Hi Folks; Another interesting issue that has arisen. It adds to an early posting that I made re Avoca Forest or Logan Cemetery. With my research into old Victorian cemeteries I have found information in an old cemetery file that there was a burial ground/cemetery at Kooreh just out of St Arnaud in Victoria. It would appear that the cemetery was never gazetted nor had Trustees. In a memo dated: 1 August, 1890 from the Inspectors's Office, Maryborough Police Station, to the Superintendent of Police, Sandhurst was the following: "I beg to bring under the notice of the Supt that there is an allotment of land adjoining the homestead of Mr Vanrenen's Avoca Forest Station, and near Logan Post Office, which was used as a burial ground during the rush. ...It contains about a dozen graves. No grave was opened in it for many years until 5 May last, when the child of a man named Thomas Cummings was buried there. The death of the child was duly registered and I am informed that other members of his family were buried there. I am told that the cemetery was not opened with the consent of the Governor-In-Council nor gazetted as such, in accordance with the Act. There are no Trustees nor Regulations for its Management, neither is a book kept for the registration of burials. As the cemetery in it present condition affords facilities for the secret burials of any person whose death may be due to violence, I would suggest that this report be forwarded to the proper authority, with the view of having burials in this ground prohibited, or, if allowed that it may be under proper management." Accordingly, in the Victorian Government Gazette on the 24th October, 1890 there was a notice of Burials In the Kooreh Cemetery to be Discontinued. This was approved by the Governor In Council on 16 October, 1890. I now believe that the Kooreh Cemetery was probably called the Avoca Forest Cemetery or Logan Cemetery. I have located death certificates noting burials at the Avoca Forest Cemetery from 1871 to 1878. Can any member advise me of the following in regards to this Kooreh burial ground: (a). Is the burial ground/cemetery still there today? (b). The names of any/all the dozen or so burials in it? (c). Any information about this burial ground; ie was it also known as the Avoca Forest Cemetery? It is interesting to note old cemeteries/burial grounds have a number of different names during their history or in various official documents. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, David ------------------------------------------- David Weatherill Bundoora Victoria Australia