Non-Council operated cemeteries

Location

Location: South Street, Aubigny. View in Google Maps.

History

There were originally two churches in Aubigny, the Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church, with both having their own cemeteries on the Westbrook Homestead Area. The Holy Cross Catholic Church, a presence since 1888, was removed some years ago and the churchyard abandoned. The Catholic Church cemetery remains on private property although there have been recent enquiries about burial.

Location

Location: John Street, Aubigny. View in Google Maps.

History

1886 saw the establishment of a church for the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation within the Westbrook Homestead Area. It was situated on a two acre allotment, a portion of which was set aside for the graveyard. A new church building was erected in 1929, and St John’s Lutheran Church remains on this site.

Location

Location: Lot 328, New England Highway, Emu Creek. View in Google Maps.

History

The Emu Creek Cemetery dates from around 1898 when tenders were called for clearing land and fencing 2 ½ acres of land for this purpose. The Queensland Under-Secretary for Lands had requested that part of the Reserve at Emu Creek be set apart for this in 1896. It is the final resting place for workers from the Emu Creek Run with the earliest memorialised burial in 1899. This was Frederick August Otto Briskey, eldest son of Adam and Mary, who died at his family’s property aged 13 years and 5 months.

History

Glencoe was settled by German immigrants and other farmers from the 1870s. The first Lutheran church was built in 1880 and the current building was erected in 1908. The Bethlehem Lutheran cemetery adjoins the church, and a number of the earlier headstones have epitaphs written in German. Family names that featured prominently in the area, and in the cemetery, 100 years ago are still apart of the local community in the 21stcentury. From 1992 the Glencoe Parish has joined with St John’s Lutheran Church at Wilsonton.

History

St Paul’s Lutheran Church at Greenwood services the descendants of the German settlement on this part of the Darling Downs. First generation farmers settled in this district which was only a day’s wagon ride away from their parents at Meringandan and Cabarlah where the first Germans on the Darling Downs settled. Names that feature prominently on headstones include Priebbenow, Hausler, Lane, Janetski and Noller. The earliest burial is believed to have taken place in 1901.

History

The Highfields Baptist Cemetery is located in Kuhl’s Road and is administered by the local Baptist church. In older records the district may be called Koojarewon. The gravestones in the cemetery date from the late 1800s and centre around two main families, the Brownes and the Tighes, who immigrated to the area from Ireland.

Location and contact details

Contact: Jondaryan Cemetery Trust, Joann Evans – 07 4692 2226.

Location: Lot 73 Jondaryan-Evanslea Rd, Jondaryan. View in Google Maps.

History

There is a little wooden Anglican church opposite the Jondaryan Cemetery but as the cemetery is a district cemetery it has no affiliation. It is administered by a Board of Trustees and has been thus governed since the late 1800s. Available records date back to the mid-1930s; earlier records were destroyed in a fire.

Location and contact details

Contact: Oakey Cemetery Committee – 0408 188 684.

Location: 19 Taylor St, Oakey. View in Google Maps.

History

A reserve was set aside for a cemetery at Oakey in the parish of Watts by proclamation on 2 March 1882 in the room of Edward Cherry (farmer) and Gustave Castner (butcher). Both men were prominent citizens in the town and it was their plan that the cemetery be overseen and maintained by trustees. In the 21^st century the cemetery remains under the administration of a Board of Trustees.

Location and contact details

Records: All records are held by the State Government.

Location: McErlean Road, Ravensbourne. View in Google Maps.

History

The Ravensbourne Cemetery dates back prior to 1894 when tenders were called to clear and fence the site. The cemetery was established for the new settlers to the Ravensbourne district who had entered the ballot for 40 acre blocks of land being opened up for dairy and produce farming. Of those graves with monuments the family names of Muller, Beutel, Gray, McErlean and Taylor dominate.

History

Silverleigh, or Boah Peak as it was called in earlier days, was a little church approximately two kilometres from Greenwood. The church hall and building have been removed and there is a cairn commemorating their original location. In 1967 the church building was moved to Esk, and the hall to Koojarewon Camp at Highfields. The cemetery itself is on the top of a small hill surrounded by paddocks.

History

St Paul's Anglican Church is located on the corner of Church Road and Grasstree Road. It was dedicated on 25 February 1891 by Bishop William Thomas Thornhill Webber and was closed circa 1985. The Anglican Church was removed from the site in 2019; however, the cemetery remains available via the Anglican Church Diocese.

A video of the existing church building can be found on Youtube.

For enquires regarding the cemetery, please contact the Anglican Church Southern Queensland on 07 3835 2222.

History

Historical records show just six burials at the Western Creek Homestead across four families – the Burns, Dunne, Flynn and Pierce families. The youngest was Julia Dunne who died in 1864 of consumption. Those buried here may have been employed at Western Creek or lived nearby, like Maria Pierce who died at her residence, Junction Station, and was buried at the homestead in 1869.

History

All Saints’ Church is a timber church erected at Yandilla Station by the Gore family about 1878 on the site of an earlier church, which it closely resembles. The graveyard around the church is believed to have been established in 1863 supplanting the previous custom of burial close to the homestead. At this time, the 'village' at the station had over 100 inhabitants. The church was used by workers of all religious denominations on the station. Catholic services were held there from 1862 and Presbyterian services from 1891. The earliest burial is that of Yandilla manager and partner, Charles Owen, who was murdered at Owen's Scrub, Yandilla, on 29 April 1864.