Would some kind soul who lives in or close to Launceston and can visit the Charles Street cemetery please check some graves for me. The TAMIOT gives these five entries (Name - Date died - Charles St Cemetery Plot Location): George RANKIN - 3 Jan 1837 - LN05/0518-1 Alexander RANKIN - 8 Sep 1877 - LN05/0518-2 Esther RANKIN - 10 Jun 1852 - LN05/0518-3 Elizabeth RANKIN - 2 Jun 1852 - LN05/0518-4 Barbara RANKIN - 22 Sep 1877 - LN05/0518-5 Alexander and Esther were married and the others are three of their six children. The numbering system leads me to think that there is only one location and thus possibly only one tombstone or monument. I would like to know. Eventually I would like to visit Launceston and see the above graves but for now I would like to know if they actually exist, do they have tombstones and what condition they are in (ie readable). Pictures would be nice but a description would be very good. I live in Melbourne and willing to do something here in return for this favour. Rade

Sorry Rade the Charles Street cemetery has been long gone. Regards Maureen Martin in Launceston ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Cooke" <radeau69@hotmail.com> To: <AUS-TAS-SURNAMES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:04 PM Subject: [AUS-TAS-SURNAMES] Launceston Charles St Cemetery - Visit > Would some kind soul who lives in or close to Launceston and can visit the Charles Street cemetery please check some graves for me. > > The TAMIOT gives these five entries (Name - Date died - Charles St Cemetery Plot Location): > > George RANKIN - 3 Jan 1837 - LN05/0518-1 > Alexander RANKIN - 8 Sep 1877 - LN05/0518-2 > Esther RANKIN - 10 Jun 1852 - LN05/0518-3 > Elizabeth RANKIN - 2 Jun 1852 - LN05/0518-4 > Barbara RANKIN - 22 Sep 1877 - LN05/0518-5 > > Alexander and Esther were married and the others are three of their six children. > > The numbering system leads me to think that there is only one location and thus possibly only one tombstone or monument. I would like to know. > > Eventually I would like to visit Launceston and see the above graves but for now I would like to know if they actually exist, do they have tombstones and what condition they are in (ie readable). Pictures would be nice but a description would be very good. > > I live in Melbourne and willing to do something here in return for this favour. > > Rade > > > ==== AUS-TAS-SURNAMES Mailing List ==== > Link your Webpages to the Australian Families WebRing - lets unite!! > The navigation bar is located at: > Http://hometown.aol.com/romniroser/myhomepage/newsletter.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

The cemetery is now a park - (I see you've had a reply to this - thought I'd fill in a bit more detail) - a pretty park - lots of trees, but I believe part of the hospital - which backs onto it, is also covering part of the previous cemetery. You're lucky to get details off TAMIOT, as apparently there was a fire in the caretaker's cottage at one stage and many records were lost........... ........... including those of my gr.gr.grandmother who I know is buried there, and as I can't find where her spouse is (Hannah's is known by a death notice in the paper) it's really frustrating. In NZ - there's never been a cemetery wantonly destroyed as in Oz and parts of UK. We've had a terrible fuss kicked up here when they put a couple of motorways through two of the biggest, but memorials, re-interment of ashes (those removed were cremated) etc. all survive - where records did exist that is. Some didn't. It's not as if there's a shortage of land in Oz!!!!! St David's in Hobart no longer exists as a cemetery, nor the Jewish one in Harrington St, Hobart (it's now a block of flats!!). There's one out in the back-blocks (near Eldon) that's now a ploughed field etc. etc........... Is this just endemic of Tasmania or do you have the same "disrespect' (for want of a better word) in the Melbourne area?? I admit, I think a lot of ours stems from the Maori belief system in "tapu"/sacred ground.......... so it's probably one reason why we here are so lucky. Having said that, the state of disrepair and vandalism is saddening and sickening................. Jools NEW ZEALAND From: "Graham Cooke" <radeau69@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:04:12 +1100 To: AUS-TAS-SURNAMES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-TAS-SURNAMES] Launceston Charles St Cemetery - Visit Would some kind soul who lives in or close to Launceston and can visit the Charles Street cemetery please check some graves for me. The TAMIOT gives these five entries (Name - Date died - Charles St Cemetery Plot Location): George RANKIN - 3 Jan 1837 - LN05/0518-1 Alexander RANKIN - 8 Sep 1877 - LN05/0518-2 Esther RANKIN - 10 Jun 1852 - LN05/0518-3 Elizabeth RANKIN - 2 Jun 1852 - LN05/0518-4 Barbara RANKIN - 22 Sep 1877 - LN05/0518-5 Alexander and Esther were married and the others are three of their six children. The numbering system leads me to think that there is only one location and thus possibly only one tombstone or monument. I would like to know. Eventually I would like to visit Launceston and see the above graves but for now I would like to know if they actually exist, do they have tombstones and what condition they are in (ie readable). Pictures would be nice but a description would be very good. I live in Melbourne and willing to do something here in return for this favour. Rade ______________________________