Rookwood Cemetery Discoveries

 Today's blog is the follow up I promised when I wrote about Nina Eva Vida Jones - the racing car driver (click on the tag of her name to read that blog). I said that she came from a family that included Matthew Harris and his father John (and more) that originated in this country from the early days of the colony. THE HARRIS FAMILY (pre Nina Eva Vida Jones nee Harris) Nina was the daughter of William Henry Harris and Susan Mary Newton Clarke, both parents of Irish descent. William came to Australia with his parents John and Nancy Ann and was the youngest of six children. John, a merchant, had inherited wealth from his uncle, a well renown early Colonial, and migrated to this country to manage his legacy. That uncle was John Harris, a member of the NSW Corps, appointed a surgeon who arrived in the Colony with the ill-fated Second Fleet in 1790. The Second Fleet consisted of three ships where convicts were mistreated, rations were poor and sickness rife with over 25% dying o...