by Cemetery Admin | Oct 9, 2020 | Stories
BCO-GN-08-105-24-02 Anne married Patrick Curtain on 18 June 1846 at St Francis Church. Melbourne.
by Cemetery Admin | Oct 9, 2020 | Stories
BCO-DN-09-105-03 Emily Cherry trained as a nurse at the Ballarat Hospital. She was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service. Her married name was Emily Ireland. She died on 02 July 1962, aged 72, and was buried in the Ballarat Old Cemetery....
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Stories
BCO-JAB-1-105-53 Sarah Bell was born at Scarsdale, Victoria, and trained as a nurse at the Ballarat District hospital for three years. During World War One she enlisted at the age of 33 into the 1st Australian General Hospital. Her next of kin was her mother Mary Bell...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Stories
Mary Morrison was living in Ballarat at the time she signed the Women’s Petition. She was born in 1863 in a small gold-mining settlement not far from Ballarat and close by father worked at the diggings at Dolly’s Creek. Due to ill health as a miner, he was...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Stories
BCO-HX-04-1-105-11-04 Mary Sutton married Richard Henry Sutton who founded a music firm in a tent on the Ballarat goldfield in 1854. After a short stint as a miner he had found that playing a homemade concertina in his tent at night attracted crowds and he...
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