Hello Brisbane List, "William George Watt Powditch died in North Brisbane on 27 May 1856 and was buried in the Wesleyan Burial Place in Brisbane." Can anyone tell me please where the burial place was and what might be there now?? thanks alot, Robert Wade, Gold Coast Hinterland

Give the year, I would think it was a reference to the Wesleyan part of Brisbane General Cemetery. The Brisbane General Cemetery at Paddington (now Lang Park or Suncorp Stadium, as you prefer) was not one big cemetery but a series of separate areas for each denomination. In theory, all graves at this cemetery were supposed to be exhumed and reburied in other cemeteries when it was decided to use the land of the old cemetery for other purposes. However, there weren't good records of who was buried there and precisely where, so it is generally believed that many graves were not exhumed and are still beneath the stadium. Surviving headstones were relocated to other cemeteries. Kerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert & Elaine Wade" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:01 PM Subject: [AQ-BRISBANE] The Wesleyan Burial Place - Brisbane > Hello Brisbane List, > > "William George Watt Powditch died in North Brisbane on 27 May 1856 and was > buried in the Wesleyan Burial Place in Brisbane." > > Can anyone tell me please where the burial place was and what might be there > now?? > > thanks alot, > Robert Wade, > Gold Coast Hinterland > > > ==== AUS-QLD-BRISBANE Mailing List ==== > New Site Scattered Ashes > www.scatteredashes.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >