone, then, your refuge from the front-edged wind; Gone the scant comfort of your well-spared store. Far distant every aid: before, behind, One frozen plain alike o'er sea and shore, Where silence reigns by none disturbed before; No sound of life relieves the list'ning ear, No form the sight, no sunlit scene the mind With hopes of home or happier days to cheer. But all around look'd desolate and drear. No wild excitement born on battle-fields. Mid chancing squadrons and the cannon's roar, Fires your slow pulse as drooping nature yields To pangs unceasing, piercing ts the core; But silent all as though for evermore The Eternal Word, immutable, had said Hush'd be all life, and entranced Nature wore One mighty, death-robe as the laid-out dead. Gone, flower and fruit, life's joyous music fled. No glorious day spring, harbinger of hope No evening, grateful to the weary frame No noon, no night with varied aspect spoke. Time's solemn march, as hour on hour became Part of the Cloud-like past, but still the same Dim, cheeerless twilight, shadowless and cold; Or the Aurora's wild uneartly flame. While myriad stars their mystic courses roll'd. Pale witnesses of Fate from days of old. Gaunt Famine, spectred in a thousand forms. Grim, ghastly, glared with wolfish eyes around; The cold of ages, nursed mid howling storms. Swept ruthlessly along the snow-piled ground. Drifts heap'd on drifts, the aching sight confound To shapes fantastic, chiselled by the wind; Or stretch'd in waves the dim horizon bound, Bv weary toil surmounted, but to find The prospect dismal as the tract behind. Ah! vain your toiltrue hearts of British oak. Though dauntless still and prompt at duty's call (That magic word that once Trafalgar woke. When set in blood the flag of haughty Gaul), Bravely ye march'dah! one by one ye fall, And the chill'd life-blood to the rigid heart No more returnsand icy chains enthral Each sturdy arm, that oft with seaman's art And patient skill had foiled the fell destroyer's dart. They're gonethey're gonebut oh! Their mem'ry lives. Their unknown graves to Britain's heart are dear; To Franklin and his crew a place she gives In Glory's pagenor hides the glist'ning tear That brave men shed, above the brave man's bier yes, they are goneand in their icy bed They wait the day the Master shall appear. When the last trump shall, tell that time is sped. And earth and sea to Him shall yield their hidden dead. In 1867 the Mount Gambier Border Watch newspaper published the following lines: MOUNT GAMBIER ITS GEOLOGY AND POETRY Time was when fearful strife was there When fiends of ocean, fire, and air, Burst from their deep imprisoned lair Earth's dark and dread profundity. Then shook the plain, while upward given Electric whirlwinds rushed to heaven, And molten streams, impetuous driven, Shone with a wild intensity. Another agethat strife was o'er, And Earth upon her bosom bore Yon hill, and cradled in its core A silvery lake slept placidly. Then undisturb'd the wildman's reign, Creation's lord, he roamed the plan, While rang the forest to his strain Of wild untutored melody. Those sounds have ceased. Hark! Through the storm Wild wailing notes on air are borne, While 'mid the gloom a shadowy form Sits on yon hill dejectedly. A broken spear he seem'd to wave To Grief's sad cadences, as he gave His death-dirge for the vanished brave, To the wild winds despairingly. Ball died at his home in Childers Street, North Adelaide, on 22 August 1882 at the age of 61 and was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery (Road 1 South Path 21 Site 5 East). His widow Ellen died at their home at North Adelaide on 20 September 1913 at the age of 79 and was buried with him. Ball's elder brother the Right Hon. John Thomas Ball (18151898) had a distinguished career in the law and politics and was for some years the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Photo credits: Adam Gustavus Ball (c.18211882) circa 1870 State Library of South Australia Portrait Collection B 6912/L8; 'When I am dead, place a revolver in my hand, and leave me unburied as I lie' pencil drawing 1861; 'Dog chasing a kangaroo' watercolour on paper 1872 Art Gallery of South Australia; 'Aboriginal family around a camp fire' pencil drawing; 'Kangaroo hunting on Aroona Station' c.1855; 'Emu by a Coolibah tree' pencil drawing 1872; 'Emu hunt' pencil drawing 1871. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters Copyright Rita Bogna 2021. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
10.01.2022 WILHELM NITSCHKE (18171889) COPPERSMITH, ENGINEER, DISTILLER AND FIRST STILL MAKER IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA Wilhelm Nitschke was born in Prussia on 8 August 1817. ...He became a coppersmith and devoted his time to beating copper and other metals. One of his earliest pieces was the fashioning of a flower stem with buds and leaves. This was shown at a manufacturers' exhibition in Berlin in 1849. Elizabeth, the wife of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III, saw it and was so impressed with its beauty that she asked for it. Nitschke was presented to the King who told him that he would be granted royal patronage if he commenced business in Berlin. Nitschke declined, however, as he had already previously arranged to migrate to Australia. Nitschke arrived in South Australia on the ship 'Wilhelmine Marie' on 29 August 1849 and set up business in Rundle Street as a manufacturer of stills. He was the first still maker in South Australia. In 1851 Nitschke made a coffee and tea set out of British coins and exhibited it at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. On 26 January 1853 Nitschke married Eliese Katharina Mehrtens (18321909) at the Adelaide Registry Office. The couple had four children: Anna Betty (Mrs. Carl Robert May) (18531937) Adolph William (1857), Gustav Wilhelm (18591936) and Richard ('Dick') Carl Wilhelm (18631944). Before the construction of the Adelaide Waterworks Nitschke fabricated a fire engine at his own expense and organised a volunteer brigade to work the machine. He successfully led them on at many fires. As a reward for his services he was offered the position of superintendent of the first organised fire brigade in South Australia but he declined the appointment. In 1860 he went to Mauritius and established an ice making factory and other businesses there, but a large fire destroyed his uninsured factory and house, and he returned to South Australia a poor man. However, Nitschke's energy and perseverance drove him to resume business as a coppersmith and still maker. He set up business at 109 Hindley Street (which became the Labour League Hall), Adelaide, and soon afterwards added an iron monger's shop. In 1865 he was awarded the first and special prizes at the Melbourne Exhibition for a patented still that he had designed and manufactured, which he used to produce spirits 60 proof by one distillation. This feat attracted a great deal of attention in Australia and orders poured in from all over the country, including the Warrenheip Distillery near Ballarat in Victoria, and Seppelt and other vignerons in South Australia. In 1876 Nitschke opened a distillery at Hackney close to the south-eastern corner of the Adelaide Botanic Park and devoted his whole attention to distilling vinegar and alcoholic spirits. He was so successful that he was awarded gold, silver and bronze medals at the Philadelphia Exhibition, the Sydney Exhibition, the Melbourne Exhibition and others. He also engaged in the manufacture of eucalyptus oil for which he was awarded a medal at the first Melbourne Exhibition. Nitschke also continued to devote attention to copper and silver work, samples of which were accepted by the Duke of Edinburgh during his visit to South Australia. Nitschke retired from business in the mid-1880s. He handed over