Hello,   I am looking for anyone interested in area around the Greengate Hotel, Killara.  This is on the 70 acre grant to former  convict William Foster.  There is various folklore/stories about someone (Foster's second wife it is thought) buried there, and a gravestone. Foster is thought to have recycled the gravestone from the grave of his first wife to there, from where Sydney Town Hall now stands.   Also his third wife and/or Foster himself some have suggested were buried there - BUT records are very poor so far as I can yet find.   Talking to locals, however, a gravestone definitely WAS visible behind the Greengate till the 1940s or well later.  So far, nobody I talk to knows what happened to it. Kind Regards,   John Byrnes  

  Hello, Further to my own post on the Greengate Hotel area, the families I have found to be connected most there are: * Foster (who was formerly at Kissing Point on Waston's grant). * Johnsons ( surname or one of the surnames of Frances the mother of Eleanor who Foster gave land there to). *  Oatleys (Eleanor married James Oatley jnr - some of James Oatley the clockmaker, after whom Oatley suburb is named). *  Bookers, Olivers - nearby grantees south of the Greengate Hotel. *  The Waterhouse family who acquired Eleanor's lands ... there's still a Waterhouse home there, named Eryldene, but I'm not sure if that was owned by the same Waterhouse family or a different one. Anyone interested in any of these families, or in how Killara (or North Shore line generally) is now being redeveloped for highrise residential I would appreciate hearing from offline to my john.mail address, at ozemail.com.au  I have also been researching James Oatley's grave (at Ponyarra Road, Beveley Hills) - who destroyed that and who took his headstone from there, etc.  Thanks very much, John   ~~~   ----- Original Message ----- From: john.mail@ozemail.com.au aus-nsw@rootsweb.com To:, Cc: Sent:Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:49:52 +0800 Subject:Re: [AUS-NSW] Greengate, Killara Hello,   I am looking for anyone interested in area around the Greengate Hotel, Killara.  This is on the 70 acre grant to former  convict William Foster.  There is various folklore/stories about someone (Foster's second wife it is thought) buried there, and a gravestone. Foster is thought to have recycled the gravestone from the grave of his first wife to there, from where Sydney Town Hall now stands.   Also his third wife and/or Foster himself some have suggested were buried there - BUT records are very poor so far as I can yet find.   Talking to locals, however, a gravestone definitely WAS visible behind the Greengate till the 1940s or well later.  So far, nobody I talk to knows what happened to it. Kind Regards,   John Byrnes   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message