DRUMMOND GRAVESITE ON HAWTHORNDEN

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Overview

A faded coloured photo of a small gravesite on the property of "Hawthornden" which was originally owned by James Drummond Snr the botanist.
A fence surrounds the rear and left side. Two gravestones are seen, one large with a low plinth, and one small with a broken ? top.
Some of the inscription is legible: words on the large stone: "Sacred to the memory of James Drummond ..... Sarah .... Other print is too small and faded to read.
On smaller stone, two words can be read: "..nston Drummond - 1844".
A trunk of a small tree is to the front and the side of this stone.

Historical information

In the introduction of her 1969 book "The Drummonds of Hawthornden", Rica Erickson notes: "At 'Hawthornden Farm' in the Toodyay Valley of Western Australia, are four old graves. The headstones of soft sandstone are deeply eroded and one is now nameless, the original lettering having disappeared long ago.
The first of the stones was erected over the body of Johnston, the youngest son of the Drummond family, who died at the age of twenty-five years in 1845, speared by a native. The second grave is that of his old father, James Drummond, the botanist, who died in 1863 at seventy-eight years of age. The third grave is that of Sarah, his wife, who died a year later, at about eighty-two years of age. The fourth and nameless grave could be that of their honoured second son James, who died in 1873, at the peak of his career and was buried beside his parents."

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Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1277

Item type

Photographs

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Social History

Inscriptions and markings

On back of photo is stamped: "G 717".

Keywords

Hawthornden

DRUMMOND, James