• Ballaarat New Cemetery is a cemetery located in the rural city of Ballarat, Victoria in Australia. The cemetery dates back to 1867. James Esmond, gold...
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  • Ballaarat Old Cemetery is a cemetery located in the rural city of Ballarat, Victoria in Australia. The cemetery dates back to 1856, although records show...
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  • Cemetery Yarra Glen Cemetery Aberfeldy Cemetery Ararat General Cemetery Bacchus Marsh – Maddingley General Cemetery Bairnsdale Cemetery Ballaarat New...
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    state government proposed to extend the Lydiard Street route to the Ballaarat New Cemetery and Ballarat North. Despite strong patronage, the system posted...
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    Wendouree. Frederick William Commons died in 1925 and was buried in the Ballaarat New Cemetery. The company was continued on by his son, Richard Mario Commons...
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    Paul Nunan (category New Zealand Roman Catholic religious brothers)
    November 1934 aged 76 years. He was buried as Michael Paul Nunan at Ballaarat New Cemetery. He arrived in Australia with his parents 1873 from Ireland, part...
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    prior to 1858. Humffray was an Anglican, and was buried in the Ballaarat Old Cemetery, near those who had died in the Eureka rebellion. A headstone was...
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    Library of Australia. 2 December 1854. p. 1. Retrieved 13 February 2012. "BALLAARAT". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 23 October 1854...
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     81. Blake 2012, pp. 136–138. Withers 1999, p. 111. "SERIOUS RIOT AT BALLAARAT". The Argus. No. 2357. Melbourne. 28 November 1854. p. 4. Retrieved 7...
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    Peter Lalor (category Burials at Melbourne General Cemetery)
    1855 as Member for the new district of Ballaarat, and remained in this role until March 1856. In November 1856, under the new, more democratic constitution...
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    Arthur Orton (category Burials at Paddington Old Cemetery)
    relation to 'the mysterious disappearance of William Henry Clare alias Ballaarat Harry, and Thomas Took'. Orton's letters to England while he was in Hobart...
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    ground. On 22 March 1856, a diggers' memorial was erected in the Ballaarat Old Cemetery near marked graves. Sculpted in stone from the Barrabool Hills by...
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    Francis Bell (engineer) (category Burials at Rookwood Cemetery)
    Prince Alfred Bridge at Gundagai, and the Pitnacree and Dunmore bridges in New South Wales. His expertise was sought for a number of Melbourne civic works...
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    that he carried into battle is still under preservation. During the 1876 Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute Fine Arts Exhibition, Mrs Bath put a pike on display...
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    John La Gerche died on 18 November 1914 and was buried in the Ballaarat old Cemetery with his wife Nora. La Gerche was largely forgotten until the 1960s...
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    west of the Eureka Stockade Monument. Cr Jack Chisolm, president of the Ballaarat Historical Society, prepared a paper in May 1974 to stimulate discussion...
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    of Title, being Crown Allotments 5 & 6, Section 2 at Ballaarat North, City & Parish of Ballaarat, County of Brenville, Volume 3329, Folio 665687 "Index...
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    Alfred Deakin (category Burials at St Kilda Cemetery)
    was elected to the first federal Parliament as MP for the Division of Ballaarat, and became Attorney-General of Australia in the ministry headed by Edmund...
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  • died suddenly his family became quite poor. He was buried in the Ballaarat Old Cemetery and his dilapidated grave was replaced by the Victorian Fly-Fishers'...
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    was the best place for the study. Ross returned to India on P&O ship Ballaarat on 20 March 1895 and landed in Secunderabad on 24 April. Even before his...
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    Henry Sutton (inventor) (category Burials at Brighton General Cemetery)
    November 11th 1887, Photography Patent 1887, October 20th. No. 5389, Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute, Branch (2018). p.283. AU 2621  An improved detector...
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  • 20 May 1861. "In the Insolvent Estate of Frederick Henry. Coldrey, of Ballaarat, in the Colony of Victoria, Photographic Artist". The Age. Melbourne....
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    the first person to die at the stockade. Thonen was buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery. His body was later exhumed and buried with other victims of the...
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    James Scullin (category Burials at Melbourne General Cemetery)
    federal election he was selected as the Labor candidate for the Division of Ballaarat against then Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. Although a race in which Labor...
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    FHL microfilm 350,327. Bowden, Keith MacRae (1977). Goldrush doctors at Ballaarat. K. M. Bowden, Mulgrave, Victoria Bader, T. M. (1988). The roaring days:...
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    influential members of the first Australian Parliament were the member for Ballaarat, and the first Attorney General (later the Second Prime Minister of Australia)...
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