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Newspaper - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: RESTORATION OF BOORT CEMETERY
... Boort Cemetry... MEMORIALS Graveboards Boort Cemetry Boort Cemetery Mr R. H. Coutts ...Newspaper article on cream coloured paper with red biro outlining the article with a cross at the four corners. Hand written at the side in blue biro is "Bendigo Advertiser July 16th 1964. The Article is about the Restoration of Boort Cemetery by Mr. R. H. R. Coutts and Peter Coutts of Boort. The burial ground is situated on Mr Coutts property which was known in the early days as Boort Station.Bendigo Advertisermemorials, graveboards, boort cemetry, boort cemetery, mr r. h. coutts, boort station. -
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Document - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: BOORT CEMETERY
... Boort Cemetry... MEMORIALS Graveboards Boort Cemetry Russell Coutts 'Dunbar' Peter ...Hand written letter titled 'The graves beside the swamp at Boort.' dated November 1962. Two of the headstones lie broken on the grass covered graves. On the granite slab at the right is the inscription 'In memoriam. George F. Campion of Exeter Devon, England, who departed this life, May 31st 1851. Aged 19 years. The 2 month old baby boy of 'John and Jane', married couple on 'Boort', died the same day and was buried beside Campion. There is nothing to mark his grave. Both were buried by the Station men. Mr J. R. Godfrey read the burial services for both. On the marble slab at the left can be deciphered the inscription sacred to the memory of George Bertram, fourth son of Henry and Mary Godfrey, Born 18th November 1858. Died 11th April 1860. On the headstone still standing can be read the inscription Sacred to the memory of Samuel C. Sutlee, who died April 1st 1871, aged 2 years 4 months. He is not dead - but sleepeth. This child was the son of a married couple 'on Boort', after the Godfrey family had left 'Boort'. Note - My nephew Russell Coutts of 'Dunbar', Boort, (formerly 'Boort' Station) is erecting a fence around the graves. His son, Peter took these photographs. I wrote the verses 'Beside the Swamp' after my first visit to them in 1957. I always take flowers and place them on the graves whenever I visit 'Dunbar' Selina M. Deravin 1962Russell Coutts and his son Peter have restored the graves beside the Lake at 'Dunbar' and erected a graveyard. This photograph was taken by Peter and the flowers placed on the graves by his mother Wilma who helps to care for them. They also discovered a fifth unknown grave there when erecting the fence and re- erecting the broken and fallen headstones. S. M. Deravin.Selina M. Deravinmemorials, graveboards, boort cemetry, russell coutts, 'dunbar', peter coutts, george f. campion, boort cemetery, samuel c. sutlee?.