Andrew Fisher Memorial Park, Gympie

One Lonely Headstone

by | Apr 22, 2021 | Pioneer families, Women

ANNIE EVERETT
beloved wife
JOHN EVERETT

Annie EVERETT nee WHITMORE’s headstone.

Standing alone, in memory of all who were buried in the Tozer Park Road Cemetery (1868 – 1886), Gympie now known as Andrew Fisher Memorial Park.

The headstone is of Annie EVERETT who passed away on the 2nd of December 1883 in her residence on Red Hill, at the age of 26 years old.

Annie was born Annie WHITMORE on the 22 November 1857 in Wigston, Leicestershire, England to parents Thomas Whitmore (1835-1916) and Jane nee Daykin (1835-1912). Annie was the eldest of nine children (5 girls and 4 boys), the only child born in England. Annie arrived in Australia with her parents in 1866 and into Gympie in 1868  (All her siblings were born in Queensland, Australia.)

Thomas (Dick) WHITMORE, her father, was a Quartz carter, Goods carrier from Maryborough to Gympie, Timber getter as well as an Adventurer who in 1895 travelled from Gympie to the Western Australian goldfields, the first to cross the Australian Continent from “the eastern to the western waters”. (however, this adventure is a whole other story).

Annie WHITMORE married John EVERETT on the 30th October 1880 in Gympie Queensland. John, born in 1855 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England, was the son of John James EVERETT and Audrey nee SHOVE. John’s father in an 1871 England census was listed as being a Gardener, with John at the age of 15 being listed as a Gardeners Boy. 

Following Annie’s passing, John went on to marry Jane Elizabeth GROUNDWATER on the 31st December 1884 with John passing on the 29th September 1886 also in Red Hill Gympie, he is buried in the Gympie Cemetery on Corella Road.

Research by Conny Visini
Photographs by Wendy Flikweert