the management of the distillery to his son Gustave who made many alterations and additions to the plant at the distillery. One of these was the importation of a German rectifying plant of the latest pattern, and with the spirit produced from this still Gustave Nitschke won many prizes, including a silver medal in Sydney in 1905 and a gold medal at the Christchurch Exhibition in New Zealand in 1907. Wilhelm Nitschke devoted much of his retirement to attempting to prove that "the vacuum is the greatest force in nature". He also turned his attention to astronomy and, being persuaded that scientists were wrong, propounded the erroneous theory that the sun did not give heat or light but acted as a reflector, and that the earth acted likewise towards the sun. Nitschke was one of the founders of the Leidertafel and served as its President. He was also one of the earliest members of the German Club of South Australia. He was an accomplished chess player and achieved a draw with the English champion Joseph Henry Blackburne. Wilhelm Nitschke died at his residence 'Schweitzen Haus' on 3 August 1889 at the age of 72 and was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery (Road 1 North Path 14 Site 11 West). The Pictorial Australian wrote that Nitschke's long life "was most industriously spent, and his kindly genial disposition won for him a large circle of friends who will hear with regret of his demise". W. Nitschke & Company continued in operation as a family company. In 1908 Gustave Nitschke imported the latest London gill still to compete with the London distilleries in the production of dry gin, square, schnapps and Old Tom for South Australia, spirits which were then being imported in large quantities to Australia. The 1907 Cyclopedia of South Australia noted that the works are wonderfully well-appointed in every detail, and a visitor to the establishment and homestead would at once be impressed with the air of prosperity which reigns throughout, a tribute to the care bestowed upon its management by Mr Gustave Nitschke. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. 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10.01.2022 INTERRED ST KILDA CEMETERY JOAN MARGARET RICHMOND (1905-1999); Racing car driver; first woman to drive in Australian Grand Prix 1931; winner British Junior Car... Club 1,000 Mile Race, Brooklands 1932; Monte Carlo Rally; Animal lover; a fast woman Joan Richmond was descended from the early enterprising squatter pastoralist Simon Staughton, who in the mid 19th century owned much of the land around Bacchus Marsh and Melton including the famous Staughton Vale and Eynesbury properties. Joan was born at Cooma NSW and her mother Florence was the daughter of Harry Werribee Staughton on whose property Joan spent much time and where she became an accomplished horse rider. Joan acquired much of her fortitude and skills in the heat, dust and mud on a cattle station run by her brother near Camooweal in outback Queensland. In 1921 she twice drove alone from Melbourne to Camooweal in a Citroen...driving over 3000 miles. Joan was the first woman to drive in the Australian Grand Prix (a Riley at Phillip Island in 1931) which was followed by an overland drive from Melbourne to Europe, three Monte Carlo Rallies and the Le Mans 24-hour race. In 1931 at a cocktail party in Melbourne for two English drivers on a world endurance car trip, Joan and a few friends thought it might be fun to attempt something similar. And so they drove a total of 13,000 miles over 5 and a half months from Melbourne to Europe via Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin then by ship to Singapore. Then on to Calcutta, Baghdad, Cairo, and by ship again to Italy. While in Monaco, they participated in the famous Monte Carlo Rally in which they finished on time although not in the winners’ circle. On arrival in England after the car trip, Joan participated in a number of major car races. In 1932 she and a colleague took part in the Junior Car Club 1,000 Mile Race for stripped sports cars. Held over two days, Joan and Elsie Wisdom won the race averaging 84.4 mph for the 1,000 miles, the distance being covered in 12 hr. 23 min. 53 sec. It was a race in which one driver was fatally injured and in which the great driver Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the world land speed records, also participated. During her time in England, Joan took a job as a trouble shooter for the de Havilland aircraft company in London. She lived in London during the WW11 bombing returning to Australia after the war. In Melbourne she helped organise the production of plywood boats for Benson and Shaw, boat builders. Described as a tall and graciously handsome woman, Joan died on 11 August 1999 and was cremated. Her ashes are interred in the Staughton family graves in St Kilda Cemetery. Read more here: http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3854228 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17201617 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51744149 Photos: NMA
09.01.2022 WILLIAM JAMES MAXWELL (18421903) SCULPTOR William James Maxwell was born on 8 December 1842 in Largs (Ayrshire), Scotland, to builder and carver Francis Maxw...ell (c.18101889) and his wife Jane (née Young) (c.18101889). Maxwell arrived in Melbourne in 1875 with his wife Isabella (née Strachan) (18441914) and their children Francis William (18691947), Margaret Innis ('Ina') (Mrs. Charles Henry Reeves) (18701962) and Jane Young ('Janie') (Mrs. Christopher Henry Ragless) (18731963), after spending 15 years in Glasgow and London. In 1879 Maxwell moved to South Australia and initially lived at Kent Town. In December 1891 he purchased a house and 45 acres of land at Edwardstown where he established a property called 'Woodlands'. The house dated back to 1839 and had been the residence of Alfred Weaver (18011891) until his death in June 1891. When Maxwell took it over, he made it look like a Scottish castle. He enlarged it and added a tower and parapets. It later became the Castle Hotel on South Road at Edwardstown, but was demolished in 1984 to make way for what was to become the Castle Plaza Shopping Centre. Today the name remains in the pub called the Castle Tavern. The Woodlands property gave its name to the suburb of Woodlands Park (now part of Edwardstown) and the Woodlands Park railway station. Maxwell's other children included John Strachan (18781958), William (18821951), Susan ('Susie') (Mrs. Leslie Herbert Hamilton Shepley) (18851967), and the twins Helen (Mrs. Leslie Hall Wright) (18871964) and Isabella (18871978). Like his father, Maxwell was a sculptor. He learned his craft from London sculptor John Birnie Philip and worked with him on a number of projects, including a marble statue of Queen Victoria for India. Maxwell carved the altar, baptismal font and statue of St. Patrick in St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Sydney, and did many carvings for the Melbourne General Post Office. Among the buildings in Adelaide he adorned were the Mitchell Building in the University of Adelaide (North Terrace), Parliament House (North Terrace), the English, Scottish and Australasian Bank (King William Street), the Commercial Bank of Australia (King William Street), the Savings Bank of South Australia (Currie Street), the Australian Mutual Provident Society (King William Street) and the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia (Victoria Square) buildings. Maxwell also carved the statue of the Scottish poet Robert Burns which stands in front of the State Library of South Australia. Maxwell used New Zealand marble and the work took 15 months. The statue was an initiative of the South Australian Calendonian Society, of which Maxwell was a member. The unveiling took place on 5 May 1894 and attracted a massive