Cemetery Records

There are lots of sad stories within the Muttaburra region in relation to deaths, as the below newspaper stories state:
DISCOVERY of HUMAN Remains –The police at Tambo have telegraphed to the Commissioner of Police that a human skeleton has been found six miles from Muttaburra. There is nothing to lead to the identification of the remains.
[1882 ‘Warwick Hospital.’ Warwick Argus (Old.: 1879 – 1901), 15 July, p. 2., viewed 25 Mar 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75664470]

The mailman from Muttaburra to Hughenden reports having found a man dead, 10 miles from Cameron Downs. He is supposed to have died from thirst. There are 50 miles without water on this road.
[1882 ‘LATE CABLEGRAMS.’ The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW: 1843 – 1893), 12 December, p. 6., viewed 25 Mar 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article863712]

We don’t know the total number of deaths and probably never will but we have tried to do our best.

This comprehensive database containing details of people who are buried in the Muttaburra Cemetery and known local property graves. There is a pictorial record available of all headstones.

RESERVE FOR CEMETERY.
Town of Muttaburra.
County of Cumberland, parish unnamed.
15 acres.
Commencing at a point bearing 245 degrees 8 minutes and distant seventy-seven chains and ninety-one links from the north -west corner of section 3, and bounded thence on the north-east by a line bearing 340 degrees fifteen chains; on the north-west by a line bearing 250 degrees ten chains; on the south-west by a line bearing 160 degrees fifteen chains; and on the south-east by a line bearing 70 degrees ten chains to the point of commencement.
Given under my Hand and Seal, at Government House, Brisbane, this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and in the forty-ninth year of Her Majesty’s reign.
By Command,
C. B. DUTTON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
[This is when the Cemetery that is in use today was gazetted by the government]

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