L.14.P – E.R. 1829 Footstone

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: ELIZABETH ROWE has been tentatively included here as the most likely person associated with the footstone ‘E.R. 1829.’ In Judith Dunn’s 1991 book, the same footstone is attributed to an ELLEN RIVERS who died 12 January 1829. Upon review, however, the name in the register is arguably ELLEN FLOWERS, based on the way F’s are formed by the scribe in other, more legible names recorded the same year, compared to how R’s are formed. The elimination of anyone named ‘ELLEN RIVERS’ leaves only ELIZABETH ROWE as the potential owner of the footstone among the burials registered at St. John’s, Parramatta in 1829. At the time of her demise, ELIZABETH had been a 9-year-old child of a farmer at Prospect, whereas ELLEN FLOWERS was likely the ‘aged woman’ and widow mentioned in a coronial inquest dated 12 January 1829 as ‘ELEANOR CLONERS’ who died of alcoholism at Parramatta and, thus, would have been less likely to have had a marked grave.

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St. John’s Online (stjohnsonline.org), “Memorial: Left Section, Row 14, Memorial P, (L.14.P), St. John’s Cemetery, Parramatta,” (2022), https://stjohnsonline.org/memorials/left-section/row-14/memorial-p/, accessed [insert current date]