GELANTIPY STATION GRAVES
41 ROGERS ROAD GELANTIPY, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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GELANTIPY STATION GRAVES - History
Up to 9 people are believed to be buried here. Marked grave is of Arthur Chapel Burnand, died 18 Jan 1880 at Bayrook selection, Gelantipy Station, a remittance man who had been in the colony for 4 years. He died when he fell from a horse, and the headstone is believed to have been sent out from London. Other known burials include Clark Turner Statham, aged 51/57, who died 31 January 1878 after taking strychnin (suicide), leaving a wife & 3 children. He was the manager of Gelantipy Station, and felt he would be blamed for a 1400-head shortfall in the annual muster. Also Henry Unruh, aged 25 years, who was killed by a falling tree on 8 September 1892. Henry was a German labourer.Heritage Inventory Description
GELANTIPY STATION GRAVES - Heritage Inventory Description
The one marked grave is surrounded by a white post and 3-rail fence measuring 2.7 metres long by 2.2 metres wide, and 1.1 metres high. The grave surface is earth, and is raised slightly above the ground level. The grave is adjacent to a grove of Hawthorn trees. The marble, gabled headstone is broken in 3 and set in a concrete block. Original cemetery had a wire fence which enclosed the Hawthorn trees. No other burial mounds are visible.
The surviving marked grave is situated in the middle of a flattish grazing paddock, and is clearly visible from the Buchan-Gelantipy Road. The old graveyard sits on a small point overlooking swampy ground to the south, and is visible from the station homestead. The land in the vicinity has a strongly rural aspect.
Physical Conditions: Marked grave: good. Other grave sites: poor (not visible)
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GELANTIPY STATION GRAVESVictorian Heritage Inventory
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