Listers, I know I'm not quite on the right list for this request but I have reasons for posting to this list . Answers sent to the whole list may reach an American Lister who the enquiry is for. She was recently involved in the court case about a Binalong event. I found a funeral notice today in an old Sydney Morning Herald for a funeral held in Sydney in 1917. The notice stated that the funeral would leave from the widows house at McMahons Point for Rookwood Cemetery. When funerals left a house was the coffin carried from the house or was it already at the cemetery or the mortuary station? As McMahons Pt is on the Northern side of the harbour in pre bridge days, how did the members of the funeral party get to Rookwood? Would they catch a ferry to Circular Quay then a tram to the mortuary station at Central thence to Rookwood or can a lister suggest some different plan? If they left with the coffin from McMahons Pt who carried it on board a ferry? Perhap they used the monorail for part of the journey. David

I would think in those days it would have left from the house. They used to leave the body in the house until burial. Then they probabaly went to central station by whatever means. Maybe horse and buggy and then by train to Rookwood. I'm not real expert on the subject, but from what I have heard I think this would be the case. Kaye www.bananatv.com/genealogy ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & S Bales" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Sydney Funerals > Listers, > I know I'm not quite on the right list for this request but I have reasons > for posting to this list . Answers sent to the whole list may reach an

McMahons Point was a vehicular ferry terminus, so it is possible they were ferried across the harbour. They may have then walked, or were carriaged behind the Hurst to the Funeral Station at Central & caught the train with the coffin to Rookwood. Col ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & S Bales" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Sydney Funerals > Listers, > I know I'm not quite on the right list for this request but I have reasons > for posting to this list . Answers sent to the whole list may reach an > American Lister who the enquiry is for. She was recently involved in the > court case about a Binalong event. > > I found a funeral notice today in an old Sydney Morning Herald for a funeral > held in Sydney in 1917. The notice stated that the funeral would leave from > the widows house at McMahons Point for Rookwood Cemetery. > When funerals left a house was the coffin carried from the house or was it > already at the cemetery or the mortuary station? > As McMahons Pt is on the Northern side of the harbour in pre bridge days, > how did the members of the funeral party get to Rookwood? Would they catch a > ferry to Circular Quay then a tram to the mortuary station at Central thence > to Rookwood or can a lister suggest some different plan? If they left with > the coffin from McMahons Pt who carried it on board a ferry? Perhap they > used > the monorail for part of the journey. > David > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > __________ NOD32 1.498 (20030901) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. > http://www.nod32.com > >