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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: Thornett on Sunday 30 December 12 02:07 GMT (UK)
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Hi everyone.
I was after some help finding the resting place of a Joseph Thornett who passed away in Point McLeay, South Australia in 1877.
I don't for sure that he was buried in Point McLeay Cemetery but was hoping someone might be able to help me with a cemetery register.
Thanks for your help.
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Hi,
His death index
Year 1877
Reg 83/204
THORNETT Joseph
Relative John THORNETT (F)
District Wellington
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Thanks Giblet.
I already have the death certificate but there was no burial listings on South Australian death certificates until a lot later on.
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No burial place on the cert. are annoying ::)
Have you looked for a death or funeral notice in Trove? Sometimes they have the cemetery name in them. It would probably be a long shot tho.
Sorry i cant find where he is buried. Maybe someone else might have more luck.
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South Australian death certificates do not show place of burial until 1948.
Point McLeay has been an Aboriginal Mission since 1859
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1317
If the two year old child was not buried at the Mission there was a possibility he was buried at Narrung Cemetery [no MI if he was] or Meningie cemetery but here is no cemetery record.
Cando
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http://www.australiancemeteries.com/sa/coorong/narrung.htm
Cando
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Thanks Cando.
They weren't at the Aboriginal Mission at the time, they were farmers. I was kind of hoping that there was a register of the cemeteries around that I couldn't find but looks like I am out of luck.
Thanks for your time cando and giblet!
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I suggest you contact
http://www.coorong.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=224
Cando
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Did you ever get any answers or a place that you can go to where they have a register of the Point McLeay Cemetery. A few of the people who were indigenous who lived on Kangaroo Island pre-settlement were sent to this Mission. All of the women and the children at the sealers camps on Kangaroo Island were captured either near Port Lincoln, near Encounter Bay and surrounds or the largest group who came from the eastern and northern coastal fringe of Tasmania. I have tracked down many of these and am trying to pin-point a group that went to Encounter Bay in around 1860 (the family of sealer John Wilkins and his wife Martha (from Eyre Peninsula) some of this family ended up across the bay at the Mission.
At least one of the Tasmanian girls ended up there as well - Ree.nan.ning.he (Little Tuery) of the Tyerrenotepanner people near Georges River died and is buried at Point McLeay. She was kidnapped in 1819, was known to have been the companion/slave of 3 men. I am trying to honor these women, their contributions, sacrifices and lives.