Saturday's Snapshots: Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery

I took a research trip to the Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery to see where Laura Stevens (see post here) was buried. My efforts to try and confirm that she is my missing relative have thus far not been successful. The cemetery authorities have no record of her burial in this cemetery (see here) and there is no marker for her grave there either. I was informed that that council only took over management of the cemetery in 1969 and prior to that the records were maintained by the various Churches with many records being lost or poorly kept. Many of the graves in this cemetery are unmarked or in such a state of disrepair that you can no longer determine who is buried in that position.
I was not surprised that Laura Stevens grave was unmarked as she was a cook and laundress at Oberne Station, Humula and no family were with her when she died. The Deputy Coroner had filled out her death certificate with most of her personal details being recorded as not known and she had been buried possibly before her family found out about her death; they certainly did not know about it in time to get to the funeral (according to newspaper reports at the time).
I did however find Vincent Levy Greene's grave and have updated the post concerning him here. I also found the grave of Vincent's father William James Greene who died in 1931 in another of the Roman Catholic sections of this cemetery but unfortunately his grave has no marker on it.

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.1. Somewhere in this area Laura Stevens is buried.

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.1

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.1. As you can see there are many unmarked graves.

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.1.

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.1. Grave of Vincent Levy Greene.

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No. 2a

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.2a

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Roman Catholic No.2a. This is the area where William James Greene is recorded as being buried. He was the husband of my Great Grand Aunt Bridget Stevens and also the father of Vincent Levy Greene, who was a child from his second marriage to Mary Florence Levy.

Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, location Chinese Section.

The Kendall Children.

I started this post a while ago and was going to finally finish and post it yesterday however our four grandchildren came over and I got sidetracked. Our grandchildren range in age now from six down to one; they are so full of life (each of them lights up a room when they enter it) and we feel extremely blessed to have them in our lives. After spending the afternoon researching this post, their arrival made this tragedy even more poignant for me and so I appreciated their company even more than usual and hugged them a bit tighter too! This morning I woke up to a cold, wet and windy Wagga day and the thought of three little girls out in August weather like this, in light weight dresses with no shoes or jumpers impacted on me even more. Those poor babies! One of the girls was found still clasping her doll that she had carried with her over the whole tragic journey. When my husband and I were looking around the Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery some time ago we came across a very sad he

My First Fleet Connection - Mary Turner (aka Mary Wilkes/Wilks)

My 5th Great Grandmother Mary Turner (also known as Mary Wilks/Wilkes) is my earliest known and documented Australian relative. She was tried at Worcester on 5th March 1785 and sentenced to seven years. Mary arrived on the ship Lady Penrhyn in 1788. It seems the 5th of March was not an auspicious trial date for Mary in 1785 or later in 1789! On the 5th March 1789 she was tried for stealing six cabbages from the garden of William Parr, she was found guilty and sentenced to 50 lashes. Later in March 1789 she also was in trouble for her testimony in the trial of Royal Marines accused of stealing from the government stores (six of them were found guilty and executed) in which it was believed by some that she had perjured herself. Mary was sent to Norfolk Island in 1790 on board the ship Sirius . Apparently she stayed on Norfolk Island until 1793 when she returned to Port Jackson on board the ship Kitty . Her de facto relationship with David Batty (a Third Fleet convict who

Time for a happy dance! Well kind of .....poor Catherine!

Brickwall knocked down at last! Catherine Rhall was murdered by her partner James Baker Worldon on the 14th February 1855 at Beechworth. The Trove articles do involve my 4th Great Grandparents James Baker Worldon and Catherine Rhall! I guess the family tree book will need updating now ;) I looked up the following record from the Public Record of Victoria and bingo the details match my ancestors records. Catherine Rhall's fate is now known at last, she was murdered by her partner and he was only sentenced to two years imprisonment for it and by the look of it was released early in 1856! I also found out he used the alias Milbank, which will give me new avenues for future research. Public Record Office of Victoria Series title: Central Register of Male Prisoners Sub-Item title: Worldon, James; (Milbank); (Jas Baker Worldon): No. 2265 Sub-Item number: Page 199 Date range: 1854 Public access: Open Format: Digital Source: Public Record Office Of Victoria.

Crissouli8 March 2019 at 10:00
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Thank you, Chris
Tracing Family Branches8 March 2019 at 10:10
Thanks Chris. There are a lot of Irish burials there we noticed, when my leg is up to more of a roam about I intend to go back and investigate further.

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