• The Moonta Cemetery in Moonta, South Australia was established under the Moonta Cemetery Trust in May 1866. Burials had occurred prior to that, with the...
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  • Moonta may refer to: Moonta, South Australia, a locality in the Copper Coast Council including: East Moonta Moonta Bay Moonta Cemetery Moonta Mines North...
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  • Moonta Cemetery, Moonta Mount Crawford Cemetery, Mount Crawford Mount Gambier Pioneer Park Cemetery Lake Terrace Cemetery Carinya Gardens Cemetery North...
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  • known as South Bower, after a mining venture in the area. The historic Moonta Cemetery is located at the northern tip of Kooroona and is listed on the South...
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  • Minlaton Miners Cottage and Heritage Garden, Moonta Moonta Mines Public School, Moonta Moonta Mines Sweets Shop, Moonta Mount Laura Station, Whyalla Napper's...
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  • English and bookkeeping, later at St Peter's College. His headstone in Moonta cemetery mentions SPC but not AEI. His son J. W. O. Bennett was killed on the...
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    is used for farming. Kadina is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Moonta and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the port town of Wallaroo. There are 6...
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    Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo, was a source of prosperity for colonial South Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In its heyday Moonta was...
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    he was buried in Port Lincoln. Remarkably, he has a gravestone in Moonta cemetery which mentions SPSC but not AEI. Presentation to Mr. Thomas Bennett...
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    opened on 1 July 1890. In 1889–90, the Wallaroo and Moonta Mines merged to form the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company, becoming the largest...
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    John Scaddan (category People from Moonta, South Australia)
    Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916. John Scaddan was born in Moonta, South Australia, into a Cornish Australian family. He was educated at the...
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    Virginia City, Nevada (category Boot Hill cemeteries)
    Thomson 2000, p. 26. Smith 1943, p. 295. Payton, Philip (2007). Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall. Exeter: University of Exeter...
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    he was nicknamed and his team of about 128 men left Port Adelaide on the Moonta on 27 December 1868 and dropped anchor in Darwin Harbour on 5 February 1869...
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    vocation. In 1870, when the mine became uneconomic, he left Callington for Moonta. In 1878 he left to work as a carpenter for coachbuilder John Crimp, in...
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  • operating a store and wheat-buying business. In April 1864 he left for Moonta, where he opened a similar store, also acting as postmaster and registrar...
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  • Charles Simeon Hare (category Burials at West Terrace Cemetery)
    planter in Fiji, Hare returned to South Australia and managed a mine near Moonta. In 1875, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly, his defeat...
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    1882-1982 : including the history of Watawa, Dalysford, Takilberan Rock, New Moonta, Boolboonda, Cumonju, Tirroan, Moolboolaman, Redbank Gully, Ferry Hills...
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  • Flowers 2000 Australian native garden Coastal Garden Copper Gone House Moonta Bay SA ACGM pp. 138–151 Private Coastal Garden at Coralfern Coralfern 15...
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  • 4 January 2017. Balala Station Homestead, & Gardens, Outbuildings and Cemetery "Bedervale". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning...
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  • Gerald Wild (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    Australia in 1930, working at an ice works in Port Adelaide and at a mill in Moonta. In 1936, he went to the Western Australian goldfields, working at mines...
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    at Hoyle's Plains and on Yorke Peninsula in the vicinity of Wallaroo and Moonta. He was first educated privately, then at Bentley (near Gawler), Stanley...
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    may have made several trips between Adelaide and the "copper triangle" of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo. It was during one of these trips, while staying at...
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    Claude Marquet (category People from Moonta, South Australia)
    young children. Young Claude was educated at Moonta and Wallaroo, the port town 11 miles (18 km) north of Moonta, in schools associated with the Anglican...
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    Further copper discoveries were made in 1859 at Wallaroo and in 1861 at Moonta. In 1860 the Thorndon Park reservoir was opened, finally providing an alternative...
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    a northern capital Palmerston, later renamed Darwin. He arrived on the Moonta on 5 February 1869 leaving just short of a year later, the team having surveyed...
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  • J. W. Sutherland (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    in Coolgardie. Sutherland, like captains Hancock, Warren and Greenway at Moonta and Broken Hill, addressed the "sulphide problem", refractory ores such...
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    Creek Cemetery (also known as Flinders Cemetery) is in Barnetts Road (24°31′15″S 151°57′24″E / 24.5207°S 151.9567°E / -24.5207; 151.9567 (cemetery))....
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  • Silas Mead (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    "dismissed" by Mead to form new congregations in locations including Queenstown, Moonta, Gawler, Norwood, Hilton, and Georgetown. Mead advocated for the appointment...
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    & Co. of Thames Ditton using bronze specifically made from Wallaroo and Moonta copper. Inscribed simply with "Victoria R.I.", the statue was originally...
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    Copper Triangle, which includes the former mining towns of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo. In Moonta today, the Kernewek Lowender (Cornish for 'Cornish Happiness')...
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