Forgotten mother to a "legend"
It's film awards season and this week's blog has links to the Oscars... The person we highlight today was, until the last few years, lying in an unmarked grave but now has some recognition. LUCY FARROW Lucy Villiers Savage was born in 1884 in Brunswick Victoria, the daughter of George Savage, a tailor's trimmer, and Emily (nee Piggott) a dressmaker. They lived in Brunswick, a suburb north of Melbourne, which was a fast-growing area populated by a mixture of working class and “new rich”. We next hear of Lucy when she marries Joseph Farrow in Granville, western Sydney, in 1903. A place of tanneries and woollen mills, it was very much a working-class suburb. Lucy Farrow - from Wiki Tree with thanks Their son, John Villiers Farrow was born in February 1904. When he was three years old his mother died whilst an inmate of Callan Park Asylum. Lucy was only 23 years of age. A victim of post-natal depression? In 1873, the government of NSW purchased the Callan Park s...