crowd. Monumental mason Hugh Fraser's firm Fraser & Draysey erected the statue and Fraser, who was the secretary of the committee in charge of the statue, officiated at the event. The unveiling was followed by a concert of Scottish music in the Jubilee Exhibition Building on North Terrace. Maxwell also accepted a commission from the Caledonian Society for the work of carving the life-size statue of John McDouall Stuart (which stands in Victoria Square) and completed a plaster model of it before his death. Having failed to obtain a faultless piece of South Australian marble for this statue, he ordered Carrara marble from London. His Woodlands property was adorned with many beautiful works, including a model for an equestrian statue which attracted much attention at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 18881889. Maxwell died suddenly at Woodlands on 20 July 1903 at the age of 61. His death was unexpected. He suffered from asthma and bronchitis but he died from heart failure, just a day before the anniversary of the death of Robert Burns (21 July 1796). The Express and Telegraph newspaper wrote "the deceased's name is familiar, not only as a colonist of many years' standing, and a man of commercial integrity, but as associated with many of the big buildings of the city of Adelaide. He was a carver of high repute, and the productions of his chisel adorn many of Adelaide's architectural monuments". Maxwell was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery (Road 4 Path 31 Site 21E). His wife Isabella died suddenly on 28 February 1914 at her residence at Military Road, Largs Bay, at the age of 68. She was buried with her husband. The John McDouall Stuart statue was finished by the English-born Australian sculptor James White (18611918) and was erected by the builder Walter Torode. It was unveiled on 4 June 1904. Photo credits: The Maxwell family circa 1890 State Library of South Australia [PRG 1631/45/53B]; William Maxwell's house 'Woodlands' circa 1891 SLSA [PRG 1631/45/53C]; Unveiling of the Robert Burns statue on North Terrace in 1894 SLSA [B 8841]; The Robert Burns statue on North Terrace in 1909 SLSA [PRG 280/1/4/168]; The unveiling of the John McDouall Stuart statue in Victoria Square in 1904 SLSA [B 62689]; The John McDouall Stuart statue in Victoria Square circa 1920 SLSA [B 21461]; The Savings Bank of South Australia in Currie Street Adelaide circa 1927 SLSA [B 4625]. The sculpture of 'Liberty' atop the building was carved by William Maxwell. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
09.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 28th Nov 2020 we remember: 4 people BARLOW Stanley Ager 51 Sampler 28/11/1966 Chaffers GM Kalgoorlie-Boulder https://www.wavmm.com/listing/stanley.../ COUTTS Noel McGregor Age 24 Tractor Operator 28/11/1968 Mt Newman Mining Mt Newman https://www.wavmm.com/listing/noel-coutts/ LYNCH James Age 33 Miner 28/11/1947 Golden Horseshoe GM Kalgoorlie-Boulder https://www.wavmm.com/listing/james-25/ see heastone and article MARTIN Michael Age 56 Miner 28/11/1900 Bayley's GM Coolgardie https://www.wavmm.com/listing/michael-martin/ see article
09.01.2022 DIED THIS DAY and buried St Kilda Cemetery SIR BRYAN O’LOGHLEN (1828-1905), baronet, politician, Attorney-General, Premier, Victoria; His government was descri...bed as "unspectacular", and "a collection of party rebels, Catholics and opportunists." O’Loghlen was born on 27 June 1828 in Dublin, third son of Michael O'Loghlen (1789-1842) and his wife Bidelia, daughter of Daniel Kelly of Dublin. The O'Loghlen family had been settled for centuries in County Clare. Michael was a distinguished lawyer who was elevated to the Irish bench in 1836 and appointed first baronet in 1838. He was the first Catholic since the 1688 revolution to be raised to a judicial office either in England or Ireland. O'Loghlen was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1856. In 1862 he emigrated to Victoria and was appointed a Crown Prosecutor in 1863. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1877 on the death of his brother, Colman, and in the same year he was elected, in absentia, to the British House of Commons for County Clare, replacing his brother, but did not take his seat. O'Loghlen narrowly lost the election for the seat of North Melbourne in May 1877. In February 1878 O'Loghlen, a recognised leader of the Irish Catholic community in Victoria, was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for West Melbourne in a by-election. In 1880 he transferred to West Bourke, which he held until February 1883. O'Loghlen was a radical liberal in Victorian politics: he favoured breaking up the estates of the landowning class (who were mainly English and Scottish Protestants) to provide land for small farmers, and ending the power of the landowner-dominated Victorian Legislative Council. He also wanted government aid for Roman Catholic schools, but not if this meant government supervision of what they taught. He served as Attorney-General in the reforming ministry of Graham Berry from 27 March 1878 to 1880, and was a loyal supporter of Berry in his struggles with the Council and the conservatives it represented. His appointment as Attorney-General constituted an office of profit from the Crown; in Victoria he won the consequent ministerial by-election, whereas in the UK a select committee deemed he had vacated his Westminster seat, triggering a by-election. When Berry's third government resigned in July 1881, O'Loghlen succeeded him as leader of the liberal forces and became Premierthe second Irish Catholic to hold the position. His government was described as "unspectacular", and "a collection of party rebels, Catholics and opportunists." Much of the radical impetus of the Berry years had passed and O'Loghlen's government achieved little. In 1883, a scandal arose over the activities of Railways Minister Thomas Bent, who was accused of corruption. At the March 1883 election the liberals were defeated and O'Loghlen lost his seat. In 1888, O'Loghlen returned to politics as member for Belfast, which he held until 1889, when the seat was renamed Port Fairy, which he represented from 18891894, and again from 18971900. He was Attorney-General again, albeit only for one year, in the Patterson government (18931894). He died aged 77 in 1905. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ologhlen-sir-bryan-4331 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_O'Loghlen Photos: SLV
09.01.2022 Cemetery fashion - Vaulted graves. Most of these graves date to the late 1800s, but graves with vaults like these are a throwback to pre 1830s Europe. Prior to ...this time, one of a grieving families greatest concerns was that their loved one would be exhumed by infamous "resurrection men" looking to make coin by supplying anatomists with cadavers. In 1832, the "Anatomy Act" introduced legislation allowing the unclaimed bodies of prisoners and "lunatics" to be donated to science, thus shutting down the resurrection men's trade. These post-1832 vaulted graves, with thick stone to deter resurrection men, are purely decorative.... and very expensive. Courtesy N. Buchanan
09.01.2022 FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE NEW CEMETERY Mullawallah, better known to the Europeans as Frank Wilson, was the last of the Ballarat tribe of Wathaurung, earning himself... the title of King Billy. He was a well known figure in town, and was known for demonstrating the boomerang in Sturt St. He died at the Base Hospital in 1896. Courtesy N. Buchanan
08.01.2022 Beautiful bird's-eye views over the Gisborne Cemetery this time last year Did you know that we administer 20 cemeteries across the Geelong, Bellarine, Queenscliff, Colac, Colac Otway & Gisborne regions? Click the link in our bio and select 'Our Cemeteries' to learn more.
