Harley Davidson funeral procession – Funeral 09.05.25

We were contacted by Karen, the daughter of the Mum (Fran) who had passed. Fran did a Harley ride with us at the beginning of last year and loved it. She has always loved Harleys! Karen thought her Mum would love a Harley Davidson funeral procession. What a lovely send off.

Our Harley rider waited at the pickup place, in Smithfield (which was Fran’s home) for the procession to come past. He joined them on the way to the mass in Mt Pritchard. Then it was in the procession to the the cemetery in Leppington.

Smithfield

Smithfield is located 31 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD. Geologically, the suburb sits on the Cumberland Plain.

The area is full of fab history which we hadn’t realised until researching this. Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal tribe, a sub-group of the Gandangara tribe, have lived in the Fairfield area for over 30,000 years.

White settlement began in the area in the early 19th century. Smithfield was originally known as Chilsholm’s Bush. In 1803, homeless children were becoming a problem after convicts turned their children out into the streets. As a consequence, Governor Philip Gidley King, put aside a large area of 12,300 acres (50 km²) for a Male Orphan School. Thanks to Wikipedia for this info. For more info, check out the Wikipedia post.

Mt Pritchard

Mount Pritchard was originally home to the Cabrogal people who occupied much of the greater Fairfield area. In the early 19th century, the land was granted to a number of ex-convicts for farming. Later it was made part of the Male Orphan School Estate. In 1913, land west of Cabramatta Creek and Orange Grove Road previously owned by the Bull family was subdivided into smaller residential lots by a real estate property salesman named Hugh Pritchard, who named it the Cabramatta Park Estate.

From the early settler days the general area had been known unofficially as Mount Misery, originally because of a story of one of the early settlers and his family camping there whilst travelling, losing their bullocks, and for three weeks remaining in misery until starvation compelled them to beat a retreat, minus bullocks and dray.

Leppington

52 km south-west of the Sydney CBD, is the area now known as Leppington. It was originally home to the Darug people. It was named after a property called Leppington Park granted to William Cordeaux in 1821. Cordeaux used convict labour to build a two-storey mansion and to work in his fields. The house burnt down in the 1940s but some of the bricks from the house were re-used at Leppington Public School.

For more info on any of the suburbs above, check out Wikipedia. It’s actually very interesting. In conclusion, the Harley Davidson funeral procession was a memorable experience for the mourners. Mum Fran would have loved the idea.

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