Comments on: Another “What the Dickens?” Moment

By: natalie

natalie — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:32:50 +0000

Yes! Spot on. I’m still researching the Coustley clan. Cheers, Natalie.

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:45:08 +0000

Hi Natalie
Thank you for your comment, it is great to hear from you. I think I know exactly how you fit in. Was your grandmother Edith Coustley? She was probably named after my great grandmother Edith. Margaret would have been like a mother to Edith.
My Nana, Linda Hadden, who married Bill Gamble, Edith’s son, was born in Hamilton in 1919 and knew the Coustley family. And Rhook is a Hamilton name I know well.
Merron

By: Natalie Rhook

Natalie Rhook — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:10:21 +0000

Hi Merron, Love your site! Richard and Elizabeth are my gg grandparents also! Their daughter Margaret (Coustley) is my great grandmother. Cheers,
Natalie.

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:36:32 +0000

Yes, then there are my gg grandparents (lol) Thanks for your comment.

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:35:15 +0000

Hi Ann
Interesting story about the desk. Alfred & Jessie’s daughters went back to London after their mother’s death then returned to Melbourne (Toorak) until the early 1920s before they finally went back to London. Maybe some furniture came back to Melbourne with them and then passed on to family when they returned. Maybe Jessie’s side, the Devlins. I must find the year Violet and Kathleen came back to Melbourne. Neither of them married.

By: fi

fi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:29:48 +0000

Wow! What a find!! It is incredible to have so many notable figures buried in the same area.

By: Ann O'Dyne

Ann O'Dyne — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:56:24 +0000

beautiful monument for Elizabeth – Richard was clearly devastated.
your confluence of graves is quite wonderful and that’s why cemeteries are so fascinating.
a further Dickens WD connection is the story of his desk. although there are plenty of ‘Dicken’s desks’ on record, one was given to 2 women cousinjs in Victoria, but it was burned in the awful 1944 fires. I think the connection was Chatsworth house (the WD one). memory failing me right now, but it is documented.