My special thanks to my cousin Robyn Allman for providing me with this photograph of Albert and Henrietta Price. Albert was Isaac Canter Price's second youngest son. He was a baker who assisted setting up the original Arnotts Biscuits factory in Sydney and was later the factory forman.
This was a photograph sent to Sarah Ann Coooper (nee Laister) in Australia by her sister Elizabeth Cowlishaw. The inscription on the back reads:
[?] with much love to dear sister Sarah Ann Cooper
Elizabeth appears to be wearing mourning. As she died a year before her husband it must have been mourning for someone in her near family.
The grave of my grandparents, Thomas Pow and Jane Penman Pow (nee Millar). They are buried in the Protestant section of the Lithgow General Cemetery. The transcription reads:
In Loving Memory of
Thomas Pow
Called Home 5 Sept 1968 - Aged 81 Years
Jane Penman Pow
Called Home 13 Aug 1986 - Aged 98 Years
With Christ
Dearly loved and deeply missed.
This photograph was provided by Richard Woodhead. It is of the Mosborough Endowed School. On the top row extreme left is Arthur Woodhead. Eighth from the left on the top row is Richard's father, Stanley Woodhead. Stanley was presented the photograph for perfect attendance in 1908-1909.
This photograph was printed on tin and probably came with the Coopers from Rotherham. It was sent via email from Richard Woodhead:
HI Leonie : do you know anyone who can identify this photo It was found with gertrude cooper's things. The figure on the right tooks like a cooper? It was printed on tin which I had to hammer flat to photo.
I've finally uploaded a decent photograph of Sarah's gravestone. Its a gravestone befitting the wife and mother of stone masons. She is buried with her son Albert and his wife Henrietta, and their son Hugh. The grave is located in the Independent Section of Rookwood Cemetery.
Many thanks to Margaret Sturdy for obtaining these photos of Arthur Woodhead's war grave in Belgium. She emailed:
I have been over to Belgium with my brother and his wife visiting the Battlefields of Flanders and I thought you might like the attached.
Ridgewood Cemetery is in beautiful surroundings, at the end of a narrow lane at the side of a wood and open fields on the other three sides. The inscription is becoming a little faded but they do replace them when they get too far gone - it reads: “3971 Lance Cpl A Woodhead DCM 2nd Bn Australian Inf 28th March 1918”
The personal inscription on the bottom reads: “He gave his life at duty’s call beloved by comrades one and all”.
We also visited Frederick Waller’s grave the third son of Emily Kate Laister.
