A once magnificent vault that still inspires awe
One of the larger Mausoleums, or now more commonly known as a Vault, is the one in the old Presbyterian area of the Necropolis for the family of John Paul. John Paul Vault - find a grave - with thanks. So, who was the person and his family that command such a large, albeit a little disheveled and worn looking vault? It seems there was money in shipping goods. JOHN PAUL John was born in 1839 and arrived as a free settler, a young single man. He had shipping in his blood and set up a business in the Darling Harbour area with Charles John Potts and marketed it as “ Potts and Paul Ships Chandler and Provision Agents” from about 1863. The area was one of rapid expansion, the busiest part of the Harbour and the centre of shipping business in the port of Sydney. He married Helen Carmichael in September 1868 and together they went on to have six boys. At the time, although trains had first begun to operate in 1855, travel by ...