
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Freddy's Grave
I found a fantastic site called 'Find a Grave' which allows you to hunt international grave locations of anyone....sadly my subject, Freddy, did not come up in the search......so i think i will have to do some actually research.
I already know that Freddy had an elaborate funeral procession through the streets of Leichardt, as the Chinese Herritage Foundation has documented as such, however i do not know where his grave is.
So.. I started my search for his final resting place by contacting any cemeteries in the Leichardt area. This proved problematic as those which were used at the time of Freddy's death are now obsolete! However, with the help of a friendly man from a Leichardt funeral parlour I got the number of a man in the know.... well sort of. I was told that a certain Mr Webber who had worked in the business of burial in Sydney for over thirty years would be the best person to point me int he direction of Freddy's grave. Mr Webber sent me straight to Rookwood Cemetery, known as "Death Town" by some locals, because of its impressive size. Mr Webber informed me that anyone buried at that time was likely to be resting within the confines of this huge city of graves situated in the inner-west suburbs of Sydney..........so this is where i shall begin my search


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