IN A small park on the side of the Old Pacific Highway into Brunswick Heads a small number of headstones are nestled in what is known as Pilgrim Memorial Park Cemetery.
One of these headstones shows the names of some members of the Forbes family
John Dawson Forbes is the patriarch at the top of the headstone and is responsible for some of Lismore’s earliest photographs.
Forbes was born in 1840 in Aberdeenshire in Scotland and arrived in Brisbane, Australia in 1866.
He had already travelled to China with his uncle who was captain of a sailing boat and India when the ship he was sailing on was wrecked off its coast.
He had spent 11 days on a raft before eventually roaming around India for some time.
In Australia he did a number of jobs, includ…
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