Identifying the occupants: headstones

PICTURED: Mary Bird

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Former owner of “Uamby” Mary Bird transcribed the headstones. Her list of occupants contains 17 names, according to a document prepared by Ruth Davis, local historian, Gulgong:

Brophy, Michael 17/11872 49y
Driscoll, Amelia Anne 27/6/1915 61y5m
Driscoll, Denis 20/7/1883 5y
Driscoll, William 10/7/1912 30y
Finnamore, David 3/1/1880 15y
Grady, Mary A. 331/9/1880 26y
Hunt, Bridget 2/10/1877 19.5y (1871 BH)
Lahy, Alice 4/10/1851 12y
Lahy, Catherine 22/6/1877 7y4m
Lahy, John 27/2/1879 6y10m
Lahy, John 23/11/1899 58 brother
Lahy, Michael Sr 1/6/1859 66
Lahy, Michael Jr 25/4/1906 no age
Lahy, Mary Anne 20/6/1880 66
Lahy, Matthew 7/7/1914 68 son
Lahy, William 11/7/1911 68
Turvey, Frederick 21/7/1873 58

Additional to these, headstones have been found for the following:

Fitzsimmons, Catherine b. 1836, m. Michael Brophy, m. John Fitzsimmons
Prendegast, John b. 1821
Prendegast, Eliza

The headstones are currently clustered in the following groups:

Group 1: In a line facing the Cudgegong River

• Michael Lahy Sr. and daughter Alice
• Mary Anne Lahy (wife)
• John Lahy (Michael Lahy’s son)
• Michael Lahy (Michael Lahy’s son)
• Catherine Fitzsimmons (Michael Lahy’s daughter), Michael Brophy (husband), Mary A Grady (Catherine and Michael’s daughter)
• William Lahy (Michael Lahy ‘s son)
• Catherine Lahy (William’s daughter, Michael Lahy’s grand-daughter)
• John Lahy (William’s son, Michael Lahy’s grand-son)

Group 2: In a line immediately behind the main Lahy family, facing the Cudgegong River

• Amelia Anne Driscoll (Michael Lahy’s daughter)
• William Driscoll (Amelia Anne’s son, Michael Lahy’s grand-son)
• Dennis Driscoll (Amelia Anne’s son, Michael Lahy’s grand-son)

Group 3: Behind the Driscoll family and to the left

• David Finnamore

Group 4: Enclosed by an iron fence at a distance of 12 metres from the
Lahy family cluster

• Frederick Turvey
• Bridget Hunt

Group 5: Found facing Michael Lahy’s headstone in a position that indicates it is out of location (on an angle, too close to Michael Lahy’s plot for convention – confirmed by a photograph from 1950)

• Prendegast, John
• Prendegast, Eliza (wife)