The first burial in Cairns took
place on the 16th December 1877
in the McLeod Street Cemetery and in that year there was a total
of fifteen burials
Located alongside the Kuranda to Cairns railway line, this cemetery
is classified as a registered Pioneer Cemetery
and is managed by the Council subject to conditions from the Environmental
Protection Agency
It is now closed for burials and is classified a cultural and
historic site
There is an information rotunda within the grounds providing information
on the location of graves and those buried
Not all graves in the cemetery have headstones
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.
A
note from Sharon
Hey Lesley
You need to get your Historical Society up here to get stuck into
this Cemetery
I wanted to spruce it up myself !!
There has been some restoration but most of it is neglected and
sad looking
We have been meaning to go there for years
I read the people's name out loud
so even though they have been dead for over a hundred years, I
remembered them for a minute
So many babies and children and there were not too many old people
there
Lots of them died from "some fever" !!
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One child died in 1878
aged 6 years 1 month
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Another child died in 1882
aged 2 years 4 months
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Then another in 1884
aged 1 year 5 months
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A fourth child died in 1889
aged 2 years 5 months
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Then the mother, Margaret Redden, died
in 1904
aged 61 years 5 months
