The final will take you to a location that may or may not have been used by anyone buried here or related to but thought it was fitting.
Cache is located at S34° AB.CDE E139° FG.HIJ
SAMUEL ERNST GIERSCH Died 19/1/1904 aged AB Years 35
JOHNNY WILSON Died 4th June C8DE aged 27 years
ELISE MARSCHALL 1813 - F7.10.1885
MARIE FLADRICH Buried 19/9/190G aged 7H Years
EDUARD THEODOR SCHUBERT Died 5/5/1906 aged I Years
BERNHARD SCHUBERT Died 22/J/1906
Information below is not needed to solve this multi but is the history of Cambrai.
Cambrai, in the Hundred of Angas, which was named after George Fife Angas and proclaimed in 1860, is about 10 kilometres south of Sedan. It was laid out as Rhine Villa by Abel Pollard Skinner in 1882 about a kilometre north of Rhine River which has its origin in the Eden Valley area. The whole area being part of the Murray Flats which include Towitta, Sedan, Cambrai, Angas Valley and Milendella.
Skinner settled in the town as well and operated its first post office in 1882. Among the early settlers were English, Scottish and German migrants. However for nearly 100 years it were the Germans and later their descendants who were the largest and dominant group. They had very close connections with the Lutherans at Lobethal, Hahndorf, Blumberg, Barossa Valley, Palmer and Milendella.
One early visitor to the area was Johannes Menge who named the creek he discovered the Rhine. Another early visitor was George Melrose who had arrived in South Australia in 1839 on the Palmyra. He liked what he saw and decided to stay. He settled on the Rhine River and established the Rosebank estate. In 1847 he married Euphemia Thomson.
With so many Lutheran Germans in the area services were provided by Pastor George Adam Heiderich from Bethany from 1875 until 1883. When he was away at Hermannsburg Pastor C. Derks would take his place. A Lutheran Church and school was built at Rheinthal, about 2 kilometres north of Cambrai, and opened in 1876.
In 1907 H. Mickan donated a block of land to be used as a cemetery. Rhine Villa became one of the few country or outback towns where the cemetery was not located some miles away, as was that of Amyton and Carrieton to name just a few, but right on the edge of the build up area. Its first burial was on 26 August 1907.
One can not fail to notice the high rate of infant mortality among the early settlers. This was much the same as in other towns with Milendella, Sedan and Two Wells providing overwhelming evidence. However from the cemeteries on the Murray Flats it can also be seen how the early settlers spread out from the original place of settlement. As farming blocks were generally too small to support extended families, many of the young sons would take up land away from their parents' block. Some went as far as the Murray Mallee to places like Caloote, Karoonda or even to Victoria or New South Wales.
During the early 1900s progress was made in several areas. In 1911 the St John's Church was completed and served for some time as a school as well. A year later the bridge across the Rhine River was finished and a start was made with a new school building.
With the start of WWI in 1914, relationships between descendants of Lutheran and other German migrants and the general population in South Australia took a turn for the worse. In January 1918 Rhine Villa became history when its name was changed to Cambrai and Rhine River to Marne River. They were among numerous other German names of towns, creeks, rivers, schools and other localities which were given English names. Nearby Blumberg became Birdwood and South Rhine changed to Springton.