Lonely Graves Australia

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Location: Australia
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Australia

This is part of the Cemeterist Project

Contents 1 Lonely Graves 1.1 South Australia 1.2 Victoria 1.3 Western Australia 2 Volunteering 3 Lonely Grave Resources 4 Sources

Lonely Graves

Many people died in remote places throughout Australian History, and taking the body to a grave yard or cemetery was not possible. These people ended up buried in remote and isolated places, on family farmsteads, or in long forgotten tiny cemeteries.

Lonely graves have been defined as:

...a lonely grave as a single or small group of graves outside recognised or currently used cemeteries, and no more than 20 burial plots per burial location. ^[1]

South Australia

Barritt Grave - Quaker Meeting House. Source Credit/Citation: Barritt Grave, Quaker Meeting House Grounds (North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia). Maryann and Joseph Barritt's headstone. Personally photographed by Anne Tichborne.

• Thomas Clark grave at Chapman River. White cross inscribed Thomas Clark (1894) View image here. Under a pepper tree on the western approach road to the Chapman River camp grounds, Lashmar Conservation Park. Adjacent to grave of Jane Lashmar with similar marker. ^[2]
• Jane Lashmar grave at Chapman River. White cross inscribed Jane Lashmar(1847-1866) View image here. Under a pepper tree on the western approach road to the Chapman River camp grounds, Lashmar Conservation Park. Adjacent to grave of Tom Clark with similar marker. ^[3]

Victoria

• There are three lonely graves on a farm near Monbulk, in Southern Gippsland.
  • Two of them are for the infant sons of a pioneering family.
  • The other is of 88-year old John Goldsmith, an immigrant from Wexford, Ireland. ^[4]

Western Australia

• George Brown (1868-1905) died at Cuddingwara Pool, 17 miles west of Coodardy Station, 40 miles from Cue. Buried where found.

Volunteering

Do you have any photos of lonely graves you can add?

One of the best ways to contribute to the Lonely Graves Australia page is by adding photographs that you have personally taken. You will be given credit for the photograph.

Another way is to do research into who is buried where. Possibly by looking at newspaper obituaries.

Adding WikiTree profiles for the people who are buried in lonely graves.

Lonely Grave Resources

• Lonely Graves Western Australia
• Repair and Maintenance of Lonely Graves article with a PDF downloadable tip sheet
• Lonely Graves South Australia
• http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/07/27/lonely-graves/
• http://www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/records/record.php?record_id=400

Sources

1. ↑ Jaunay, Graham. Graham Jaunay, genealogist: Ancestral and local history researcher. http://www.jaunay.com/lonelygraves.html accessed 28 Dec 2018
2. ↑ Kangaroo Island Pioneers Assoc.
3. ↑ Kangaroo Island Pioneers Assoc.
4. ↑ I originally found a document with this information in the library of the Institute for Genealogical Studies, in Blackburn Victoria. Further information was found in a book in the Leongatha library. In a 'Google' search I have found a full account of these three deaths, together with a photograph of the graves (See: South Gippsland Genealogical Society Inc. Newsletter, June 2013, Volume 4 No. 02 - Page 5).- Al Orton