Destruction Of Graves

Posted by admin in genealogy and tagged with history, Karrakatta Cemetery, Payneham Cemetery, South Australia, Western Australia March 7, 2013

In Western Australia’s Karrakatta cemetery as well as Payneham Cemetery in Adelaide, South Australia and other cemeteries across Australia, headstones are being removed and grave sites re-used. I’ve written about the destruction of headstones at Payneham cemetery previously; http://blog.kyliesgenes.com/2012/04/removal-of-headstones-payneham-cemetery-south-australia/

What Can Be Done About It?

Sandra Playle has started a petition asking the Western Australian government to bring an end to the clearing of headstones in Western Australian cemeteries. I’ve signed it and I hope that many more people will too. Sign the petition!

Cleared headstones and monuments at Karrakatta cemetery

Thanks to Chris from That Moment In Time for this poem.

GRANDMA’S FOUNDATION

I went to visit Grandma
Her stone it wasn’t there
I thought I made an error
But I did look everywhere
It was then I noticed rubble
Right against the fence
And a dumpster full of rubbish
It really was quite dense.
Then I saw my Grandma’s name
As if she was calling me
“Please help me darling granddaughter
Will you please help me be free
For crushing is the next step
Road base they say they need
I suspect that that is just a cover up
It all comes down to greed.
The land here’s rather valuable
I heard the workmen say
My lovely stone you saved for
Will be destroyed today.”
(c) Crissouli

Cleared headstones at Payneham Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia

Removal Of Headstones Payneham Cemetery, South Australia

Posted by admin in genealogy and tagged with cemeteries, history, Willison's Farm April 7, 2012

I was surprised by my distress today in seeing large areas of Payneham Cemetery being prepared for reuse.

Payneham Cemetery, Adelaide

I hope that everyone was contacted before the headstones were moved.

Payneham Cemetery, Adelaide

It seems such a shame to move headstones at all, we are loosing so much of our history. I think that at the least all headstones should be photographed, the inscriptions recorded and all of the information and photos put in an online database for everyone to access freely.

I just want to encourage everyone to keep taking photographs and videos of everything around them- our families obviously, our flora and fauna, historical buildings, homes, churches, parks, the streets where we live and the cemeteries and headstones. If we don’t record what we’ve got we’ll loose it. I want to be able to show so many things to my grandchild who is due in October!!

An old family farmhouse is possibly going to be demolished and the property used for housing. I don’t want to see it go. It’s Willison’s Farm, Lot 5o Golden Grove Rd, Modbury, South Australia. If you would like to know more please leave a comment here or on our Facebook Page.

Willison's Farm and Historic Vineyard

The Dawn – A Journal For The Australian Household New On Trove

Posted by admin in genealogy, tech and tagged with Australia, digitisation, history, suffrage, women March 8, 2012

I’ve been interested in the Digitise The Dawn project from the time I first heard about it. This newspaper is a historian’s and genealogist’s delight.

Louisa Lawson

“The Dawn” was published monthly in Sydney, Australia from May 1888 until it’s final issue in July 1905. Touted as a journal for the Australian household, it was filled with recipes, dress patterns, beauty advice and household hints, much like you might expect in any women’s magazine. It also contained articles on more serious matters of women’s right to vote, their struggle for equal pay and divorce law reform. But in an age where women around the world were struggling to gain the right to vote, and ask for equal pay for equal work, what set “The Dawn” apart was the fact it was produced, printed and published by an all woman team, under the leadership of the formidable Louisa Lawson. Taken from an article by Donna Benjamin, you can read the rest of the article here.

Today all the issues of The Dawn are available on Trove in honour of International Women’s Day.

Article From the Front Page of the First Issue

I’ve read a few articles and done some searches but haven’t found anything relating to my ancestors but it has given me a greater understanding of the times they lived in. I will certainly be reading and searching some more!