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From: Judy Acaster <>
Subject: Re: Flowers on graves
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:36:33 +0800
In-Reply-To: <00b201c3d5ed$c116fae0$71d13bcb@liana>


What a lovely idea Liana. Wish I had thought of that when I did my
graveyard 'crawl' around the Bendigo, Elmore, Corop area last March.

My UK son-in-law and daughter are at this time, campervanning around the top
part of Victoria and I noticed that he had earmarked Rutherglen as a place
to visit. I told him that he could go and visit Jane Elizabeth. His eyes
lit up and he said, "Oh, do you know someone living there?" Well, sort
of! Jane Elizabeth McKenzie has been buried in the graveyard since
24.1.1866 after she drowned in a water hole after taking her father his
lunch at the diggings. They moved to Corop shortly afterwards and I don't
think she would have received too many visits or flowers until I found her
two years ago. J.E. was the eight year old, eldest child of my
g.g.grandparents and I often think of her now and how her parents must have
grieved for her in that lonely place. The inquest and reports from the
doctor and her mother, are heartrending.

I suppose there are plastic flowers, and plastic flowers! A small posy
with a laminated label would surely be acceptible.

Judy...........also from W.A.



on 8/1/04 9:45 PM, Liana Fitzpatrick at wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Some of you may remember my emails last year asking about information on the
> Ballarat / Gordon area as we were going to visit the area where my ancestors
> lived. In August my niece (Kelly), my husband (Ralph) and I went to Ballarat
> and while we were there we spent a lot of time visiting the cemeteries. We
> took lots of artificial flowers and tied a little laminated note to them that
> said "these flowers were placed by Kelly, Ralph and Liana on behalf of the
> Greene family of WA". We were thrilled to find the graves of my great grand
> parents and two lots of gg grandparents. We left flowers on their graves and
> also some flowers on other Greene graves (even though we didn't know if we
> were related or not).
>
> I received a lovely letter just before Christmas from a gentleman from
> Queensland. His grandfather, was the brother of my great grandfather. He was
> in Ballarat in September and saw the flowers we had put on his mother and
> father's grave. He thought it was so nice to see flowers placed on the graves
> by strangers. He tracked us down through his cousin's wife who also lives in
> Perth and she knew who we were. I phoned him on Christmas Eve and we had a
> long chat and now we know about another branch of the family. The amazing
> thing is that his cousin was very good friends of my Mum and Dad and they
> often wondered if they were related but never knew. We had been trying to
> connect the two families together and now it turns out that they had the same
> great grandparents!
>
> Regards
> Liana
> _____________________________
>
> Liana Fitzpatrick
>
> researching Greene, Lowery, Pearce, Diggins, Mountain, Fitzpatrick.
> _____________________________
>
> ______________________________

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