by Bettye Ross Just over two years ago an article appeared in the St. George & Sutherland Shire Leader titled “The Grave Mystery of Will and Eliza’s Death”. I thought it was a pretty eye-catching headline and on reading through it, found that a headstone had been found in bushes in a backyard in Como …
The Arncliffe Catholic Parish
by Molly McDonnell In March of 1982, we celebrated the Golden Jubilee of St Francis Xavier’s Church, Arncliffe. The present beautiful edifice with its magnificent façade, round tower, and beautiful interior will forever stand as a monument to the great and untiring efforts of the late Monsignor Joseph Patrick Rafferty. With his great band of …
John Bowmer
by Margaret Collister John Bowmer, aged 25, arrived in Sydney on the “Irene” on 16th October 1852 with his wife, Eliza Maria aged 28 and their infant daughter Fanny, born in 1852, another child having died at sea on the way out. John was a gardener and was born at Rephem in Lincolnshire, England where …
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The Fitzgerald Family and Fitzgerald’s Hill, Kogarah South
by Thelma Hayman Included amongst the several large tracts of land bestowed on various people in the early days of the settlement that became known as Koggerah (now spelled as Kogarah) was a triangular shaped area which came into the possession of John Porter. Its boundaries were set by the western side of Rocky Point …
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