08.01.2022 One would naturally expect to find a cross on monuments in a cemetery; after all the cross is a symbol of faith. But have you ever taken time to look at the dif...ferent ways in which a cross is depicted? I took some time today photographing different crosses in Waverley Cemetery, Bronte and will add images of them in the next few posts. See more
08.01.2022 A move is afoot to do some restoration and preservation of a lone grave at Seaspray. Mary Ricketts was buried out on the ridge overlooking Merriman's Creek, su...rrounding farmland and the ocean in August 1870. She had been the faithful housekeeper of Patrick Coady Buckley for almost the whole of his time at Prospect. Her husband George and daughter Eliza also lived there and worked for PCB. Mary's imported headstone has weathered well and is still very readable. The wrought iron fence, presumably erected by PCB, has fallen into several pieces although the footings are still secure. In the 1980's a treated pine fence was erected around the grave to protect it from stock. The grave is situated on private land which is currently up for sale. We are wondering about the logistics of lone graves on private land and whether the landowners have the right to demolish or move them. Does anyone know any information and the rights of landowners. Also is there a bucket of money anywhere which assists with the restoration of lone graves? Would appreciate any assistance with these two issues. See more
08.01.2022 Its the first day of Spring! This is our favourite season in Rookwood because so many flowers are in bloom. We know a lot of you take photos of the flowers of Rookwood, so comment them below to share!
08.01.2022 LAUREL CROWN OR WREATH SYMBOL OF THE RACE OF LIFE COMPLETED AND VICTORY OVER DEATH The ancient Greeks and Romans awarded a crown or wreath of laurel leaves to... celebrate a sporting or military victory. The laurel (Laurus nobilis) (commonly known as the Bay tree) is an evergreen tree native to the Mediterranean region and in ancient times great forests of laurel trees were common in southern Europe. In ancient Greek mythology the nymph Daphne who was the daughter of Peneus, the river god of Thessaly, was loved and pursued by Apollo. When he was about to reach her she prayed for help and turned into a laurel tree. For this reason the laurel was the favourite tree of Daphne and was also a symbol of Apollo, who fashioned wreaths from the laurel tree to console himself with the loss of Daphne. At a Christian grave a crown or wreath of laurel leaves (sometimes with flower buds) symbolises the race of life completed and the victory over death rewarded with eternal life (1 Corinthians 9: 2425 and 2 Timothy 4:7). The crown is an incorruptible one, namely, eternal life. The laurel crown as a Christian symbol of immortality dates back to ancient Rome when the Church was persecuted and Christians were buried in the many catacombs created outside the city which were used as cemeteries and places of worship until the emperor Constantine the Great guaranteed the right to free and unrestricted practice of the Christian religion without molestation. In many cases it was martyrdom that earned the deceased the crown of eternal life. This example is at the grave of John Coward in the West Terrace Cemetery (Road 1 South Path 16 Site 1 West). Coward was born in about 1806 in Market Lavington (Wiltshire), England. On 17 August 1828, Coward married Sarah Ann Lanham (18071887), a daughter of George Lanham who had been a colour-sergeant at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. John and Sarah had four children, George (18291891), Maria (18311834), Henry (1832?), and Thomas (18341905), before they migrated to South Australia. They arrived here on the ship 'Fairlie' on 6 July 1840 only with their two surviving sons, George and Thomas, and settled in Adelaide. The couple had seven more children, Sarah Jane (18401841), Mary Anne (18421842), John Herring (18431914), Charles (18451846), Jemmima (18461847), Emma (18471848) and William Henry (18491917), but again, only two sons survived and reached adulthood. John Coward worked as a painter and was well known in Adelaide. He was among the many old male colonists who celebrated the 35th anniversary of the foundation of South Australia at the Old Colonists' Banquet held in the Adelaide Town Hall on 28 December 1871 and subsequently had his portrait taken by photographer Henry Jones. Coward died suddenly at his home ('Lanham Cottage') at 25 Robert Street, Adelaide, on 4 July 1874 at the age of 67. Dr. George Mayo viewed the deceased and certified that he died from apoplexy (stroke). He was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery two days later. Sarah Anne Coward died on 18 April 1887 at the age of 80 and was buried with her husband. Photo credits: John Coward 1872 State Library of South Australia [B 47769/8L]; Sarah Coward 1872 SLSA [B 19985/26H]. #historysa #westterracecemetery #stateheritageplace #heritagesa #historymatters #TuiSnider #GraveHour Copyright Rita Bogna 2020. Please share this post, but do not copy text and images (other than images in the public domain) without my prior permission.
08.01.2022 Dear Western District Families, Thanks to your post last year which mentioned that the headstone of my great, great grandparents (Knaggs) grave had fallen ove...r. We have now had the memorial repaired and repositioned. We just wanted to let you know how much we appreciated learning of this.
