Pioneer Cemetery Southern Cross -grave tales

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1. dorothi clarke says

   27/09/2018 at 3:36 pm

   The Anne Searle buried in the Southern Cross cemetery aged 50 year old died 12/06 was my great grandmother

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   • Moya Sharp says

     27/09/2018 at 4:46 pm

     Hi Dorothi Do you have any more information on her that couuld be added to her entry?

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2. Bernie Morris says

   01/10/2018 at 11:08 pm

   Further to the original Southern Cross cemetery post, I remember the cemetery being behind the memorial that’s there beside the highway these days.
   Why the memorial was created in place of the actual graveyard isn’t clear to me – why not leave it as it was?
   As you mentioned, sometimes the original cemeteries needed to be relocated further out when the town encroached on them, but that wasn’t the case at Southern Cross.
   The old cemetery was adjacent to the railway line and once the available space was full it seems extra space was opened on the other side of the railway, making it a cemetery with a railway through the middle.
   As I only ever worked trains through there in the dark my info is largely from tales told by the older men I worked with and not so much from observation.
   Bernie.

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3. Greg Pascoe says

   02/10/2018 at 1:38 pm

   Thomas Pascoe, who died Southern Cross on 16 March 1895 from Typhoid Fever, is my great grandfather.

   He was born Thomas Pascoe Trebilcock in Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England in 1828, went to the Victorian Goldfields 1855 then to New Zealand late 1860’s. He married Annie Watkins in Hokitika 1871, mined at Ross till 1880 then Kumara until migration to the Coolgardie Goldfields. They had seven children, all born in NZ. Their eldest and youngest passed in NZ.

   Thomas travelled from the Westland NZ Goldfields with Annie and their five children in Nov/Dec 1894 on the ships Tasmania and Waroonga, passenger lists recording their name as Pascall.

   While I am uncertain as to the family’s exact location after their arrival in Western Australia and the very early 1900’s, they did assume the Pascoe name and took on a range of work including running a water condenser, mining (Southern Cross, Kalgoorlie, Edjudina, eventually Mount Magnet), Boardinghouse Management on Golden Gate Mining Leases, and leasing the Goldfields Wine Saloon in Hannan’s Street etc.

   I would welcome it should anyone be able to provide me with any additional information.

   Greg Pascoe

   And Moira thanks for the site, it’s brilliant.

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   • Moya Sharp says

     03/10/2018 at 12:47 pm

     Hi Greg I I may I would love to add this family story to the cemetery records. How wonderful that you have managed to find out so much even with the changes of name. Do you have any photos of the family?

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     • Greg Pascoe says

       03/10/2018 at 1:21 pm

       Thanks Moya. You may certainly add the family story to the cemetery records. Also, Annie’s probate in 1922 showed they also owned a two room iron cottage at Lot 204 Cnr Spica & Hydra Streets, Southern Cross, vacant, unsaleable.

       I do have a family photo minus the eldest 1889/1890 and photos for Thomas 1870s and Annie 1868. You are welcome to any or all.

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