Thanks Wendy - it looks fantastic from its website - tidy even each grave is weedless. We are talking the same place? D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy" <wendyfensom@optusnet.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic >I have a few ancestors who lived up there (mining area) and some of the > children died and were buried in the cemetery. I found it after quite a > bit > of searching - up the top of a mountain and in the bush, several metres in > from the road and not sign-posted as far as I recall - climbing over > blackberries and rocks and tombs covered in long grass and dodging the > invisible snakes. I didn't find what I was looking for but I was not > surprised. > > There are a few tombs and headstones there but not many. It has not been > used or cared for since goodness knows when. I'm afred I don't know if > there is a list of burials but there may be at the Kyneton or Malmsbury > libraries. I'd give Carol a hoy. > > Cheers, > Wendy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Denise" <denisem@powerup.com.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:45 PM > Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic > > >> It is and why? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wendy" <wendyfensom@optusnet.com.au> >> To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:43 PM >> Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic >> >> >> > Hi Denise, >> > Carol Dale was going to Malmsburn - Blackwood is not so far from there > if >> > it >> > is the same one I know. i go up to Trentham a few times a year to >> > visit >> > friends - just nearby also. What did you have in mind?? If it is the >> > Blackwood cemetery I don't recommend it.... >> > W >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Denise" <denisem@powerup.com.au> >> > To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:15 PM >> > Subject: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic >> > >> > >> >> Does anyone on the list live near Blackwood? >> >> >> >> regards >> >> Denise >> >> >>

What is the website please Denise? Maybe there is another cemetery there now. it's a nice little town if it's the same one. Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise" <denisem@powerup.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic > Thanks Wendy - it looks fantastic from its website - tidy even each grave is > weedless. > We are talking the same place? > > D > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wendy" <wendyfensom@optusnet.com.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:01 PM > Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic > > > >I have a few ancestors who lived up there (mining area) and some of the > > children died and were buried in the cemetery. I found it after quite a > > bit > > of searching - up the top of a mountain and in the bush, several metres in > > from the road and not sign-posted as far as I recall - climbing over > > blackberries and rocks and tombs covered in long grass and dodging the > > invisible snakes. I didn't find what I was looking for but I was not > > surprised. > > > > There are a few tombs and headstones there but not many. It has not been > > used or cared for since goodness knows when. I'm afred I don't know if > > there is a list of burials but there may be at the Kyneton or Malmsbury > > libraries. I'd give Carol a hoy. > > > > Cheers, > > Wendy > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Denise" <denisem@powerup.com.au> > > To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:45 PM > > Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic > > > > > >> It is and why? > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Wendy" <wendyfensom@optusnet.com.au> > >> To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:43 PM > >> Subject: Re: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic > >> > >> > >> > Hi Denise, > >> > Carol Dale was going to Malmsburn - Blackwood is not so far from there > > if > >> > it > >> > is the same one I know. i go up to Trentham a few times a year to > >> > visit > >> > friends - just nearby also. What did you have in mind?? If it is the > >> > Blackwood cemetery I don't recommend it.... > >> > W > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> > From: "Denise" <denisem@powerup.com.au> > >> > To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > >> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:15 PM > >> > Subject: [HC] Blackwood - so off topic > >> > > >> > > >> >> Does anyone on the list live near Blackwood? > >> >> > >> >> regards > >> >> Denise > >> >> > >> >