08.01.2022 On this day in 1912, the Golden Wattle was declared as Australias national flower; it was then declared as Australias official floral emblem in 1988. Here is one of the wattle trees that call Rookwood Cemetery home.
07.01.2022 Would any one have a clearer photo of this grave in the Black Range/Nunngarra Cemetery near Sandstone. IRVINE Andrew William 37yrs, d 1904, Occ: Battery Manag...er, Natural Causes, Father: Arthur IRVINE (Stonemason), Mother: Mary LESLIE, Born 30 Jun 1865 at Quendale, Shetland Isle, Scotland. In WA 10yrs, married to Florence Anna Mary BULLEN, no children, Reg 1597/1904, buried Nunngarra Cemetery. (Headstone) I would like to be able to read the inscription.
07.01.2022 On this day, 30 November (1952) Sister Elizabeth Kenny, aged 72, died. Many doctors banned her radical polio treatments yet she saved countless children (includ...ing actor Alan Alda Hawkeye from M.A.S.H) from a life of disability. Sister Kenny was hailed worldwide and is buried with her family in Nobby Cemetery, Qld. Sister Kenny Memorial See more
06.01.2022 Some random images taken today at Waverley Cemetery. [Photo credit: Gregory Ross]
06.01.2022 Stuarts Mill Cemetery Victoria
06.01.2022 The final resting place for;- 1743 Duncan Edward McLeod (aka Duncan Andrews) of Newport, Victoria who had been employed as a laborer when he enlisted for War Se...rvice on the 6th of March 1916 and was allocated to reinforcements for the 57th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 4th of April. Following his arrival in Egypt, Duncan was formally taken on strength with his Brigade and was embarked for England where he arrived on the 23rd of June. After further training Duncan arrived in France, and after a short period at Etaples he entered the trenches on the 30th of September where he was firstly allotted to the 59th Battalion before being returned to the 57th Battalion on the 10th of October. Duncan would remain on duty until he was evacuated for treatment for influenza on the 1st of May 1917 just as his Battalion were being prepared to take part in operations at Bullecourt. By the 11th of May he had been returned to England for hospitalization for what was now deemed to be trench fever and whilst in convalescence it was discovered he was suffering a pre-existent foot and leg injury which he had not disclosed when he enlisted for service. This had now been exuberant by active service, and Duncan was deemed unfit and was repatriated as an invalid, departing England bound for Australia on the 19th of October. Having returned he was admitted into the 11th Australian General Hospital for further treatment following which he received his formal discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry into civilian life on the 23rd of January 1918. On the 13th of April 1918 Duncan again presented himself for War Service and enlisted under the assumed name of Duncan Andrews but the preexistence of the injury to his foot and leg again caused him to be hospitalized and whilst being treated at the 5th Australian General Hospital (Melbourne) it was discovered he had already been discharged as medically unfit for service, and was again discharged from the 1st AIF. Duncan’s premature death occurred on the 24th of September 1926 following which he was interred within Williamstown Cemetery, Victoria
05.01.2022 Waverley Cemetery, Bronte was an abslolute picture in today's cloudless sky. {Photo Credits: Gregory Ross]
05.01.2022 WORKING BEE We hope this finds you and your family well after what has been a stressful year for everyone! We’d like to extend our sincere thanks to those me...mbers of the local community who have reached out enquiring about working bees and clean up at the cemetery over the past few months! A big thanks too all the Cemetery Trust members who have been working hard to maintain the grounds to the best of their ability, as working bees just haven’t been an option this year. We are pleased to have scheduled our first working bee in 12 months! Saturday 5th December 2020 Hope to see you there
05.01.2022 Were your ancestors pioneers in the South Gippsland region of Yarram, Alberton, Port Albert, Gelliondale or Tarraville? Do you want to hear stories about the li...ves of our areas early settlers? Do you have ancestors buried in the Alberton Cemetery? Would you like to share your families past with our tour guests? If the answer to any or all of the above is ‘YES’, contact us for details about our tours by tapping the message tab. We would love to hear from you. See more
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05.01.2022 DIED THIS DAY and buried St Kilda Cemetery EDWARD LOWENSTERN YENCKEN (1854-1932), merchant, stained glass manufacturers. Edward Lowenstern Yencken was born on ...13 February 1854 at Brixton, Surrey, England, son of Edward Ferdinand Yencken, merchant, and his wife Ellen, nee Druce. Young Edward attended school at Shrewsbury and, after his family arrived in Victoria, completed his education at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. In 1871 he joined the Melbourne branch of the Bank of New South Wales, but next year removed to Brooks Robinson & Co., wholesale oil, colour and glass merchants and importers of painters and decorators supplies. In 1882, after reaching managerial level at Brooks Robinson, he decided to found his own business; he returned to England for ten months to establish connexions with British and European manufacturers, and to establish a buying office at 9 New Broad Street, London. In January 1883 E. L. Yencken & Co., wholesale importers and general indent merchants, opened for business at 3 Flinders Street, Melbourne, sharing a handsome building on a bluestone foundation, having cellars and three floors above with the tea merchants, Griffiths Bros. Unlike many of his older competitors, Yencken was reputed to have begun with a large capital. His business expanded rapidly and survived the loss in May 1885 of goods worth 70,000 in a sensational fire. By 1888 the firm had two adjoining city warehouses and a large store by the Yarra River. Its warehouses were equipped with every modern labour-saving appliance, including hydraulic lifts connecting with an iron tramway which delivered goods to their entrances. By 1904 the firm had expanded to 384-396 Little Collins Street where it remained until the closure of the stained glass department in 1942. The firm then shifted from the city to South Melbourne after World War II. The bulk of Yenckens output was for domestic and commercial leadlights, but a proportion of the work came from church commissions, chiefly from the Nonconformist groups whose main requirements were for plain or ornamental leadlights. It is likely that Yencken drew staff from several well-known makers of the time including Ferguson & Urie whose business closed in 1899, his old firm Brooks Robinson & Co, and C Rogers & Co. Two craftsmen and stained-glass designers who gained a high reputation in stained glass artistry during their time with Yencken were William Jock Frater OBE (1890 1974) and Alan Sumner (1911 1994). Frater had initially commenced with Brooks Robinson, but after his return from England in 1914, commenced with Yencken as head of the stained glass section and the firms only designer. Frater had an excellent background from his training at the Glasgow School of Art and his exposure to the Glasgow Arts and Crafts movement. These schools influenced and complemented his understanding of the special needs of stained glass. Examples of his fine work can be seen in a series of windows designed for St Johns Uniting Church, Essendon, and the west window made for the porch of Wesley Church, Lonsdale Street, portraying St Luke, is regarded as one of his finest works. Frater however was primarily a painter and in 1940 retired from stain glass design to concentrate on predominantly figure and portrait painting and exhibitions. Several of William Fraters sketch designs have survived in the scrapbooks of Alan Sumner, Fraters assistant. Despite having a reputation as a crusty and difficult boss, Frater was very supportive of his young improver and encouraged his continuing art. Sumner studied at Collingwood and Melbourne Technical Colleges, the National Gallery of Victoria School and at the George Bell School. A painter, silkscreen printer and stained