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Main Title: Friends of Coburg Cemetery: buried treasures
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Collation: Periodicals in box
Subject: Friends of Coburg Cemetery
Coburg Cemetery
Cemeteries
Periodicals
Coburg (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country)
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Electronic only

No. 1 JUNE 2012: Grass fire at Coburg Cemetery 1902 p4. Charles E. Bowden, caretaker p5.

No. 2 SEPTEMBER 2012: St Matthew's Cemetery, Quebec City p2. A winter visit to Blackwood Cemetery (Vic.) p4. Wood family p6.

No. 3 DECEMBER 2012: Grave of Constable David McGrath restored p2. Meningitis epidemic of 1915 p5.

No. 4 MARCH 2013: Crimean War and the cemetery p1.

No. 5 JUNE 2013: Maps and plans [of Coburg Cemetery] p2.

No. 6 NOVEMBER 2014.

No. 7 APRIL 2015: Hannon family. Anzac centenary tour.

No. 8 NOVEMBER 2015: Drainage and water damage. Old tea rose growing in cemetery identified as 'Madam Lambard'.

No. 9 APRIL 2016: Commemoration of a 'life of unselfish energy' [Laurence 'Laurie' Cohen]. Restoration of the grave of Percy Kemp MC and the Shearer / Kemp family. Master plan for the development of the cemetery.

No.10 DECEMBER 2016: Gangsters and murderers in Coburg Cemetery p1. Meet the residents [Ernie Duncan and Lydia Davis] p1.

No.11 AUGUST 2017: Ron and Ruby - the "Tossing Testros" [Ron and Ruby Maloney] p1. Willy fountain restored to its former glory [Williamstown fountain] p2.

No.12 MAY 2018: Dick Lee: the game's greatest centre forward p1. Baden Barwise-a little life cut short p2. Sunshine railway disaster of 1908 p3. Forgotten or just unmarked? [Maria Ann Pettifer] p3.

No.13 MARCH 2019: William Whan: buried by moonlight p2. Malouf family p3.

No.14 OCTOBER 2019: Gravestone restoration project kicks off p1. Tree replacements at Coburg Cemetery p3.

No. 15 APRIL 2020: A civil war veteran buried at Coburg cemetery [Private Samuel McCaul- 04/05/1842- 23/12/1917] p2. Stories behind the headlines: how an historian researched unclaimed headstones]p3. Walter Richard Ah Chinn (1818-1931) p4.

No. 16 JUNE 2020: Head of CIB under suspicion after shooting at Royal Park [John O'Connell Brophy shooting 1936] / Dianne Gardner p1. The untimely death of a returned serviceman [Arthur Franzi killed in motorbike accident in 1927] / Dr. Jan Pinney p2. Adonoran Ramsdell- US civil war veteran [1842- 1916] / David Weatherill p3. Early burials at Coburg cemetery [first burial Margaret Sullivan- died 17/06/1875] / David Weatherill p3. The Gilberts of Gilbert road Preston / Colleen Burns p4.

No. 17 MARCH 2021: Edward Thomas Code (1864-1918) [Best known band conductor in the Commonwealth] p2. William Cowston (1827-1916) [Covict boy to colonila photographer] / Lee Anthony p3. Mickleham methodist church cemetery: a hidden gem p3.

No. 18 NOVEMBER 2021: Bagpipes from Edinburgh to Brunswick [John Center Scottish photographer and bagpipe maker died December 1914] / Jan Penny p1. The Chinese in Coburg Pine Ridge cemetery / Terry Young p2. Not everyone died on the battlefield- a WW1 story [Sydney Charles Rauert- died 18/05/1915 of bronchial pneumonia before embarking for the war] / Cheryl Griffin p4.

No.19 MAY 2022: Lost and found - from Brisbane back to Coburg [Balmoral Cemetery, George and Ebenezer Shade] p2. John Paul Sennitt [ice manufacturing] p3. How a hunch about Squizzy Taylor's family led me to Coburg Cemetery [John Smith, Isaiah Taylor, Joseph Theodore Leslie Taylor, Cheryl Griffin] p4.

No.20 SEPTEMBER 2022: Mickleham Methodist Cemetery - Pioneer Park / Yvonne Kernan p1. Eliza Russell, the first Australian flag seamstress / Margaret Abbey p2. Critises royalty then throw out of Parliament [Ted Finley] p3.



Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Periodicals Main Library P 994.51 COBU CEM Available
Electronic Resources Library Computers Periodicals folder Available Held electronically from 2023