Jane Macquarie's Tomb
Octr. 16 Thursday ! ---
The Tomb finished some time since over the Grave of my
beloved Wife was this Day uncovered -- and the Cadjan Building 1. erected over it
during the Rains was entirely removed. ---It is very elegant and by far the most
so in the Burying Ground. ---This is my Angelic Jane's Birth Day! -- and it is in
honor of it that I had her Tomb uncovered and displayed to Public view. ---Had
Heaven spared her precious dear life -- she would only be this day Twenty Eight
Years of Age ! ---But alas! I was not doomed to be so happy. ---
Provenance:
Lachlan Macquarie Journal No.4 28 September 1799 - 11 September 1801.
Mitchell Library Sydney [ML Ref A769: CY Reel No. 299 Frame #573]
Notes:
1. Cadjan Building - a thatched hut made from the leaves of coca-palm leaves
(a common substitute for thatch in S. India)
[see Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases,
and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and
discursive.
[compiled by] Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell. Delhi, Munishiram Manoharlal 1968, (2nd ed.)].
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