WAS THERE EVER A BURIAL IN THE SEVEN ACRE CEMETERY AT ROSEBUD, VICTORIA?
None of the Wannaeue parish maps available online by Googling WANNAEUE, COUNTY OF MORNINGTON shows this cemetery. When I started my Mornington Peninsula research in about August 2010, I asked the shire where I could find rate records and parish maps and received a reply along the lines of DUNNO. Luckily a blonde lady, who thankfully is still working at the Rosebud library as she is really the only one in the library system who shows any interest in my research, showed me the rate records from 1864-1919, and volunteers at the Rye Historical Society went out of their way to provide me with a paper copy of the Wannaeue map. Therefore the map to which I refer should be available at this society's museum in the old schoolhouse in the grounds of Rye Primary School.
My paper copy of the map shows that the cemetery was 300 links (60 metres) east of Rosebud Avenue with a Hove Rd frontage farther east of 700 links* (140 metres.) The block extended 1000 links (200 metres) south to a point at almost the latitude of Herman St., the head of the golfer in Melway 170 H4 being precisely in the south east corner of the seven acres. Waterfall Gully Creek crosses Hove Rd at its north west corner and was on the western boundary and up to about 15 metres east of the south west corner, being virtually parallel with the boundary.The eastern boundary was 20 metres east of the driveway to the Rosebud Tennis Club clubhouse.
(*100 links = 1 chain = 20 metres, or to be precise, 20.1168 metres. 10 square chains = 1 acre = 4000 square metres.)
The map states that the cemetery was gazetted in '77. This should mean 1877, five years after the Rosebud Fishing village was alienated or at about the time that Wannaeue Village (between The Avenue and Parkmore Rd) was alienated, and there were private subdivisions on land between Parkmore Rd and Adams Ave (south to South Rd) and R.R.Woolcott's estate between Jetty Rd and the line of Norm Clark Walk.
The Rosebud Tennis Club operated on the foreshore,in front of where the Kindergarten was built, between the C.R.Coleman Park and the Village Green. Exactly when the club was relocated to Hove Rd is unknown but the said cemetery would hardly have been declared in 1977. (oops, see postscript!)
There are only two results on trove for "Rosebud Cemetery" as below. Edward Williams of Eastbourne may have written the death/ burial notice for Sidney Smith Crispo but it could also have been written by Crispo's sister who may have been living in Sydney, SSC himself referred to Eastbourne as being variously at Rosebud and Rye. A Brighton undertaker who submitted Mary Jane Bottomley's funeral notice may have been unaware of Mornington Peninsula cemeteries. As SSC was the most fascinating peninsula pioneer that I have come across, it's a pity that the Mornington Standard did not publish a report of his funeral. SSC's gravestone is at the Rye Cemetery! Perhaps a descendant of Mary Jane and Joseph Bottomley (if there is one) will shed light on the question.
ROSEBUD CEMETERY?
CRISPO.βOn the 13th October, at the residence of Mr. Edward Williams, Eastbourne, Rye, Sidney Smith Crispo, late secretary and paymaster,Admiralty Survey, Victoria, aged 71. Buried at Rosebud Cemetery.
(P.1, Argus, 18-10-1899.)
There is little doubt that AMICUS was Edward Williams or his daughter Carrie Williams (whose grave is directly across the main path of Rye Cemetery from that of SSC just before the steep climb commences.)
Small space I crave from you kind sir,
A dead friend's worth to sing ;
Small tribute to his kindly deeds,
A kindly requiem.
God bless thee, Crispo, in thy bed,
With ti-tree blossoms strewn;
God rest the weary heart and head,
For me, all gone too soon.
What though thy brain with fancy teemed,
Fostered and led by fools;
What though thy airy castles gleamed,
Fashioned by dreamland's tools.
Beneath the haze of fancy's dreams,
A kindly heart and true;
An honest hand and steadfast will,
To fight life's battle through.
Take then thy well-earned rest, old friend,
Short space of time, and we
May meet thee on that brighter shore,
Au revoir S. S. C.
" AMICUS."
(P.3, Mornington Standard, 19-10-1899.)
DEATH.
BOTTOMLEY. β On the 18th May, at Brighton,Mary Jane, relict of the late Joseph Bottomley,born Adelaide 1850, and late of Warrnambool,aged 81 years.
FUNERAL NOTICE
BOTTOMLEY. β The Friends of the late Mrs.MARY JANE BOTTOMLEY are most respectfully informed that her remains will be interred in the Rosebud Cemetery. The funeral will leave J. Monkhouse and Son's Funeral Parlour, Carpenter street, Brighton, Tomorrow (Wednesday), at 10 a.m. (Both P.8, Argus, 19-5-1931.)
MORE ABOUT MARY JANE (NEE WASLEY.)
(https://www.myheritage.com/names/mary_wasley)
Mary Jane Bottomley (born Wasley), 1850 - 1931
Mary Jane Bottomley (born Wasley) was born on month day 1850, at birth place, to John Wasley and Mary Ann Wasley (born Spargo).
John was born circa 1823, in St Day, Cornwall, England.
Mary was born circa 1831, in Redruth, Cornwall, England.
Mary had one sister: Elizabeth Ann Freeman (born Wasley).
Mary married Joseph Bottomley on month day 1867, at age 17 at marriage place.
Joseph was born circa 1836, in London, England.
They had 10 children: Alfred Joseph Bottomley, Edwin Harold Bottomley and 8 other children.
Mary passed away on month day 1931, at age 81 at death place.
She was buried on month day 1931, at burial place.
POSTSCRIPT.
My attempt to find a funeral notice for Mary Jane's late husband was unsuccessful, so on an impulse, I looked at another Wannaeue paper map I'd obtained at the P.R.O.V. I'd enlarged some sections of the map so I could read the details on the Rosebud Fishing Village lots and one enlarged section showed the details on the 7 acre reserve for the cemetery on Hove Rd that could be read clearly without a magnifying glass. The cemetery reserve was proclaimed in 1927 not 1877 or 1977 (Gaz. 27 2984.)
Therefore Sidney Smith Crispo's burial was definitely at the RYE cemetery.
Hopefully a descendant of Joseph and Mary Bottomley can tell us where they were buried. There is no record of their burials at Warrnambool, Brighton, Dromana or Rye.
on 2017-12-04 23:58:04
Itellya is researching local history on the Mornington Peninsula and is willing to help family historians with information about the area between Somerville and Blairgowrie. He has extensive information about Henry Gomm of Somerville, Joseph Porta (Victoria's first bellows manufacturer) and Captain Adams of Rosebud.