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He was buried at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.
The Rookwood Pavilion outdoor shopping plaza was constructed at the former site of the Leblond Machine Tool Company on Edmondson Road.
Wildly successful, it was followed in 1997 by an adjoining open-air shopping mall, Rookwood Commons, on Edwards Road.
A second development, the $ 125 million Rookwood Exchange, was planned on the southern edge of this area directly across the street from the Rookwood Pavilion.
However, the area where Rookwood Exchange was to be built was already occupied by a small neighborhood.
" Before he died, fellow conspirator Ambrose Rookwood said that he " loved and respected him as his own life ", while Catesby's friend, Father John Gerard, claimed he was " respected in all companies of such as are counted there swordsmen or men of action ", and that " few were in the opinions of most men preferred before him and he increased much his acquaintance and friends.
Catesby soon added Ambrose Rookwood, a staunch Catholic who was both young and wealthy, but who most importantly owned a stable of fine horses at Coldham.
Like Rookwood, Digby was young, wealthy, and possessed a stable of horses.
John Wright was shot, followed by his brother, and then Rookwood.
It was, however, the story of a fabled ride from London to York that provided the impetus for 19th-century author William Harrison Ainsworth to include and embellish the exploit in his 1834 novel Rookwood.
However, he was working on his novel Rookwood.
It was during this time that Ainsworth began to develop the idea of Rookwood, and he began searching for information dealing with the subject.
Rookwood was published in multiple editions, with a fourth edition in 1836 including illustrations by Cruikshank, which started the working relationship between the two.
In 1879 the villagers got their wish and the area's name was changed to Rookwood, however before long the Necropolis was also being referred to by that name.
The settlement of Rookwood changed its name to Lidcombe ( a combination of two mayors names, Lidbury and Larcombe-Larcombe was also a monumental stonemason whose business exists to this day ) in 1913.
It is less likely, however far more romantic, that, as claimed by some sources, Rookwood was named after William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Rookwood, written in 1834.
At the terminus inside the cemetery the coffins were unloaded using ' wheeled hand-propelled litters ' The rail line was used to convey funeral parties to Rookwood until 1948 when the expanded use of processions by road made it obsolete.
By this time Bing was the primary European dealer for the Rookwood Pottery Co. of Cincinnati and the Grueby Faience Company of Boston, as well as the wares of Tiffany.
Cahill died at Sydney Hospital of a myocardial infarction and was buried at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.
Sir Ambrose Rookwood ( c. 1578 – 31 January 1606 ) was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic monarch.

Rookwood and served
It was relocated from Sydney in 1957 and originally served as the railway terminus at Rookwood Cemetery.
Later, Rookwood railway station that served the Rookwood Cemetery was located between the bridge over Arthur street and the westernmost junction of the Flemington rail yard.

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Rookwood claimed that he had been drawn into the plot by Catesby, " whom he loved above any worldy man ".
Studio pottery — exemplified by the Grueby Faience Company, Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, Marblehead Pottery, Teco pottery, Overbeck and Rookwood pottery and Mary Chase Perry Stratton's Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, as well as the art tiles made by Ernest A. Batchelder in Pasadena, California, and idiosyncratic furniture of Charles Rohlfs all demonstrate the influence of Arts and Crafts.
In Australia, for example, The Necropolis at Rookwood ( 1868 ) and Waverley Cemetery ( 1877 ), both in Sydney, are noted for their use of the " gardenesque " landscape qualities and importantly self-sustaining management structures championed by the General Cemetery Company.
As at August 2012, Rookwood Necropolis contains the graves of a total 679 Commonwealth service personnel that are registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, over 400 from World War I and over 260 from World War II, besides 3 Dutch war graves.
* Historic Rookwood Necropolis published by Strathfield District Historical Society
The twins return to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Fred and Percy Weasley defeat Pius Thicknesse and an unidentified Death Eater, but moments later, Fred is killed in an explosion caused by Augustus Rookwood.
Rookwood was born into a wealthy family of Catholic recusants, and educated by Jesuits at Flanders.
According to the Jesuit Oswald Tesimond, Rookwood was " well-built and handsome, if somewhat short ", which he compensated for by his taste in extravagant clothing.
Survived by his wife, a son and three daughters, he was buried in Rookwood Cemetery.
It was first headed by Mary Given Sheerer, previously associated with the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati.
Survived by his wife, son and daughter, Rene died of atherosclerotic heart disease at his home at Kensington, Sydney, on 22 November 1954 and was buried in the Jewish section of Rookwood Cemetery.
Rookwood was named from a title of an 1834 novel by William Harrison Ainsworth ( 1805-1882 ).
The name of the railway station was changed to Rookwood in 1878 and by the 1880s shops were established in the area.
Residents disliked the association with the burial ground and in 1876 the suburb was renamed Rookwood from a title of a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth ( 1805 – 1882 ).
The name of the railway station was changed to Rookwood in 1878 and by the 1880s shops were established in the area.

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Although gunpowder does not explode ( unless physically contained ), a spark from the fire landed on the powder and the resultant flames engulfed Catesby, Rookwood, Grant, and another man.
The remains exhumed from the cemetery were re-interred at a number of other Sydney cemeteries including Rookwood Cemetery and Waverley Cemetery.
The names from Heathcote to Beecroft are: Heathcote Road, New Illawarra Road, Alfords Point Road, Davies Road, Fairford Road ( junction with the M5 South Western Motorway, Stacey Street, Rookwood Road, Joseph Street, Olympic Drive ( Lidcombe Bypass ), St. Hilliers Road, Silverwater Road ( junction with M4 Western Motorway ), Stewart Street, Marsden Road, Pennant Hills Rd ( Cumberland Highway ).
For the Guardian Building, he had assembled a multitude of artisans, mosaicists, sculptors, painters, and tile manufacturers including Corrado Parducci, muralist Ezra Winter, and tile from the Rookwood and Pewabic pottery companies.
* Augustus Rookwood, a character from the Harry Potter series
The Rookwood Cemetery Line serviced Rookwood Cemetery and originally ran from Mortuary railway station, on Regent Street near Central railway station but has since closed.
A version of this image from a second source with a wider field of viewThe old Funerary Station at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, now All Saints Church in Ainslie, ACT.

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