Smile for the Camera, 14th Edition Wedding Belles

Sadly I never got to meet my husband's grandparents who are pictured here. Eliza Anne Gowans, aged 17, and Ernest James Gillespie, aged 23, were married at 188 Albany Road Petersham on 29 October 1913 according to the rites of the Presbyterian Church with G. Acheson Gordon the officiating Minister.

Eliza and Ernest's partnership ended in divorce around 1935. Eliza had two more marriages before her death in 1962, whilst Ernest had one more marriage before his death in 1958.

Tombstone Tuesday Downunder

In response to Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #3 I am posting a photo of a family grave in Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, NSW. One of Sydney's oldest cemeteries Rookwood has been operating since 1867, and is one of the largest cemeteries in Australia. It is managed by five separate demoninational Trusts and an independent Crematorium.

Interred in the grave are two family members

The inscription reads:
In Loving Memory / My dear husband /& our father/Ernest Henry/Norman Gillespie/Speedway Rider/Fatally Injured/Sydney Sports Ground/2nd April 1948/Aged 32 Years/Until we meet again.

A second smaller tablet is inscribed:
Also his Dear Mother/ Eliza A E Pritchard/At Peace/17th April 1962.

There is a picture of a motorcycle etched on a small marble tablet at the base of an urn that is situated in the middle of this double grave.