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Ann Zillman

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ca. 1840 — 26 October 1867

Ann Zillman (29A)

Headstone

A fragment of Ann Zillman's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2021.

  • Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 26 October 1867
  • Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as Annie Low
  • Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
  • Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2021

Inscription

1830
…mber 1863
…owan his son
April 1838
ember 1857
daughter
…dolph Zillm…

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Death registration: Ann Zillman
Death date: 26/10/1867
Mother's name: Isabella Paul
Father/parent's name: James Low
Registration details: 1867/B/4204

DEATH.
ZILLMAN.—On the 26th of October, at Brunswick-street, Fortitude Valley, Ann, relict of the late John Rudolph Zillman, and youngest daughter of Mr. Jas. Low, Senr. late of Newmill, Drummock, Scotland, aged 27 years.
[Aberdeen papers please copy].

A remarkable man was James Low, who was born on January 4, 1791, in Scotland, and died at Brisbane on September 24, 1873. His wife, Isabella, died at “New Mill of Drumoak," in Aberdeenshire on October 29, 1831. A son died there also, aged 12. A daughter, Catherine, married to Charles Smith, died at Brisbane on December 8, 1863 and a son aged 19, died on September 2, 1851. His daughter, Annie, married Rudolph Zillman, son of J. L. Zillman, of German Station, one of the ORIGINAL GERMAN MISSIONARIES sent to Moreton Bay. by Dr. Lang in the convict days. James Low, was a very well known timber getter in the Maroochy and Mooloolah districts, and his name is handed down to posterity, attached to the tree known to both timber, getters' and botanists as "Jimmy Low," the botanical name being "Eucalyptus Resinifera."



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