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    1. cemetery at Goodna Asylum (aka Woogaroo Asylum)
    2. Kerry Raymond
    3. Someone was asking a while ago about a cemetery at Goodna Asylum. Well, I think we have an aswer for you ... We visited Goodna General Cemetery in Stuart Rd Goodna today, and there was a plaque at the entrance gate that said ... Heritage Place Goodna Cemetery An initiative of the Ipswich City Council The New South Wales Government proclaimed Goodna Cemetery as a cemetery in 1859. The earliest tombstone dates back to 1864 but the first recorded burial did not occur until November 1873. In the 1940s, when a road was being constructed, 192 bodies of former Woogaroo Asylum patients were exhumed and relocated to the Goodna Cemetery. In 1970 the remaining headstones at the Asylum were also transferred to the Goodna Cemetery. Kerry

    05/07/2005 07:59:08