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.
Yungaburra, North Queensland
Yungaburra is on the Atherton Tablelands, south of Cairns and was established as a European settlement in the 1880s. https://www.yungaburra.com/local-info/yungaburra-history/
One of the early European settlers was John Musto Roseblade, whose wife, Lucy was a younger sister to my 2xgreat grandfather William Partridge from Coleford in Gloucestershire, near the Forest of Dean. Roseblade selected 153 acres in 1891.
The Roseblades arrived in Queensland in 1886 on the Duke of Westminster with their children, Charles 11, Lucy 8, Gertrude. John Musto stated his occupation was a mason and that all the family came from Wiltshire (well, not Lucy).
I was pleased to find this delightful image of Lucy and John’s son, Charles William, commencing his mail run c1905 via Trove. (2014). Charles William Roseblade commencing the mailrun over sixty Russell River Goldfields, Queensland, ca. 1905.
Family history across the seas 
That photo of Charles William is a great find.
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I was pleased, and surprised, to find it.
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The Roseblade monument is impressive. I love the expression “crossed the great divide” in Mr. J.M. Roseblade’s obituary — and how wonderful to find a photo of his son Charles.
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Yes, it was a lucky find and a surprise. It is a great expression and perhaps also harks back to exploring our Great Dividing Range into the unknown. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range
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A nice collection of obituaries.
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Our digitised newspapers are a gold mine.
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Yungaburra rolls off the tongue. I went searching for its meaning and found it to be “Meeting Place”.
It would have provided the new settlers with a different environment to Wiltshire.
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Yes it’s a smooth sound…I wonder specifically why it was a meeting place. Must check it out.
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I tried to find about “meeting place” but not much joy. Did find an article about the massacre of Indigenous peoples on the Tablelands though…utterly sickening and shameful.
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Isn’t such a feeling when we unexpectedly find a photo of an ancestor! Another interesting read and walk through your cemetery searching on the A to Z
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