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Joseph is Buried in the same vicinity as Isabella in Rookwood Cemetery, and you are correct about Isabella sponsoring Joseph as the paper work states (have a second confirmation from a family descendant as well)  and then Joseph sponsored his wife to be "Fanny" who came over on the "Spitfire". 

Hi Monica, Yes I do Have a subscription. What I have been finding is that so many people have been modifying the information to make that person fit in with their family (so much isn't accurate), as well as the time when I guess every one wasn't perfect readers and writers and everything was  recorded on paper. I was reading that many people of the day changed surnames or spelling of or lied about age or dates for what ever reason to survive or for certain circumstances. Where as today if you try and hide or change some thing, It too hard as Google and Facebook are there to catch you out. So when I first signed up I had clicked 8 generation s of family history , sat back and was chuffed with myself that I had solved the Wardrop mystery in 30 minutes, fast forward 31 minutes and nothing was linning up not only was my great great great grandfather still alive but he also had 65 children lived in the US was a Factory Laborour and a Ships Captain at the same time etc...... So now Im slowly going back and piecing it together correctly.

Sorry "Mary" half sister

Hi JM can you please explain to a stupid 37 year old how the Telegram worked?. Are you saying that a member of the family in Scotland posted the Obituary so that Joseph the son in Sydney could see that his father had died?

Hello my name is Anthony,
                                      Please before telling me Ive posted in the wrong place, asked the wrong thing etc... please be kind as this is the first forum I have posted on and believe me I have paid a lot of money to ancestry sites before finally posting here.Three generations of Wardrops have passed on without one story of how we made it to Australia and where in Scotland we are from. William Wardrop who died on the 20Th August 1872 at 22 Melville Street, Glasgow at the age of 85 after working as a Chemist for almost 50 years as a chemist for Charles Tennant & Co St. Rollox. That would place him around 1787 born. The only reason I know these specifics is his son Joseph Bogle Wardrop placed them in the Sydney Morning Herald news paper in honour of his father, who to be honest without this strange obituary request I would have zero link to Scotland. if anyone has any way to find out where the grave could be any other family members any historical sites to look up Charles Tennant & Co old photographs as a Chemist is a specific job and even though I think there was 1000 employees you can guarantee a lot more would be labourers then Chemical Chemists. Thank you in advance to anyone who might even give me a direction. Cheers Anthony Wardrop