The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists 176 World War One servicemen and women as being buried in Coburg General Cemetery in Bell Street (or now the Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery to use the official Commission designation). The Cemetery appears to have been the preferred place of burial for many of those that died while in […]
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Warringal Cemetery : At War
Commonwealth War Graves Commission records list seventeen First World War servicemen that were interred in the Warringal (or Heidelberg) Cemetery. With just two exceptions of men who died in camp, all died in 1919 or later and after returning from the Western Front – the lateness of the deaths coincided with the establishment of a […]
Nillumbik Cemetery
In 1867, 2 acres of land was set aside and trustees from 6 denominations appointed to oversee establishment of the Nillumbik cemetery at Diamond Creek. It stands as a record of the pioneering families of the district and little has changed little since its foundation, although a fire early in the 20th century destroyed fences, […]
St Katherine’s Church, St Helena
The story of St. Katherine’s Church begins on the Island of St Helena in the Atlantic ocean, where Anthony Beale was born on 3 November 1790. Anthony became Paymaster for the East India Company which then controlled the island on behalf of the British Crown. On 15 June 1814 he married Katherine Rose Young, niece […]
Yan Yean Public Cemetery
Yan Yean Public Cemetery: an historical overview By Lindsay Mann Copyright © Yan Yean Public Cemetery Trust, 2009. The Yan Yean Public Cemetery had its genesis in either 1853 or 1854, when the first death occurred among the labourers employed by Joseph Martindale, the contractor who constructed the Yan Yean Reservoir’s Embankment. Martindale was legally […]
Eltham Cemetery
The Eltham Cemetery is situated on the corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Cemetery Road, Eltham in the Shire of Nillumbik. The Eltham Cemetery Trust, established in 1858, selected the site on high ground overlooking the village of Eltham. Trustees appointed from various church and local organisations have administered and maintained the cemetery to this […]
Greensborough Pioneer Grave Site
The following article is partly based on an article in from “Banyule City Council Spring Outdoors Programme 2008, Greensborough & the Plenty River Pioneer Trail with Dennis Ward & Noel Withers, a ramble from the lower part of town and along the river bank learning about historic sites and the pioneering families that settled there […]
Kangaroo Ground Pioneer Cemetery
This article reproduced here with permission was first published in [The New Local]: news and views from Hurstbridge, Nutfield, Strathewen, Arthurs Creek, Panton Hill, Wattle Glen, St Andrews, Smiths Gully, Kangaroo Ground, Cottles Bridge, Doreen and Watsons Creek Issue 1 November/December 2008 page 16. The Kangaroo Ground Cemetery along the Eltham-Yarra Glen Road is the […]
Hurst Family Cemetery
Henry Facey Hurst took over the management of the Allwood Station at Upper Diamond Creek (now Hurstbridge) for first settler Cornelius Haley in 1855. In 1856 he was joined there by his parents Frances and Robert Hurst and several of his siblings. Around 1858 Henry erected a substantial log bridge across the Diamond Creek upstream […]
Greensborough Cemetery
Like most cemeteries around the world Greensborough Cemetery was created out of necessity due in part to the harsh conditions experienced by pioneers of the township and though infant mortality was common they didn’t have it on their own. William Poulter Snr owner of land along the Plenty River donated an allotment on the corner […]