glass designer, he was the head of the National Gallery School from 1954 to 1962. Examples of Sumners stained glass windows can be seen in Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Auburn and the Methodist churches at Brighton, Balaclava and Ivanhoe. The diminution of orders in the 1930s resulted in the Yencken staff of twenty-five being reduced to a few key people. Frater and Sumner were retained. However, in accordance with government war directives, the Yencken firm closed down the stained glass department in 1940 and Frater retired. Sumner then became head of the department and fulfilled many orders in Yenckens name, with the completion of the last ones in the early 1950s. Edward Yencken died on 7 September 1932 at his Toorak home; his estate was sworn for probate at 11,863 .On 24 January 1882 at All Saints Anglican Church, St Kilda, he had married English- born Florence Orr who is buried in the same grave at St Kilda (11 June 1945, aged 88). A noted member of the Yorick Club from 1903, Yencken enjoyed golf and gardening. He was survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters. Read more here: http://foskc.org//2018/01/FOSKC-Newsletter-January-2018.pdf http://adb.anu.edu.au/biogra/yencken-edward-lowenstern-9210 Photos https://fergusonandurie.wordpress.com / https://stainedglassaustralia.wordpress.com/
04.01.2022 On this day, 12 October (1881), 23-year-old Mary Watson wrote her last diary entry. Mary, her baby son, Ferrier, and a worker, Ah Sam, were dying of thirst afte...r fleeing Lizard Island and floating on the reef. All three died, but Mary was hopeful to the last writing: Ferrier very much better this morning I think it will rain to-day. From our ‘Grave Tales: Bruce Highway’ volume. Mary is buried in Cooktown Cemetery, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. See more
04.01.2022 The final resting place for; - 16375 Sapper Walter Moir Harbison of Parkville West, Victoria who prior to enlisting for War service on the 9th of September 1916... had been employed as an optician and was allocated to reinforcements for the 3rd Divisional Signalling Company 1st AIF. Walter was embarked for England and further training on the 16th of December. By the 11th of September 1917 Walter had arrived in France and was officially taken on strength with the 1st Divisional Signalling Company on the 18th of September. With his Unit he was committed to operations in support of the 3rd Battle of Ypres, and within weeks of his entry into the trenches he was seriously wounded on the 1st of October by shrapnel (noted as GSW) to the head. On the 16th of October Walter had arrived in England in a serious condition. His wounds having been stabilised he was shipped back to Australia as an invalid, departing England on the 11th of January 1918, and following his arrival on the 4th of March he was sent to the 5th Australian General Hospital (Melbourne) to undergo further treatment. Walter received his official discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry into civilian life on the 24th of May 1918. There would be no recovery in Walters health and his death due to his War service occurred on the 10th of May 1919 at the age of 26. Following his passing Walter was formally laid to rest within his familys collective grave within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria
04.01.2022 ‘Rock of Ages’ is a hymn written in 1763 by a Calvinist minister, with an enduring message of hope and ultimate salvation. The hymn’s second line in the third v...erse, ‘Simply to Thy cross I cling’ has proved most inspirational to Victorian masons. This statue among many others, has taken inspiration from ‘Rock of Ages’ where the woman is seen to be clinging to the cross in grief. #ExploreNorthernCemeteries #RockOfAges #ChristianStatue #CemeteryStatue
04.01.2022 LIVE NOW: out latest podcast the Holocaust survivor saved by Oscar Schindler this is the story of Leo Rosner, a talented Jewish musician who made a post-war... life in Melbourne. We remember him and speak with his daughter, Anna Rosner Blay you can tune in here: https://gravetales.podbean.com/. (Also, Annas book, Sister, Sister, about her mother, Helens life during the Holocaust available here - https://www.hybridpublishers.com.au/product/sister-sister/). See more
04.01.2022 BORN THIS DAY and buried St Kilda Cemetery GEORGE LEAVIS ALLAN (1826-1897), music dealer, teacher, publisher, Allan & Co Music Stores; Melbourne Philharmonic S...ociety, Melbourne Grammar, MLC. George Leavis Allan (1826-1897), music dealer, was born in London, son of John Allan, civil servant, and his wife Ann, ne Bailey. His family was an offshoot of the Buller family, established in Cornwall since the sixteenth century and later notable for its contributions to law, naval history and Indian administration. Allan joined the Ordnance Department and had a varied experience in the public service before he was attracted to Australia by news of gold discoveries. By this time his interest in music had already been confirmed, if only on an avocational basis: he had received some training in the Hullah sight-singing system and was singing master as well as secretary and librarian at Georges Sunday school in Camberwell. Allan arrived in Melbourne in 1852. On 3 January 1853 he took out gold licence no. 88, and set out with a party for Campbells Creek and Bendigo. The only relevant record of any success is the analysis of a find at Taradale, when he shared with several mates the proceeds of 8 lbs. 11 oz. 12 dwts. And 17 grains (4 kg) of gold, of which his share was 79 5s. 8d. He returned to Melbourne in 1853 and started to capitalize on his musical experience. In the next twelve years his name figured widely in the record of the young colony. He opened singing classes on the Hullah method in March 1853 in Bourke Street East, and in May Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe appointed him singing master in the chief denominational schools, apparently the first such appointment, at a salary of 300. In that year he was also a committee member and a moving spirit in the formation of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society. Its first rehearsal was in October. In January 1854 Allans salary in denominational schools was twice raised: first by 25 per cent and then by 50 per cent, subject to his taking classes in three additional schools. In July he was given his first assistant, George Tolhurst. In the same month Allan started singing classes at the Mechanics Institution (Melbourne Athenaeum). Until 1861 he taught singing in the Roman Catholic schools in Melbourne and in 1863 began to teach at the Melbourne Ladies College. He was ubiquitous over this decade wherever music, which effectively meant singing, was taught. He had been twelfth to enrol on the staff of Melbourne Grammar School in 1857; he lectured and taught in the city and in North Melbourne, in association with his singing classes at St Marys Church, the Church of England schoolroom in North Melbourne and St Johns schoolroom on the corner of La Trobe and Elizabeth Streets in the city. As early as October 1858 he was given a Benefit Concert in the old Exhibition buildings, which netted him 22 15s. 6d.; yet in December 1862 he was advertising that he would open classes in singing and choral work in the next year. But this virtually marks the watershed of his decades work as a pioneer singing teacher in Melbourne. This work was important in Victoria, and indeed in Australia. With his colleagues, Tolhurst, Walter Bonwick and others he set the tone of education in music; from his teaching evolved a philosophy of musical education which has not been completely superseded. Allans other contribution to Australian music is certainly better known. In 1863 he joined the musical warehouse of Wilkie & Webster, established in May 1850 by Joseph Wilkie. Webster came from the English firm of Broadwood, and joined the new firm in 1862. Twelve years after becoming a junior partner Allan found himself sole proprietor. His son George Clark (b.3 May 1860) became a partner in 1881 when the name of the firm was formally altered to Allan & Co. By 1877 it was the largest musical warehouse south of the equator, a distinction it retained; in spite of many changes in musical retailing, the firm of Allan built its name into the record of Australian music. Allan never lost touch with teaching or with practical music. He was responsible for bringing Frederick Cowen to Australia for the 1888 International Centennial Exhibition and for a series of concerts which in concentration has probably never been paralleled in the history of western music. Allan was a commissioner at this exhibition and engaged the professional orchestra which Cowen brought with him to Melbourne. Aged 70 Allan died at his home in St Kilda on 1 April 1897. On 25 January 1859 Allan had married Agnes, the second daughter of John Clark, at Chalmers Church, East Melbourne, where a plaque commemorates her parents who were lost in the wreck of the London in January 1866. Of their eight children, George Clark was the most notable and control of the family business descended through him. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/allan-george-leavis-2875 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allans_Music http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1828.shtml
