by Jenny Coates | 5 Mar 2024 | Cemeteries, North East Victoria, Wangaratta, Wangaratta cemetery
This edition of Beyond the Headstone features the Dale family. The headstone is important as a rare surviving example from this period, but also because it signals quite clearly that the Tone Rd cemetery was in use in early to mid 1854. It is fairly certain that the...
by Jenny Coates | 22 Dec 2023 | Cemeteries, Wangaratta, Wangaratta cemetery
The Beyond the Headstones series of posts was inspired after having spent a bit of time in Wangaratta cemetery, visiting loved ones, attending funerals or wandering around taking photos. In some sections I have been known to point at a headstone and exclaim “I...