Hello AlanCurrie wrote:His wife didn’t die until 1967 and she’s buried in a nicely marked kerbed and covered grave about a hundred metres away. Possibly it was a case for him of room but no money and for her of money but no room.
Alan
You remind me of a couple of my relatives who died 1953/64 - and were cremated - they each have a niche in the crematorium gardens and are as far apart as one could get - while staying within the same locality. The wife is next to her mother, whose husband is in a cemetery some distance away. Hidden stories. But not of your youtube type.
Hi Russell
Probably related to the fact that English terminology is more common in Australia than that of the Scots - and as my mother went to great lengths to tell me "We are descended from free settlers - none of those convict types in our history". Given the innumerable lies in my family stories - I was somewhat amazed that this one was true. My husband owns the convicts - much to the dismay of his mother - in earlier times.
My Scottish forebears tend to be buried in small plots - two graves sometimes above each other - sometimes alongside each other. There is one most delightful cemetery on the NSW coast overlooking the ocean where I am probably related to at least 25% of the occupants - from Scotland - it does look somewhat "lair" like (well as I imagine a lair) with small fences around groups of headstones.
Trish