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.
Glenmore Historic Cemetery, Rothbury, NSW
It may seem strange that I’m including this under Pokolbin but in my notes when I took these photos back in 2006, I’d noted it as a small cemetery near Pokolbin. This site tells us a little more about it. http://www.interment.net/data/aus/nsw/hunter/glenmore/index.htm
This cemetery is also known as Peacock Hill Cemetery per this commissioned study by the Cessnock Council. http://C1617-72-Community-Engagement-Masterplanning-for-Cemeteries–Cessnock-Cemeteries-Masterplan-Report-March-2019–Studio-GL-website-doc.pdf
Family history across the seas 
Another cemetery in my ‘hood. I see some local Tombstone Touring in my future.
Wondering if Mr Butler’s students witnessed his demise.
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Yes, I wondered that too Jill. It would have been confronting for them.
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Obituaries in the local papers can be so useful. I am very grateful for all the digitisation that makes them accessible to us and fills in the stories.
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I knew someone who used to teach at Pokolbin School but as far as I know he is still very much alive. Some of my husband’s family still live in the area. Interesting stories.
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Hopefully teaching there isn’t jinxed.
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It’s awesome to find the older obituaries. They often tell it like it was… not like ones of today
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Oh, I remember your blog previous years! I confess I am not as much into cemetery research as I once was. I’m in Arizona in the U.S. southwest and my ancestors for the most part are East of the Mississippi and North of the Ohio rivers. But old obituaries tell so much… and probate records.
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They sure do.
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This cemetery looks to be quite old, judging by the stones. I see Alfred Joass has one of those garden plot graves you showed in an earlier post. A shame no one is planting anything in it.
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Yes it started in 1870 which I guess isn’t all that old but some stones seem to weather worse than others. You’ve had me thinking about those garden plot graves, and from memory I’ve rarely seen any planted out.
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Apparently they are also called cradle graves, depending on the configuration. Here’s an article about some being planted. https://hiddencityphila.org/2017/08/gardeners-bring-cradle-graves-back-from-the-dead/
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They look so lovely planted up. Perhaps ours are usually bedraggled or unplanted because of very different weather.
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Another place that I haven’t heard of Pauleen. I do like to read an obituary when I see a headstone. They contain so much detailed information.
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Obituaries are great and it’s so frustrating if one can’t be found especially when there’s a reference to an accident etc.
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