04.01.2022 Is this your ancestor? GMCT is seeking families of people on this list before reinstating gravestones at Coburg Cemetery. Contact GMCT for more info. https://www.gmct.com.au/coburg-headstones
03.01.2022 St. ANN FOUNDERS DAY SERVICE : SIR JOSIAH SYMON In 1924, Sir Josiah Symon saw the need for a college where the female students of the University of Adelaide co...uld live. Male students were already catered for at St Marks College, which had been operating since 1924. When the University opened its doors to women in 1881, there was a distinct lack of housing for the female University students from country and overseas locations. Although originally established in 1939, five years after Symons death, St Anns did not officially open until 1947 due to World War 2. Josiah Symon was one of the foremost members of the National Convention of 1897, which framed the Federal Constitution. His wide-ranging interests included education and scholarships Although Symons vision of a residential college for women was not fulfilled in his lifetime, as Councillor of the University of Adelaide he laid the groundwork for the eventual establishment of St. Anns College. Symon was a great benefactor to many charitable organisations, and left his extensive library of books to the University and Public Library of SA, where it has been kept intact in the Symon Library on Level 2 of the Mortlock Wing. Josiah Symons daughters left bequests to the College on the understanding that their father be acknowledged annually with the placing of a holly wreath on his grave. This event has become known as Founders Day, and is celebrated in September each year with a graveside service at the cemetery. Today, St Anns is a world class University residential college, accommodating almost 200 students, providing tutoring and sporting opportunities. See more
03.01.2022 Huge thanks to our volunteers who gave up their Sunday to turn some pallets into planter boxes These are going to look amazing full of flowering plants Thanks very much guys
03.01.2022 Elizabeth Austin, known for founding the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. Her grave reads: "In recognition of her contribution in establishing the hospital for th...e incurables in Heidelberg in 1882. A wonderful gift to the people of Victoria..." Elizabeth died in 1910 a proud mother and benefactor.
02.01.2022 BORN THIS DAY and buried St Kilda Cemetery EDMUND GERALD FITZGIBBON (1825-1905); civic administrator; town clerk, Melbourne; lawyer; MMBW; Of power I shall de...mand the lion's share. I'll be FitzGibbon; you can be the mayor. Edmund Gerald FitzGibbon was born on 1 November 1825 at Cork, Ireland, third son of Gibbon Carew FitzGibbon, a descendant of the White Knight. When about five years old he was taken to London where he was educated privately; he never went to a school. He was employed by a committee of the privy council on education, and at one time contemplated entering the Anglican ministry. He emigrated to Australia in 1852 and spent about a year on the diggings, but coming to Melbourne to meet a brother, he obtained a position as proof reader of the papers of the legislative council. In 1854 he entered the office of the Melbourne city council and in 1856 became acting town clerk. The mayor, J. T. Smith was anxious that John Rae of Sydney should be the new town clerk, but it was decided that the position should be given to FitzGibbon, and he held it with great ability for 35 years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860, but never practised. His legal knowledge, however, proved useful in the framing of regulations, and he twice appeared at the bar of parliament to argue for bills in which the city council was interested. In the early years of the Victorian constitution the parliamentary machine worked badly, and in 1872 FitzGibbon published a pamphlet, Government by Committee, which was followed in 1875 by Parliamentary Reform, aimed to defeat the party wrangling of the period. In 1876 he visited Europe and prepared a report on sewerage, tramways, markets, water and gas supply, which was also published as a pamphlet. He had early impressed his personality on the councillors and one writer of the period summed up the position in a couplet "Of power I shall demand the lion's share. I'll be FitzGibbon; you can be the mayor". FitzGibbon in fact did not hesitate to rise from his chair and courteously set the council right if he found it straying on to a wrong track. In 1879 at the time of the parliamentary deadlock FitzGibbon published another pamphlet What Next? and tried to supply the answer with a plan for the two houses sitting together. In 1891 when the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was constituted FitzGibbon was appointed chairman for a period of four years, and in spite of his advanced age, he was reappointed for the same term on three occasions. In 1904 he was involved in a carriage accident from the effects of which he never completely recovered; though he continued to carry on his work until a few weeks before his death in the early hours of 12 December 1905. He married in 1873 Sarah, daughter of Richard Dawson, who died in 1899. He was survived by five sons. In addition to the pamphlets mentioned, FitzGibbon published in 1884 a reply to the theories of Henry George, Essence of "Progress and Poverty", and in 1893 appeared Party Government and Suggestions for Better. FitzGibbon was a fluent speaker with a masterful personality, which mellowed as he grew older. He was an excellent town clerk and set a standard of absolute integrity in municipal government. Though criticized as chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works by a section of the press in Melbourne, his work was of great value especially in regard to the prevention of the alienation of land in the watersheds. He was created C.M.G. in 1892. There is a statue to his memory in the St Kilda-road, Melbourne. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biograp/fitzgibbon-edmund-gerald-3530 http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogF.html https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198106678 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198197697 Photos: SLV
02.01.2022 Meet Mr Howard Hitchcock OBE, CM, played by Actor Glen Barton. Immensely proud of coming from Geelong, Howard was born here, in 1866. He married a Geelong girl..., Louie, and served five terms as Mayor between 1917-1922, as well as representing the city in State Parliament. He also worked in the family business, Bright & Hitchcocks, the biggest department store in the region at the time. Howard and Louie were champion tennis players, however, were not blessed with children. They committed their working lives to modernising Geelong, establishing the town hall and the Gordon Institute, as well as Geelong High School, libraries, laboratories, and adult learning institutions, as well as other public schemes. Howard also headed up the family business from 1912 after the death of his father, and, at one point, was chair on 31 different trust committes in Geelong, plus The Great Ocean Road- a project he himself funded for 14 years. Howard died one month before its opening ceremony from a heart condition in 1932. Image supplied by Lynden Smith.
