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Fremantle Cemetery Heritage Tour 2018
The Fremantle Heritage Festival nowadays usually includes a tour of the Cemetery conducted by Don Whittington, a member of the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board.
In 2014 for the first time the tour included brief performances by actors representing interees. This has continued, with James Hagan doing presentations in 2016 and 2017.
In 2018, the theme will be Merchants.
I have suggested that some of what follows might be relevant, including dates and places of death as and if I can find them. The choice of people relies on Patricia Brown's book, The Merchant Princes of Fremantle: The Rise and Decline of a Colonial Elite 1870-1900, UWAP, 1996.
HWT# refers to the map reference in the Fremantle Cemetery's map for their Walk Trail One. [There is no Two.]
John Bateman, John Wesley Bateman
Arthur James Diamond
../people/lilly.htmlMary Higham, Edward Higham, John Joseph (Jack) Higham
James Lilly
Charles Alexander Manning, Lucius Manning
William Edward Marmion
William Dalgety Moore../people/mooregf.html
William Silas Pearse, George Pearse, James Pearse
Michael Samson, William Frederick Samson
Specifically disincluded are the following.
Samuel Wallace Bickley, Leake family, Sandover family, Shenton family, Barrington Wood, Daniel Kean Congdon, Elias Solomon, Dr James Hope, Rev. Joseph Johnston
John Wesley Bateman died of 'ptomaine poisoning' 17 May 1907 at 54. He is buried in Fremantle Cemetery, Congregational MON D 83. His father John Bateman II (1824-1909) and his uncle Walter are buried there at D 28 and D 3 respectively (HWT#20).
Arthur Diamond died following a stroke 22 June 1906 and is buried in Fremantle Cemetery, Anglican MON AA 788.
Mary Higham died 1883 and is memorialised at Congregational D 266 (HWT#18). Her husband John was buried in Skinner St Cemetery, and the gravestone was later brought to Fremantle Cemetery where it is GG#42 on the 'Heritage Trail'. Her son John Joseph (called Jack by Patricia Brown above), died 1927 and is buried in Fremantle Cemetery, Congregational D 255.
James Lilly died 18 April 1905 and is buried at Anglican A 476, right on Samson Avenue (HWT#28). He died by self-poisoning with strychnine.
William Moore died 1910 and is buried at Anglican A 700, on McKenzie Avenue (HWT#25).
Charles Manning died in 1869 of 'drink', and must have been interred in Skinner St Cemetery. There is a gravesite indicated in MCB records in Fremantle Cemetery, Anglican MON A4 0180 - which seems to imply that his remains were reinterred there.
William Marmion died 4 July 1896 and is buried at Roman Catholic CC 343, near Stack Avenue (HWT #11).
Silas Pearse died in England in 1908. George Pearse: Freo Anglican MON A 139. James Pearse: Karrakatta Cong AA 59A. William Pearse, father of Silas, memorial at Freo Cong MON D 397, together with his wife Susannah and three sons, Thomas, Andrew, and Walter.
Michael Samson died 1907 and is buried in a Samson family plot in the Jewish section at F27 and F28 (near HWT #16, 17). William Frederick Samson is buried in the same grave as his father Lionel Samson, in Fremantle Cemetery, Jewish Orthodox, F2.
References and Links
MCB History Walk[1] of Fremantle Cemetery, and map
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