Tim the Yowie Man explores by The Canberra Times - Dailymotion

Columnist for The Canberra Times, Tim the Yowie Man, takes an in-depth look at the unusual, mysterious, out of sight oddities of life in Canberra.

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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.