02.01.2022 FROM THE ARCHIVES THE DAY WE FOUND AN ACTING PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE MORNINGTON CEMETERY. It was in October 2010 while conducting the Annual Cemetery... Walk for the Mornington & District Historical Society with our President Diane White, we discovered the Hon James Edward Fenton C.M.G (Companion of the most distinguished order of St. Michael and St. George) Having noted the sad appearance of the grave as we passed by, and knowing nothing at all of the name, when I got home I googled same. What a shock to find he was a long standing member of Parliament and had been an Acting Prime Minister. The society decided to see if we could rectify matters and Diane White approached the Hon Bruce Billson MLA. for help. After stacks of paperwork and Bruce’s help we were pleased to be able to find funding to have the grave restored. The restoration of the grave happened in 2013. Obituary Notice (Argus 4th December 1950) The former acting Prime Minister who died at his home Harton The Crest Frankston last night will have a State Funeral on Tuesday. Mr Fenton represented Maribyrnong in the Federal Parliament from 1910 to 1934 and was acting PM in the Scullin Government in 1930. He left the Labour Party in 1931 as a follower of Mr J. A. Lyons. A State Funeral will take place on Tuesday at 2.30 pm at the Methodist Church Frankston and will be buried in the Mornington Cemetery. During his time in Parliament under the Scullin Government he served as Minister for Trade and Customs and Joseph Lyons was treasurer, while he was acting Prime Minister they took economic measures to combat the Great depression. This proved unpopular with fellow members, and on the return of P.M. Scullin from overseas, Mr Fenton resigned along with Joseph Lyons and joined him in the formation of the United Australian Party. This party went on to win the next election in a landslide, and during this Government Mr Fenton became Post Master General and introduced legislation for the introduction of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, finally losing his seat in 1934. Mr James Fenton was a long time resident of Merricks North, residing on the corner of Tubba Rubba Road and One Chain Road. He was much involved in the community he lived in, being responsible for obtaining a Post Office for Merricks North ( no longer there ) and in the erection of a Community hall that was also used as a school for many years up until the Red Hill Consolidated School began. This was named Fenton Hall in his honour, and he then was later instrumental in electricity being made available to the school (Fenton Hall). His wife Elizabeth predeceased him by many years, she died at Dromana in 1926, his son Edward farmed at Balnarring for a time and in the early 1940’s James Fenton and his daughter Phyliss moved to live in The Crest Frankston, and it was there he passed away in 1950 He is notable for having been appointed a Cabinet Minister by two governments of different political persuasions but resigning from both as a matter of principle. Val Wilson M&DHS
02.01.2022 Today, the 5th September 2020, marks the 112th anniversary of the publication of Dorothea Mackellars poem My Country in The Spectorian, London in 1908. Those... on todays tour heard a recording of Dorothea Mackellar reciting her poem when they paused at the Mackellar family allotment in Waverley Cemetery. Dorothea was only 19 when she originally penned her famous poem. [Photo Credit: Maggie Lo] See more
02.01.2022 The vault in the foreground is that for Thomas Biggs Clarke. it was later surmounted by an Italian bronze horse. People may remember this from the old entrance of the Elwick race course and now in situ near the car park entrance of the course now called current Ladbroke Park.
01.01.2022 I think they are coming up well what are your thoughts please 9 more done today thanks to our volunteers.
01.01.2022 The Christian symbol of hope is an anchor. In light of the resurrection, faith finds an anchor, which is hope. This is why you will find anchors on headstones. ... You will also find the anchor and chain on headstones of those who were mariners or sea captains and in those examples they are being used as a means of describing the deceased's profession. Examples of both are represented in this post. [Photo Credits: Gregory Ross] See more
01.01.2022 ON THIS DAY 16th Sep 2020 we remember: 4 people CONNORS Harold Lyell "Roselle" Age 36 Miner 16/09/1941 Big Bell GM Cue https://www.wavmm.com/listing/harold-l/... CUESTA Jose Antonio Age 22 Bogger Driver 16/09/1988 Lake View Consols GM Kalgoorlie-Boulder https://www.wavmm.com/listing/jose-antonio/ WICKINS Frederick Robert Age 50 Miner 16/09/1957 Lake View & Star GM Kalgoorlie-Boulder https://www.wavmm.com/listing/wickins/ WILSON William Reuben Age 42 Shift Boss 16/09/1912 Ivanhoe GM Kalgoorlie-Boulder https://www.wavmm.com/listing/william-reuben/ see article
