Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery is the largest in the southern hemisphere, and dates from Victorian times. When retired Sydney schoolteacher Arthur Apsey died on May 24 1925, he was buried just two days later in Rookwood’s Anglican section. Apsey had lived in a substantial property called The Pines,
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In 1881, Patrick Kirby purchased a small undertaker’s business at 84 Hunter Street, in central Sydney. Two years later he sold a half share in the business to Elizabeth Barby, who ran a tobacconist’s shop at no. 66 in the same street. Elizabeth was an astute business
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Miss Mary Latham Clulow, of Sydney’s exclusive Bellevue Hill, had made a lot of money, mainly through property investments. She was an astute business woman, as this 1903 court action demonstrates; Miss Clulow died on October 26 1944 at a private hospital in Rose Bay. Subsequently there
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Jessie Pile was the youngest daughter of wealthy South Australian pastoralist James Pile. James had built a ten room mansion at Gawler called Oaklands, and when the rest of her immediate family passed away Miss Pile lived on at the property alone. She became increasingly eccentric, dressing
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