Join me on my Cemetery Searching expedition for the 2023 A to Z Blog Challenge. I’ll be re-visiting some cemeteries and preparing for a wish list of others. Some family members will be mentioned but I also have an interest in German family graves as well as those of people born in Co Clare Ireland.
Ouyen Cemetery, Victoria
Mr Cassmob’s maternal grandparents, Lloyd Edwards and Ellen nee Pentland, are buried in this cemetery for the town in the Mallee district where they’d lived. My husband rarely got to his grandparents because his own family was living in Papua New Guinea. I never met his grandmother, Ellen, though I have fond memories of her wedding present – a Robert Carrier cookbook which she’d won in a competition, and for arranging a photo of our wedding in the Women’s Weekly of the day.
Ellen Pentland was born at Laen Victoria, to parents Michael Smith Pentland and Janet Black. Two of her brothers were killed during World War I. Her sisters lived in Warracknabeal, Victoria where we visited family graves.
Warracknabeal Cemetery, Victoria
And, in a random addition: from the Sevenhill district cemetery, Clare Valley, South Australia, this memorial is a recognition of the impact of the Rh negative factor and the consequent loss of children. We can be grateful that modern medicine can now manage this. Those mentioned are unrelated to the Pentlands. What a series of tragedies for Bill and Julia Quirke.
Family history across the seas 
The Quirke family suffered greatly – advances in modern medicine are encouraging.
I always find it interesting when the missing war dead are remembered on family graves – it happened quite often as bodies were not repatriated and most family would have no chance to visit France or Turkey in those days.
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Hard to imagine the pain from losing all those children.
Yes, I’ve seen the war deaths on graves quite often.. a way to make sure they weren’t forgotten. It certainly wasn’t in the Pentland family.
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I just can’t imagine what it must have been like to have lost all those children. the Quirke headstone would be one of the saddest that I’ve seen.
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I love your maternal grandparents’ grave. In the US, these are known as garden plots — and in some cities, such as Philadelphia, they have planting days were the public can plant flowers on this type of grave (which here usually has soil in the frame).
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That’s a lovely concept. Sadly it doesn’t happen here.
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They lost almost one child a year for 4 years and then the other two.
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The stone lots look so different from what we usually see. Gives more to the grave than a small headstone.
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