Simple magnificence in Stone!
Last week's blog was formed from a glance at a beautifully carved monument. This week's blog is following on from that same idea. The headstone is very close to last week's one and quite unique in its design. The families from which the people buried there came from were prominent ones from the earliest days of the colony. DAVID HENRY DUNLOP David, the eldest child of David Dunlop (Snr) and Eliza Hamilton was born in Londonderry Northern Ireland on 12 May 1794. He joined his parents, and 3 siblings onboard the 'Superb' arriving in Botany Bay on 26 February 1838. David Snr, although a bookseller in Ireland, was appointed a Magistrate in Penrith for a short time before being appointed to the position of Police Magistrate and Protector of Aborigines in Wollombi NSW in 1839, a position he held for ten years. He was the youngest son of Captain William Dunlop who had lost his life in the Irish Rebellion of ’98. Eliza, his wife, was the daughter of Solomon Hamilton, Supre...