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Name/TitleMcIntyre & Henderson females : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920

About this objectPhotograph of a tall rectangular tombstone with a semi-circular top with concave shoulders, enclosed with a decorated rail. The top of the stone is carved with an oak bough and acorns, trumpet and harp.

The inscription reads: (282 in Selby's grave index pp. 390-1 OPMHoM)

IN
Memory of
ANN Mc INTYRE
Died 22nd July 1851
Aged 15 Years
-o-
ELIZABETH Mc INTYRE
Died 28 - Nov - 1857
Aged 57 Years

Think of me as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I ;
As I am now so you shall be,
Prepare in time to follow me.
CHRISTINA HENDERSON
Died 14th August 1903
Aged 63 Years
JEAN HAMILTON HENDERSON
Daughter of Above
Died 29th October 1917
Aged 52 Years

Elizabeth McIntyre's funeral procession left from her residence where she died, 190 Bourke Street east. Elizabeth McIntyre and Christina Henderson were her daughters.

Newspaper reports say that Christina, nee McIntyre, an elderly widow aged 65, died on the way to Melbourne Hospital after being "picked up in [Little Collins-street] in an unconscious condition." She was identified at the hospital morgue by her niece, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Reilly, a nurse at the hospital.

A related glass slide showing a close-up of the inscription (GS-TM-57), has a label on it reading, "The Henderson Stone. Last burial in the Old Melbourne Cemetery."

A newspaper notice informs us that W. Hamilton Henderson, son of the late John Henderson, procurator fiscal of Hamilton, Scotland, married Christina McIntyre of Narung Station, Lower Murray, at Sandhurst on 10th October, 1864. The following year the birth of a daughter is announced at Pitt Street, Sydney, on 6th July, 1865.

According to newspaper stories, W. Hamilton Henderson was made postmaster of Morangarell in 1867, and had a few poems published in the newspaper in 1869 and 1870. A record of his death is proving hard to find, but a clue may be found in a story in The Herald of October 1862 which claims, "a person named William Hamilton Henderson has made an attempt to commit suicide on Sunday last."

This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.

One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby numbered this slide #18.

For more information about this image contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

MakerMiller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.

Maker RolePhotographer

Measurements8.2 x 8.2 cm

Period1910-1920

Object TypePhotograph

Subject and Association KeywordsSelby, Isaac, 1859-1956

Subject and Association KeywordsMiller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.

Subject and Association KeywordsOld Melbourne Cemetery (Melbourne)

Subject and Association KeywordsMonuments and memorials

Subject and Association KeywordsWomen

Named CollectionImages collection

Object numberGS-TM-28

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