Anna Maria Faunce died on January 29, 1839, when she was only two months old. Her gravesite now sits beside the 12th hole at the Queanbeyan golf course.
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00:00A golf course is the last place you'd expect to find someone's final resting spot.
00:07But here, near the 12th tee on the Queanbeyan golf course, lies the remains of Anna Maria Fonse.
00:16At just two months of age, the daughter of Captain Alred Tasker Fonse, the town's first police magistrate,
00:23died in January 1839 and was buried on what was then just a knoll above their family home, Doddsworth House.
00:32In the mid-1900s, the historic home was abandoned and it later burnt down in 1967.
00:39About 1934, while walking along the Queanbeyan River, ten-year-old Enid Gard and her teacher father
00:47found Anna Maria's broken headstone. They reassembled it as best they could and left it there.
00:54Fast forward to 1972. Enid and husband Roy Wheeler rediscovered the fragments of the headstone
01:02under a few inches of soil exactly where Enid believes she left them 38 years earlier
01:09on what had become the newly-created back nine holes of the Queanbeyan golf course.
01:15Later, several of the fragments were collected and mounted on a board and kept at the Queanbeyan Museum.
01:21The board has since gone missing and today just two stand-alone fragments are identified in the museum's collection.
01:29With nothing to mark her final resting spot, Bob and Margie Quadling of OutbackGraves.org,
01:35a not-for-profit organisation attempting to formalise unmarked graves across the country,
01:40teamed up with Tony Maple, a fellow researcher from Canberra and Region Heritage Researchers.
01:47Tony conducted a thorough analysis of existing records, old maps and aerial photography
01:54to narrow down her final resting place within a 10-metre radius.
01:59I recently joined Tony and a small group of history buffs as Bob and Margie,
02:06along with Blake Allred Dallon Faunce, the great-great-great-grandson of Captain Faunce,
02:13unveiled this plaque near the 12T in Anna Maria's memory.