The below elaborate memorial to a mother and daughter who died not long apart has stood the test of time. As you will see in the second photograph taken 107 years later it remains much the same. It is surprising that often a grave made with the same type of materials will fall into disrepair and others, such as this one, remain hardly changed.
Grave of Rose A CLARK and Bridget McCABE Kalgoorlie Cemetery – Photo WA Museum
The first burial in this plot in the Kalgoorlie Roman Catholic section was Bridget McCABE nee FARLEY who died on the 19th September 1908. Bridget was the daughter of Phillip FARLEY and Catherine LYNCH and was born in Co Cavan, Ireland in 1840. At the age of 22yrs also in Co Cavan she married John McCABE from County Monaghan also in Ireland. The couple had eight children, seven of which were born while they while they were living in County Monaghan before the family emigrated to New South Wales arriving in in December 1883 on the ship the Rialto.It was in NSW that their first and only Australia child, Margaret ‘Maggie’ McCABE was born. The three oldest children remained in Ireland at the time of their emigration but must have joined them later all all ended up in Australia.
Grave of Rose A CLARK and Bridget McCABE – Photo Danelle Warnock
After the death of his wife Bridget, John returned to New South Wales where he died in 1911 and is buried in St Peters. He possible moved to be with his oldest son James who was living there.
Bridget’s two daughters, Rose and Sarah, continued to place ‘In Memoriam’ notices in the newspapers years after her death.
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 22 September 1914, page 17
IN MEMORIAM – McCABE.—In loving memory of my dear mother,
Bridget McCabe, who departed this life 19th September, 1908.
Dear is the grave where my mother is laid;
Sweet is her memory, that never will fade;
Roses may wither, flowers fade and die;
If others forget you, never will I. —
Inserted by her loving daughter, Rose Clark. McCABE.—
In loving remembrance of my dear mother,
Bridget McCabe, who passed away at Fimiston, Boulder Block, September 19th. 1908.
Six years have passed,
My heart still sore,
As time goes on I miss you more. —
Inserted by her loving daughter, Sarah Snowdon.
The second burial was only nine years later when Bridget’s fourth daughter, Rose Ann CLARK nee FARLEY, was buried with her mother. Rose had been born in Ireland and 1899, she was to marry Francis CLARK in Kalgoorlie WA in 1899. Rose and Francis had no children and in 1919, two years after Rose’s death, he was to re marry to Elizabeth Millicent Webb to whom he had three children.
It was said that Rose’s death was ‘sudden’ and at the time the couple were living at 984 Rhodes St, South Kalgoorlie. The only other member of the McCabe family to be buried in Kalgoorlie was Margaret ‘Maggie’ HUTCHINSON nee McCabe. She is buried alone in the Anglican section and died in 1951 aged 65yrs.
Memorial plaque on grave of Bridget McCabe for her daughter Rose.
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1954), Tuesday 6 March 1917, page 4
FUNERAL NOTICES – CLARK— The friends of Mr. Francis Clark are respectfully informed that the remains of his late beloved wife, Rose Ann, will be removed from his residence, 984 Rhodes street, at 2.30 o’clock this day, Tuesday, March 6th, for interment in the Catholic portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. Mannion and Cruse, undertakers.
CLARK.— The friends of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. McCabe, Piesse St., Boulder; Mr. and Mrs. G. Hutchinson, Forrest St. Boulder, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Lamb, Maylands, are invited to follow the remains of their late sister, Mrs. Rose Ann Clark, to the Roman Catholic portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The. funeral will leave 984 Rhodes St, to-day, at 2.30.
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