Ross, more stones

A side trip, to the hill behind the older part of town.

Through a gate

Penalty For Not Closing Gates ?10

across the railway



and through another two gates




is the Anglican cemetery, with the smaller Catholic cemetery to one side (not visible).




It's an interesting cemetery in its own right, but today's destination is further up the hill.



Also known as the soldier's or military burial ground,



because there are a number of redcoats buried here.

Philip Maher
who departed this life
on the 31st March AD 1817
and served as Quarter Master Seegeant
in the 51st K.O.L.I
during a long campaign on the
Peninsula and? Waterloo
and later Barrack Sergeant
at Ross
aged 56 years




There are not a lot of headstones up here though.



(This is a guess)
Isabella Ann
the beloved wife of
Mr Henry Valentine

Many of the surviving stones are also too worn to read.


Herbert is responsible for carving many of the headstones here, including his own (this one). Presumably Colbeck did some too but he rarely gets mentioned.



Sarah Ann Ellis
October 13th 1836 aged 1 month

In the background there is the next, and final, destination


at the bottom of the long path that runs alongside the newer cemetery (looking back up here).