KILNOORAT CEMETERY
810 KILNOORAT ROAD BOOKAAR, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
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KILNOORAT CEMETERY - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
In the late 1840s two land owners joined forces to donate 100 acres of their grazing land for a Presbyterian Church, manse and glebe and the place was called Kilnoorat. The first minister, Reverend W. Hamilton, arrived in 1847. The timber church burnt down in 1880. Nothing survives of the church today but the site of the manse marked by some bluestone blocks and a mulberry tree. The church site is about 3 kms from the cemetery.
Kilnoorat Cemetery started with burial of John McLaurin 20 November 1852, overseer of Wooriwyrite Station. It is believed that this burial may lie within the extant Anderson grave enclosure. Eugene von Gerard made a pencil drawing of the Anderson grave enclosure. Kilnoorat Cemetery was gazetted in 1865. The current research has identified 25 burials and places the last burial at the cemetery as Thomasena Shaw, aged 2, 20 April 1900.
KILNOORAT CEMETERY - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation:
Heritage Inventory Description
KILNOORAT CEMETERY - Heritage Inventory Description
Surviving portion of the original 8 acre cemetery reserve is a triangle, 47 m x 55 m x 70 m. It contains the following elements:/n1. Headstone, standing, high fenced enclosure - to Isabella wife of Robert Mitchell, 1868 (granite headstone - manufactured by Huxley Parker & Co, Melbourne)/n2. Headstone, standing - memory of Thomas Forrest, 1871/n3. Headstone, standing, high fenced enclosure - 3 burials - memory of Thomas Anderson, 1854, also Joan 1855 (bluestone). Site of first burial./n4. Headstone, standing, low fenced enclosure - Anne Turner Shaw, 1863 (white marble). Also fragment of headstone leaning out of enclosure./n5. Foundation stone (G Nash Geelong, manufacturer), no headstone, small fenced enclosure./n6. Fragments of headstone, white marble, Andrina Wagh./n7. Two headstones lying together - one has no surviving inscription; the other is Anne daughter of John and Sarah McColl, bluestone./n8. Fragment of headstone - John Duncan McColl, 1871, white marble./n0, Two sheoaks and 8 conifers (Pinus radiata)/n
Heritage Inventory Significance: Kilnoorat Cemetery is historically, socially and aesthetically important. The existing fenced land contains the core of the original cemetery reserve and retains tangible evidence including headstones, cast iron grave enclosures, grave sites and eight conifers (pinus radiata). The cemetery readily conveys not only its original purpose but also its age and long history of abandonment.
Recorded By: David Bannear & Jeremy Smith Date Recorded: 25/09/00
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KILNOORAT CEMETERYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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