Kerry, Many thanks for your suggestion ref Lang Park. Do you know of any source of information about that cemetery or records that were used for the exhumations, that can be accessed on line. We certainly did not expect anything from that date to be still extant! We can but speculate whether he was buried in goal (not jail), outside the touchline or where-ever!! Thanks for your help, regards Robert Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> To: "Robert & Elaine Wade" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [AQ-BRISBANE] The Wesleyan Burial Place - Brisbane > 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 > > > > > >

> Many thanks for your suggestion ref Lang Park. Do you know of any source of > information about that cemetery or records that were used for the > exhumations, that can be accessed on line. I don't know of an on-line resource but Qld State Archives describe their Brisbane General [aka Toowong] burial registers as an 8 volume series of which: "The fourth register (Item 4) includes - in red ink - entries for the 1913-1914 re-interments from graves that were exhumed from the Paddington Cemetery when it closed. In place of the Paddington Cemetery now stands the Suncorp Stadium." Although most of the re-interments were in Toowong Cemetery, some re-interments also went to other cemeteries if families explicitly requested. I don't know if the burial registers of these other cemeteries do or don't record the re-interments. Kerry