Secrets and Scandals discovered in Section 1
Recently the Helping Hands Gardening Group - an offshoot of the Friends of Rookwood - have been "liberating" headstones and monuments from a forest of overgrowth in Section one of the Old Anglican area of the Cemetery. This area has many large monuments to highlight the "elite" of Sydney in Victorian times but has a sizable portion of small headstones that one might just pass by. I was tasked with finding out information about the various inhabitants in the "released" plots and I have to say the stories of the people have proved to be interesting, very interesting. Many prominent people have risen from their convict past to become pillars of society and some of the society of the day became "infamous". Today's blog is about the information I found about the inhabitants of two plots with inconspicuous headstones. MARY ANNE BOWERMABLESON AND HER GRANDSON DAVID GRANT FORBES Mary was actually Marian Anne Willans who was born in 18...