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The Biographical Database of Australia has the details of the apparent  re-interments 1901,  and will likely have the details of the then living family members.

The NSW archives has the formal paperwork and has recently uploaded an index on these.

La Perouse Cemetery received many Thompson headstones.

JM

Sorry to interrupt, but how do you find out what has been recently uploaded to the NSW archives website?
Jean

Thanks Chas,

I must say it must have been somewhat intimidating when your cousin first opened the garage and found all the various items !

I also thought the empty chair may have been for someone who had died, but why have an open book on the table in front of it.  Was it to indicate the wisdom of that person, perhaps a parent, or maybe someone who always had their nose in a book.   

Jean

Can anyone help with a query I have.

Did professional photographers (about 1895 to 1905) have clothes, hats and other props in their studios for the sitters to wear?

Also I have seen a photo with husband and wife with an empty seat between them with an open book on the table in front of the empty seat.  Is there any significance in the open book or in fact, the empty seat?

Any thoughts?

Jean

David,
At the time when Henrietta died, there were burials in both Goobang and Parkes cemeteries.   So do you know for sure that Henrietta Leck is buried in Goobang cemetery?  Do you have a death certificate, for instance.

A couple of comments :-

Registration commenced in Forbes in 1862, Grenfell 1871, Parkes 1874.
As you probably know, the place of registration (especially in the country) may or may not be either the place of death or place of burial.    For instance, the person may have died in Forbes where she was visiting relatives, but she lived in or near Parkes.  She may have been buried on a private property somewhere in the Parkes district.  Forbes and Parkes are about 35km apart and Goobang is further north-east of Parkes.

I’m fairly sure (someone on this list will be able to give more information) that in those days, the family was responsible for the registration of the death, rather than the clergyman or undertaker.   So, her death may have only been registered when next the family went to town.
 
JM’s suggestion about finding the Burial Register is a good idea, but I feel after 140 years, such a record may no longer exist – however,  desperate times call for desperate actions so Good Luck.

Many country cemeteries had only wooden crosses to mark the grave because of the distance from where there were stonemasons and also the cost involved.  Bush fires were a danger, and there were many instances where bush cemeteries lost all the markers.

Henry Leck appears to have been a miner, based on where he was mentioned – coming up to NSW from Victoria in about 1862 (just when the goldrush was on at Forbes),  two children born at Grenfell, but registered at Forbes in 1867 / 68 (gold rush at Grenfell) and one in 1873 at Gulgong (again in gold rush).  Of course he may have been following as a supplier of services for the miners rather than a miner himself.

Unfortunately, I cannot answer your questions, but I hope all this gives you food for thought.
Jean.

Thanks so much for all your researching, JM and Debra.  I will now ask the Librarian at the NSW State Library and see what turns up.

I'll let you know what happens when I hear.

Greatly appreciated,

Jean