A stonemason's life is fraught with danger
So many headstones throughout the Necropolis state "accidently killed" or similar words to that effect. We forget just how dangerous going to work to earn a "quid" in order to put food on the table was. This week I have chosen two instances of stonemasons who never made it home. Thank goodness for OH&S! GEORGE WILLIAM KINDER George was born in @1857 in Lancashire, England to Henry, a stonemason and his wife, Mary. He was the third son of eight children. He followed in his father’s footsteps training to be a stonemason and came to these shores alone in 1883 as an assisted immigrant (meaning his passage was subsidised or paid for via one of the several schemes in operation at the time.) A few years later on the 23rd of December 1886 George married Mary Anne Flynn in the Congregational Church in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe. The had two children in quick succession, Alice and William, followed in 1889 by Henry and a young girl named Myee Helen i...