Ever since my visit to Wagragobilly Cemetery (see here ) I have been wanting to find out more about the cemetery and the people buried there and today’s snippet helps me to do just that. In 1900 the government of the day decided to resume 65 acres that it had allocated to Aboriginal people near Brungle. It also decided that the cemetery that Aboriginal people had established for themselves would not be permitted to have any future interments there and that determined that they should be buried in the unsectarian portion of Wagra Cemetery (Wagragobilly cemetery is refererred to as Wagra Cemetery with great frequency in this era) five miles away instead. This must of devasted the local Aboriginal community! Not being able to be buried in a cemetery you had established as a community and had family members in is heartbreaking and very unfair. Wagragobilly cemetery today does not even have clearly defined portion markers, so I don’t know at present where these burial...
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