I just can't get that jingle out of my head!!
The person I have decided to honour in this my 100th blog for Rookwood Cemetery Discoveries (I can barely believe how fast that number has been reached!), is someone I expect most of you wouldn't know by name, but his top selling product would be familiar! ADOLPHUS HERBERT (BERT) APPLEROTH Adolphus or Bert as he became known was born in December 1886 in Stanley Street West Melbourne to Wilhelm Berndt Albert Appleroth and Emma Audebairt, their only son. Wilhelm was from St Petersburg Russia and was rumoured to be a Russian-Finnish sea captain who jumped ship in Melbourne and his mother was the daughter of a wine merchant. Bert's elder sister Alberta Mabel died in 1887, the same year his mother gave birth to his sister Leonora Alexandra. The family were residents of Sydney when Bert began work in 1902 as a messenger boy at Lipton's Tea Agency then took a job as a tram conductor. He began experiments with mixtures of gelatine and sugar in the bath in his parents' hom...