Alone or Lonely (Quorn) Traditional Cache
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The “ALONE OR LONELY” series of Bowz2 caches acknowledges the extreme feats of endurance and hardship encountered by the pioneers of our country.
Our pioneers lived and worked without the advantages of modern communications or medical knowledge and skills, in remote and isolated locations where help was often days away by horseback or horse and cart. Consequently the want to succeed in this harsh country was often paid with a high price by young and old, male and female alike...
Added to this, when civil registration (i.e. death certificates) was introduced to the Australian colonies in the 1840s and 1850s, the models used were from Britain. Whilst the intentions were admirable, the tyranny of distance and the climate meant that practice was often very different to the required procedure. This was evident with remote deaths. To strictly follow the processes in the heat of summer was quite impractical when faced with the disposal of a rapidly decaying body, let alone considering those unexpected deaths many miles from the nearest community.
A lonely grave could be considered to be a single or small group of graves outside a recognised / currently used cemetery that never had more than twenty graves.
You can often find very isolated single burials through to the small collections at disused railway sidings, rural homesteads and long forgotten chapel sites. Whilst many sites have no headstone, some are no more than rumoured graves but others are well documented, some are unknown identities (I.e. unknown stockman) but ALL have a story to be told.
Visiting these sites can provide insight into past history, a way to remember those before us, as they shouldn’t be forgotten and it might help us to remember just how easy we have it in this day and age!
NOTE: Lonely, does not always mean remote!. Colonel William Light the founder of Adelaide is buried in a city square but his grave is lonely in the fact that it is outside a regular cemetery.
About this cache location:
Annie Field 1870,
Also here is a memorial stone (Are they buried here??) for Robert “pegleg” Blinman and his wife Hanna Blinman
in 1859Blinman a shepherd discovered Copper at what is now the town of “Blinman”,
Blinman, who had a wooden leg, was known as 'Peg Leg'. It seems that the discovery occurred on land owned by a Dr Hayward. Dr Hayward's brother, Paul Hayward, was given some wethers to graze on the land. Bored with the work Hayward used to sit on a rock and make sure the sheep didn't wander too far. Eventually Hayward handed the job (and his “rock”) to 'Peg Leg' Blinman who one day broke a chunk off the rock and found that it was good quality copper. Blinman secured a mineral lease in partnership with two others in a syndicate and in turn sold the lease to the Yudnamutana copper mining company in 1862 for a reported sum of $70,000 and over the next 46 years some 10,000 tonnes of copper was extracted.
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